Tmc now requires drivers to get passport and port card

if you have your haz-mat your passport and your twic why should a fellow driver within the same company that you both are employed by not be required to obtain his also.

i understand senority within truck drivers but something is have a bubble off center here!

 

I guess I'm just not as obsessed as you are about this matter. I tend to concentrate on what I need and what I am doing vs. what some unknown coworker needs and what he is doing. I'm sorry but I don't share your frustration on this point.

Like I said before...more loads for me, and that's fine with me.

 

Thats the TSA for you. Passports should be on the driver. TWIC should be on the company.

 

I have been with TMC for a year now and do not have a TWIC or passport nor have I ever been told I have to get them. I do have haz mat and have pulled several haz mat loads (all roofing tar) and have been paid extra each time.

 

Roofing tar is hazmat? What placard and in what form? The solid rolls? Drums?

 

5 gallon buckets with a flammable placard

 

Having the PASSPORT and the TWIC card can / will be the difference of sitting waiting on a load or getting a load and GENERATING $ with many companies.

 

I don't see the big deal, when I worked as a Auto Mechanic I bought my own tools. 14k in Snap On. That was in the mid 80s. So the Dealership I worked for could make money and pay me. Even when I owned my own shop for a couple years I had so much overhead that I still couldn't make decent coin and compete with the bigger shops unless I dropped thousands on tools and equipment. Maybe this will put it in prospective for you guys who don't think you should pay for it yourself. I do understand what you guys say thou. Could you imagine if the Policeman had to buy his own Police Car and gear? We would have no Police....Hmm No Police I might be on to something here.

 

Policeman had to buy his own Police Car and gear?

Some of the backwoods areas in Kentuckey they have to do that , the Mayberry / Barney Fife type of towns.

 

Ive hauled asphault based paint for the griffen pipes, class 3 flamable. 55 gal drums, 4 to a pallet, front to back on the trailer. That was a fun load to secure. Also i just have hazmat only, never anything said about pass card or twic to me except they would be good to have.