Marten Transport

I just posted a blog on facebook about driver burnout. It's got nothing to do with driving too much. It's got EVERYTHING to do with snot nosed know it alls just out of school thinking they know the real deal, crappy paychecks, snotty clerks, incompetant load planners, complacent dispatchers, oblivious 4 wheel drivers, and authority abusing cops. I can eat alot of #### if there's enough bread to go with it. Problem is BF transport trying to save a buck at my expense is taking my bread from me. Leaving me with spoonfuls of raw crap. I'm getting real tired of running into greenhorns with my company with no hours left on their 70 (elogs) and I never get close to running out. They run the starch out of the new guys and leave me twiddling my thumbs begging for more work to do.

 

What would I do you ask, well if I were in dispatch, as you were, I would tell the dime -a-dozen truck driver to take the load or get fired. I would not give a #### if he got caught and fined and had the ticket and points on his license, or heaven forbid be involved in a DOT accident with injuries that would get the poor sap some prison time most likely.

If I were the truck driver I would not move the truck until the load was corrected. You are a dinosaur in trucking today, you and the angry person that thinks that someone who refuses to risk it all just to kiss the backsides of the company management and staff or else quit trucking are the problem here. I get it that for the angry know-it-all super truckers driving is just a game to be played, but some might want to make it a career and are not into playing games.

Why anyone would want to make OTR trucking a career the way the industry treats drivers is beyond me but if thats what they want to do they will not make it by busting the ever increasing regulation put on drivers. The DOT is leaning too hard on drivers for them to just play along. Unless you own your own truck trucking is just a job anyway and not worth the risks.

No one is going to get rich truck driving and running wide open all of the time is not going to put you that much ahead of the guy that does it right, it will lead you to burn-out and health problems though.

As for the "go to work at Taco Bell" remark someone made, working at Taco Bell probably has more job security and steady pay than trucking does.

 

you said it Red! cranky angry burn outs. are on there way out of the industry. and being replaced be better and very well educated people. so those of us will to hold on. and do the job right every time. and learn to change with the industry. will soon start seeing better pay in the next couple of years. and for the ones that don't want to go with the changes. won't be around. and won't be able to return to the industry for work.

 

Yank your never going to see better pay! No matter how educated you are cause there is always someone to stab you in the back. Thats the way it is and the way it has always been. Most very well educated people wouldn't get into trucking. But there is no law against you dreamin about it.

 

Is marten a good company? Drivers or recent drivers do ya have any info for a another trucker that's looking into driving for them. Thanks

 

There are many posting here on the site, that talks about marten. in short.
If you like to get paid perdeim, sliding pay scale, stuck in a region for weeks at a time. sitting alot of weekends. Picking up 2,000 miles loads, only to be instructed to drop in the nearest rail yard. Taking day(s) to get a truck serviced at a terminal (-wilsonville) even after you sent in your macro for service/ or pm.
Don't get hurt on the job, unless you have retained an Workmens Comp Lawyer. Have a friend who was hurt on the the job, was under dr's care, for a couple of months. When he was released they wouldn't give him back his intermodel job, said there were no openings, yet the kept advertising they had openings in intermodel in the area where he lives. And he knows for a fact there were at least 2 openings in it, when he reutrned to work.
Many Sr. Drivers leaving, because of this afore mentioned crap. Many Sr. people in Mondovi with 15,20,25 years witht eh company, being fired or ask to quit, in order they bring in new people and pay them less.
So if you like all the above, yes it's a good company.

 

If you are in a situation where you need expert input, please let me know. This public forum is not the right set up for that.

I saw it happen just as you report; long haul is now on rail or brokered. Regional drivers have to handle many loads per week just to make a decent check and in addition, serve as intermittent dray support. The per diem was not intended to help all parties...federal worker rights do not exist unless pushed. Ripe place for a union....office and road personnel.

Good luck. If you do want advice on those organizations still worthy of world class drivers, I would be happy to direct you.

Good forum drivers...thank you for what you do.

 

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tell me about it chip.Could u plz explain to me how their per diem works and if u ever see that money at all?

 

How exactly do you run "hot" in a slow governed company truck with e logs?

 

Yeah, that's it... you tell 'em kid. :smt043