mercer transportation

Skateboardman....I said that "tongue in cheek" jokingly hence the smiley faces afterwards........why so bitter???

 

hey skateboardman: what's better a 48' flatbed or the 53' ... played with public load board and didn;t take long to see more loads for flatbeds than step deck... NEED INPUT (just like Johnny 5)

 

I would just go with the 48.

one thing to consider with mercer , you would have the help of a coordinator, and at landstar you would not. not a knock on them but the learning curve of picking your owns loads can be some people undoing.

 

the thread got hijacked, its simple and bitter cant be really conveyed on this forum, I would be banned quickly

 

The milatary loads are sure getting bad.
I've only been here at Ft.Bragg 14 hours and still waiting to get unloaded.
Guess I should take the extra time into account when bidding the next milatary load.

 

I hauled a couple HETS, up to fort McCoy last summer and unloaded them both myself. When I checked in I just told them I am an army truck driver and can drive it. Saves lots of time. The ASV's are the tough ones cause I'm not a tanker haha.

 

Ive yet to see any decent rates on military loads for f or sd. Ive seen some rgn loads paying big.

KSGunny, the coordinators here are a good tool to use. Once mine saw I knew what I was doing, he just lets me do my own thing. Only calls if he sees something I cant. A lot of times the agent in the area Im delivering to will call me and offer loads. Its a great system imo.

 

Make sure you work on that detention pay sometimes it's hard to get but they will pay

 

Actaully I got $2.78 a mile from Ky to Ft. Bragg. I didn't think that was bad on a toyota pickup
End up getting over 8 mpg hauling it.

Now off to South Dakota.

 

Never been able to get detention pay out of the Milatary.