Loggin on "Line 3" for TMC

I think you hit that on the head. If your not willing to heed advice you aren't learning. Learn from others mistakes not just your own.

 

well Got my bus ticket and head to Iowa Sun Moring

 

Did you make any money Blind? I don't care about home time.

 

Gerdau in Midlothian Texas is BAD too... never been there and out in less than 6-8 hours. Usually take a nap restart my 10 after loading.

 

looking into joining TMC....what is the real deal on hometime? i live in greensboro nc. Ive been doing flatbed work for 7 years. I could stand to use some real training though. Ive only hauled building products (nails, screws, rebar, shingles etc) our loads would be tarped for us, we would just have to bungie it down. Then of course pull off, fold, and lift ( with fork drivers help lol) We had horrible tarps. I know TMC trains in different ways to strap down a variety of loads. Ive never driven a 13 speed either. Any good? Any good insight here is appreciated! Thanks drivers

 

Training is good at the school, varies with your trainer and loads. USUALLY try to get you with someone close to your home so you train on stuff you have a high likely hood to pull, that is good. My trainer told me to call him if I had any questions or problems after I got my truck. I have several times and he helped with whatever the current problem was.

Pay varies widely based on region, loads, contracts, dedicated etc. TMC paid me 100 a day in training before taxes, about 350 to the wife can we say NOT HAPPY. My BEST week was 1076 and that was 2 weeks ago. I hear some as high as 1500 week others 400 a week, dispatcher and your performance has a LOT to do with it. My personal low was Thanksgiving week 2012, we only had loads 2 1/2 days I took home after taxes 158, with several during holidays 300 or less after taxes.

Equipment is decent and looks good for the mileage on it tonight I logged off with 835307 on my rig. They are governed at 62 and I hear the new ones get 65 and e logs. You can buy their power inverter and pay to have it installed, I have yet to see an APU heard a few trucks had one, but most did not work. been with them since June 2012

Home time varies too, about 90% get home weekly and I am home almost every day on this dedicated route. On average the guys that run 2-3 weeks out make more than home every week and dedicated runs, but it is up to you.

I hope this helps.

 

i work for TMC and if want home i get it no questions asked if i want to b home every weekend i get it. the problem most people have is the fleet manager they have does not give a crap about you. I tell my fleet manager wendsday i need home and im home/ another problem most people run in to is the area they live in and were you are on friday morning!!!!!! anyone that tells you they never get home with TMC is tell a lie.

 

For what it's worth, There are 3 TMC drivers that live in my hometown (Oxford, AL). One parks at the end of my street and the other 2 park about 2 miles down the road. I see them parked every weekend and can't remember a weekend that they weren't home. I'm not sure about the other 2 guys during the week but often, I will see the guy at the end of my street home once during the week plus weekends. Usually gets in around Friday afternoon and leaves Monday morning. I noticed that a lot of people on here complaining about home time live in SC. That might be your problem.

 

For all of you veterans out there, even the ones who have done 20 years plus including combat duty, I have some news for you that you may not want to hear. People in the civilian world don't really care about your military service. You will, and rightfully so, have their respect. But you are no longer in the military, you are in their world. Any respect you want to receive as a truck driver, you will have to earn, as a truck driver. I served 4 years in the Marine Corps, and after being honorably discharged, went on to work for the Postal Service as a letter carrier for 20 years. I worked with 2 Air Force Captains, and 2 Army full bird Colonels while at the USPS. I was a trainer at the USPS for a while, and trained both of the Colonels. They were not treated any differently than anyone else, except for the fact that I called them both "sir" while I was training them. One of them quit because he did not want to put in his time as a substitute carrier. The other one worked his tail off, never complained, and eventually became my boss. He earned his supervisor role by not expecting any special treatment because of what he did in the military, but by hard work and never complaining. Oh, by the way, his last duty assignment in the Army was a Pentagon post. I have been a truck driver for only three years now, and I know for a fact that there are many military veterans who are truckers out here, and all of us have been treated unfairly at some point in our trucking careers. When you were in the military, did you just get your rank handed to you? Or, did you have to earn it. Vietnam era veterans were treated like garbage when they got home, and did not have near the amount of resources that current veterans have at their disposal to help them land a civilian job. Being a veteran should earn you a certain amount of respect and help you get your foot in the door, and even help land you a job, but that's where it ends. Once on that job, you are like everyone else, you must pull up your boot straps and PUT IN YOUR TIME, in that job. For you "newbies" and student drivers out there, the worst thing you can do as a trucker is worry about hometime all week long. You should get to your next shipper or receiver as quickly and safely as you can, manage your time wisely, and the home time will generally take care of itself. As stated several time before in this thread and others, you will have hard weeks where hot meals, showers, and sleeping at night time at a truck stop will be hard to come by. SUCK IT UP, they won't all be like that. SEMPER FI!