Avoid Marten Transport LTD.

I drive for MTS/ Martin out of Spring Hill Tennessee on a dedicated run. When I was recruited I was told the work was steady and at LEAST 3k a week. After I went to UNPAID orientation in Mich. I drove back bobtail to Indy to pick up a trailer. (so did several other drivers) We were never told by Robin (recruiter) that when you bobtail or deadhead your mileage drops from .35 to .25. We found that out at orientation. We also found out THERE that there will NEVER be a raise, and that the company takes 2 (unpaid) weeks off at July 4th and Christmas/ New Years.

After I got back to TN it was 2 1/2 MONTHS of calling EVERYDAY before I finally got my first dispatch. Even then it was almost 2 more months before I ever made 3k miles a week and even now it is very inconsistant.
I've been sent to Laredo, Tx (since July) 7 times that I have had to sit 2 days for a load. At this point the company is into me for over $500 in the PROMISED detention time, but after countless times of resending the required sheet with detention times and trip numbers, and copies (not required) of my logs for those days, and countless calls to payroll and my dispatcher, and countless times of being told it would be in my next check, I still have not received a penny of detention ALONG WITH NEVER EVEN GETTING PAID THE .25 a mile for the original delivery of their tractor and picking up the trailer in Indy! Not only that, but along with not paying the detention time pay, MTS has never reimbursed me for a SINGLE SCALE TICKET (13) although I've also submitted them many times according to the company requirements. That is my own money they won't pay back!

I don't know whose butt you're kissing to get what you want, but these are the most hateful, lying, uncaring people I have ever worked for. You speak to ANY drivers out of Spring Hill and find out some of the crap they've done to ALL the drivers and you won't think they're so nice.

Not only that, but we can't even get work done on our tractors if it is not an absolute safety issue, and even then it could take several weeks of nagging breakdown to let you get it fixed out on the road because we don't have a shop. I've worn out 2 sets of steer tires because they won't fix my front end, and Carl told me that they knew about the problem when they sent the truck down, but won't fix it because we don't have a shop and it's too expensive at a truckstop.

Don't walk away from MTS/ Martin...run, and don't look back.

 

Ok, well first off Marten wont allow the truck to sit inactive at for 2 1/2 months. you would have had to turn the truck in. And they do not PROMISE detention, they tell you up front they will try to get it, if they get money you get money. Marten does reimburse for scale tickets, so try that one on someone else. I scale every single load over 38k and I send in for the po to get paid back and they give me one. And for not getting work done on the tractors, well hate to tell you this, but they are anal about keeping their equipment running and running good. I have had things fixed on my truck that didnt need fixed, but they fixed them anyways. Marten does have their problems, but they are a good company. And the dedicated routes are on a sliding scale, not a flat scale. So again, please try again.

 

also from your spelling of the name, it looks like you are talking about a totally different company. perhaps you should look at who the thread is about before you start in on a company.

 

yep!! MTS/martIn and martEn are 2 DIFFERENT Cos! i heard from a prime driver last night that martEn is about to file ch 11.

 

i drove for prime its amazing how the rumors get started in springfield and a lot of the times they are on comapnys bigger and better thang them.....o yea tmc was supposed to have filed chapter 11 last december....lol

 

Marten is not about to file chapter 11. They posted a GAIN for the past three quarters.

 

LOL, i heard that!! truckers tales.

well that is good to hear

 

So I misspelled the name..big freakin' deal! The MTS office ( so there is no mistake) I run for is out of Byron, MI and we were promised detention and paid scale tickets AT ORIENTATION. Like I said before, I haven't been paid for either, whether YOU believe me or NOT. But a roomful of our drivers will verify that. After all, you haven't been fighting to try and get your money back from them like I have, have you? I deliverered a tractor and trailer to Spring Hill, TN for MTS back from orientation, but still was not assigned one LIKE I SAID, I still have not been paid for it and waited SEVEN WEEKS for my first dispatch LIKE I PREVIOUSLY SAID, but I guess since you were there and obviously "know it all..." Anal is close to the word I would use about their doing work on their equipment and you are obviously near their shop where they do it, but you ask any of the Spring Hill GM drivers about it and DOWN HERE, and you sir, are wrong. We don't have a shop and getting work done is #### near impossible because Chris "doesn't want to spend the money." But again, since you have been in our shoes and run out of TN, I guess you know best. So Mr. Know it all, YOU try again.




wont allow the truck to sit inactive at for 2 1/2 months. you would have had to turn the truck in. And they do not PROMISE detention, they tell you up front they will try to get it, if they get money you get money. Marten does reimburse for scale tickets, so try that one on someone else. I scale every single load over 38k and I send in for the po to get paid back and they give me one. And for not getting work done on the tractors, well hate to tell you this, but they are anal about keeping their equipment running and running good. I have had things fixed on my truck that didnt need fixed, but they fixed them anyways. Marten does have their problems, but they are a good company. And the dedicated routes are on a sliding scale, not a flat scale. So again, please try again.[/quote]

 

Marten Transport LTD. Is not MTS.

We do get scales paid back, just send in for a PO. And Orientation is PAID for, as is your hazmat endorsments, just show proof of your background check , and it will be included in your next check.

Marten going broke, ya right. Or being bought out ,,, please tell me more good jokes.

Marten is a sound company. They spent 16 mill, installing apu's on every truck cept the day cabs. They are getting a return on that investment, but not having to idle trucks. As others have said, we have post profits for the last nine months. This is public knowleged. You can look it up in the stock reports.

Randy, his mom and sister, are not about to let what the father started go under or away.
We do have a lease purchise program, but it doesn't screw you like others out there.

One thing i wish the company would go back to,,, requiring new hires have at least 1-2 years otr expreance. When i got hired it was 1 year. It used to be 3 years. It's now 6 months, and then they go with a trainer who decides when you go solo.


When roads are bad or chain laws in effect, they tell us to park it. Other companies tell you to chain and go. Sorry Freight can be replaced, a human life cannot.

 

Ok, there are no MARTEN offices in Byron Mi. You are talking about a different company. Get it right. Dont bad mouth a company you know NOTHING about.