Mercer's new load board

See why offering to pull them for 150 or 200 bucks when the rest of us get 500 to 600 might upset a few guys?

 

Until you spend 3 or 4 hours getting the trailer worked on because the last driver dropped a broken trailer. I'm ok sitting in a dock for a couple hours.

I use both, revenue per day at a certain rate per mile. Got to look at both. Hauling a load that pays $10 a mile isn't any good if it only goes 10 miles. At the same time a load paying $1000 isn't profitable if you have to run 900 miles for it.

 

Yeah, that's true. Can't argue with the math. Lol. But I don't mind the time spent in the door. That's usually when I cook something to eat or take time to go for a walk, etc...

Lol. You can have them. Lol. I would have to do 7 or 8 of them a day to make it worth my while & that's not my idea of a good time.

Oh, there's no arguing bud, just a discussion. We all find how we want to truck & then go for it.

 

Yes those loads are there. Maybe not exactly 10 miles, but under 25. I don't really pay attention to the miles on the short stuff. Anything under 50 miles gets shoved in the short haul category in my brain. My favorite load that pops up on occasion pays just over 700. It never touches a public street, it stays inside the complex. In fact you can literally see the building you are taking it to while you are being loaded.

 

I judge loads by the net. But really it's just an estimate, not a solid figure. we can only estimate many of our cost for the load. Fuel we get real close on, and fixed costs can be broken down to the day, but ya just don't know in advance that you are gonna pick up a nail at the delivery point.

Definately agree that a truck only had so much life in it. However i think we might disagree on what that life is. I'm at the point in my life that when i replace a truck its for reasons that are more preference/quality of life type things, not because the truck wore out. basically after 22 years of this crap I've learned enough by now that I'm confident i can replace anything that can wear out or break.