Marten Driver (currently)

I would venture a guess that he's also going into pickups with freshly fueled tanks. If I pull into some of our customers with tip-top tanks, I'm over gross too.

 

I always go in with full tanks. It's rare when i get a msg, saying go in low on fuel.
I'm finding alot of shippers are lying on the bol when it comes to actual weight. They say one thing on the the paperwork, yet the scale tickets says another.

 

I got a cascadia and I usually go into a p/u with no more then 3/4 fuel.

 

Answer: Or what.

 

I've been puzzling on this, too, and while I think some are actually lying, I'm thinking most are just fudging with their semantics.
Allowing the usual funny business between gross and net weights, I've seen weights billed in all of the following ways:
Product, Packaging and pallets
Products and pallets, but no packaging
Product and packaging, but no pallets
Product, no pallets, no packaging.

The last version is irritating. The load dispatch will say "38,000" or some such, and you get it loaded up and it winds up being nigh on 44k. Then you look at the bills and (sometimes) they've got the pallets and packaging itemized in terms of weight, so it's technically on the bills, but it's not what they've communicated to the carrier.

 

yea, it can be a guess of what the real weight is sometimes.

 

Weight problems used to really get my goat. What always bugged me the most was shippers who paid little or no attention to weight distribution. It doesn't help that Marten's customer service probably tells shippers they can load more weight than they really can, sort of like airlines overbooking flights.

Years ago I chatted with Marten's current Dir. of Ops. about this subject. He held a different position then, more having to do with customer service. Believe it or not he actually tried to convince me that trailers often end up being loaded illegally through no fault of the shipper, but rather, simply due to the weight variation (margin of error) of the individual cases, adding up to a huge margin of error in the weight of the load. Said it with a straight face too!

I'm surprised he didn't bring an oxygen tank to work...you never know what corner of the room all those oxygen molecules might bunch up in!

 

"Marten Driver (Currently)"---BWAHAHAHAHA!!! Been there, done that...

 

>11. Milage Bonus - $500 if you average 10,000 mi. every quarter

If a company driver drives at least 10,000 paid miles during the calendar quarter, that driver gets $500 (there is no averaging involved).

This bonus does apply to all four quarters, so it adds $2,000 to your annual pay if you run normally without taking a bunch of time off within any single quarter.

This may sound like an a dumb question, but in some earlier posts to this thread it was stated that Marten paid a bonus for driving "10,000 paid miles during the calender quarter," which is only averaging approx 3,333 miles per month!

Is that in fact accurate, or did the original posters mean to imply 10k average miles per month for any given quarter?

 

It's 30,000 miles per quarter.