Mercer

Mercer does have a van division... But that isn't what you saw. You saw a Mercer truck who is currently dedicated to UPS pulling a Swift trailer that is currently leased to UPS.

 

LOL I saw a UPS truck pulling a swift trailer the other day. All I thought was WTF. I figure it is just them renting trailers for use during the holiday season since they get so busy this time of year.

 

Noticed that alot of that van freight is paying as much and sometimes more then flatbed, sure makes me think about trading my flatbed and not have to worry about freezing while trying to tarp.

 

Don't waste your time. I found out very quickly that unless your in the office with your head up somebody's backside you ain't getting nothing good with a van either.

 

I'll tell you a better one, I got stuck in San Diego terminal from 10am to 8pm on Tuesday. They were loading the RGN's and a few stepdecks, which were behind me. To make a long story short, the stepdecks had vehicle and containers on them but got stuck overnight at the dust bowl cause they werent unloading the containers after dark. Well I pull in a lil after midnight , drove up to the ramp and got unloaded while the stepdecks were parked and snoozing till morning, BITTERSWEET. Thats the military for ya.

 

I did one today from San Diego to Fort Irwin and was in and out before I knew it on both ends.

 

Yea, I've noticed that!

It's not a regional thing!

 

True, if you want to run CA to NC and back to CA nonstop the you can do alright from what I saw.

 

with lanstar firing so many people and freight as short as it is im friggen amazed they are hiring,i heard moore talkin bout cleaning some house kinda like a coupla years ago,
isnt it odd that they let people go right after the tags are paid for,its kinda weird,and have you noticed the pss teams are alwaysnloaded and freight is short for everyone else.been alott of shaningans lately.im on ups s. udder till the 22 so freight looks pretty for a little while. good luck all

 

Has anyone else had problems lately with PrePass and getting red-lighted almost all the time? Seriously, in the past two months I've had one green light and that was at the Banning scale ... (although I have gotten some green lights at closed scales).

My buddy (at Mercer) has been having the same results for exactly the same time frame, so I'm curious if this is company wide.