How Good is Shaffer?

People treat you how you let them. That’s why it’s important to lay down the law early on.

 

How does Marten Transport compare to Shaffer:

At orientation at Marten, our dispatcher took us out to lunch at a nice restaurant compared to Shaffer ordering us fast food. During lunch, our dispatcher at Marten Transport told us that he wanted all of us to make a lot of money working for Marten Transport.

My dispatcher at Marten Transport, consistently pre-assigned me three loads at a time, compared to waiting for a load after empty at Shaffer, and my weekly paychecks were consistently excellent, compared to the anemic pay at Shaffer which pays a high cents per mile but they don't have the freight available to run more than 2500 miles per week.

For the first time in my life, I felt like I had hit the jackpot, and working for Marten Transport made me feel genuinely wealthy. It seemed like the company was always looking for reasons to throw money at you, which made me feel appreciated as a company driver like never before.

In contrast, Shaffer seems to look for reasons to punish their drivers and withhold bonuses. One driver told me that he made a U-turn while bobtailing and, because of that single incident, hasn’t received a bonus in the two years he's been with the company. Shaffer is also the only company I know of that makes drivers pay for Per Diem—something that feels almost as underhanded as Judas, selling the location of Jesus to be crucified, for a few pieces of silver.

At Marten Transport, detention pay began automatically at $20 per hour after one hour past your appointment time. Nowadays, detention pay starts right at your appointment time.

Marten also offered a $200 bonus just for watching a 20-minute safety video on the Qualcomm each month.

They gave a $100 bonus to anyone willing to drive during Thanksgiving week, and another $100 bonus for driving through the week of Christmas.

In conclusion, Marten Transport rewards their drivers with pay and Shaffer punishes their driver by pay.

 

I worked at Marten and they didn't do any of that ####. But hey congrats to you if it's true.