Mercer O/O | $2,303 Georgia Run vs. Last Year's Numbers (Better Rate, Less Deadhead!)

#flatbedtrucking #americantrucker #owneroperator #mercertransportation Owner operator at Mercer transportation. Music source: https://suno.com/@musicwithbigbilly My Spreadsheet: This is a view/comment only. You can open it up in Google spreadsheets. From there you can view, comment, or make a copy to be able to edit for yourself. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... Buy me a coffee: https://cash.app/$88Billy85 Welcome back to the channel! In this episode, we are leaving the house and heading 52 miles down to Seneca Falls, New York, to pick up a load of SA freight bound for Greensboro, Georgia. This is a run I last did back in March when my daughter was out on the truck with me, so at the end of the video, we are going to do a direct comparison of the spreadsheets to see how this week's numbers stacked up against last time. Before we get into the numbers, I break down my upcoming tire experiment. We just put a new set of Yokohama 116R super-regional steer tires on the truck, and at the end of this week, I'm pulling them back off to try a unique triple-balancing method. I'm installing a set of Centramatics from my buddy Chris (to balance the wheel/tire to the axle hub) and adding balancing BBs inside the tire itself to handle dynamic tread wear against the road. With the 116R’s thick 2-inch solid outer shoulder design, I’m betting this combination, alongside a strict monthly four-way rotation plan, will maximize our tread life. The load itself came out to six stacks (24 pieces total, stacked four high). The middle stack sat a little taller than the rest, so to play it safe and satisfy the rules for tiered cargo, I threw an extra 2-inch strap over the top. On the road, we fight heavy traffic around Charlotte and a brutal parking setup at the Binghamton, NY Love's (the old cramped Pilot station). Thanks to a split-sleeper exception that paused my clock while waiting at the shipper, I was able to stretch my day into an 11:30 PM shutdown in Harrisonburg, Virginia. We rolled into the Greensboro facility at 8:30 PM the next night, navigating around their forklift fuel barn—which is always an owner-operator's nightmare due to the massive amounts of sharp metal and aluminum shards covering the ground. We wrap up the run by comparing this trip to our March spreadsheet to see exactly how dropping our deadhead by 139 miles completely changed our bottom-line profitability! Trip Breakdown: Gross Revenue: $2,303.00 (Up $125 from March!) Deadhead Miles: 179 miles (Down from 318 in March) Loaded Miles: 980 miles Total Trip Miles: 1,159 miles Loaded Rate: $2.35 per mile All-Miles Average Rate: $1.99 per mile (Up from $1.65 in March!) Deadhead Percentage: 15.4% Next up, we are looking at a flatbed run hauling from Cartersville, Georgia, back up to Wilmington, Connecticut. If you want a transparent look at owner-operator numbers, tire maintenance experiments, and real flatbed securement, hit that Subscribe button and ride along!