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Martin Transport, Inc

They are right on the "average" pay. Just remember that it is the gross and not take-home. The pay is sporadic, low for two weeks then super high next. You are paid on a "commission", but no one know what it pays until you or someone else has made the run. When you break it down to mileage pay, they come up short in comparison to others. They charge you $25 to preload a trailer. You really have to watch your pay, they will short you on the extras and lay-overs. Thursday is the cut-off day for payroll. 
Dispatch will work with you once they know that you are dependable to make your loads on-time. They usually have weekend dispatch. Seldom do they know what you are doing the next day until around 4pm. Mostly one load at a time dispatch. Texas drivers will be given the best of the runs.
They are a "reactive" not a "proactive" company.  Safety department treats the drivers as if this is a High school class. One driver fails at a safety check, then apparently all drivers will do the same. They don't want to confront the drivers that cause problems, instead change policy to affect every one. I.e. We now have to keep 2 paper logbooks in the drivers door pouch, because a driver could not find a logbook in his truck during a roadside inspection.
Safety will make changes to the e-log and never tell the drivers nor train them about the changes. 
Easy to work with for time off, insurance is pretty good.
Kingsport terminal is micro managed from Longview, TX. 
Corporate management likes to tell you how good they are but does not want to hear from the drivers if they have a issue. Corporate  make broad changes and then expect the managers to dispense the change without properly training them. They also make changes without putting it in writing or sending out a memo to the employees.
You find out about changes by trial and error. This includes payroll changes.

Worst company I have ever worked for.  Trucks are all junk.  My first assigned truck I put in the shop was taken to another terminal and I never did get it back after I wrote it up to get fixed.  The loaner I was in at the time was full of cockroaches in the beds and the A/C didn't work.  I turned it in to be fixed and the next loaner leaked oil terribly, but was forced to drive it because all they had were day cabs after it if I wanted to make any money.  Sure you're assigned a truck but they don't tell you it'll be in the shop the next day, and you are the last on the totem pole to get a newer truck.  I turned in receipts for various things I needed on the job and never was reimbursed after countless attempts.  Paychecks were never right, and when I tried to call to get them fixed the manager was always out that day.  I eventually lost count and gave up ever getting what was owed to me.  To top it all off, Martin's driver manual states, that their drivers do not need a union because their job is secure and basically Martin takes care of their employees.  If they had a union I would still have a job today.  I was let go because STUSCO changed their requirements on the amount of experience you had to have to haul oil for them.  When I asked my manager for a letter of recommendation so I could get another job, he said he simply didn't know if he could do that.  I didn't get so much as an apology after I was told I couldn't work for them any more.  If you are looking for a place to make money hauling oil, look elsewhere, there are plenty of companies that will hire that have better equipment.  I also found out after working there that Martin pays the driver the least of all of their competitors.  Open door policy doesn't apply if no one is on the other side of the door to talk to.  Hope this helps the next driver.  Would give no stars if possible.

If you’re not one of the terminal managers favorites, then just forget about really working for a decent check. I thought you work to get/stay out of debt. But the terminal I work out of doesn’t operate like that. I find myself getting into more debt. It’s hard to at least make a consistent 1200-1500 a week before benefits and deductions and anything else whether personal or not that you have to have deducted from your check like child support, bankruptcy or whatever it may be. I found myself always calling and asking about working. But they make sure their favorites run. And you don’t get holiday pay unless you run if you’re a driver. Why should I have to beg to work if I’m an employee there? But when you say something about how you feel, then it turns into a heated discussion. Also, you have to let these managers know where you stand as a grown person and an employee because my terminal manager thought he/she could talk to me any kind of way. No no no …absolutely not. I demand respect just like I give respect. I am not one of your children at all. But people with titles tend to do that and especially if the job is the only place that they can use their authority because they can’t do it at home. But to sum it all up, it seems more like a part time job. 

When hired for local work.. was told they needed 10 people for the run I was hired for.. was great for 2 months.. then loads slowed down to  1 to 4 days a week work.  waiting until late afternoon to find out if you work the next day.

I have a physical disability that was known when hired. Company tried to force me to do jobs that were physically unsafe.. then used as excuse for not giving more work when there was work I could do, they just wouldn't assign it to me.  Also made me retake DOT physical in hopes I'd fail so they could have grounds to fire me.

Equipment.. 8 to 12 year old trucks constantly breaking down and being put together with parts from other trucks.  everything from no A/C in the summer of Louisiana heat to repeated speed sensor malfunctions that limit you to 1400 RPM while under Haz Mat loads without warning.

H.O.S.  they will push you to violate H.O.S. giving loads that if you run into any traffic issues.. your clock runs out.  Send you to customers that have you waiting 3 to 5 hours on both pick up & delivery and not pay you for the 1st 2 hours of each.. costing you 4 hours a day unpaid.. but your H.O.S. clock is ticking.

