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i thought my driving history was ok, i didnt think this was going to be a problem..ah that little fantasy world i live in..anyway i hope i can land some where other than swift..but if thats where i go, ill become a good driver there, do my job and re evaluate my situation in 12 t o18 months..

 

that's interesting , and helpful to know..

 

This is quite true of most all loads. Thank you for mentioning this. There are some places where you have to back the trailer into a dock and if your tarps are in your sideboxes you will have to lift them onto the deck of the trailer first in order for the forklift driver to have access to them. Other times your load may be loaded with a crane and only one foot or two off the deck, in which case you get to handle the tarp yourself. My truck has one of the new enclosed headache racks so one of my tarps is in there so on loads that require tarping I try to dig them out and lay them on the deck of the trailer beforehand. That way the forklift driver may have to move them out of the way first, then place them properly. I have never had to lift a tarp over my head.

 

Roehl is fusy about who they hire, don't let that get you down. If TMC turns you down the first time go ahead and re apply in a couple of weeks. A different person on the hiring committee may approve you.

 

I have been keeping very busy. Last weekend I ended up planning my 34 hour restart very close, having just enough hours to restart and continue down the road. I failed to pick a truckstop with WiFi however leaving me quite bored all day. I should have been home this weekend but the freight didn't line up right. I knew when signing on that some times I would stay out three weeks before getting home. It is part of the job. This also has allowed me to take a quite long well paying load over the weekend. I would have brought in $4000 in revenue to the truck for the pay period ending yesterday but I had a load from Ohio to Richmond Virginia. The roads in Ohio were snowcovered thursday morning and I had 50 miles to go before hitting an interstate. Those 50 miles took me two hours since the traffic was scared to drive over 30 mph anytime. There was more salt on the road than snow, (incidentally I have a white truck now instead of black, hehe ) This took away my one hour of cushion that I had built into the load. This brought me to delivering thirty minutes before receiving hours ended for the day. I had my fleetmanager reschedule the delivery for morning and told hime there was a slight chance of getting unloaded today with a few hours left. That slight chance evaporated in 10 mph traffic the entire length of the 495 beltway around Washington DC. So i missed out on a nice 200 mile overnight run and got loaded Friday morning for Monday Delivery.

 

Can any new england TMC drivers give me an idea what the truck averages have been over the past few months...Im getting ready to pull the trigger on a company and want to be a sure as i can??? is the money there??? for that matter can anybody tell me what the yearly take home is ???

 

NO WAY!!!! TMC wouldn't sell out to SWIFT.....