mercer transportation

Trust me, that is total aberration from normal, the babies needed new shoes

 

I think you can get miles on elogs, it's how you get'em that I don't like.
I remember when we had flexibility. Get miles when you felt best and most rested. Take a two hour lunch if you felt like it. Then a nap, maybe.
How many of you remember that?
Miss those days.

 

Hello all
Been lurking here for a while. I have read all 1763 pages some more than once .
My question does anyone on this thread come from upstate NY I mean the real upstate not just north of 17 north of I 90 & west of I 81. Im in the middle between the buffalo agent and the massena agent . I have some questions about out going loads from this area . just a lil back ground on me laid off 2008 state paid for training partially . Drove for swift 6 months (van). Drove for Gypsum express (fb)for almost 2 yrs . Drove for a little 3 truck outfit n got royally shafted. For Personal reasons i stopped driveing . So the personal reasons have been resolved so I would like to get driving again if all works out in the spring with mercer . Still doing my due diligents . Putting together a best case worst case business plan.
Well thanks in advance for you help .

 

Yes I very well remember those days. If I felt like driving 17 hours, I did. If I only felt like driving 2 hours, I stopped and slept 14 hours if I wanted to. There were months at a time I never even opened a log book to put a mark in.

How did I ever make it without an electronic device telling me when I should feel like driving.

 

Man, you could have gotten the shoes with a pair of dice on the back row of the truckstop. It would have been much easier on your Old But...

 

You should do well outta that area. It's a mix between avg to some pretty good paying loads between the two agents from what I've seen. And they're pretty consistent in getting freight.

 

Thanks I checked out the Ooida average rate map for this area from 2015 they showed 2.78 as an average .

 

Would it be frowned upon to contact say the massena agent to ask specific questions . I would like to hit the ground rollin n set up a triangle . If I can get a couple of triangle routes I might jump before spring . Thanks again taylormade

 

There's always loads going up there because nobody likes going up. Where there outbound loads go? I'm not sure because I've only glanced at it a bit. But it usually goes to Ohio PA and of course to NYC. But you could call and ask her

 

Thanks again
I didnt want to step on any toes by contacting her or cut my toes off before I get my foot in the door at mercer .
Thanks