Marten Transport

do your self a favor! don't by into the drivers crap. don't even listen to them. the reason more trucking companies are hiring students. is just that! they are tired of the drivers attitude. they have rated it close to an inmates attitude. and can be worse then a postal workers attitude. pretty much they are in an 8'x8' cab close to 20 hours a day. so cabin fever becomes a factor after a while. added stress of traffic,people,family,money and other problems. causes what we call drivers fatigue. and after a while taking a nap in the sleeper berth. doesn't do any thing. so the best advise i can give you. is call around to the trucking companies and ask them. they can better help you then another driver can.

 

You can always get good driving advice from someone with less than a year of experience that doesn't drive anymore.....

 

No, companies have decided it's cheaper to hire steering wheel holders with les than 2 years expreance, than to pay some one with 5 plus years out here.
Have a friend who had been on Intermoldel in a large upper mid west city, with his company, and he got hurt on the job. He has since returned to work, after 4 months off, and his company put him back to otr, yet contimuing to hire in his city for intermoldel , when they flat out told him there were no openings. In the last week he just found out they were hiring people with less than a year for poistions in that division, only because they get paid less.
I would rather here from a driver how company abc is treatinghim, than call the lieiing dept , er the recruiters. Recruiters are only going to tell you the good side. People need two sides of every story to make a wise decesion.(sp)

 

Yeah dogpile well said

There are good jobs out there......and certainly listening to someone who obviously couldn't cut it on the road isn't helping you any.

Do your homework, get out and do the legwork, and find out what's in your area. Find out what they offer and which ones take on students. The good companies don't go looking for you the way the bottom feeders do, you have to go out and find them. But they are out there. I drive a brand new truck, average 2700 miles a week, I'm home every weekend, and make as much as most 2nd or 3rd year drivers at the bottom feeders right out of school.

But, it is a job and a lifestyle that certainly isn't for everyone. Do sone soul searching and honestly ask yourself if you think you are a string enough person to handle it. Most aren't. But for those of us who are, we couldn't see doing anything else.

 

Not true. It depends on how much over you are, the location, circumstances and current mood of the CHP officer.

I was allowed to leave a scale 1900 over on my trailer last year. Where I used to work, one of our drivers was caught at 83K gross and allowed to continue to deliver (Not many other options with a food grade tanker).

 

OMG!!! This from a less than 1 year rookie who isn't driving? Who somehow knows the ways of trucking companies? And then he tells you to ask the companies? ROFLMAO!

Yeah, call those out of work used car sales people! They'll tell you every thing you'll want to hear! Yeah doggie! They'll tell you all those lies you'll have no idea are or aren't true!

BFI hires them as rookie trainees and can pay then 1970 pay and call it fair but they still won't hire an experienced driver for what?? Inmates attitude or worse than postal workers? Oh Puleese, pick my inmate attitude old arse up off the floor before I laugh my the thing off!

Listen up sonny boy.
What a crock you puked up!
The reason why many of these bottom feeders won't hire experienced drivers is because of a pay thing. They don't want to pay for the experience so they don't hire those experienced people who only need to be shown how to fill out the new company paper work.Who know how to back up, drive forward, interact with over bearing dock foremen and shipping and receiving clerks and know to use a CB for important information to save money over a GPS or XM radio station and how to handle all those mechanical problem that even new truck experience but I guess that my postal thing I have going overrides 32 years of experience or even 10, 15, or even 20!

They can actually save a lot of money by cutting pay by 20% for those they keep. They call it a recession thing which it isn't (I have posted on several threads the USDA rate page so we know that song doesn't sound right. Oh with all your experience go look it up! I'm not giving a freebie to you) and then pay those learned trainees a whopping 20 to 24 CPM! That's about a 40% savings per mile! Yeah take that inmate attitude BS and go pound sand!

Did you tell then that splitting that team pay they so nicely pay you is actually the 2 drivers splitting that pay! So if it's the usual $.22 what is the actual high dollar team training pay? $.11 a mile? WOW! And they actually tell them they are getting paid for every mile the truck drives even when asleep! WOW!!! AGAIN! I do believe I'll do my old $.41 for the 3000+ I will usually drive. Not have to put up with someone like you with your extensive knowledge of trucking and all it's well kept secrets and keep my sanity from not having to figure out what they say I'm getting and what they paid!

Your expansive knowledge base of trucking I'm sure impresses those you are informing! NOT! Unless they didn't look at your experience. Now do NOT change it! Do NOT drop off or just re register as Joe Blow as we will know. But please stop with the stupid and grossly idiotic advice! Now take a little more advice and use the shift button when writing drivel. It will make it easier to read and we'll get more laughs out of it!

OK Mods. I'm Sorry but I just could not help myself but you all know how I can get! I'll take my spanking! LOLOL!

 

Yea a lot does depend on the officers mood.And a big factor in getting a break is on you, how you look,talk, dress etc But I wouldnt push my luck out here..Also a lot depends on what scalehouse gets you too..Banning is tighter than most.Chowchilla will be easier on tankers. However they could make you or your company bring an empty trl to you and suck out enough milk to make you legal again..So there's one very good option.... Not gonna say you lie but I dont think they let 83 k roll... No I dont believe that...

 

tell disp to sign ther full name i am a fomer marten driver also in there million mile club i left because the per diem screws over us drivers a saves randy marten over 32million dollars a year in matching funds if you are still at marten i would leave them as soon as possible was there from feb 93 till 2009 good luck chip brice

 

Do all us drivers a favor,and find a d.o.t. officer so he can see the qualcom himself and take pictures of the message yourself. Carriers like to dirty our dac reports,its time to get em back!!!!!

 

If they're asking you to leave a customer and drive on the streets THAT's illegal. If they're asking you to not be a dink and just get out of a dock at less than ten mph and move to the overflow lot or do some other activity along the lines of not being a dink, then that's NOT illegal. Don't ##### about not getting miles if you're going to nitpick like that. I might hate Marten's guts, but you have to have alittle common sense.