My 16 Week Experience with TRANSAM

Oh heck no, left them along time ago. There is another thread on here you can check out.

 

Im doing TransAm Leasing now. Yea it's tight situation but I'm a newbie. I just make sure I run Alot of miles. They always give me miles along as I run. Where the problem would come in is in the gas I try to keep my mpgs up. I'll get about 8.5 sometimes 9.8 depending on terrain.
But I do not follow the company gas solution we pay for it it's $3 a week but it's not set up to help you maximize your take home.
If it's the last day of the pay period I only get the gas I'm using for the day not much over. Only time I fill up is the first day of the pay period. I did $800 off 2800 miles. When I hit over 3000 miles I get a $1000+ check. It's mainly fuel that hurts you.

 

'It seems to be based on the principle that another sucker will be along after the present sucker is used up and discarded'

This, THIS! Epitomizes the attitude of the megas and wanna be megas. Then they cry that their retention sucks and turnover is 130% (worse than McDonalds). I work for one. I'm burning out. #### pay and no life. The road is great, the job is interesting, but the trickle down poor attitude and the aforementioned woes make it so not worth it if you have an ounce of self-respect and one functioning brain cell.

 

One thing I notice is these mega-companies that complain the most about turnover are the one who make high turnover a practice. They get money from the gov't to train and hire workers, and by keeping fresh, easily programmed rookies they can pay as little as possible while pushing their fleece purchase garbage on them. Once they rope a newly trained driver in, they can stick him or her with all of the operating costs like fuel, tires, etc. while making them think they are their own boss just like and owner operator. These mega's engineer it so it's a shell game that ensures the lease will NEVER be paid off, the driver is left penniless, they company makes all the money and gets to keep the truck and hand it to the next victim. It's a shame because at one time Trans Am was a good small company that bent over backwards to treat their driver as best they could. Then it was handed off to some corporate types who only saw the dollar signs and it was turned into a mega-fleece purchase training outfit. My advice with these programs at the training companies is NEVER go into an owner op program right out of training, and NEVER, I repeat NEVER go onto a lease purchase program at those places at any time and especially right out of training. Get your first year or couple of years in as a company driver and learn the industry first. Keep your record clean, and then go for a good small company that has the good running freight, and actually gives a rip about its drivers. There's a lot less of those companies now thanks to the recession, buyouts, etc but they're out there.

 

Number #1...if you say at truck takes "gas" you have no business leasing a truck and you will fail,because you have no idea of the ins and outs of being an owner OP..imho

 

Seven year old thread and I'm curious as to how much the rates have risen. I remember back around 2005 when I used to actually listen to the CB, OO's talking about idiots that ran for less than a buck a mile. That was ELEVEN YEARS ago! In 2009 the OP was talking about $.84 CPM.

I don't work more than 5 days a week and I'm not even going to bother with a company unless I can take home a minimum of $1000 dollars per week. There's no need to allow these companies to exist any longer IMO....but yea right, they'll be fine.

 

I have an appointment for 5/15 @ midnight - Clintonville, WI to Reading, PA (915 'practical' miles, underpaid? Yes - always, never over, god forbid) Dispatch has moved my 'expected time' there forward twice, which already sets me up to be late, or to hang out 8 hours on a Sunday with not a d@mn thing to do. BOL says 5/17, think they'll be pi$$ed if I point out that I can read? And really, do I much care? (at this juncture, no.)

All you said, AnonProxy, rings pretty true to point.

 

You still with TA, just had a couple questions.

 

It's still 84cpm

 

Are you lp with them....