Newbie trucker, looking for info with TMC

As far as eating it depends what your company allows on the truck. Buying anything from truckstops is expensive. If you are not good being alone then you might have issues going otr. The lifesyle takes its toll on some.

 

I drive for tmc I have a fridge and microwave, my wife freezes leftovers throughout the week that I eathink the following week for dinner. Cereal for breakfast

My truck also has satalite tv and my ps4 when I find the time to play or watch is a different story

 

If your hot run the truck, keep in mind the more you idle the less mpg you will get, in turn leads to less performance points therfore less % can be anywhere from 25%-33% most guys sit at about 30. And when you are solo you won't have time to game or TV too much of you and tmc are doing their jobs correctly

 

The mpg points change month to month , and it goes off the fleet average, so when it is summer the mpg standard does go down with everyone idling a bit more

 

The Qualcomm does an okay job with GPS , but I run a rand McNally GPS made for truckers and so do most people can cost us from 200-400 bucks depends what model you buy.

 

I used my Qualcomm once.....It wanted to send me on a restricted road. I used a random McNally all the time never used the Qualcomm again. Get yourself a truck attles, good gps, and use Google maps and you will be fine. On the load screen they will give you directions to where your going. You can reference them with all of the above-mentioned.