My Mercer Experience 8-31-15

You can get the truck all day long but that doesn't mean you could bring it to mercer. Mercer doesn't own any trucks

 

Mercer I'm waiting on a trailer I have my letter of intent

 

You've been waiting over a month for them to say they have a trailer for you, and yet they still have guys attending orientation every week but not a single quality truck in months. people on here have started they aren't taking quality trucks right now. Another guy with a quality truck in this thread has said it's been over three months and still no trailer.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm thinking they are not taking quality trucks when they have plenty of guys wanting to sign on with years of experience owning a truck and have ran their business well enough not to need to get a truck from a last resort horrible credit leasing company such add quality.

 

I never heard of a company that don't have trailers.just don't understand I'm still working until they call I was told my be in january still have other people ahead of me.must be a Good company

 

Let me try this one more time.
As spyder pointed out its not the trailers that's the issue right now. They aren't taking on any trucks associated with quality meaning if they have to take the money out of your settlements to pay quality then they're not taking on those guys. Now if you cut s check and bought a truck outright from quality then you'd be in orientation. My buddy just switch trailers 3 weeks ago. He only waited 2 weeks to get one. Once again it's not a trailer issue. From what I was told Mercer doesn't like the deal that Quality put together because it's a bad deal and unaffordable and I'm sure guys have left trucks and trailers all over the US because it's a walk away lease so that leaves Mercer the Finacial responsibility to recover a trailer in WBFE. I wish you the best of luck but you better grab the list of other companies Quality deal with and apply to them

 

It's a pure owner operator company. And they only aquire the number of trailers for the trucks they need/want. no extras hanging around. The only extra trailers are fir a few dedicated drop and hook accounts.

Remember, this is primarily a flat bed company, not a box company. So unlike swift and Werner there isn't hundreds of trailers sitting at warehouses around the nation.

Edit to add: and like Taylor just said, quality trucks are a last resort. You will not be given a seat at orientation until other better qualified owner operators stop applying.

Think about it logically from their perspective, this is a very depressed economy we are in so freight volume is way down. they are not trying to grow right now, there isn't enough freight volume for that, they just want to hire enough guys their number of trucks don't shrink to much. Who would you hire, the guy with no owner operator experience and no capital, getting a truck from a last resort lease purchase company, or a guy that has ten years experience operating a business?

 

How does it work what's the usual wait time for a trailer?

Where do they get their trailers from?

I haven't gotten the answer my question is what's the wait time

 

I waited one day. Long enough for them to do an employment check and run a background check for things like criminal history. That was years ago. Taylor waited a month I think this last spring.

They get their trailers from the manufacturer, just like every company. Greatdane mostly, and fontaine when great dane can't keep up with orders.

 

Thank you