Marten transport gone bad

How many screen names are you going to create to tell the same story ?

 

good catch TK

 

He is what I have decided to call a blacksmith.

 

Look, this man was really hurt by marten and dont want any body else to go through, what marten put him through.

 

Good catch TK,

That story sounded fishy anyway. His doctor takes 3o days to get an appointment?

If he is in that bad of medical shape, maybe he needs to be in a nursing home.

 

Just based on his grammar and spelling I would think that Marten had a valid reason for termination....

Just an observation.

BTW if my mother was at her death bed, I would tell the dispatcher to swap me out. If he (or she) didn't get back to me within an hour, that load and truck gets aimed at the hospital. They can swap it out en-route. Were I deadhead, I would just head on immediately.

30 days to make an appointment? Only if it is a specialist. That being the case, probably he shouldn't be driving anyways.

I would like to see this drivers immigration status...

 

Double story, yeah.

But there is one point of validity here: with Marten, if you need something to happen, most of the time you have to be a major squeaky wheel to get it to happen. I doesn't really matter if it's a doctor's appt or a very ill relative.

"Hey, my mom's really sick, I need to get home" on the qualcomm doesn't get the job done, because there's the regular dispatch, the night dispatch and the weekend dispatch to keep honest. Any one of the three will not know/forget that you have a need to be somewhere, and just run you like a normal truck. Voila, mom dies or you run out of medication.

Not defending the company; internal communication is crappy. Just observing.

 

I wasn't necessarily doubting his story but to create more than one screen name to tell it makes me wonder. Like with anything on here you only hear their side of the story and who knows how true it is or if it's true at all. All you usually hear is how bad a company is with no good points or how great a company is with no bad. You also don't know what type of employee the person is. Maybe they're a total pain in the ### or maybe they're fantastic.

My personal experience with Marten was very good, but not perfect. I was with them for 3 years total. My home time was good. I usually got home on the day I wanted. Sometimes it was a day late or a day earlier. One time I had to deliver a load during my home time because it was a Mclane load and they wouldn't take it early. So I went home for a day and a half and delivered it 90 miles away and then went back home for the rest of my home time. Did I really want to deal with it ? No, but sometimes you have to be flexible. Their home time is one of their strong points, 1 day off for every 5 on. Most companies are 1 for 7.

My pay was always right. I usually didn't have any trouble with maintenance, I might get hung up for a full day for service though. I didn't particularly care for the attitude I would get from the shop employees especially when I was nothing but nice to them. I got along with my fleet manager really good. I got about sick and tired of OTHER drivers leaving me their problems. Dropping trailers that needed repairs like flat tires, dropping trailers without enough fuel, swapping me their empty trailer for my load so they could go home and not even have the decency to clean it out. My favorite was when they would drop a load and not leave the bills with it so I could deliver it. Some other problems was night and weekend dispatch. They were about useless in my eyes. I don't know how many times they just about made my head explode. There were many other good things and bad things. For me though the good did out weigh the bad.

Now with that all said, I've been gone for almost 2 years, and allot can change in two years. I still have a friend that drives for them and has for about 12 years and another friend that was with them for 5 years and left about 5 months ago. From what I hear the electronic logs have put a big kink in the flow there. It's taking some time to adjust. Also the days of long trips are long gone. My friend says that if he gets a trip over 1000 miles it surprises him. He gets frustrated allot more than he used to but at this point he doesn't plan on leaving or anything. He still gets consistent miles although not as much as he used to. If I were to decide to go back on the road I would definitely give them a call but would probably end up trying to get on with a company that has longer hauls.