Marten Transport, Ltd. (MRTN)
Refrigerated truckload carrier, 76% drivers. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 27, 2026. Ranked 229 of the 275 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
21%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
23%
Employees, annual report
3,502
Leading staffing pattern
Truck Transportation
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now21%
- End of 202723%
- End of 202823%
- End of 203023%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 77%
- Becomes checking a model's work 17%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
Marten Transport states 3,502 employees, 2,660 drivers, 275 mechanics and 567 support personnel, in a truckload carrier read whole at truck transportation; its 77 independent contractors are not counted.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 21% now, 23% at the end of 2027, 23% at the end of 2028, 23% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 23% desk work, 9% people work and 68% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 77% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 17% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
3,502 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing describes a U.S. truckload carrier with terminals across the country and states no count by country; recorded as 1 with a flag.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had 3,502 employees. This total consists of 2,660 drivers, 275 mechanics and maintenance personnel, and 567 support personnel, which includes management and administration.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Truck Transportation | 100% | Stated counts (a) inside one business: 2,660 drivers, 275 mechanics and maintenance personnel and 567 support personnel including management and administration, 3,502 in all, a refrigerated and dry van truckload carrier with a brokerage arm, truck transportation, NAICS 4840, the SIC 4213 business. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 2,660 drivers, 275 mechanics and maintenance personnel and 567 support personnel; 77 independent contractors supply tractors and are not employees; no collective bargaining; the count fell from 4,575 in 2022 and the intermodal operations were sold September 30, 2025; drivers paid a fixed rate per mile with a guaranteed weekly minimum.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Truck Transportation, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- FedEx Freight Holding Company, Inc. (FDXF, 40,000 employees)21% now, 23% by 2028
- Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. (KNX, 37,100 employees)21% now, 23% by 2028
- XPO Logistics, Inc. (XPO, 37,000 employees)21% now, 23% by 2028
- J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (JBHT, 31,750 employees)21% now, 23% by 2028
- Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. (ODFL, 20,591 employees)21% now, 23% by 2028
- Schneider National, Inc. (SNDR, 19,000 employees)24% now, 28% by 2028
- Saia, Inc. (SAIA, 14,500 employees)21% now, 23% by 2028
- ArcBest Corp (ARCB, 14,000 employees)21% now, 23% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing's text names AI in no sentence.
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20250median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 3,502 | 2026-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 3,776 | 2025-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 4,213 | 2024-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 4,575 | 2023-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 4,007 | 2022-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 4,162 | 2021-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 4,087 | 2020-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 3,589 | 2019-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 3,492 | 2018-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 3,622 | 2017-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 3,577 | 2016-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 3,240 | 2015-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 3,045 | 2014-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 2,946 | 2013-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 2,787 | 2012-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 2,678 | 2011-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 2,666 | 2010-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 2,775 | 2009-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 2,622 | 2008-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 2,727 | 2007-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 2,440 | 2006-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 2,179 | 2005-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 2,087 | 2004-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 1,936 | 2003-03-28 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 1,884 | 2002-03-29 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 1,827 | 2001-03-28 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-12-31 | 1,492 | 2000-03-27 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 1,337 | 1999-03-26 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 1,239 | 1998-03-24 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | 1,261 | 1997-03-31 | 10-K405 |
| 1995-12-31 | 1,254 | 1996-03-28 | 10-K405 |
| 1994-12-31 | 1,206 | 1995-03-30 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- Under rule 8 the 77 independent contractors are not counted, as the filing counts them apart.
- The U.S. share of 1 rests on the filing's description of a U.S. carrier, not a stated count.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001437749-26-005971, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Marten Transport, Ltd.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 21% now and 23% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Marten Transport, Ltd.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Marten Transport, Ltd. employ?
- 3,502 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Marten Transport, Ltd.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Truck Transportation; by those patterns the work is about 23% desk work, 9% people work and 68% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Marten Transport, Ltd.'s annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on November 8, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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