TMC Orientation - WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW

No, but not because I had a problem with them.

I just had a better job that gets me home almost every night become available to me.

I made great money with TMC and learned a lot. Flatbed work sucks sometimes....especially those blaring hot days and your stuck at a terminal, out of hours with no way to take a shower. Leaves you looking for a garden hose or using baby wipes that night before you go to sleep.

But as a student driver right out of school, there was no other way for me to get home time that good or make that kind of money.

It was worth it.

 

honestly if it wasn't for the ### hole instructors I would have probably still been there, but when they put a bad taste in your mouth and along with other things there it makes you wonder about working for them. I made a good friend while I was up there and he drove for them for a few years and did bump heads with them, but over all he said they wasn't too bad. He just got offered a local driving job he felt like he didn't need to pass up.

 

Hard to believe it's almost a year since I went thru this. Doesn't sound like a whole lot has changed except the addition of a physical therapist during the tarp lifting. I didn't have any issues during those first couple weeks. I mean like George tells you it is a 2 week job interview. Only prick I met was the fat instructor who pooped his pants picking up a cone. If you truly went there than you know all about it.

Ya it's a whole lot of BS for a 62 mph truck but that same purty 62 mph is what gets the new drivers there and they know it.

Did they ever get any newer equipment? I personally liked how the training trucks are in better shape than the OTR trucks. Makes you think "wow if these are this nice, and there training trucks how nice are the rest" from my experience they were worse.

 

LOL, all that for a two bit job.

 

It isnt all just for a two bit job. Companies want to keep workers away from work comp injuries. No company wants to hear that they had a driver injured on the job and no driver wants to be laid up with an injury, it costs EVERYBODY money. If companies want to have therapists monitor how the drivers do things then the drivers should be told "this is how we want you to lift the tarp". I wonder how many guys who just graduated truck driving school ever lifted a tarp before, or even seen one up close. If the driver was let go only because he lifted the tarp wrong all I can say is "Their company, their rules".

 

Two bit job?

I was making $1000+ a week right out of training. I had weeks over $1500 many a time.

I dont know about you......in todays economy especially, that aint two bits.

 

I had the same experience with TMC they are a bunch of ex Marine Jar Heads. TMC stands for THE MARINE CORPS.

Went to PGT Pat Galleger Trucking Great Company based out of Monaca PA. near Pittsburgh, was a blessing in diguise. They are very approachable about problems you may have, you can always get the ear of somebody there.

Drywall Division dosen't pay as well as the steel division, its not so much the drywall dosen't pay it is the terrble backhauls you get. Their maintenence facility is weak but for a start up driver mill Flatbed Company no one is better, Try to stay out of hauling the East Coast with the Ports it takes forever to load and the pay out of the Ports sucks because it mostly comes out of China. I found hauling Coils and Pipe pay the best.

Hawkeye1960

 

Did he get the job??? I hope all went well...

 

There are many small companies that will take you on if you look. If you live in TN, O.F. Barnes (if they are still there in Greenville SC. was a good little company, good money, good equipment, nice people and home everyweekend. Maybe you could try some company like that? I quit because I relocated to southern Florida and they don't run there.

 

This is exaggerated. There were about 30-40 guys in my husbands class and three got sent home. One was legally blind in one eye, another refused to climb on top of the truck, and another back talked. I would suggest talking to your husband if he got sent home....there was a legit reason.