Avoid Marten Transport LTD.

Reading some of these posts about marten being a bad company, Either you're a total ####tard or never actually worked there,I was a company driver for 3 yrs and a owner/op # marten for 6 yrs.. I NEVER had a problem with getting anything I wanted and NEVER had to kiss ###. As for the family emergency... sounds like ######## to me.. My grandmother died in 99 and when I called dispatch to get a load from Wi to Ca, I was offered plane tickets if I didnt think I would able to make it out there in time. So say what you will. I've been gone from the Co for 7 yrs,And STILL have friends that work there in the office and drivers!!

 

Mastergunner,
Your post is coming across as screaming. And you even cuss insults(####tard). In debate class, you will learn that if you escalate into raising your voice and cussing then you realize you are on the losing end of the debate. The debate judges will score you badly. I wonder, what is it like to live in the same house with you? Is your family glad to see you go back on the road? Has anyone tried to talk to you about anger management classes?

Back to the debate, you say you have been gone from Marten for 7 years, so the obvious question is why did you leave if it was so good?

Boeing in Seattle says their yearly attrition rate is 5%. If you argue that Boeing is a good job, I would be in total agreement with you, as the stats can't be argued with. I would even go along with 10% or less as being a good job. But as the percentage goes up, at some point we can no longer argue a job is good. Where shall we draw the line? I would say 30% or higher is ridiculous. Last I checked, at Marten's recruiting website, Marten claims an annual attrition rate of 89%. Are you really going to argue that this is a good job, where you have to hire 89 drivers per year for every 100 trucks? If this is your idea of a good job, I shudder to think what a bad job would be. But in fairness to Marten, 89% is lower than the trucking industry average of 130 to 150%. So you could probably accurately say it is either a little better than the average trucking company, or it might be that they have bonuses structured to keep a driver holding out for the bonus before they quit. Maybe a lot of things. But are you really going to look us all in the web cam and seriously try to argue that 89% is an indication of a good job? Get out of here!!

And I wonder why you don't go post on the threads that invite people to post the best company they have ever worked for, instead of lurking on this thread and name calling at anyone that has a different experience than you. Do you behave that way at home also, listening in on conversations in the other room to jump on someones comments and cuss them? Do you cuss at the television and call it a ####tard?

You say you have been gone from Marten 7 years; well a lot can change in 7 years. And a lot is changing with Marten and undoubtedly with all companies now that trucking has declined so badly: link to a report on the trucking economy for the non-believers http://www.nasstrac.org/conference/PDFs/Wall_Street_Larkin09.pdf

I believe that the customers will go with the lowest bidder for the particular level of service they require, and if CR England can give that same level of service for a few cents less per mile than Marten, then the customer will switch (not that England can or will, I am just using this as an example). I don't believe there is any love there; it's just like the relationship a man has with a prostitute in that there is no love, it's all about money. If a john can find a cheaper prostitute, he will likely switch as there is no love there. And the same for customers of carriers. If England or any other carrier can steal away Marten's customers, they will. So Marten has to compete with some ruthless carriers to keep their customer base, and so it would follow then that Marten will have to change in the declining economy to survive against tough competition. But I know you won't see it this way, just as there are johns that really believe a certain prostitute is in love with him. The john is kidding himself, she is in it for the money. Her affinity for him goes up with more money, and goes down if he cheaps out on her. You remind me of that john, in the way you believe that Marten is the all generous and all benevalent generous carrier, that has found a way to generate the money to bestow all manner of kindness and generosity to drivers, and leaves all other carriers wondering how Marten does it? How does Marten do this? Is it magic? Does Marten have some kind of secret formula that the other carriers cannot discover? I say nay, nay.

