TMC Day 1

Fir,

Best of luck to you. Friday will be here before you know it.

I know your busy, but I appreciate your taking the time to keep this post up and running.

R/

Frat

 

..FirNt thanks for keeping us posted on your training so far, I'm betting you'll make it through ok & if you do you'll end up on their website 'graduating class' photo, please let us know which one you are if you do!

..for some of the other posts about their training there, if you just go to the TMC website they have lots of detailed answers to some of the questions posted here, along with some nice videos of their load securement training & even a video on how to shift the hi-lo 13-speed in their trucks.. check it out, they have one of the better company websites I have found so far!

 

Fir, your updates have been very interesting to read. Very informative and much appreciated. It sounds as if you're doing great. Hang in there and best of luck finishing the orientation. I hope to hear that you'll be heading out with a trainer soon.

 

Fir,
Positive attitude lad, positive attitude. Don't even let "If I don't make it" creep into your thought process.

We stayed at that hotel one night last winter.I work for LeFebvre & Sons and were hauling concrete pipe to a job site just south of there. We run out of daylight so one of the guys had his wife check for hotels in that area. There were 4 of us and when we got to the hotel the only parking was in the TMC lot. The gal in the hotel called someone at TMC and got us permission to park there.Thats when we realized we were staying in a TMC hotel. I guess the TMC "gear store" kind of tipped us off. We did get to eat in the cafe, not too bad, and we did not walk on the grass.

 

Thx for all the info you have provided FirNaTine. Great insight on the orientation process. I feel like I've already gone once now and now what to expect

 

Hey Fir,
I knew from your attitude that you'd make it, congratualtions!

I think that they are 2 reasons that they are hard on the students:
1. They must really want you to succeed, otherwise they would have a brief orientation and send you out to fin for yourself, like some companies do.
2. The want to weed out those who can't follow instructions, aren't serious and really want to be there.

It's the guys with the positive attitude and the committment that do well and you have both. I only hope I can make it through if they hire me. Maybe I'll catch some of your good attitude.

We've all asked a lot from you to keep us posted and answer our questions at a time when you had a lot on your mind. Thanks for your help.

 

Thanks for these updates, I'm very interested in doing skateboards and have a feel for the orientation

As again I keep seeing, "ATTITUDE", alot of vets/instructors/recruiters say this attitude, I'm excited but a little down on feeling of hiring freezes everywhere and its been on my mind entire time at school

 

..more & more businesses are shutting down or closing their doors, that means less freight to ship & more drivers sitting at truckstops or let go.. this can only mean a shakeup from top to bottom for the trucking industry which means more drivers getting less pay & benefits; it's happening already at Covenant as per some of the drivers wives who have posted the bad news here already. This also means the stronger companies will be able to hire more veteran drivers that are available at a lower pay scale.. lets wait & see if this isn't what happens but i am praying it won't!