My TMC experience.

Well, I will be looking forward to that. Rental car would be cheaper and a lot faster.wounder what has taken so long for at least one company to figure that out.

 

Thanks for the information..Good to know...Then I request No Hard Metal, No Rapper, Only Country Music trainer from Tennessee.Smoking? No preference but shower every other day at least....lol Thanks again

 

When I trained it was $300 or $350 a week, I was out all five weeks straight, so home time didn't matter. I just wanted a trainer so I didn't care if he listened to classical, or rap or what. I just wanted to train. The pay raise is awesome, but the rest is just luxuries. People should be happy to just have a job at that point.

 

WOW, the more I find out about TMC, the more impressive they are. As a former Drill Sergeant, I am really missing the Military (think I retired too soon, shoud have gone to 30yrs). TMC disciple is a very welcome relief to this civilian life. Good luck Gunner, stay safe out there!

 

Yeah I can tell you this about living in the area that you do. Once you learn the system and are in sync with everything at TMC, living in the Midwest makes it very easy to earn money driving there. In the summer time, Owens corning(roofing insulation), Hunter panel which is the same will make you some serious money!!! Hunter panel is no tarp which is much better then owens corning which most are tarp. Oh yeah also Firestone in Wisconsin you will pick up at, roofing insulation again. A few years ago, my first summer with TMC, I would run from the Chicagoland area where I am from with hunter panel up to the Detroit area to schools 2-3 times a week! It was killer money, I would say in the 750-800 dollar range to the truck for a 300 mile run. If you do the math, at 25% your making 60+ cents per mile!!! I did very well there and I have said this so many times all around this forum, I would go back to TMC if I needed to without a doubt in my mind. I have gotten calls 3 times since January for me to come back to Specialized, which I am not going to do since I am now the owner of a truck.
My point though is they are a great place to work, awesome benefits package, great pay, and great opportunities once you've been there for a while. I will also tell you that the first roughly 6 months are going to be the hardest for you, I have told other people on here this same thing! THEY ARE GOING TO TEST YOU!!! You will get the short end of the stick, loads that suck and pay crap, and they are going to be strict with you! With that said, after that initial 6 months you will look back and say, that was all worth it! You sound like your responsible, have a good head on your shoulders and have a great work ethic! Just keep calm about those crappy days and it will all be good brother, it gets better!

Living in our area also, your going to do tons of steel! Coils, plate and sheet! Also you living in Ohio, you will do wall board or drywall whichever you call it, a ton!!! If you have any questions ask them, and you can always come on here and ask, somebody on here will have an answer and probably 10 of us will have 10 different ways to do it! Good luck and keep us updated.

 

Gunner...I will be shocked if that what you earn. Straight up, the guys I trained were into the 900+ net/week range in the first few months...and getting home. You'll be surprised! Focus on learning to make all your decisions built around how it will drive your % up. Routing is the easiest one to control and helps the most. The best investment I made was my Rand GPS. Also, learn the points system and capitalize on it. Take the TQM class as soon as you can (5 pts), get a pass card (4pts), leave out on Sun night (17-22 pts/ MO)...build good habits early on and let them become "just the way you do things"

Be safe and have a good ride with your trainer.

 

When I was done training at Des Monies me and 2 other guys were assigned a rental car and we drove together. One guy lived in Illinois and the other in Ohio and I picked up a guy in Philly who was heading to Des Monies to test out because he just got done with his trainer. He dropped me off where I live just outside Philly. But I was always told be prepared to leave Des Monies with a trainer but I most if not all go home first.

My trainer was awesome but he lived in Virgina and I was in South Jersey, he was just outside D.C. but it was a long ride back and forth. TMC used to ( not sure if they still do)pay for a hotel if your trainer was over I think 150 miles away. I was over that in miles but according to TMC miles I wasn't. But they paid for gas mileage and tolls. And my trainer would drive the last leg on Friday because he knew I would have a long drive still to get home.