Current TMC Workers In the Midwest?

Look for a milk truck, call Pence transport in Germantown.

 

Hauling grain or aggregate is a great way to learn how to drive. Working for a contractor in and out of jobsites, or hauling grain or milk from farms and dairies will teach you a lot about driving that will serve you well out on the road. And as JD pointed out, $1100 a week out on the road will probably not net you any more that $800 a week sleeping in your own bed every night. Also, a small outfit will likely teach you how to service and maybe perform minor repairs. You may find yourself in the shop during the slow months fixing things up. You said that you are a gearhead, so you may enjoy that part of it as well. Just holding a steering wheel can get real boring.

On the other hand, maybe TMC will get you enough experience to get a local job, but the world of cross country trucking is not a nice place, and the learning curve can be tough.

Good luck in whichever way you go.

 

No company that quotes a set amount quotes net, it's all gross because everyone's tax situation is different. Tmc was alright for starting, if your a safe driver and made a trip out west with one winter under you they start harping on you to become a trainer, that and a couple of other issues at home forced me into leaving for a dedicated route.

You can look into cheeseman out of saint Henry, they take new guys but your car driving history and arrest record best be on point.

 

Thing with tmc when you go through training you'll have several phone calls over training and they have several dedicated route in Ohio running coils out of Worthington in Columbus and Delta. If you prove your good and safe, they will likely offer you a dedicated route, but they don't know if you want one unless you tell them. They also have dedicated runs out of silver Grove KY hauling sheet rock, and shingles out of Medina.

 

Cheeseman hires new guys but only if they ranked pretty high. Yeah that's silver Grove KY. Continental building products, one of their largest accounts. It's not bad so long as your loads are all preloaded. If you go in live load, you best be there before noon, or you'll be there till after dark

 

It really depends on how efficient you are at running the truck. Their performance based pay starts you at 26% I believe, after the first 30 to 45 days you gotta run as hard as possible to get your first snapshot. Once you get that you'll be at whatever you qualified for for the next 30 days. My first I made it to 31%, then I had 2 breakdowns that had me down for 3 days and then 7 days. That dropped me from 31 down to 26, and I was never able to get back above 29% after that. Breakdowns aren't supposed to count against you, but your dispatcher has to remove those 0s from your weeks, if they don't, you get stuck with them.

Overall I managed to make about $28,000 over 5 months then I left. Also at the time tmc insurance cost me about $147 a week for the mid level insurance plan for a family