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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 8, 2019</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:12pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;text-transform:uppercase;"><b>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE cOMMISSION</b></p>

<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>Washington, D.C. 20549</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:12pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;text-transform:uppercase;"><b>registration statement </b></p>

<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;text-transform:uppercase;"><i><b>under the securities act of 1933</b></i></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:18pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;text-transform:uppercase;"><b>MARTEN TRANSPORT, LTD.</b></p>

<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</p>

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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>Delaware</b></p>

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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;text-transform:uppercase;"><b>39-1140809</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>129 Marten Street</b></p>

<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>Mondovi, Wisconsin 54755</b><b>&nbsp;</b></p>

<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>(</b><b>715</b><b>)</b><b> 926-4216</b></p>

<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:18pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>MARTEN TRANSPORT, LTD.</b><b>&nbsp;</b></p>

<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:18pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>201</b><b>5 Equity</b><b> Incentive Plan</b><b>, as amended</b></p>

<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">(Full title of the plan)</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>Randolph L. Marten</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>Marten Transport, Ltd.</b></p>

<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>129 Marten Street</b></p>

<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>Mondovi, Wisconsin 5</b><b>4</b><b>755</b><b> </b></p>

<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>(715)</b><b> 926-4216</b></p>

<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">(Name and address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)</p>

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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>Patrick Pazderka, Esq.</b></p>

			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>Fox Rothschild LLP</b></p>

			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>Campbell Mithun Tower, Suite 2000</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:18pt;">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or emerging growth company. See the definitions of &#8220;large accelerated filer,&#8221; &#8220;accelerated filer,&#8221; &#8220;smaller reporting company&#8221; and &#8220;emerging growth company&#8221; in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.</p>

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			<p style="margin: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 18pt;">Large accelerated filer &#9746;</p>

			<p style="margin: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 18pt;">Non-accelerated filer &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#9744;</p>
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			<p style="margin: 0pt;">Accelerated filer &#9744;&nbsp;</p>

			<p style="margin: 0pt;">Smaller reporting company &#9744;</p>

			<p style="margin: 0pt;">Emerging growth company &#9744;</p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:18pt;">If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. &#9744;</p>

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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>Amount of</b></p>

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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;">Common stock, par value $0.01 per share</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">1,300,000 shares</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">$28,509,000.00</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">$3,700.47</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin-right:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;">(1)</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin-right:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;">Pursuant to Rule 416 under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#8220;Securities Act&#8221;), this registration statement also covers any additional shares of common stock of the registrant that become issuable under the Marten Transport, Ltd. 2015 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended on May 7, 2019, by reason of any recapitalization, stock split, stock dividend or other similar transaction effected without receipt of consideration where the registrant&#8217;s outstanding shares of common stock are increased, converted or exchanged.</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin-right:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;">Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h)(1) and (c) under the Securities Act and calculated based on the average of the high and low sales prices of the registrant&#8217;s shares of common stock, as reported on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on November 1, 2019.</p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>EXPLANATORY NOTE</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:36pt;">Marten Transport, Ltd. (the &#8220;Registrant&#8221; or the &#8220;Company&#8221;) has filed this registration statement on Form S-8 (this &#8220;Registration Statement&#8221;) with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;Commission&#8221;) under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#8220;Securities Act&#8221;), to register an additional 1,300,000 shares of the Company&#8217;s common stock, $0.01 par value per share (&#8220;Common Stock&#8221;), issuable pursuant to awards under the Marten Transport, Ltd. 2015 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended upon approval of the Company&#8217;s stockholders on May 7, 2019 (the &#8220;Amended Plan&#8221;). On May 22, 2015, the Company filed a registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-204386) (the &#8220;Existing Form S-8&#8221;) to register (i) 800,000 shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to awards under the Marten Transport, Ltd. 2015 Equity Incentive Plan (the &#8220;2015 Plan&#8221; and together with the &#8220;Amended Plan,&#8221; the &#8220;Plan&#8221;); and (ii) such indeterminate number of shares of Common Stock as may become available under the Plan as a result of the adjustment provisions thereof. The original number of shares issuable under the 2015 Plan were adjusted to 1,333,333 shares of Common Stock to reflect the Company&#8217;s stock split that occurred in July 2017.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:36pt;">Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the Existing Form S-8 are incorporated herein by reference except to the extent supplemented, amended or superseded by the information set forth herein. Only those items of Form S-8 containing new information not contained in the Existing Form S-8 are presented herein.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;text-transform:uppercase;"><b>Part II</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;text-transform:uppercase;"><b>Information Required In The Registration Statement</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;"><b>Item 3.&nbsp; Incorporation of Documents by Reference</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:36pt;">The following documents previously filed with the Commission are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:</p>

