Smaggs goes to Marten. My Experience with Marten Transport.

Smaggs, best of luck with your new venture. Hope all goes well for you.....:smt023

 

###### driver!!!!!!!!!

 

Good luck Smaggs! I hope you enjoy the new job. I'm sure you'll make the best of it.

 

AHHH Lake Powell, a house boat, pretty ladies, add to that copious amounts of beer and a leafy green substance and your vacation would take me back 35 years to my mis-spent youth. When I was still young and handsome and the world was at my feet.

Best of luck with Marten, we're all waiting to hear more.

 

good luck smaggs

 

Hey Smaggs-How are you?Early happy birthday.I hope whatever happens is what's best for you.Like others i've read your Knight thread.My cousin's nephew's neighbor's ex son in law who might have heard something though the CB was staticy while it was off about whatever company doesn't make Marten bad.

You've been around enough to know it's more what you make it to be.I can't say anything bad about a few companies i've worked for that others might not be as positive about.If i believed in luck,i'd good luck with this.I don't so i'm very confident you'll do fine with Marten.Take care.Brian

 

Smaggs you will have an awesome time there. Been there did the house boat thing, only thing I really remember were the sites (if you know what I mean)
Can't remember much else until I realized I was back at home. Ahh to be young and single again.
Anyway on to more of a serious note, you really inspire me as I'am in my third week of school and started the shifting today and boy was I terrified! After a couple of times I started to get the hang of it, but the downshifting is really throwing me off. Grinding a lot of gears. Still doing better than the other student, he has a hard time shifting from one gear to the next and the teacher is getting really pissed and that makes me nervous even though she is not yelling at me. How long would you say it takes to get the hang of it. Getting a little worried about the test next Thurs. Need more time.

 

I am going to western truck school. It's not bad but there is a lot of disorganization and my instructor said she is burned out and is going to quit after we are done. She really knows her stuff but I think she lost her mind a long time ago. She expects us to get it right on the first try. After trucking 20 years like her everything gets easy. Now thank God I am doing better than the other guy. I thought she was going to kick him out of the truck today for almost dropping the drive shaft. Anyway I have been waiting for this opportunity for years and failure is not an option. By the way do all instructors have a short fuse or is it just mine? By the way HAPPY early BIRTHDAY.

 

They don't, just the ones who have been instructing too long. The instructor we had, there were three of us, was very laid back and never got excited. Even when the young guy who missed a gear and had to stop on the on ramp of I5 and start over, several times.
Wayne still keeps in touch with me from time to time, especially when he need his computer worked on.