Not the best work culture - Broker Marten Transport Employee Review

1.0
Feb 16, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

base pay, quarterly, yearly bonus

Cons

-The Burnout- when a co-worker dies crashing in to the only tree in a field don't tell you employees "thats why you should never use sick time or pto because you dont know when your family is going to need extra income while you are in the ICU"- No real world transferable skills because the CRM system they use is a outdated by decades platform that looks like something out of a Blockbuster store. Additionally you will work with a excel spread sheet that is never up to date. updates on scheduled appt come over a digital version of Fax machine that has no format. You will be constantly on the phone with IT trying to get your virtual desktop running of Windows XP or 2000. You will work more than and are expected to work more than 8 hrs if you consider you are on call 24/7 and need to answer all your cell phone calls at any time of the day and solve the issue. For years we asked management the ability to work from home and they way they would answer would be "Over my dead body" "Im not going to pay you to work from home in your Underwear" "I need to see you on your desk working" " You need to look busy" people where let go for ridiculous excuses when covid hit since the ports, warehouses, and DC's where practically dead and needed to shift loads to dedicated drivers. No sick time was is given forget about PTO you only have 5 days in a year. If you request PTO good luck getting it granted even f its months in advance. expect to have to take calls during your time off.they expect you to come in a hr early it does not matter when your shift starts of how its constantly moved around. they micro manage you by talk time on phone and keystrokes and emails sent out. Sales team offers these low prices but while we have to keep and grow our margins drivers are paid less and are gaslighted when the topic of fuel prices come up.- Eventually moved over to Work from home during covid since upper management are in their 60's but everyone else went back to office just as delta hit.

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5.0
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Pros

Full 48hrs off a week, good miles, great support, onsite 24hr mechanic and tire shop, showers, close to all needs.

Cons

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Marten Transport Response
1w
Thank you for the five-star review! We really appreciate you taking the time to share your Marten experience.
2.0
May 12, 2026
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Pros

Good office camaraderie, regular PTO available for long term employees if you stay there long enough, good overall structure in place to deal with most common trucking company/industry issues.

Cons

Management has a tendency to nitpick issues. Everything is goal and growth oriented as a public company so you're always expected to do more with less. During the current trucking market they keep looking for new ways to trim the fat. This was the first year they didn't provide company calendars to employees, and got rid of the yearly floating PTO day as well. 401k contributions also diminished. There were also blatant sexist/transphobic/homophobic remarks made nearly daily and nothing was ever done about it.

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Marten Transport Response
1mo
Thank you for sharing your experience. Comments like yours enable us to continue to improve, so we appreciate your honest feedback. Please reach out to marten.recruiting@marten.com if there is anything we could do to assist.
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