Passed TMC's 3-week CDL orient, today I head out for OTR training

Your recruiter lied to you.

 

Did they? Lol. It doesn't matter to me either way I just wondered what the math was like as I hate it. Securment and stuff I'm not worried about

 

XM is in the truck, but YOU have to pay for the subscription to the XM service.

If you park-up every Sunday night by 9pm local, then the Satellite (should your truck have it already installed...mine did not upon being issued to me. I had to have my ops-manager tell the shop to install it when it came in for its first service) is $12.xx/month. If you don't park-up each Sunday, I think it goes up to nearly $30/month +/-

You can no longer buy or have TMC install fridges. That stopped a few years back according to my trainer, because I tried to buy one from TMC and have them install it like he was able to do w/ his fridge in his truck.

You can get a fridge no larger than 3.1cu/ft and it has to be on the floor of your sleeper berth..can't be in a cabinet.

 

Experienced drivers go through some classroom training, but not to the extent of TMC's CDL students. Everything we did w/ the exception of the longer (of the 2) securement test were open-book.

 

Thanks man. Any time your around nw Arkansas hit me up.

 

Farva can I get your email address to ask a couple questions?

 

I know TMC says 80%+ have opted for percentage pay. Have any of you talked to guys who went mileage? I was just wondering how they decided that mileage was better.

 

Are you able to PM me through this site?

 

They say there's less than 5% who choose to be paid CPM.

$10,112 (Approx) is what I've been paid OVER having chosen % pay, vs had I chose CPM.

 

Wow that's a big difference