Originally Posted by TK THE TRUCKER

Hey what's up everyone ? Haven't posted in several months but I'm still here. I left Marten back in May for a local job that came up. It's just running a walking floor trailer back and forth to the landfill 30 miles away 3 times a day. It was alright for the first few months but now it is quite boring, especially with the coming weather. The same boring route on rural roads every single day. I'm damn near ready to go back on the road. But I am home every night and the pay is alright so maybe I can make it past the holidays at least
Anyways the real reason I posted was to talk about when I left Marten. They didn't screw me at all whatsoever. Everything worked out great. I literally got every single penny owed to me. I kept track of everything that was owed to me and it all worked out in the end perfect. They didn't even charge me for the padlock and safety camera that they should have.

I was at home getting ready to head back out when I decided to accept the local job. I called my fleet manager and told him that was coming off the road for a local job. I told him I'd like to turn the truck in within 2 weeks. He checked the loads and said that I could turn the truck in the next day at the Indy terminal if I wanted to. I said that would be great. So the next day, a Thursday, I picked up my load and arrived in Indy that night. During that day I talked to Marten about getting home. They pay for a bus ticket to get home that was going to be about $100. The bus ride was going to be like 15 hours or something. I told them to hang on while I checked out a rental car. I ended up renting a car for $110 plus gas, $40. So I rented the car and they reimbursed me the cost of a bus ticket in my last settlement. So for $50 I got myself home in one day.

Ok back to Marten, so I had arrived in Indy, Thursday night. The next morning I turned the truck in with no problems. The mechanic came out and checked the truck out and all was well. Then I went inside and did an exit interview and turned in my locks, I.D., fuel card and a couple other things. Then to top it off I was planning on taking a taxi to the car rental place but they offered to give me a ride. So I picked up the rental about 10:00 and got home about 20:00 that night and played cards with my friends. Along the way I stopped at a couple truck stops to use up the driver rewards points I had on my cards and bought some stuff I didn't need. So there I was, home on Friday night and started my new job on Monday.

Over the next 2 weeks I was still receiving settlements from trips that were getting paid out and reimbursements like the bus ticket home. I checked them thoroughly and got everything owed to me so I was real happy with that. Unlike other companies from what I heard Marten hasn't called me constantly, in fact they haven't called me at all bugging me. Every couple of months they send me a "please come back" letter or postcard so it's nice that they're not lame enough to call constantly.

Yeah so anyways, I'm already kinda missing the road already. I certainly don't know why. I don't think I'm missing the, 6-8 hour load or unloads, looking for a parking spot at 21:00, looking for a parking spot at 18:00, sitting in Chicago traffic for 3 hours to pay a toll, sitting in Chicago traffic for 5 hours for no reason, a 65 mph truck, a 55 mph speed limit, waiting for a shower, waiting for a shower only to find out there's no hot water, hours of service regulations, a refer that is dead in Arizona with a frozen load, yup, I sure don't know why I'm missing it. So if you see me on here posting several hours in a row it's because I'm sitting in a dock 5 hours past my appointment wondering why I'm not loaded yet :lol: :lol: Later, T.K.