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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin-right:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;"><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799167/000143774919003693/mrtn20181231_10k.htm" style="-sec-extract:exhibit;">The Registrant&#8217;s annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018</a> (File No. 000-15010);</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin-right:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;"><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799167/000143774919009167/mrtn20190331_10q.htm" style="-sec-extract:exhibit;">The Registrant&#8217;s quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2019</a>, <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799167/000143774919015906/mrtn20190630_10q.htm" style="-sec-extract:exhibit;">Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2019</a> and <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799167/000143774919022039/mrtn20190930_10q.htm" style="-sec-extract:exhibit;">Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2019</a> (File No. 000-15010);</p>
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			<p style="margin: 0pt; text-align: left; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Registrant&#8217;s current reports on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799167/000143774919009654/mrtn20190510_8k.htm" style="-sec-extract:exhibit;">May 13, 2019</a>, <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799167/000143774919016802/mrtn20190814_8k.htm" style="-sec-extract:exhibit;">August 14, 2019</a> and <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799167/000143774919017793/mrtn20190903_8k.htm" style="-sec-extract:exhibit;">September 3, 2019</a> (File No. 000-15010);</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin-right:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;">The description of the Registrant&#8217;s Common Stock contained in the Registrant&#8217;s current report on <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799167/000110465902000119/j2686_8k.htm" style="-sec-extract:exhibit;">Form 8-K as filed with the Commission on January 25, 2002</a>, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating the description (File No. 000-15010).</p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:36pt;">In addition, all documents filed with the Commission by the Registrant (other than portions of such documents which are furnished and not filed) pursuant to Sections&nbsp;13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#8220;Exchange Act&#8221;), subsequent to the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all of the securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all such securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the time of filing of such documents with the Commission.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:36pt;">Any statement contained in the documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;"><b>Item 8. Exhibits</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:36pt;">The following exhibits are filed with or incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:</p>

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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;"><b>Description</b></p>
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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: center;">3.1</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799167/000095013703004324/c78307a2exv4w1.htm" style="-sec-extract:exhibit;">Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation effective August 11, 2003 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Company&#8217;s Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-2, filed August 14, 2003 (File No. 33-107367))</a></p>
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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: center;">3.2</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799167/000110465905037086/a05-12537_1ex3d3.htm" style="-sec-extract:exhibit;">Amendment to Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation effective May 25, 2005 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3 of the Company&#8217;s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed on August 8, 2005 (File No. 000-15010))</a></p>
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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: center;">3.3</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799167/000143774915015133/ex3-4.htm" style="-sec-extract:exhibit;">Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation effective June 1, 2015 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.4 of the Company&#8217;s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed on August 7, 2015 (File No. 000-15010))</a></p>
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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: center;">3.4</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799167/000143774918015007/ex_120098.htm" style="-sec-extract:exhibit;">Third Amendment to Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation effective May 18, 2018 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.5 of the Company&#8217;s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed on August 9, 2018 (File No. 000-15010))</a></p>
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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: center;">3.5</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799167/000110465908017602/a08-2696_1ex3d3.htm" style="-sec-extract:exhibit;">Bylaws of the Company, as amended (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3 of the Company&#8217;s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed on March 14, 2008 (File No. 000-15010))</a></p>
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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: center;">5.1</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;"><a href="ex_163667.htm" style="-sec-extract:exhibit;">Opinion of Fox Rothschild<b>&nbsp;</b>as to the validity of the shares of Common Stock to be issued (filed herewith)</a></p>
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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: center;">23.1</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;"><a href="ex_163668.htm" style="-sec-extract:exhibit;">Consent of Grant Thornton LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (filed herewith)</a></p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;"><a href="ex_163667.htm" style="-sec-extract:exhibit;">Consent of Fox Rothschild (included as part of Exhibit 5.1)</a></p>
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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: center;">24.1</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;"><a href="#poa" style="-sec-extract:exhibit;">Power of Attorney (included on signature page to this Registration Statement)</a></p>
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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: center;">99.1</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799167/000143774919009654/ex_144370.htm" style="-sec-extract:exhibit;">Marten Transport, Ltd. 2015 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended upon approval of the Company&#8217;s stockholders on May 7, 2019 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 of the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on May 13, 2019 (File No. 000-15010))</a></p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:36pt;">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Mondovi, State of Wisconsin on November 8, 2019.</p>

