Mercer's new load board

$40/hr is horrible for an o/o. On a 12 hr day that's only $480. I don't get out of bed for that.

 

As someone already said, $40 is horrible. $75-$100 an hour, which is $750-$1000 a day on 10 hours should be your minimum. That's why I said I wouldn't touch some of those short loads. Anything under 300 miles & I don't even look at the $ per mile. It's a useless number on those low miles.

Mercer wants you to have 16 ratchet straps & they can be bought from Mercer at orientation. They will even let you have them deducted out of your settlements over the course of a month I think. I know you can have them deducted but not sure on the time frame. No blankets or pads needed. Mercer doesn't have any of that freight & most of the agents aren't interested in going to get it.

 

Congrats on bettering yourself. That's a great story.

But here's the deal, by hauling for $40 an hour that keeps the rates down. The load I pick up this morning I initially turned down. Agent asked if I wanted more money. I said no, I don't want to go to that area. Not 5 minutes later I called my coordinator about another issue & after our discussion he told me about the same load but now the money was $300 higher. I ended up taking it even though I didn't want to go to the area cause it will be a good weekend run. My point, that's what happens when we turn down freight that just pays ok.

Now here was my screw up (I'm still new at this) instead of telling my coordinator I would take it I should've called the agent back & told them I wanted another $500 & I would go. Probably wouldn't have got all $500 but they would've come up more than likely. Those are the parts of this gig that I'm not used to. 97% of my loads I'm good with the pay.

 

Those would be the van trailer.s

 

Yep. Mercer has agents. 90% of my freight comes from 2 of them.

 

when you run van do you have the option to by a van from Mercer or, do they only rent? Not that I want to change over. I'm just curious.