why I quit TMC (long)

unless you find a niche. all I do is haul truckload dry van from western OH to New England and back. I live right off I80 in western PA so this puts me at home about 4 nights a week.

2800mi # $0.34/mi
2 deliveries in CT # $25
2 deliveries in OH # $10

easy $1000+ a week. there is potential for 3000mi or more if I want to stay out. I am enjoying being home 3-4 nights a week so I'll probably wait till the winter to stay out. if I have to take a 34 hour restart away from home, they put me in a hotel.

the two major differences between my new company and TMC are:

1) I keep most of my check at my new company. they use a thing called EZ-pass so I don't have to go to the ATM every weekend and advance them money for tolls, and then not get reimbursed for them. if I make $1000, I bring home $800 at my new company. if I made $900, I'd bring home $550 at TMC. my expenses don't affect my pay, because I don't have any. I haven't had to use a dime of my own money so far. it's a wonderful feeling. and they're even reimbursing my hazmat application fee.

2) I get paid practical miles. $0.34/mi on practical miles is the same or better than $0.38/mi on TMC's scam short miles. new company says it's 760mi from point A to point B. at the end of the trip, I have logged 760 miles, sometimes less. TMC would say it was 760 miles and I'd log 900 miles and my team leader would be at my throat for out of route.

I'm doing easy work, making a ton of money, I'm home all the time, and my new company doesn't treat me like a farm animal. I'd say in this case the grass was greener on the other side.

 

and even if the grass weren't greener, the feeling of blowing by those Petes going 70MPH is wonderful.

I passed probably 15 TMC trucks today and 14 of them were tarped. the hardest thing I had to do today was drop and hook 2 trailers, and I'm still making more money.

 

how is it that I was bringing home $500-$600 then? still the same 5 loads a week, and plenty of northeast.

I liked flatbed better, except when it involved lumber tarps and it was 105 degrees in GA in June or 57 degrees below 0 in MN in March. I miss the exercise but with all the time I have off, I have plenty of time to ride my mountain bike and lift weights so I'll try not to get any fatter. new company has curtainside stepdecks and they pay $20 to secure a load and $20 to open and close the curtain. I put in for as many stepdeck loads as I could. I am not preaching the virtues of dry van, lol I hate sliding tandems.