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<p>[QUOTE="technoroom, post: 4395492, member: 100208"]I'm still glad that I started at Roehl; it taught me a lot of good habits. TMC seems like a good company also, but I don't know how it is to be starting there right out of school. They (to my knowledge) don't have the 7-7 or similar hometime options that Roehl does, which were important to me. I've talked to some of their drivers on occasion, and one of the differences at TMC is that they not only allow you to plan your own route, they <b>expect</b> you to, and you're rewarded for finding the most efficient route possible. (Roehl, of course, insists that you exactly follow the route you are issued, which I didn't usually mind except in the cases where their route made me drive a couple hundred actual miles more than the trip miles I was paid for, which happened a couple times. In other words, they paid me for the miles in the ideal, most-efficient route, but had me drive a route that wasn't the most-efficient one.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I've been told that TMC can be pretty strict in other areas though; there's a reason some say that the company's initials stand for The Marine Corps.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="technoroom, post: 4395492, member: 100208"]I'm still glad that I started at Roehl; it taught me a lot of good habits. TMC seems like a good company also, but I don't know how it is to be starting there right out of school. They (to my knowledge) don't have the 7-7 or similar hometime options that Roehl does, which were important to me. I've talked to some of their drivers on occasion, and one of the differences at TMC is that they not only allow you to plan your own route, they [B]expect[/B] you to, and you're rewarded for finding the most efficient route possible. (Roehl, of course, insists that you exactly follow the route you are issued, which I didn't usually mind except in the cases where their route made me drive a couple hundred actual miles more than the trip miles I was paid for, which happened a couple times. In other words, they paid me for the miles in the ideal, most-efficient route, but had me drive a route that wasn't the most-efficient one.) I've been told that TMC can be pretty strict in other areas though; there's a reason some say that the company's initials stand for The Marine Corps.[/QUOTE]
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