Tmc now requires drivers to get passport and port card

So are they going to take your Medical Card when leave also since they paid for it. Seems to be really petty. What is going on over there? Is all of the chrome and lights starting to catch up to the bottom line? Don't get me wrong. As a Maverick driver for many years I've always envied the equipment over there but talking with drivers while securing/tarps along side I just thought it was a good fit for me. From the outside looking in it would seem that there are fissures forming in TMC's financial stability. Before you know it you guys will have black Freightliners again.

 

Don't envy the Peterbilt logos and shiny bits. They aren't specced out right for Northeast work anyway, IMO. Too tall, too much wheelbase, and poor turning radius. Now our trailers, on the other hand, are nice, particularly the MAC ones inherited from TDT.

As we say in the motorcycle world, "chrome won't get you home".

 

I heard that truck washes were TMC's third largest expense last year (top 2 were fuel and driver wages).

I like a clean truck but thats a bit overboard in my opinion...heard that from a TMC driver so it may or may not be true.

 

Yeah there is no way it's the third highest expense, there is maintenance, insurance, tolls and stickers well ahead of truck washes. Every truck operated costs $2500 a year in washes though which is flatout irresponsible in this economy and when you are taking money in new and innovative ways from your drivers. With a 2500 truck fleet that is $6.25 million a year, with a 2000 truck fleet that is $5 million a year, TMC's fleet is somewhere between those two numbers on any given day.

 

I only got my tractor and trailer washed once a month and it was usually at the terminal not at the blue beacon.

State cdl-medical card-u.s. Passport-and the twic.

Honey have you seen my sunglasses my log book and oh yea my travel bag?

 

When i left (company name withheld) and when i left (company name withheld) i tuned in my medical card along with my company issued i.d. Tags.

 

When i was in nys back in the summer of 2005 at the time i was working for (company name with held).

I received a call from dispatch and they asked me to take a truck into canada.

I told them no told the dispatcher where their truck was in nys and told them where the keys would be to their truck.

Spent friday night in motel went to airport saturday morning and flew home.

45 days later company calls and wats me to go back to work for them.

Once again i told them no.

And those same two dispatchers keep calling me every 45 days for the past fours years.

 

I've already copied my medical card and sent a copy to my other job. They sent me a letter telling me my old med card was expiring in June so what the hell may as well send this one in to them because it's good for another 18 months. I'd be willing to pay for it anyhow, it's pretty cheap at TMC because they have a company doctor. When I asked back in January I think they told me it was $90.

 

The only one that I ever paid for was my very first one to go to school back in 01. After that my companies have always picked up the tab. Maybe that's one of the new cost cutting corners within the industry.

 

I think, I might be wrong, but when you sign on to a new company you are required to get a new medical card thru that company. When I started with TMC I had just got a new card from my previous company and got a new on from TMC.