Mercer

And generally Mercer isn't a van company. What do we have? 1800 flats/steps/RGN's & 180 vans?

Outerspacehillbilly is pulling a van & seems to be doing ok... At least from what I can tell from talking to him. He's home every other weekend if not ever weekend.

 

You are right to an extent, but so is Redd. Mercer is a flatbed company with a very small van division but they are trying to grow it with more and more van customers. I have not been over here that long but I have done pretty good so far on the van side. Sometimes it's not the best but it's not the worst either. I have figured out in a short time here that if you can stay in certain lanes here on the vans then you can do pretty good and have very little deadhead. I have also learned places to stay out of already because of large deadheads and low paying loads coming out.

On the other hand I am not real picky about what I haul or where I go as long as it pays good I'll go. The stuff we have going into the northeast pays real well but most guys won't do it. I chase the money if their is a good paying load I'll go end of story. I may have to deadhead a good distance to get my next decent load but I know that going in so I take that into consideration when offered the load and figure a large deadhead into the rate to see if it will be worth it or not.

Sorry to hear that it did not work out for you and wish you the best of luck on whatever you do from here on.

 

Any place that would hire you two can't be that good...

 

Yeah now that you mention it.........