Love those wooden crate loads in Wichita. I made the mistake of saying Smokxx Poinx once while at the Mercer house in Wichita. I was almost not invited back lol.
Lessons learned...
MY EXPERIENCE AS A Mercer FLATBED DRIVER
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well made it to ponca city,ok will deliver int the am and reload thursday in okie city, for columbia,sc
uneventful day, everything went great. no traffic problems, another day at the office. filled up with fuel at tupelo,ms , parked and cooked fresh corn on the cob in the shuck. then i made potatoes carrots peppers and a vidalia onion chopped and cooked together for dinner and washed it down with a yoo-hoo.
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skateboard is doing what I would do if I was OTR with cooking at the truck stops. I would do that on my ten off and make enough to last throughout the day. Plus if my girl was with me shes extremely picky(hence why she was a great cheap date) so shed be cooking everynight. Pictures arent to hard to upload either i can help if you need... and sae travels. Im off today due to slow daywhoopNride Thanks this. -
I was an owner/operater for many years. Got frustrated 2 yrs ago and sold my stuff. Local fuel hauler now.
I miss owner/op though. Kids almost grown, me and the wifey are considering hitting the road. Enjoying skateboards thread, as Mercer is on my list. -
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Retirement? That's something guys our age will never see, I'll be driving right into the grave...
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oh no, the second I can retire no matter what age I am, I am RETIRING lol
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well delivered in kansas wed morning, the folks at the receiver helped me untarp, fold my tarps and unstrap the load. then as they began to unload another guy brings me out 3 pcs of fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, a biscuit and a cup of iced tea. they were having a comppnay lunch and he fixed me a plate and brought to me. i ate while they unloaded the crates. kansas hospitality.
drove down to okie city and reloaded, heading to columbia,sc for monday. load goes thru home, this one weighs 12,600 , no tarp, 10 straps and 2 chains. route will take me i-40, us 78, i-20 . again just a normal day in the flatbed business.
the revenue will be off a bit from last week. but from monday to monday will be 2200 miles and revenue of 4027.00 on 2 loads one at 15,000, one at 12,600, i will have 9 days of fixed costs and maintenance fund of 1080 dollars and fuel costs of 1200.00 , which leaves 1707.00 to the truck with 4 days of the nine at home.
thats a little under 2.00 a mile this week for all miles but it got me home again to check on my dad.
these numbers i am posting are frankly a lot more realistic than numbers you see quite often posted on some sites. one thing you have to consider, at mercer, is many of the samll expenses charged back to O/O are not charged back to us, like fuel taxes , mercer pays those, we dont have to worry about buying enough fuel in each state to cover the tax.
but with that said , if we do have a fuel tax credit they apply that to the next years tag, but if we have a deficit they pay it . last year i got a credit of 78 cents on my tag, what that shows is without even trying my fuel purchases were spot on. i guess its just old habit from when i did my own ifta for so many years.whoopNride, LostOne9, Fratsit and 6 others Thank this.
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