mercer transportation

Dang things get brittle after a few years! But, we all think they'll last a bit longer, instead of changing them, when we should. Then we have that OH CRAP!!! moment and chew ourselves out, because we knew better.
Not that I've ever done that. Yea, Right!!!!

 

They cracked at the glad hand and I already put new ends on them so I have extra now. My garage is like a small parts warehouse.

 

and your right this isnt elementary school but what pi## me off is when a few people get on here and express some problems with this co you chime in right away and start ridiculing people with that crap that wer the problem and we are doing something wrong and so on and so forth, you know the type the guy that walks in the room and has a big mouth and knows everything that ya just want to punch in the face. but hey like i said in the past if your doing good here, good for you some of us arent and expected more from a company as respected as mercer. my experience sucks here and i have paper to prove it, pa to iowa last week and on that load alone after mercers deductions , advance which was used up was left with $234.35 so if thats your idea of making money you can have my share

 

Bare with me, I'm checking your numbers for the week span you cited. During that week plus a day, as you started Wed. and say you will deliver tomorrow, meaning Friday? Isn't that more than a week? Wed - Fri, I won't count Friday if you unload first thing and can go reload soon. It should be counted as 9 days, not a week.

In that span, you grossed $5598.37, or $622.04/day. This would be a true weekly avg. of $4354, not bad if you work 4 or 5 days in a week. Your avg paid mile was $2.66, with a 32% deadhead avg., and $1.82 avg. on all miles. Man that deadhead was a killer, but at least you kept moving!

Now, considering a realistic cost per mile of about $1.30/mile to run a truck and trailer 90000 miles per year pulling flatbed; this gives a net of $1601.08 for your 9 days. Or, $177.90 per day, or, for a true week of 7 days, being $1245.28. Keep this up 3 weeks per month and you're taking home, gross before taxes, $44830 a year. I exclude one week a month for weekends, time at home (if you go home, many of us rarely can), as well as time off for truck in the shop days (or more likely, truck waiting to even get into a shop days!).

Now tell me again why this crap is so freaking great! I can make that or more as a company stooge, have a group health insurance policy I can afford, have more Social Security when I reach 65, and not have the chronic headache of owning a rig! Tell me again!

 

What is your point again?

 

I find this very hard to believe, being an avid fan and user of Kevin's my gauges website, https://www.mygauges.com/login .
My average with a 379 is 6.1mpg since I bought it. My average cost for fuel is $0.62/mile since I bought it. My average speed on those numbers since I bought the truck, is 62 mph.

I often look at other fuel mileage posters to that site, trying to learn a thing or two. I have yet to see any credible evidence of a 7.9 mpg AVERAGE being doable in our operation here at Mercer. Unless your deadhead is WAY out of line, I think you may need to recalculate or keep better records of your fuel. The truck's computer calculations are reknowned for being overstated, did you use that?

Anyway, plug all your fuel data into Kevin's website and track it. It's pretty cool to see the numbers as plain as that site makes them. You even get it graphed out for you, and it shows last 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, or overall avg.

By the way, that 7.9 comment really discredits much of what you say in other matters as well. You know what they say about BSers.

 

Yeah, we went thru all this for 6 1/2 months...Big mistake and went back to Own Authority. Just thought that if we work hard and then they get 25 % for their support services and everyone wins. They keep a few chosen ones content but the rest are disposable. Don't believe any crap about how you are doing things wrong. We constantly got loads canceled on us , ect. And no, you really can't book your own loads. It's ONLY if your coordinator doesn't offer something that "they" consider reasonable in 24 hrs. It just won't happen. Get out before you wear your truck out or go further in the hole. We absolutely tried EVERYTHING with Mercer and sure, we will always get the ones that tell us how "a smart driver can make it with mercer.. blah,blah." Just get out quick !!

 

Well first trip of the year I broke my blue air line at the trk. dealership where it was parked.
Took the line off an dwalked into the building and bought a new set of lines. Both of them were like 96.00. Bigger lines and a new style of plastic/ vinal.
I changed them in the cold myself..
No biggie. Good sets of lines are not cheap any more.

 

No they are not!