Smaggs goes to Marten. My Experience with Marten Transport.

Take it right to the top and make Mr Marten stand by his words. Here they are, straight from the company website.

 

LOL...
That is EXACTLY what every trucking company has painted on the walls in every terminal in America.

 

I know.

While there are some companies that truly operate by those beliefs and principles, sadly, many others do not, and to them they are nothing more than cheap lip service.

 

Sounds like you need to start climbing the food chain. Call whoever is above your DM and whoever oversees Roadservice.

 

Smaggs you sure do have some legitimate complaints. That truck you described with disgustingly accurate detail was nothing short of a Bio-Hazard. Can you believe that people actually live like this? The problem is that Marten works with what they got and they don't exactly have the creme of the crop in drivers. You need a job with a small company plain and simple. Actually everyone does.

First you need to figure out the amount of miles you need per week to make showing up for work worth your time. THEN you have to realize that Marten makes out like a bandit with you running HALF of those miles. Even less and they still make money. The bigger the company the more this formula is amplified.

 

that's another trucking myth. All these mega carriers were small at one point so drivers started hiring on and eventually turning them into what they are now. If every driver started working for small company then they would turn into the same mega carriers everyone despises. No company out there just wants to stay small. Look through the report a bad company section and look at all the "small companies"