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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jacquesi23, post: 5287853, member: 105779&quot;]Well, it&#039;s been about 5 months since I put in my walking papers with mercer. </p><p>As I am now back out on my dot numbers. I admit, I was one of the guys who just couldn&#039;t &quot;get&quot; the way mercer operated. Probably will never understand hence the reason I&#039;m sitting under my own authority again. </p><p>Mercer was in fact, a terrific company to work for. The freight they have to offer is by far unmatched. </p><p>I can&#039;t recall a time where I&#039;ve ever hauled a load weighing over 40k pounds while leased to them. </p><p>But the downside of it all was the fact that I just couldn&#039;t get with mercerization lol. The downtime waiting on loads etc, etc. </p><p>I managed to make great relationships with quite a few of the mercer agents while I was leased there an The deeper part of me wanted to believe that I would be blackballed from the mercer portal for ever. Lol. </p><p>However,&nbsp; upon reactivating my authority, the same agents I dealt with while leased on with mercer are the same agents I deal with now as an independent carrier. Heck I even put some of my &quot;go to&quot; customers an shippers on the backburner when mercer calls!!! Lol</p><p>I&#039;ve heard a lot of guys here say well the loads are crappy for approved carriers an they don&#039;t pay much. </p><p>But I beg to differ, in fact I&#039;ve been running mercer loads for the past 3 months as a independent an the cheapest&nbsp; load I&#039;ve had from them so far paid me 1.60/mile coming out of PA going south an the only reason I took it was to get me back home to Alabama. </p><p>Heck the majority of the loads I haul for them avg around 2.20/mile an up. </p><p>My load scheduled tomorrow has a rate of 2.72/mile an they were proud to give it to me lol. </p><p>No factoring involved which means I get the same benefits I got as a lease operator. Scan my bills in an I&#039;m paid within 4 hours. </p><p>Even was able to get back in their fuel program so all of my fuel is at mercer&#039;s price. </p><p>So to sum this all up: I would say I learned a lot by being leased on with them for the short time I was there. </p><p>I learned even more lanes. </p><p>They forced me to Invest in more flatbed equipment which I thought was bs but it turned out to be a good thing once I got back on my own because now I have just about anything a man can use on a flatbed load. Great company if you don&#039;t want the responsibility of a dot number an you have low overhead. </p><p>But if you&#039;re like me an work at a faster pace an have more than average overhead then becoming an approved carrier for mercer would be your best bet. They treat you like family regardless. I&#039;m a witness to it because I&#039;ve worked both sides of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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