Marten transport lease

I just started a lease program with Marten Transport and wanted to share the experiance with truckers considering this type of program, I hope it becomes an information tool.
The orientation part was very smooth, relax very similar to what all companies are doing right now. The truck that I got is very clean and in pretty good shape interior and exterior (Pete 387-05) the engine is runing good, normal signs of wear for 400000 miles. Recruiter and the O/O person in charge are friendly and very helpfull. Im into the third week runing and the miles are not what i expected. I'm the type of driver that will stay out for as long as I need too, and dont have to go home for a long time, but I have been idling the truck at every stop sometimes for days and always on both days of the weekend. It seems like Im in a different fleet separete from the company, like is a lease op fleet. I have been getting about 1800 miles per week, while the company trucks are getting about 3500 miles per week. The DM is very rude and for some reason always likes to remind me that she is a supervisor. Comunication with Dms is very poor as they never answer the phone and if you do call u need to leave a msg and than they will send u a mesage back over the qualcomm. I supouse to be an OTR fleet but for some reason I cant get out of ; IL,IN,WI,MO
My only concern right now is getting the miles up to where they need to be, other than that;
I think ATBS is an excelent tool very helpfull people.
I which i could be treated like a company truck.
I will be responding to mesages and adding to this thread.

 

2hellandback and Bigray; thanks for your comments!
i'm pushing hard on this miles issue and I 've talk to both d recruiter and the O/O dept, they are telling me that it takes weeks to get up to speed on the miles. I will wait and see how the rest of the week goes and than I will post a new message with an update. Thanks again

 

Successfully completed one month on this lease, and let me tell you, just simply dont recomended to anyone.
This actually would be a duable thing to do if the carrier follow trhu with you. But I have to say they have not.
After many phone calls and conversations with everyone involve in my lease I was able to get over three thousand miles last week but this week im back to 250 miles upto thursday. This is just very stressful. One of the windshield wipers assembly broke and replacing it cost me 89.00 a battery will need to be replace soon and that will be another 87.00 I was very fustrated today when I saw another 250 mile trip pop in the qualcomm to be deliver friday. They are trying to tell me that is the economy and they have no freight but is hard to belive that when all other company truck are just runing circles around me, and all the drivers brag about how many miles are doing. Also the company send a message that Marten was one of the only carriers showing a high profit for last month.