Loggin on "Line 3" for TMC

I'm having the same trouble blind! Wonder if it's a test? My first couple weeks were good with decent paying loads. This week my FM has screwed me up so bad I've been chasing my tail all week trying to keep up! Tuesday I was sent for a load. Loaded, tarped, got back in truck to pull out and get a phone call....WHOOPS! We shouldn't have given you that load...Grab an empty trailer from there and go here. Well, ok but now I have to untarp and unstrap every bit of that! And no pay for the 5 hours I spent there? THANKS! Then the next day...Why dispatch someone to a 9 hour drive when you know their clock is up before they leave shipper? Oh and a sorry paying load at that! The worst paying load I've had yet! IMO I should have got a real short good paying load to make up for a whole day of no pay! Wonder if we have the same FM?!

 

Oh and hometime? Well guess you could say I've had some. Last Friday I had put in request to be home by 7 or 8 Friday night so I didn't completely miss my Grandaughters birthday...Got home Saturday at 1. THANKS! Have barely gotten home with enough time to reset to leave on Monday mornings! Sorry venting lol.

 

i've been reading all of yalls posts & this is typical in trucking. u have to pay ur dues; if u think that ur only gonna pay so much then move on, think again. ur dispatcher will test u til he/she sees that u can handle the job. there are several variables in the way things happen in trucking. if u want this as ur career to retire from, get used to it; if not, i don't know what to tell u. also, u can't make money sitting @ home, nor tarping, strapping, etc; then get told untarp, unstrap, etc & go somewhere else. dispatcher should throw u a bone but they do what they want. u just gotta work with them.

 

Critter we might have the same FM lol

 

So what you are saying is you are not going home this weekend? I don't get the load, secure it, tarp it, and then switch. Definitely can't blame that on "poor time management".

 

totally understood blind I been keeping up with you on here I was thinking tmc I am graduating july 3 after reading some posts I am thinking again about going elswhere due to i have a family and need to make money not play games black and shiny trucks or not

 

Well Blind, I have now sat at home for two weeks. Not making a dime and spending money to jump through the hoops. My Doctor, whom I will be replacing with a new doctor, faxed everything yesterday. I was then told in the afternoon that I needed the ER records faxed also. That would have been nice to know on MONDAY! So everything is done and faxed and confirmed today. Waiting for Andy(FM) or someone to call me. I would like to get back to Buffalo and get in my truck.