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			<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><b>MARTEN TRANSPORT, LTD.</b></p>
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			<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10pt">/s/&nbsp;</font>Randolph L. Marten</p>
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			<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Randolph L. Marten</p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b><a id="poa" name="poa" title="poa"></a>POWER OF ATTORNEY</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:36pt;">We, the undersigned directors and officers of Marten Transport, Ltd., hereby severally constitute and appoint Randolph L. Marten and James J. Hinnendael, and each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power to them, and to each of them singly, to sign for us and in our names in the capacities indicated below, this registration statement on Form S-8 and any and all post-effective amendments to said registration statement, and to file or cause to be filed the same, with all supplements, amendments and exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as each of us might or could do in person, and hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, or their substitute or substitutes, shall do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:36pt;">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:</p>

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			<p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: center;">/s/ Randolph L. Marten</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">Chairman of the Board and Chief</p>

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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">November&nbsp;8, 2019</p>
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			<td style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 35%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; border-bottom: thin solid rgb(0, 0, 0);">/s/ James J. Hinnendael</td>
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			<p style="margin: 0pt;">Executive Vice President and Chief</p>

			<p style="margin: 0pt;">Financial Officer</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">James J. Hinnendael</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">(principal financial and accounting officer)</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">November&nbsp;8, 2019</p>
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			<td style="vertical-align: top; width: 35%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; border-bottom: thin solid rgb(0, 0, 0);">/s/ Larry B. Hagness</td>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">Larry B. Hagness</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">November&nbsp;8, 2019</p>
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			<td style="vertical-align: top; width: 35%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; border-bottom: thin solid rgb(0, 0, 0);">/s/ Jerry M. Bauer</td>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">Jerry M. Bauer</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">November&nbsp;8, 2019</p>
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mrtn20191107_s8.htm
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 8, 2019
Registration No. 333-_______
United States
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE cOMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
_______________________
fOrm S-8
registration statement
under the securities act of 1933
_______________________
MARTEN TRANSPORT, LTD.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
39-1140809
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
129 Marten Street
Mondovi, Wisconsin 54755
(
715
)
926-4216
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)
_______________________
MARTEN TRANSPORT, LTD.
201
5 Equity
Incentive Plan
, as amended
(Full title of the plan)
Randolph L. Marten
Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer
Marten Transport, Ltd.
129 Marten Street
Mondovi, Wisconsin 5
4
755
(715)
926-4216
(Name and address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies requested to:
Patrick Pazderka, Esq.
Fox Rothschild LLP
Campbell Mithun Tower, Suite 2000
222 South Ninth Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402
(612) 607-7000
_______________________
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or emerging growth company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer," "smaller reporting company" and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer ☒
Non-accelerated filer    ☐
Accelerated filer ☐
Smaller reporting company ☐
Emerging growth company ☐
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of securities
to be registered
Amount to be
registered
(1)
Proposed maximum
offering price per share
(2)
Proposed maximum
aggregate offering price
Amount of
registration fee
Common stock, par value $0.01 per share
1,300,000 shares
$21.93
$28,509,000.00
$3,700.47
__________________
(1)
Pursuant to Rule 416 under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), this registration statement also covers any additional shares of common stock of the registrant that become issuable under the Marten Transport, Ltd. 2015 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended on May 7, 2019, by reason of any recapitalization, stock split, stock dividend or other similar transaction effected without receipt of consideration where the registrant's outstanding shares of common stock are increased, converted or exchanged.
(2)
