Not much time and only one shot at this. Please help.

I'll ask them when I call. I read driver reviews, but I take the negative ones with a grain of salt. What I really pay attention to is the volume of negative reviews. If there's a whole lot of them and more bad than good, then it's probably a bad company.

 

I've watched videos from two different drivers and it appears that there's no detention pay at all, no matter how long you sit. If the wheels aren't turning, you're not getting paid anything. One of the drivers' videos were 4 years old and the other one's was over 10 years old, so that may have changed by now. I don't know. The driver whose videos were 4 years old was a new driver at the time and he made videos of his journey from training all the way until he passed training and got his own truck. He started out at 42 cpm 4 years ago and his first paycheck was $997 for about 2700 OTR miles. That was even after not getting any detention pay. I'm ok with that pay because it's at least equal to or more than I'm making right now. Both drivers said that sometimes they had to sit for 1 or 2 days with no detention pay, but that was rare to have to sit that long. It's reefer loads, sometimes meat and they say the meat deliveries are sometimes slow to load/unload.
EDIT: I just now watched a 1 year old video from another new driver who said there's no detention or layover pay at all, no matter how long you have to sit.

 

The guy in the recent video said that they "do" pay layover, but they won't give it to you. They stall you until you just give up. He and 3 others all said they don't pay detention at all. Everything else seems good and the drivers all say good things about everything but that and home time isn't great. I haven't put in any apps yet.

 

It shows as separate at Service Status | TSA Enrollment by IDEMIA
The "HME" tab is for hazmat and it says "ELIGIBILITY DETERMINED - TSA sent official notification of your Hazardous Materials Endorsement eligibility to your state of license." I already went and passed the test and got the hazmat endorsement on my CDL.
The "TWIC" tab is for TWIC and it says "ELIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT IN PROGRESS - Your application has been received and your eligibility assessment is underway. Status as of 07/21/2025" and it has said that ever since day one when I went to the TSA office on 07/21/2025.
3 more days will be a month I've been waiting on the TWIC to get approved.
Do you know of another way to check this or speed it up?