mercer transportation

Can anybody at Mercer spell contract no can change till contract up for resigning?

 

Wonder why I left!

 

Apparently many people do not understand the legal aspects of leasing a truck to a motor carrier. For the term of the lease it is their truck and they are legally responsible for what happens with it. Federal motor carrier leasing regulations all that the actual owner be responsible for all maintenance and repairs, and for providing a driver. Nowhere in the laws does it say the driver has to be the owner. So Mercer is in fact legally in control of the truck just as if they owned it. The fact that they allow drivers/owners to dispatch themselves is merely company policy, by law they are 'entitled' to forced dispatch drivers if they so choose. So it might be 'your truck' but no, you are not free to do with it as you choose if the carrier says otherwise.

 

Contract has not changed, those are not contract terms. Contract does say (paraphrased) you will abide by company rules, and this is a change in company rules.

 

Mercer will have a vague clause or three to cover these sort of things.

 

Glad I'm gone best of luck to you in all your adventures

 

l've done it. You need some one to do billing and collection. In my mind it is not worth it with one truck.

 

Use factoring?

 

some accounts are slow pay, some take 90 days (government) and some never pay. l know you can take your GBL's to a finance company and get cash for a fee if the 90 days is a problem.
i quit hauling on my own authority in 1991. Things likely have changed since then.

 

They can’t force dispatch a leased truck/driver.......

They can say no confederate flags....