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Let me see if I can help you out. Using your GI Bill benefits does not exclude you from the 2 week orientation or the 5 weeks out with a trainer. Inexperienced drivers will do those two things regardless of status.
The Post 9/11 GI Bill and Montgomery GI Bill Apprenticeship program is not an OJT program, at least in the sense that you're used to from the military. It is an apprenticeship program like the traditional trades where you are expected to meet certain goals in a certain time frame. In most trades, you'd be required to attain a level of competence at a certain time point. In trucking that doesn't really apply, as the required level of competence will likely come long before your apprenticeship is considered completed.
TMC's VA approved apprenticeship program is 18 months. This doesn't mean a thing with regard to how TMC pays, treats, or assigns you, but rather how the VA pays your benefit to you.
If you have earned the maximum benefit (in other words, having served at least 3 years on active duty), you will be paid $1104.75 a month for the first six months of training, $810.15 for the second six months of training and $515.55 for remaining training. Additionally, you may qualify for BAH paid at the E-5 rate for Des Moines, IA which is currently $1230 per month, with corresponding drops in rate at the 6 and 12 month mark.
To be clear, the apprenticeship program doesn't change your day to day working life as a truck driver at all. It's just that you have earned a big fat tax-free check for the first 18 months while you learn a new trade, in addition to earning your regular paycheck from TMC.
Hope that helps.
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AH ok..how much do TMC drivers make Longhaul without the GI bill thing? I'm talking being home every 3-4 months, I'd like to average 60K a year gross.....52K take home

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Robbvious said: ↑

Let me see if I can help you out. Using your GI Bill benefits does not exclude you from the 2 week orientation or the 5 weeks out with a trainer. Inexperienced drivers will do those two things regardless of status.
The Post 9/11 GI Bill and Montgomery GI Bill Apprenticeship program is not an OJT program, at least in the sense that you're used to from the military. It is an apprenticeship program like the traditional trades where you are expected to meet certain goals in a certain time frame. In most trades, you'd be required to attain a level of competence at a certain time point. In trucking that doesn't really apply, as the required level of competence will likely come long before your apprenticeship is considered completed.
TMC's VA approved apprenticeship program is 18 months. This doesn't mean a thing with regard to how TMC pays, treats, or assigns you, but rather how the VA pays your benefit to you.
If you have earned the maximum benefit (in other words, having served at least 3 years on active duty), you will be paid $1104.75 a month for the first six months of training, $810.15 for the second six months of training and $515.55 for remaining training. Additionally, you may qualify for BAH paid at the E-5 rate for Des Moines, IA which is currently $1230 per month, with corresponding drops in rate at the 6 and 12 month mark.
To be clear, the apprenticeship program doesn't change your day to day working life as a truck driver at all. It's just that you have earned a big fat tax-free check for the first 18 months while you learn a new trade, in addition to earning your regular paycheck from TMC.
Hope that helps.
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or at least 4K a month take home, I'd wouldn't settle for more lmao

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Wonder what happened to another TMC driver on here, Catfish or something like that. Think he was from North or South Carolina.

(Sorry to go off topic)

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Darkside_sweettooth said: ↑

AH ok..how much do TMC drivers make Longhaul without the GI bill thing? I'm talking being home every 3-4 months, I'd like to average 60K a year gross.....52K take home
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Sorry, no idea. Mostly because there ain't no freakin' way I'd ever stay in a truck that long.

~$800 - $1200 a week gross seems to be the norm for most 'home every weekend' drivers that I've talked to anyway.

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Just wondering , what are the rules as far as tattoos and piercing? I have tattoos on one of my forearms and earrings. I know the earrings aren't very professional ,but pretty common these days. Just thought I'd ask lol they said they will take me after I pass my test next week.

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Just wondering , what are the rules as far as tattoos and piercing? I have tattoos on one of my forearms and earrings. I know the earrings aren't very professional ,but pretty common these days. Just thought I'd ask lol they said they will take me after I pass my test next week.
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Going by what a TMC driver told me, the company doesn't permit any piercings. The ink is OK as long as it's not dubbed obscene or offensive. They're big on image. Let me rephrase that. You can get hired on with the piercings, you just can't wear anything in the holes. I'm old school ... had an earring back in the '70s when it wasn't that common and it was a sign of non-conformity in regards to the establishment. When the '90s rolled around and everyone and their brother started wearing them I took mine out and never put it back in. As far as the lip, tongue, eyebrow and uh, other appendages, I never understood the allure (shrug).

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what is their policy on long hair (even pony tailed and properly secured) on a guy?

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what is their policy on long hair (even pony tailed and properly secured) on a guy?
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THAT I don't know.

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Cheesydrummer said: ↑

Just wondering , what are the rules as far as tattoos and piercing? I have tattoos on one of my forearms and earrings. I know the earrings aren't very professional ,but pretty common these days. Just thought I'd ask lol they said they will take me after I pass my test next week.
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I was told that I should take my earrings out during orientation and training.

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banjo317 said: ↑

what is their policy on long hair (even pony tailed and properly secured) on a guy?
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Official policy (according to orientation pdf) is hair no longer than collar-length and no ponytails/braids/dreads regardless of length. No mowhawks.

I asked about hair and piercing/tatt policy in another thread. I just got approved for orientation today and was sent additional info.

BigRedBigRig, Sep 24, 2012

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