Beware crooked Mercer!

Yes I noticed that SEE also. Meow!

 

Yes. You asked to see an invoice to make sure it would match your settlement report so they gave you an invoice that matched your settlement report. What you should’ve been asking for was a copy of the contract from the shipper. The invoice is generated in house by Mercer and is easily manipulated to reflect any figure Mercer wants. So as long as the contractor gets an invoice that matches his settlement report he’s got no reason to investigate any further. This is why Mercer was fighting me so hard. It’s one thing to provide a falsified invoice to a contractor and quite another to provide a falsified invoice in a court proceeding. One is morally reprehensible. The other is a criminal act.

 

My point is still valid. They provided you with invoices that you have no way of verifying if they are accurate absent a civil lawsuit of your own with which you can request the contracts in the discovery process like I did. The law in this respect is weak. The carriers are only required to provide easily manipulated invoices with no documentation to verify their accuracy. You are exactly the kind of contractor that trucking companies want. You are ready willing and able to easily accept anything they tell you as being the gospel and then you quickly go away.

 

You are correct. If you have to ask to see proof that they’re complying with the contract it is time to go. I was only with Mercer for the trailer. I have always operated under my own authority. I don’t like anybody looking over my shoulder or critiquing my driving. And I really don’t like being at the mercy of any carrier who can screw with my loads if they want to. Like I said in my previous post I was going to be a memory the day after I paid off my trailer.