Mercer Trailer Lease – What Happened After They Took My Trailer Back

I’ve been hesitant to post this, but after everything I’ve experienced, I feel like other drivers need to hear what happened — especially anyone considering a lease with Mercer.

A few years ago, I entered into a lease-purchase agreement for a flatbed trailer through Mercer Transportation. I hauled under their authority for several years and made consistent lease payments. Toward the end of the lease term, Mercer suddenly terminated my contract. They then refused to accept further payments, demanded I return the trailer, and eventually repossessed it.

I thought that would be the end of it. But instead, Mercer sued me — not just for the supposed remaining balance, but for the full trailer value, plus over $60,000 in alleged attorney’s fees, even though they had already repossessed the trailer.

To make it worse, they filed a judgment abstract in a Texas county where I didn’t even live, using a handwritten dollar amount that was never awarded by any court. I’ve been tied up in legal battles ever since.

I’m not sharing this to complain — I have the court records, the lease agreement, and all the documents to back this up. I’ve now filed a lawsuit of my own, challenging how Mercer handled all of this — not just the repossession, but the inflated judgment and what I believe were fraudulent and abusive tactics.

Recently, I did a search of online court records in Texas, and I found other cases where Mercer has sued drivers under very similar circumstances. This looks more and more like a pattern of abuse tied to their lease program, and I’m now trying to find others who may have been affected.

Has anyone else been through something like this with Mercer?

• Contract terminated near the end of your lease?
  
  
• Trailer repossessed after consistent payments?
  
  
• Hit with a massive lawsuit afterward?

If so, I’d really like to hear your story. You can post here or message me directly. We might be able to help each other, compare notes, or just figure out what’s really going on.

I’m organizing my documentation now and may start posting the full timeline and legal filings soon.

If Mercer has done this to others, drivers need to know. This may not be an isolated case.

 

There was another driver from Mercer on here a few years back..... I remember it was something to do with the trailer..I think he ended up getting possession of the trailer though and even took it to another company???? Use the box in the upper right hand corner and type Mercer... They use to have a long thread on here. I think @mtoo used to be on that thread along with a few others

 

Thanks for that — I’ll definitely look up that old thread and see if I can find the posts you’re talking about. If another driver was able to keep the trailer or take it elsewhere, that’s really interesting and could be important for what I’m working on.

If anyone remembers who that was or what happened, feel free to drop a link or tag them here. I’m not just trying to win a legal fight — I want to understand the bigger picture of how these lease agreements are being used and what other drivers have gone through.

Appreciate you pointing me in the right direction.

 

Mercer is scummy. I hope you can find a way to countersue and profit.

 

What did they claim happened to cause them to repossess the trailer? It wasn't a new trailer to begin with was it? This sounds like some really underhanded crap they are trying to pull.

 

To answer your question in more detail — there were two lease contracts: one for the trucking work under Mercer’s authority, and a separate one for the trailer purchase. The thing is, the trailer lease was completely tied to the trucking lease — meaning, once they terminated the trucking side, they cut off my only method of making trailer payments.

They claimed I was “abusive to my dispatcher” — totally false — and used that as a reason to cancel my contract out of the blue. Once they did that, they refused to accept any more trailer payments, even when I tried to keep paying. The way the contracts were written, the only way to make trailer payments was through deductions from my weekly Mercer settlements. There was no option to just send in a check or pay another way.

So they locked me out, repossessed the trailer, and then sued me as if I had defaulted — even though they made it impossible to pay.

If anyone else had this same trailer-payment arrangement with Mercer — where payments were tied to dispatch — I’d really like to hear how it ended for you. This might not be an isolated case.

 

I found Mercer thread… except I don’t know how to link it here. Somewhere among those couple thousand pages was the guy who went through something similar…. I didn’t find it though even though I didn’t go through but about 30 pages l.

 

Thanks for digging — I really appreciate it. If you or anyone else happens to come across that old post or remembers who it was, feel free to drop a link, a username, or even just the title of the thread. If you’re unable to link directly to it, the name of the thread alone would help a lot — I can try to track it down from there.

If more than one driver ended up in a similar situation after a Mercer lease — especially involving a trailer repossession, contract termination, or being sued after Mercer cut off settlement payments — then this is starting to look like a broader pattern that needs to come to light.

And if that other driver is still out there — if you’re reading this — feel free to DM me. I’m already in litigation and might be able to use your story (even anonymously) to strengthen the case. Even just comparing paperwork could help clarify how these contracts are being enforced.

I’ll keep posting more documents and details as this moves forward. Thanks again.

 

The title of the tread is Mercer transportation…..

 

So what did your lawyer say when this happened?

Or didn't you have one?

You should always have one look at your contract, explain it to you and summarize it for you in plain English, and put them on retainer to help you with these issues.

AND one other thing you need to do is stop posting about any of it until the case is finished.