mercer transportation

get off the #### computer and start calling some contacts. if you have been in the business this.long and dont have decent contacts you are doing something severely wrong. sitting on the load boards is akin to these kids these days looking for.jobs and telli.g you they cant find a job for nothing. then they tell you they filled out five apps a day online. for god sake get out there and talk to real people!!!!

 

I go in and out of Fort Bragg so much it isn't funny. That area and up the east seaboard is a great area. Probably one of the best areas for Mercer. Personally I don't care for the east seaboard but the rates are fantastic up there. He should get home about as much as he wants living there.

 

He could do very well running the eastern seaboard, with a flatbed.

 

Everyone I do work with is dead right now and most is local freight trust me I have been knocking on doors but most say they can get it done for less and I'm only pricing it at $3.00 a mile brokers run it around here that's also why I got out of hotshoting I can't run what there getting these loads moved for and dead head back to get another

 

Sounds like your in a bad area. Mexicans have lowball that area for quite some time. Every winter it gets worse down there, probably because the mexicans get cold up here.
Take a bounce out of there, go north east.

 

i have come to peace with the fact that i need to bite the bullet and get out of tx for anything over operating cost to get out and start making money. didnt take long to come to that conclusion. and we are in the same freight market

 

Well wideload how is orientation going so far?

 

Keep your head up and just keep looking and stay on the phones. I was on a personal (only leased to company guys) load board today and seen a load of tires hauling on a flatbed leaving over wander around Lubbock,Texas going to South central, Indiana paying $3,400/1300=$2.61/mile I can tell you it didn't last long as someone jumped all over it (my uncle) and then your put into some good paying freight..... Maybe it would do you some good to lease to a carrier and run off their system for a while and get a fresh look. You may like the money you see and if not then you can always pick up your own where you left off. Just a thought..

 

i am pretty much all done just have to have my truck and trailer reinspected. i had a few problems i had to fix. two wheel seals, a set of shoes, tie rod end and a windshield. i am flat broke now so hopefully everything passes this time and i can get to work tomorrow.

 

Thats usually how an inspection goes for me. No matter what I get fixed and think I am good to go when I get my inspection they always find something that doesn't meet their standards... Good luck and I hope you get rolling.