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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;melfry, post: 133743, member: 4971&quot;]Anomeley, the money issue was brought up at orientation in South Carolina by Dennis Clinton, who I thought was a great teacher by the way. Dennis asked us what we thought we could earn our first year at TMC. Most of us said what the brochure said and what the recruiters told us, 55,000 to 60,000 our first year. Dennis was honest with us and told us point blank that most of us would be lucky to make 50,000, and that&#039;s rare. He told us the more realistic figure was around 45,000, being that we were all new and would be learning. He seemed upset that the recruiters were telling us different and remarked about it. But aren&#039;t the recruiters representing the company? </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>45,000--That&#039;s a far cry from what two recruiters told me. I literally got up in the face of one female recruiter and asked her to look me in the eye and tell me that I could make 60,000 my first year at TMC. She said squarely that the company sets you up so you can make 60,000 your first year. She then pulled sample pay stubs out of her car and showed them to us. Grosses of 1300 to 1600 a week. I was impressed. And I asked her again, could I make that kind of paycheck my first year at TMC. She adamantly said yes. She even showed us how the brochure says so.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Therein lies my gripe with the company. If the company/recruiters would&#039;ve just been honest up front, 45,000 is not bad money, I would&#039;ve been glad to still highly consider TMC as my first trucking job. Why does TMC let them do these things to people? I just wanted to work for a good company and make a decent living. They didn&#039;t need to lie, and I still gave them the benefit of the doubt.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I even asked them at orientation what to do if I got a trainer that I wasn&#039;t seeing eye to eye with. Lo-n-behold they swore up and down that wasn&#039;t going happen because they knew the quality of their trainers. But I got a turd and didn&#039;t have any real recourse about resolving the situation, other than a 25 hour bus rude home and a wait for a trainer, and then a 400 mile trip to go meet the new trainer. It just wasn&#039;t worth it. I came home and immediately found three driving jobs. TMC would do better to weed out the lying recruiters and lackluster trainers if they want to keep serious drivers. I just think it&#039;s something they should work on, and it seems like they are, but like I said, I&#039;m just not willing to put up with the lies when I can make 45,000 on my own without tMC&#039;s help. This was just the situation I didn&#039;t want to run into. I heard all the horror stories and still wanted to give TMC a chance to prove the stories wrong. It just didn&#039;t work out that way for me, unfortunately.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>best,</p><p>melfry[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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