Question about TMC

When I started with TMC I was Long Haul. I stayed out two or three weeks. They got me home whenever I asked to be home. I was home every holiday.

I switched to Line Haul and they got me home pretty much every weekend unless I took a load to California or Florida. There were a few weekends that they couldn't find me a load passing through the house. You may count your weekends at home, but they do not. Their guarantee is not absolute, but they do a good job.

 

Orientation is 12 days, then 5 weeks on the road with a trainer (assuming you have no experience). They, and your trainer, will try to get you home each weekend. Depends on where your trainer lives.

Once you're out on your own, they will try to get you home weekends, but that really depends on freight headed towards the house. In a normal economy it usually works. In this economy there may be weekends you won't make it home due to no loads going that way. It is getting better now than it was this past winter. There will be a few weekends during the year where you will be layed over at a terminal for truck maintenance, training, etc.

I'm glad I chose to go with TMC. Their equipment, training, support and benefits are first rate.

 

My trainer was out of the Peoria area and we got home every weekend. That might be more about making sure trainees get home every weekend than anything else but I think where you are in IL is a good spot to get home, a lot of loads run across the state on 74 and 80. Also some good news for trucking in IL, the state legislature passed a bill doing away with the split speed limit in IL, it's on the governors desk waiting for a signature right now. Ohio just did this effective July first so looks like the speed limit restrictions in some jurisdictions are going to be easing up.

 

I'll say it again and I'll keep saying it, though some drivers don't listen, until you get one year in with TMC, percentage is the only way to go. After one year run the numbers and see which is better for your circumstances.

Occasionally, you may make more on mileage, but the overall average is with percentage. I was making several hundred more dollars per week while on percentage, even after my first year.

 

Same. I was averaging much higher on percentage as well.