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zipy46 06-04-2008 10:16 PM

Marten ?
 
...any Martin drivers here at the forum ?

How is life with them ?

Enough miles to survive ?

I know people need food...so in theory your're

gonna be ahead in the game of trucking by carrying food.



:?:

MartenDrvrCA 06-05-2008 04:56 AM

Re: Marten ?
 

Originally Posted by zipy46
...any Martin drivers here at the forum ?

How is life with them ?

Enough miles to survive ?

I know people need food...so in theory your're

gonna be ahead in the game of trucking by carrying food.



:?:

I worked with marten until early this month.I started off with marten as a regional then went local.I would of recommeded anybody to this company up until a recently.This year with them bringing in alot of new management things are changing drastically.Once upon a time marten used to be an awesome company to drive for,it is systematically joining the ranks of companies such as jb hunt/swift.Alot of drivers have left so far thus year,especially after they cut regional pay from 27% of load to 20% of load.And thats only for trips under 100miles,anything higher and they are paying off this new sliding pay scale.The explanation they gave us was local/regional drivers made too much money last year.Towards the end of my tenure I couldnt count how many local runs i was picking up near the ontario,ca terminal and taking to the san bernardino rail to be shipped,with at leave 2000+ miles on them.Point being is the OTR marten drivers may not be feeling it as much as we were,but the company is modeling itself after knight as a short-medium length haul company. Hope that helps and BOL.

zipy46 06-05-2008 05:52 AM

Re: Marten ?
 

Originally Posted by MartenDrvrCA

Originally Posted by zipy46
...any Martin drivers here at the forum ?

How is life with them ?

Enough miles to survive ?

I know people need food...so in theory your're

gonna be ahead in the game of trucking by carrying food.



:?:

I worked with marten until early this month.I started off with marten as a regional then went local.I would of recommeded anybody to this company up until a recently.This year with them bringing in alot of new management things are changing drastically.Once upon a time marten used to be an awesome company to drive for,it is systematically joining the ranks of companies such as jb hunt/swift.Alot of drivers have left so far thus year,especially after they cut regional pay from 27% of load to 20% of load.And thats only for trips under 100miles,anything higher and they are paying off this new sliding pay scale.The explanation they gave us was local/regional drivers made too much money last year.Towards the end of my tenure I couldnt count how many local runs i was picking up near the ontario,ca terminal and taking to the san bernardino rail to be shipped,with at leave 2000+ miles on them.Point being is the OTR marten drivers may not be feeling it as much as we were,but the company is modeling itself after knight as a short-medium length haul company. Hope that helps and BOL.

Thanks for the input,

I am OTR all the way..

if I can get 2200 miles or more a week I won't complain...

:)


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