Biggest mistake in my life was working for Martin transport.

When I started here 10 years ago, this was a great small/medium company; however, in the last 4 years, they have transitioned more towards a corporation...always looking to keep the extra dollar instead of sharing it with the employees.

Like most trucking companies, Martin expects that you work 65-70 each week, and your days off only get in the way of the dispatcher trying to get his job done. If you push-back, you can get more time off, and can even teach the dispatcher your preferred working schedule. 

Historically (from my experience and talking with drivers who had been there for many years before I started), this is a good company to work for if you have minimal experience and are wanting to learn to drive and operate a tank truck. And there have always been other companies that are paying more (especially in the Houston area). With that said, until a few years ago, Martin always tried keeping the compensation competitive...usually evened out with newer (and hopefully more reliable) equipment and some of the best medical benefits. Now as the drivers talk to drivers from other companies, the pay grade is separating by 25% or more, which in my opinion, isn't enough to call them competitive any longer.

You get paid by load, meaning OFTEN we drive 1.5 hours to a plant only to not even receive a load due to maintenance problems at the plant that weren’t communicated to us by dispatch when the people at the plant told us dispatch was notified with plenty of time before we even headed out, but because dispatch would rather us sit there and wait to see if maaaybe 2-3 hours later we MAY get loaded, they don’t tell us anything. Then after our day/time gets wasted and we’re made to drive the 1.5 hours back to the yard after turning down the only other option for a load which would only pay us between 70-90 dollars, we end up only getting compensated about 20 bucks for the last 5 hours of our wasted time. Terminal managers are not transparent and honest with drivers and only tell you what you want to hear to keep you happy for a week or two until the same problem pops up again. I’ve seen new hires jump into the newer equipment before someone else with seniority gets out of an old piece of junk. The duties of the job itself are not hard, what’s hard is dealing with the lies and manipulation from management and dispatch, especially when the pay does not add up. 

Everything is rushed and they will punish your for mistakes. They will give you options but if you don’t say what they want then you get punished. Manager don’t know what he doing and don’t have experience in a mechanic shop. He told me the wrong info to get a job done and supervisor had to help. 
Only certain music can be played in shop. Very unprofessional management. Manager tell you to take breaks then  lies to office saying you not working. Jobs are giving to you at the last minute. They tell you that you only have to work your 8 hours but turn around and force you to work steady 10 hours a day. You can’t take days off but they want to you to work on your days off. Only over the road drivers get good in shape trucks while local trucks break down everyday. I regret that I worked for this company. Mechanics are good to work with. They will help your learn about the trucks and trailers. Give good working advice. Will help you learn if you want to learn. You are told that you get 30 min lunch with 2 15 minute breaks but you never have time to take a 15 min break due to them pushing you none stop. Starting pay for shop is 17 and not very promising for a raise. 

When I applied, the job description listed top earners with potential annual earnings around $98k — that stood out to me and influenced my decision. In my experience, once hired, I felt like details about pay structure, mileage pay, and weather-related stops weren’t clearly communicated upfront.
During training in Kilgore, Texas, I actually felt I was making more per day than once I started running my own loads. That was unexpected and, in my opinion, shouldn’t be the case. Other drivers I spoke with mentioned that making $300 in a day or night would be a good shift, but I personally found it difficult to hit that with the available shift time and load assignments I was given.
In my experience, the environment made me feel unwelcome, and I felt that whether you were treated well or paid fairly seemed to depend on whether management liked you personally.

A typical day at work:  Pick up your load in Houston, then drive to your destination (Denver, the Carolinas, Chicago), get it unloaded or pump it off, then go back to Houston.  All Out-and-Back runs.

What you believe you learned:  Ask better questions before joining a company.

Management: They have their hands tied with budget constraints. If you read the company's 10-Q stock report, you will see that they know they have corporate management issues that have caused income and expense issues that could have been avoided.

Workplace Culture:  Nice people whose hands are tied with antiquated technology and constrained budgets.

The hardest part of the job:  Not much.  I enjoy being a Tanker Driver and all that entails.

The most enjoyable part of the job:  See above.

Imagine...
- Being charged $25 if you pick up a preloaded trailer.
- I've been in cleaner places than the driver's room, in a Tiajuana bar bathroom.

It was a unique safety situation. I had to adapt to their style of Management and Leadership. Safety Coordinators were engaged with the Drivers and Management at the terminals in my Northern Territory. But all safety decisions were put on the Terminal Manager which along with all the other responsibilities of running a Terminal can be overwhelming. I was able to prove to the upper management of the company to have the Safety Coordinator have a larger responsibility when it came to safety follow up and Coaching and Developing  Drivers, Mechanics and employees. This helped the terminal manager become a much more effective leader.

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