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

TMC's bounce is 20 cpm of all empty miles over 150 miles.

 

Nothing is by chance and there is a method to the madness. Doing good on your macro's like oor, mpg etc is good, but your income is ultimately determined by your revenue to the truck. And the factors that play in that are primarily from your fleet manager. If you have good macros youll gain favor from your fm. Every fleet manager sees the same freight on the load board and dispatches drivers to that freight based on their proximity to that load. Once you get empty there may be 2 loads, both 40 miles from you. 1 load pays $1.45 a mile, and onother may pay $2.10 a mile. If your on good terms with your fm you have a better chance of getting the $2.10 a mile load, and maybe your fm will give the $1.45 load to another less favored driver on his board. The most important thing in making money with TMC is staying out usually. I got a friend who lived in Oklahoma and was staying out 3 weeks at a time averaging $3200 to the truck, which is a joke. He ended up firing his fm and brought his 13 week up $4200 in the course of a month or so, and is still doing good.

 

TWIC cards are used at ports of entry, there are a handful of them throughout the u.s. If you pick up or deliver a load at a port of entry without a twic card, you usually pay $80, and then send in your receipt to get riembursed. You get I think an extra 2 points on your snap shot for having a twic, youll hardly ever use it, maybe once a year, but I would think its a good thing to have anyways, like another feather in the hat. I think you can get a twic card at your local tsa office, but there hours are usually weird like 10am to 2pm tues-thurs, so Ive heard.

 

$2645 gross based on 32% is around $8200 in revenue to the truck for that week which is entirely not reality. There are several possibilities:
1. This is a recruiting head fake to trick potential drivers into thinking their going to make $2600 a week, which you wont.
2. This is a screen shot from an owner operator who did about $3500 or so in revenue to the truck that week.
3. You cashed out 1 week of vacation which was added to your regular pay.

Most solo drivers who go home weekly will do anywhere from 44k to 70k max per year, depending on where they live. Drivers who run greater than 6 weeks consistantly *can* do up to 85k max yearly. Trainer who train consistantly and stay out can hit 90k or more but likely under 100k. I dislike deception.

 

"Other drivers" dont not run 8k per week in revenue. The freight to support that revenue at 33% doesnt even exist unless your doing heavy haul with another driver in the truck with you. This isnt a question of what TMC pays, its a question of does the freight exist to support 8k a wk in revenue in todays soft freight market. It does not as a solo driver in linehaul regardless how long you stay out.

 

I’m not with TMC, but a single driver dispatched properly can easily do 8k plus weekly. Only thing misleading is one only posts large #’s & people assume that’s every week, which it is not.