MTS (Martin transportation system) info?

I worked at the Spring Hill TN location. I was the senior driver in about 3 months because the turn over was that high. I would not recommend them to anyone and have made a habit of bad mouthing them to who ever will listen.
But that's not what your looking for so I will try to be helpful...
Every location works different as they are serving that locations dedicated customer. You will have a local TM but dispatch comes out of Michigan. The trucks are always first come first serve for daycabs and the otr guys are advised to clean out all personal belongings whenever they get out of the truck. Mostly easy work and good money but the company will attempt to drain your very soul.

 

It's steady work at least. Ok pay for automotive freight. Not the best, far from the worst.
At least they are legal in how they pay, including medical and vacation time.

Their trucks tend to be older, but at east at our shop they were well maintained. If it was a DOT issue it was fixed , no problem. Other stuff like cosmetics are less quickly fixed.

There are two different positions. A lane driver, and a casual driver. A lane driver has an assigned lane they do everyday. I.E. go to pick up axles and bring them to the plant. Casual fills in for land drivers and added runs. You'll get a lane when one opens up after someone quits.

I believe that location is dispatched out of Byron Center, MI. Much better there than dispatched out of Flint. The Flint terminal manager is a royal a-hole and he prefers his dispatchers to act the same way....

Really the hardest part of the job is it's trip pay. Some days that's good as if everything falls right it's a short day. Of course if the plant fork truck drivers are crying they have to pick up one more rack today than scheduled it can add 5 hours to the unload time....

 

I honestly never got called by safety When I was there the safety/compliance depart was very understaffed (and I was there several years, so cant see it changing). They simply didn't have time to harass drivers unless it was a major issue. Now the terminal manager also gets emailed the recordings and I did get called in once by him, but I have to admit I was not being as professional a driver as I should have been...
Now your manager may or may not harass you, I've never been to that terminal or heard much about it.

Most of that is like the guy you replied to. The dispatch out of Flint (which does Spring Hill) is a bunch of lying a-holes. The times I've dealt with Byron Center or even Windsor I've never had a problem with dispatch.

 

You'll get the worst truck as all the good ones will be taken. but that's the price for being the low man on the totem pole.
I'm not sure there is a company policy on truck speed or not. I know I've driven trucks set to 62, up to no limiter. Although the no limiter didn't last long thanks to another driver getting a speeding ticket.
I honestly don't remember what most of the trucks were set at.

 

Where is orientation located?
Update?

 

Home terminal. Orientation is simply paperwork. I did a ride along for two days, then started my route.