Final Thoughts on TMC

They still havn't updated there new hiring map... Which states are now out of hiring zone?

 

Apparently Michigan.

 

Yeah a most big companies nowadays have crazy unwieldly safety rules that make work miserable. Alcoa announced today that they were eliminating 230 jobs in their Riverdale IA plant, I might have got the name wrong but it's NOT the Davenport plant.

 

I posted a comment titled TMC Pay recently and how bad things has become. Well, since then. I left the company "On good terms" due to receiving a pay-check for $ 66.00 for the week. I have a completley view of this company now than I did at the beginning. I was once told at the Indy terminal that for every driver leaves, we have three (3) recruits ready to replace him. I guess experience means nothing to them.

I left on good terms and spoke to my team lead giving a two week notice. He asked me to take a load from Indy to IA, then I could bring the truck back to Indy on friday same week for release. I complied and delivered the steel coil load with no problems. I was told afterward that I had to turn the truck in to the main terminal in Des Moines. and get a bus or whatever back home to Kentucky. Another big disappointment. I just agreed and got a rental car and came home.

I have signed on with Roehl Honnor program designed for vets. I will be paid $135.50 a day no matter if have a load or not. That will be quite a bit more than I ever made at TMC. for the past month I barely made over $200.00 a week. I pulled into several truckstops while waiting for a load to discover 20+ other TMC trucks waiting for the same. I got the chance to speak with several other drivers and learned they were making the sames amount of money I was. So, all new guy's keep this in mind when speaking to a recruiter.

Good luck to all current TMC drivers, I am glad I left the company.

Rob

 

Is that $135/day because of the honor program, because you are experienced or just across the board? Also are you joining their national flatbed fleet?

 

honor program, you are on salary plus bonuses for the first 2 years.

 

How far removed from service can you be?

 

doesn't matter. they will give you cdl training free within a year of sep, but as far as the pay program, they don't care how long ago you seperated as long as it was honorable.

if you are within 10 years of your seperation and signed up for gi bill you can enter an "apprenticeship" with most major comapnies for 2 years and draw that too.