The whole point to the exercise was to to see if you could drive THEIR equipment. All Peterbilt I think, with 13 speeds. If you couldn't what would be the point of keeping you? Digging your heel and taking a piece turf out sounds pretty chicken#### to me. Sounds like they made the right decision.
TMC Transportation, Inc. - Des Moines, Ia.
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A truck driver should know how to operate any make or model of truck, thats why he/she is called a truck driver and not a Freightliner driver, or Peterbilt driver or insert your favorite truck here driver. I can see not being familiar with it for the first 5 minutes maybe but come on. Thats being way too picky.
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I'm glad i read these comments. I was just getting through the hiring process. I think i need to ask more questions.
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TMC is not for everyone, I question some of their practices and hated the 2 week orientation but just keep my mouth shut and sucked it up and continued to show improvement and passed it. -
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The 379 Peterbilt will turn on a dream to the right, which makes the truck easier to blindside park, where as the freightliner is designed at the front turning radius to turn tighter to the left, which makes for easier driver side setups.
I do not find amusement with drivers who cannot blindside park, it is like driving your car, you get used to doing things one way, and cannot or have extreme difficulty doing it a different way.
I do agree with you that the concepts for blind side backing, parking ect are the same for driver side manuevers. Same setups ect. Unless one is parallell dock parking, even parallell parking is the same. Alot of drivers, including the older drivers, are terrified of blindside parking, having it ingrained into thier driving habits, that the right side totally does not exist at all. Just like in your car, you have the same space limiting view on the right. Just make sure your mirrors are adjusted to compensate for a wider range of view, just like you do in your car.
As with all backing! Get out and Look! Just because it is on opposite sides of your truck, does not mean that you do not still have that huge stack, and trailer blocking your view.
Oh, the Peterbilt also has mmore blind spots which cannot be eliminated due to the mirrors, than the Freightliner or Volvo does. With both of those, you can virtually eliminate everything except your front and rear end. The peterbilt, you cannnot even eliminate the blind spot at the passenger door.
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You used to do all this before they put you in a real truck, I guess either something changed, or you're leaving allot out of your statements. -
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WOW, Back in about 1998 TMC had some regional lines so I figured why not. Well just a couple of days into the orientation I new something was fishy. Lets just say I am glad I got up and walked out way back then. I guess the moral of the story is to always follow your gut.
The Branch of TMC was called Southport I think. I remember the guy from orientation too. I think he called himself Eddie. That's not what the rest referred to him as though.
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