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h)(1) and (c) under the Securities Act and calculated based on the average of the high and low sales prices of the registrant's shares of common stock, as reported on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on November 1, 2019.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Marten Transport, Ltd. (the "Registrant" or the "Company") has filed this registration statement on Form S-8 (this "Registration Statement") with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), to register an additional 1,300,000 shares of the Company's common stock, $0.01 par value per share ("Common Stock"), issuable pursuant to awards under the Marten Transport, Ltd. 2015 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended upon approval of the Company's stockholders on May 7, 2019 (the "Amended Plan"). On May 22, 2015, the Company filed a registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-204386) (the "Existing Form S-8") to register (i) 800,000 shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to awards under the Marten Transport, Ltd. 2015 Equity Incentive Plan (the "2015 Plan" and together with the "Amended Plan," the "Plan"); and (ii) such indeterminate number of shares of Common Stock as may become available under the Plan as a result of the adjustment provisions thereof. The original number of shares issuable under the 2015 Plan were adjusted to 1,333,333 shares of Common Stock to reflect the Company's stock split that occurred in July 2017.
Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the Existing Form S-8 are incorporated herein by reference except to the extent supplemented, amended or superseded by the information set forth herein. Only those items of Form S-8 containing new information not contained in the Existing Form S-8 are presented herein.
Part II
Information Required In The Registration Statement
Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference
The following documents previously filed with the Commission are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:
(a)
The Registrant's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018
(File No. 000-15010);
(b)
The Registrant's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2019
,
Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2019
and
Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2019
(File No. 000-15010);
(c)
The Registrant's current reports on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on
May 13, 2019
,
August 14, 2019
and
September 3, 2019
(File No. 000-15010);
(d)
The description of the Registrant's Common Stock contained in the Registrant's current report on
Form 8-K as filed with the Commission on January 25, 2002
, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating the description (File No. 000-15010).
In addition, all documents filed with the Commission by the Registrant (other than portions of such documents which are furnished and not filed) pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), subsequent to the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all of the securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all such securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the time of filing of such documents with the Commission.
Any statement contained in the documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
Item 8. Exhibits
The following exhibits are filed with or incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:
Exhibit No.
Description
3.1
Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation effective August 11, 2003 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Company's Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-2, filed August 14, 2003 (File No. 33-107367))
3.2
Amendment to Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation effective May 25, 2005 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3 of the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed on August 8, 2005 (File No. 000-15010))
3.3
Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation effective June 1, 2015 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.4 of the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed on August 7, 2015 (File No. 000-15010))
3.4
Third Amendment to Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation effective May 18, 2018 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.5 of the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed on August 9, 2018 (File No. 000-15010))
3.5
Bylaws of the Company, as amended (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3 of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed on March 14, 2008 (File No. 000-15010))
5.1
Opinion of Fox Rothschild
as to the validity of the shares of Common Stock to be issued (filed herewith)
23.1
Consent of Grant Thornton LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (filed herewith)
23.2
Consent of Fox Rothschild (included as part of Exhibit 5.1)
24.1
Power of Attorney (included on signature page to this Registration Statement)
99.1
Marten Transport, Ltd. 2015 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended upon approval of the Company's stockholders on May 7, 2019 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 of the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on May 13, 2019 (File No. 000-15010))
Signatures
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Mondovi, State of Wisconsin on November 8, 2019.
MARTEN TRANSPORT, LTD.
By:
/s/
Randolph L. Marten
Randolph L. Marten
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
We, the undersigned directors and officers of Marten Transport, Ltd., hereby severally constitute and appoint Randolph L. Marten and James J. Hinnendael, and each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power to them, and to each of them singly, to sign for us and in our names in the capacities indicated below, this registration statement on Form S-8 and any and all post-effective amendments to said registration statement, and to file or cause to be filed the same, with all supplements, amendments and exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as each of us might or could do in person, and hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, or their substitute or substitutes, shall do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
Name and Signature
Title
Date
/s/ Randolph L. Marten
Chairman of the Board and Chief
Executive Officer
(principal executive officer)
November 8, 2019
Randolph L. Marten
/s/ James J. Hinnendael
Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer
James J. Hinnendael
(principal financial and accounting officer)
November 8, 2019
/s/ Larry B. Hagness
Larry B. Hagness
Non-Executive Director
November 8, 2019
/s/ Jerry M. Bauer
Jerry M. Bauer
Non-Executive Director
November 8, 2019
/s/ Robert L. Demorest
Robert L. Demorest
Non-Executive Director
November 8, 2019
/s/ Ronald R. Booth
Ronald R. Booth
Non-Executive Director
November 8, 2019
/s/ Thomas J. Winkel
Thomas J. Winkel
Non-Executive Director
November 8, 2019