mercer transportation

I have an account with KW. It's a cash account but they've always discounted anything I've bought.

 

Well mercer has there end done for me. Back to work by monday i hope

 

could you give a brief over view for us new guys that didn't get the e-mail? so I won't be surprised when I climb in my truck in a couple of hours

 

Hard to explain but on the ivg units that didnt have it , yard move was added and a reminder to enter load info.

Since you just leased on , yours was probably already updated with this so you wont see any difference.

The email was for ivg qcomm mine is an older mcp50 and nothing changed,

This was basically a change for older ivg units it makes them enhanced aobrd , people leased on before dec17,2017 are on aobrd,leased on after that are ELD

 

did I just let an agent screw me? I delivered 30 minutes from my house mon. morn., couldn't find a good loads so went home. later I booked a load to IN. loads today 30 min. away going to IN. for $1770 on 1000 miles . agent calls this morning offers load from IN to PA loads 60 mile from drop pays 1200 on 450 miles but doesn't deliver till Monday .

he had a load out of PA so I accepted it.. after he dispatched me the load, the load out of PA fell through

I'm new at this, so did I do ok or not? the money is good but I don't like sitting on the load over the weekend

 

Pete, keep in mind 1500 for the heat cool unit, plus installing the condenser fan unit and charging the system.

Cheaper to get it to begin with.

 

Hard to say , but loads cancel.

The initial issue is staying on a load over the weekend. That's separate from the load canceling.

You were stuck over the weekend with a 450 mile load in either case.

But as far getting screwed , hard to say. But the agent was looking for a truck, they threw the bait at you, you bit the hook.

Keep in mind you have initial expenses leading on, tags, etc. Going home in middle of week and then taking a short one over the weekend puts you with several days deductions.

Not trying to be harsh, but remember who said yes to the load, they can ask , but you can say no.

Learn from it, basically if you got screwed, you screwed yourself.

It's a learning curve , dont beat yourself up, learn and look for another out of pa.

 

Eh it would of been but i didn't need it at that time. Im gonna get raped on labor for putting the APU back on with though about 1200 is just labor rest is within the AC/Heat system

 

well I decided to do a 34 since I was close and the good loads I saw wouldn't fit with my 70 time constraints. I also had a plan to pick up a load from IN back to FTW and reload going back to IN but I didn't commit to it and the one coming back and it was gone this morning.

question is if you see a decent load do you go ahead and commit to it even though your reload plan is not confirmed?

 

I always tried to find weekend loads that had good money for the load on them and I could take a 34 under it. I also try to keep a daily revenue average and the weekend loads never hit it but if I get to take a 34 then I don't count that day and a half against the daily average. I realize it still costs me to have the truck even though I'm on a 34 but it's just the way I look at things.

In reality neither of those loads are very good, one has a decent rate and the other has a lot of time on it.

You're going to make these "mistakes" in the beginning but don't sweat it. Like Mickey mouse said learn from it. It will get easier to determine what's a good load for you and what isn't.