Marten Transport (19 month review)

You wouldn't make any money in a paid for truck at that kind of rate. I figured it was a dollar a mile + surcharge. Hard to believe they find people willing to work for that.

 

I think the rate is higher than a dollar plus the fuel surcharge. I’ll ask an O/O the next time I see one. I know a few of them were running Walmart dedicated loads out of Tomah,WI.

 

Same, except for my mortgage that's a whopping $650 a month. There's no profit in a rate like that. If you can't make payments + profit on a brand new one from the rate you ain't gonna keep an old paid one going from it either. I was an o/o for 13 years before I quit it and got a company job last year.

 

$1.25 + surcharge. Their website says average is $1.50. That's running for nothing.
MARTEN. We get you home.
https://www.drive4marten.com/owner-...rning industry,pay, and inclement weather pay.

 

Well most of them are happy with it. That’s all I can say on the matter. A lot of them used to run their own authorities.
Then the market tanked!
Me personally,if I was running my own truck I definitely wouldn’t be running under $2-$3 dollars a mile,not from the way fuel prices and other expenses(insurance,registration,IFTA,etc.) have been fluctuating!
YMMV

 

Thanks, I didn't take it that way. I know some guys are happy to do that. I'm telling you, it aint no good, even if you got a truck that never breaks (I want to see THAT truck lol) or whatever - it's cheap, cheap.

 

So I spoke with a driver today who used to run Walmart as a leased operator with USXpress a couple of years ago before they got kicked out of that particular DC. He said Walmart provided his truck fuel, so there was zero fuel cost, and it paid $1.26 a mile. If that's what Marten o/o were getting (free fuel) I can see why they'd flock to that versus running otr and buying their fuel on $1.26 or whatever it was.