mercer transportation

Alas, he just came back to mercer, the grass on the other side of the fence was astroturf

 

That's exactly my thought

 

Its been posted already, having risk is a very easy way ofvestablishing difference of contractor and employee, if someone has risk its helps prove contractor status, an employee has no risk, the employer assumes all risk. The clause reads they. mAY deduct money not shall or will. Honestly its actually to protect our contractor status.

 

Spider, this is a hot topic on some Facebook pages

 

LOL I just list exercising on the occasion so I can eat even more of those chicken wings with out my shape going from mildly round to muffin top.

 

This makes more sense than anything I have ever read on TTR!

 

I don't have a dog in this fight anymore, but I would like point out that the discussion got started by @CJndaTruck, he does have a dog in it and simply asked a question. I think it is a valid question to ask, might be better to ask it in Louisville before signing, but it is a valid question.

Companies that we lease to are the ones that hold the contracts for transportation of goods, we sign a contract with the company to move the goods they have contracted to move. The contract we sign is between trucking company and ourselves as equipment owners for payment, not between us and the shippers.

One of the reasons I have never ran my own numbers is for this very reason, I have always been told that I will receive payment wether the company does or not. It is their customer, their responsibility to go after them for payment if they do not pay. I have no recourse to be able to go after the shipper because I never had a contract with them. So why should I be liable if they do not pay?

I understand y'all don't believe Mercer would hold you liable, I wouldn't think they would either, but then why put that in their contract? Is there not a better way to prove that you're not employees? I'm not a fan of, " Yeah it's there , but we'll never use it.", if it's there they can use it. Perhaps they're considering letting you guys go after your own freight?

Maybe we should be considered sub contractors???

 

Gee guys. I was just asking a question. I never said Mercer hasn't or won't pay. If you all want to jump on me for asking a simple question then go ahead.

I have not read the new contract. I know some have. What I read was a Mercer driver wanting to leave and go to LS over it. And I just wanted to know if it was a valid complaint or not. Like I mentioned it would make more sense if we had more room to pick off outside boards and expected Mercer to collect for us. But I was never trying to start an argument.

Yes Mercer was the move. I have no intention of going anyplace else. The only way I could ever see myself leaving would be if I got into heavy haul. Being I'm only 2 payments into my new truck and it's only spec'ed a little above 80k I won't be doing that for years. I am more then content here.

Anyway, I need to go burn a little more wood before the house cools off. Thank you for answering my question about the new contract, sorry I started such an uproar.

 

Imagine that, someone came on a Mercer thread and commented on a Mercer issue. I see nothing wrong with CJandaTruck's question either. I've always been paid every penny I was owed by Mercer, & nobody on here accused Mercer of screwing them, or potentially screwing them, a back charge comes from someone screwing Mercer. I haven't seen the new contract, or heard anything about it until reading here, so I'm actually glad he came on here and mentioned it.

 

That's why I switched from reefer to flat