It's not love, it's about profitability. If you want to go to grannie's funeral, a quick look at the computer will show if you are profitable enough to be considered. But if you break a leg and can't work, find your own way home at your own expense. Marten truly has no love for you, and neither does your hooker. It's a business proposition and nothing more. But I know no one can convince you of that. Us "realists" and you "believers" will never be in a agreement on this. (The audience puts in their ear plugs as they anticipate the cussing and screaming in Mastergunner's rebuttal)

 

If you actually look at what other ppl have said,I'm not the only one nor am I going to debate you on this. And the reason I left Marten is because I've expanded my fleet and bought trailers,In which you cannot have at Marten.Only a few of the oldtimers do. I think that is less then 5 now. I bid you a good day

 

I was scared when I read this post- Wife and I are thinking of applling with Marten. I have talked to 6 drivers all of them say its a great company. One I talked with says his parklocation is Ontario and he Bobtails to Vegas everytime. Been with them 11 years hasn't be home late once.
I'd love to hear more good stuff, from drivers. PM me how the team driver scene with Marten?

 

Duckfoot, you wont have a problem running team at marten.. they are one of the better carriers. My wife and I ran a avg of 250k mi a yr

 

Okay, I guess this "brown-noser" has a few things to say...

Which terminal exactly had the "bullet proof glass everywhere?" I've been in every terminal, walked freely through them all during normal business hours (except Joplin, because that "terminal" is someone's private residence), and have yet to encounter any such thing.

As for referring to the Driver's Daily Log as a "liar's guide," that spoke volumes. Yes, fuel stops, tolls, DOT inspections, customer stops, and anything else time stamped electronically or on paper must match your logs. The USDOT also regularly audits Marten's logs against Qualcomm tracking records in San Diego, as required by LAW. If you have a gripe about that, take it to Congress, since they set the rules and tell the USDOT and states how to enforce them.

Since you claim you had to repay the costs associated with putting you through orientation, that tells me you were with the company less than six months. You signed a form agreeing to this, if you hadn't you would have been sent back home to seek employment elsewhere.

During that six months or less with Marten, you racked up enough log violations for even Randy Marten to take notice of it. You claim you were "forced" to do this, but where's the proof? Did you let them know over the Qualcomm? Probably not, otherwise this would be a non-issue, since only one fleet manager I know of ever tried that, and now they're no longer a fleet manager.

As for being charged for fuel, that tells me you fueled off network without prior approval. Not reimbursed or charged back for tolls tells me you went off-route. Lumpers also require prior approval, and Marten has an extremely liberal lumper policy (I have yet to unload any loads except one in three years, by my choice - I wanted the exercise, and I got blasted for it).

Good luck with your future jobs (plural intenional).

 

'Marten Transport ran me even when I had no hours left, even after advising them so, and they would deny ever being told so'

Who runs your log book, you or disptach?
This happened to me once was told to run, via qc, i picked up the cell phone, called my safety managerin formed her what was going on, she pulled up my screen looked at the msgs, called the Ops Manager, and told them he is out of hrs, the truck will not move. And it did not.

'if u do get time off the truck has to be taken to the terminal.'

Only if you live 50 miles from a termanl, as written in the lastest employee hand book. If your going to take longer than two weeks, yes then it has to be returned to a term and cleaned out. You will then be reasigned to another when you return.

I live 400 miles from the nearest term, i drop my mty at custs. or dropyrds, and bobtail to and from the house.
On a rare occasion, have been able to meet another driver from my area, who was coming home the same day i was coming back. I go his load.

'yet they want everything on time, and most of the time they don't give u enough time.'
Proper trip planning. I will not send a mac 32 in, UNTIL i have planned the trip, vs what hrs i have on my log book. If i can't make to cust leagly, i don't accept the load, then i follow up and snd a msg explaining why. And every time i have been told ok, pulled from preplan, or they ask if i have enough hrs to p/u and then drop in a yard somewhere. Sometimes i do that IF I HAVE THE HRS.


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You can get ezpass with Marten, just ask, it's about $6 a month, just saw one yesterday in a Marten truck and I'm applying for my own this month. Let's get our facts straight shall we.

 

Marten supplies EZ PASS for tolls.
It's Prepass we have to get on our own.

 

You company guys have to pay for prepass?