mercer transportation

Cj for treasurer.

 

You coming back out here? Cali isn't bad but WA sucks. I might hit MT for a load back to Cali. There was ( might still be there) a super cheap load to Phoenix but I won't start my truck for that rate. Even if it takes me back to my other house. I need to get away from home. Lol

 

That's how I do it, not the same salary, but same concept

 

@whoopNride is that your new truck? Classic. LOL

 

My dream truck, LOL!!

Actually I used to drive one just like that around locally, back when I first learned to drive. Talk about a sardine can, if you weren't careful your elbows would hit the back window when you made a turn. Good Times!!

 

Yeah, had to find a load that paid enough, had extra time, and could get me back that way. Stopping in AL to get estimate done at KW by my parents house from where I got hit when I was in Lodi, watching the SB, then going to haul ### to El Paso to get the work finished Tuesday that KW started there, then gonna haul ### up to Selma and San Leandro on Thurs

 

Lol, I honestly don't think any of you are really pricks so to say, I just think some of you have that Red Foreman mind set. In this day and age, more often than not, it's necessary

 

This is why much of the industry has been fighting the public posting of CSA scores. In the small print it says it is NOT a safety rating but that is how shippers and brokers have interpreted it. Also the majority of people interpret percentile as percentage so when they see we are in the 75 percentile for unsafe driving they think 75 percent of our drivers are not driving safe. Several things wrong, first of all it is percentile which is vastly different. Secondly in ALL these CSA Basics most of the cited violations have nothing to do with actual safety and even less to do with the section they are assigned to. A huger percent of HOS violations are Form and Manner violations that have nothing to do with hours of service other than they exist on a log book page. Don't put a 0 (zero) for the day when you had no sleeper berth time although all the other numbers in the column add up to 24 and it is a violation. This is one of the ridiculous violations that Mercer and others have to deal with every day. Do that on an off duty day where many drivers just put 24 at the end of the off duty day and leave the rest of the lines blank and now you have 3 violations which starts adding up fast. In no way is there any SAFETY violation. You all get the idea. Then the public sees the final number and sees hours of service and unsafe driving violations where in fact the driver did not violate hours nor did he drive unsafely. Mush of this has been pulled from public view now due to prolonged industry pressure and companies and individuals bugging the crap out of their congressmen.

 

how is your Cascadia doing on MPG, what engine/trans/rears if you know?