wanna no about CRST Malone

I dont do flatbed, but i have an uncle and several friends who do. If $1.75-2.00 is what they are saying thier current rates are. Then thier either skimming off the top before they offer the loads, or there a just a cheap cut rate outfit. The people i no flatybedding make a hell of a lot more than a frand a week. And the only thing i see they dont have that you would is the $295 weekly payment and appx 40 less in trl rent. But dont take my word for it I'm a bedbugger. So my info is second hand, but i hear the samt thing from all of them, and they dont no each other.

 

Yes BigJohn

I might have 7 posts by 2morrow!

 

What do you consider cheap rates? Im pulling loads paying the truck $2.00 to $3.00 per mile. If thats cheap freight I will take it all day long.

 

I used to pull out of many of the same customers as Malone when I was with Mercer. They often got the first shot at the freight because our rates were significantly higher.

 

Well this might be true, but if you aren't happy pulling loads that are paying $2 to $3 to the truck maybe your just bidding yourself right out of the market. I wouldn't consider staying in that freight range cutting the rate or low balling. FYI I haven't seen one Mercer truck load at any the steel mills I haul out of. Over here Steel and Aluminium is where you will make your money. Just my .02

 

That's because Mercer does not haul cheap freight, and they have good equipment. You won't see them at many steel mills as they tend to run the specialty freight.

I live in the steel capital of the midwest and i see plenty of worn-out, plastic missing CRST trucks all pulling 40k+ coils. Then i see Mercer trucks loaded with beams and other goods and their equipment is deff a lot nicer than CRST's stuff. But you all got to start somewhere I guess

 

I used to pull out of some of the mini-mills with specialty steel... You may lose a few loads to cheaper carriers but would you rather work for an outfit that hauls the same freight and either skims a bunch off the top or has cheaper rates or the company that charges a little more and you make a little more? I'd take the latter every time. To each his own...

But I don't think the mills are busy enough to have anybody busy right now. I go thru Logansport quite a bit and there are always 50+ trucks sitting around overnight... I'm glad I'm out of the steel business.

God bless those of you who can tolerate it.

 

Gotta start somewhere? Dude I have 1.3 million safe miles. I have pulled oversize and heavy haul for keen for 3 years. I might not drive a big shiny largecar (nor would I want to) This is my second go round of owning a truck. The first time I had all the bells and whistles, LED chicken lights, polished tanks and wheels, graphics on the truck. Guess what? That doesn't make you .1 cpm more. That 40lb. coil you see me dragging around pays by the hundred weight so the heavier the better. Im loading a coil in Cleveland Monday going to Iowa that will pay the truck $2.75 a mile.. You can be a hater all you want....but the fact is in the first three months I have been here I have grossed over $60k. But I guess I have to start somewhere. I just love that people that don't have a clue about a company, can say all kinds of negative stuff about said company, because there buddy's buddy heard on the CB that they haul cheap freight.

 

The nice thing about our dispatch sytem is that if im held up somewhere i.e. A/K steel in Zanesville for 8 hours. I don't go back. They pay $3.00 a mile coming out of there but my time is more important to me. I don't have a dispatcher dictating to me where I will load at...I go on our load board and choose where I want to run. I won't go back to Zanesville, but at Arcelir steel in Cleveland where I pick up every week, I can be in and out of the gate in an hour to hour and a half.

 

If you want to work for nothing...theres a great place to start! exspeacialy with the ll/p program....remember they get theres first an your last I would think on this if i were you