mercer transportation

I wonder if he sold his truck, he hasn't been on here in a week.

 

no, he is still kicking.

 

Yawn,

A 1/3 of those miles are empty my little forum buddy. 7.9 is my over all avg. Does being naive discredit anyone around here? You cant think as if I'm you and driving your truck. First I would never buy a truck that gets in the 6's unless I could do relatively cheap improvements. Cheap is determined by me not you for the record. I would've asked me how I got the mileage first before I went all Gorilla crazy crying LIES!

My truck consistently gets about 11mpg empty. like it or not. The truck also gets an easy 7.3-7.7 depending on conditions with those next to nothing loads. At gross it can do an easy 6.5-6.8 like it or not. I only drive 62 if I'm in a rush btw. Just a force of habit I suppose. MPG is fill up to fill up my ecm avg mpg is always at zero.

If I were you I'd speak to Mr. Haney about your truck or at least buy a bullydog if you can afford it. Get an overhead every 120k . See I'm assuming you don't know anything. just like you did to me. Like it? lmao

To whom ever wants to punch me in the face. YA WOULDNT! know why. cause I would prolly have you laughing in the first minutes ya met me. lol

don't hate! Take a ride up on cripple creek, she'll mend you lol.

 

Here we go........

 

Good times here.

 

I love sarcasm

 

Does Mercer let you book loads from outside Mercer? If so, how does that work?

 

Here's the math on 11mpg, 30% empty with an overall average of 7.9:
11(.30)+X(.70)=7.9
solving for x, being your avg mpg while loaded, we see 6.57mpg!

Now, either you have just a slight positive bias about your empty mpgs being 11, which is in turn understating your actual mpg while loaded, or you mispoke about never buying a truck that only gets 6.0 to 6.9 mpg. Or, you messed up your math, record keeping, or both.

 

I'm curious, if Mercer recruiter says our fleet avg revenue per mile is 1.68, and a certain driver is holding close to that average but with a 30% deadhead average...due to slow freight volume or being forced to run into dead areas, etc...What operating cost per mile would this operator need to be below in order to pay himself .47 cpm?

Just a little food for thought.

 

If your paying yourself $.47/mi that's $.05/mile more than I figured in.My truck is at $1.48/mi CPM that's if I drive 75,000 miles a year and that's all mile figures

Chris told me the fleet average was $1.68 some do better some do worse all im saying is he must of been talking about all them 100-200 mile runs that pay $2.35/mi for there avrages to be that high and I was told that $1.68 is with all the RGNs in the mix

I think it's BS that mercer is making more money than the drivers hope they like that $.50/mile or more there making off my truck two more weeks mercer will be one more truck short of there goal what ever that may be.