Marten OTR

I have been with Marten almost two months. I had a friend tell me how awesome they are and how much money I can make. It has been a nightmare from day one. I went to orientation out of Tucker Ga. when orientation was over I was the only female driver and the only OTR driver. I was not assigned a truck I was rented a car to drive all the way to Indianapolis to get assigned a light fleet coffin the reeked of smoke so bad that I was sick. I was forced to drive that all the way to Mondovi WI. Where I was issued a old dirty smoky truck which I have been stuck in almost two months. I told them at this point I need to be issued a decent working truck. I was brought back to Mondovi where I was basically evicted from the crap truck and trying to force me into another coffin. They claim to pay detention after one hour but they like to deny the detention saying you didn't get a signature or you didn't give a reason. Most of their loads are sitting in dock doors for hours and hours. The company is refrigeration so the units are quite heavy they send you after loads that are very heavy . I received my first over weight ticket ever with this company. They do not have prepass and do not pay for scales unless the load is over 39,000. anyone why runs refeer knows that's easy to be over somewhere. I am already on my second dispatcher. Because the first one, I was only getting 1263 miles in 7 days and that's not going to feed my family. The new one runs me hard, so hard I only shower on my 30 min breaks and she has me sleeping at shippers and consignee's. They try to get you to run all night but I refuse and just wake up at 2am. I met quite a few drivers that tell me this is a good company and they care about their drivers. But that is not the experience I have received in the two months I have been here. I keep giving it more time and trying to be patient. I have tried to get off this OTR and maybe go regional so maybe getting out of this terminal would help. But I was not allowed a transfer. So with recent events I am left no other option but to resign as I see this is not the right fit for me. I am not sure about the person (Jeremy) I talked to today he all but evicted me out of the truck because they sold my truck out from under me, and tried to force me to except this other truck which I denied. Told me I can put my things in a storage in WI and run locals until they can get me a different truck. I live in South Carolina I have not been home since Oct 9th and it is now Nov 3. Im supposed to go home this Friday. We shall see! I do say if you come to Marten to work I advise you to keep bare minim on the truck. Cause you never know when you have to move it.

 

Thats cool i left that brief. But you have your openion. If im not happy and believe i deserve a little respect and less lies and disrespect. Well then thats me. Yea ill agree i have not been here long. But things are only getting worse. Not better. Im not Tina Turner., im not going to sit here and say hit me again Ike! Pattj

 

I did go nuts! And ferbreeze is not going to cure this. I didn't go into the mechanical issues like passenger head light always going out, cruse control work's 60% of the time, quallcomm wont come on in the am when its time to get rolling, mirrors wont adjust. Yes alot minor. But adds up! Yet regional drivers issued new trucks and they are home every weekend and a few times a week. I was told they had newer equipment. This forum is to tell our experience with these companies and yet im feeling i have to defend myself! Frankly im not happy and my faith that things will improve has faded!