mercer transportation

Listen i came here to make my life easier not watch my income get cut in half! most of this stuff is brokerd crap! call this one or call that one or theyr callin here. ah hey this is so and so from blah blah blah your under my load ah how ya makin out wtf is that im paying 25 percent to someone to haul broker junk thats already pilfereged to the point theres no profit in it come on wake up put the koolaide down.what are you guys really gettin here for your 25 to 40 grand a year a couple of free hats and a jacket?and your makin fun of me? thats a pretty good return on a 6500 dollar a year liability policy

 

All you koolaiders could pay me 15 percent come here with all your own equipment and il find ya all the brokered freight you want pat yas on the back when your leaving on your trip and be the one lmao like this place is doin to you.you would think that a place with 2000 trucks would have a little more goin on then brokered freight but hey why should these agents go out and put effort into it when they could get their work from a broker ther still makin thier 7 percent for a phone call and a fax machine and instead of mercer fixing the problem they just hire 40 more suckers every week to replace the ones that gave up pathetic and you guys fall for it wow!

 

Like that one guy said im not here for the glory

 

I'm here for the free hat

 

Honey, in my own opinion, 6 grand to the carrier, to the coast ain't stepping in high cotton, either. Geez, I'm loading tomorrow, 40,000 or less, legal dims, from Jersey to AZ for $7,700 gross, which is over $6 grand to me, after LS gets their 26.5% of the linehaul. Bad part is, it's a full tarp job, 8 foot high. On the 2498 computer miles, that is $3.10 gross and $2.43 to the truck. I doubt I'll get close to that, back out of AZ, but if I can get close to 2 bucks, gross, to east of I-35, I'll be happy.

 

I'm the driver Shadowed was talking about. I live in Porterville, which is directly east of Tulare. I leased on in Feb 2010. Right now, $1.75/mile is about the best you can get going to a decent reload area in east, and you have to be patient. You can find $1.60 relatively easily, which I don't bother unless I'm desperate or can put together LTLs. Rates for Steps are better. It's not terribly difficult to find $1.90/mile out of LA area, sometimes out of Stockton area, also.

While I was sitting at home, I saw one load out of LA area at $1.85 going to WI (may have been somewhere else, but it wasn't a terrible reload area) but it disappeared off the board within seconds. Also saw a 1500+mile military freight out of Travis at $2+, also gone in a matter of seconds. Sometimes you get lucky and you happened to be at the top of the board when good loads pop up. I haven't been so lucky. Used to see a lot of $1.90~$2.00 military stuff out of Ft Irwin and 29 Palms, but I haven't seen any for quite sometime. Correction, I've seen some, but at discounted rate.

Rates going into CA haven't been a whole lot better as of late. $1.85-ish from east coast. The last one I did paid $2.04, but it required 6' drop tarps and had 10 stops. Seems the rates out of Chicago area are starting to get back up. There's one load paying $1.94 on the board right now, but it's still short of what the same load used to pay.

Intra-state freight rates were holding up nicely until a few weeks ago. I started seeing mega carrier trucks at one of the shippers I used to frequent, and I haven't seen any freight from that shipper lately.

Other than occasional freight out of Fresno, Visalia, Selma, and Madera, I have to DH either to LA area or Sac area - 220 miles either way. Your DH miles will be less if you live in Sac/Stockton area. If you live in real Northern Ca like Redding, your DH miles are likely to be just as bad as mine, and you'll be limited to NoCal/Reno freight, unless you want to DH 600 miles to LA.

Like others have been saying, there's more freight east of I-35. I usually stay in east at least a couple of weeks when I need to make money. You can still make profit if your truck gets good mileage and you have low overhead, but definitely not as much as a couple years ago.

I can't honestly say I recommend Mercer for you in the current freight climate, but if you insist, I think you'll be better off with a step. And/or get your passport, govern your truck at 65, and go to Canada, eh?

Some are speculating rate increase when CARB's new regulation takes effect next year, but I'd be surprised if it happened unless you have a specialized wagon (extendable, 3-axle step, etc) that none of mega carriers have. I'd rather use my $20k for a downpayment on a house than retrofitting DPF on my truck, so I'll most likely just move out of CA.

Best of luck to you, Dave.

Lately, I've been contemplating selling my truck/trailer, and becoming a day trader LOL.

 

A driver I talked to the other day claimed Chasity told him they had an orientation with 70 people recently. Don't know if that's true or not.

I'm still making money and I don't mind sitting a couple of days here and there, but I'm not terribly happy with the direction Mercer has been heading.

You're right that the turn over problem won't go away until they fix the root of the problem. Or until the majority of the fleet is replaced by people who are content with cheap freight (I'm not saying anybody here is)

 

The two that are parked are on the net now I get lots of calles first thing everyone says "will you finance" I say ya see what I'm asking I'll take that as a down payment......

 

ya talking about rusty that stayed here a month or two and went to ats?

 

I guess KMX7022 was not being honest, some just can't leave. Possibly happy here just want to get other drivers to leave, leaving more freight for himself.

Myself, I'm still doing OK making money here and not been hauling brokered freight. OH, but had to tarp a load the other day. Gosh so rough here.