TMC Weekly Pay

Yup, you guys are right, but right now there is not to much available locally (not just driving jobs either). Need the benefits and some kind of cash flow but it sure is getting harder and harder to leave home each week for that kind of money. Just trying to keep my head up and keep on truckin till something changes. I check the local want ads everyday, something will come up eventually, meanwhile I'm getting the experience needed for a local driving job. I just try not to think too hard about it, if I do, it makes it even worse, ALOT WORSE to drag tarps and throw straps/chains for alot less than I think I'm worth. Don't even get me started on missing the family.....

 

WOW... JC hard vision u paint here my friend,,, wonder if selling pencils on the corner my be better,, dang, I hope not,,,cuz looks like it may be trucking or starving for me and mine,, well maybe not that bad,, but was hoping for more..

 

Sorry, dont mean to bring you down, really! If it helps at all, they tell me that the reason I don't make alot is because I run the NorthEast so I can get home every weekend (plus never run the weekends)and the loads pay alot better everywhere else than the NorthEast. But this is primarily hearsay and you would have to get that info from drivers who know firsthand. So there is some hope for you in the area your in...see things are looking up.

 

Thanks brother,,, you saved my evening,,,lol.......

 

any idea on the runs, thru north Alabama area?

 

Lots of steel in the AL area, and I'm pretty sure there is a Tamko in Tuscaloosa.

 

craigp, last year at this time it was 700-800 a week, sometimes 900-1000. combination of shorter runs, lower rates, and overall less productivity. earlier this year I was sitting a lot, even though I don't have to wait for loads as much, it seems every week something still goes wrong that keeps me from getting 5 loads. I have hauled 5 loads once in 2009. its either super short runs that pay really well, or 400-500 mile runs that pay crap and still take up the entire day. no such thing as good paying longhaul runs anymore, or at least I'm not seeing them.

 

They are just not that common Carter, I've pulled a handful of high dollar high mile loads this year. I pulled a coil from IN to East LA 2100 miles 4200 to the truck and a 2700 mile load of lumber from Washington to NY as well as several 1500+ loads from the west back east but not as many as I'd like. Still can't complain though, I saw some good loads personally but I know I was pretty lucky with some of it. I think it helped that I've only been making .31/cpm.

 

I hauled some boeing stuff from ogden utah, to seattle, wa..

717 Miles. Wanna know what it paid?


2500ish >.< man, it was awesome!

 

i was a tamko/werauyhauser ded truck they did away with all of us and put all of us over the road and the pay went into the toilet i was with tmc for years before i left they never could get me home or so they said but they said the ded account did not have enough freight to keep trucks busy but .... yet i still see many tmc trucks hauling both the company i work for now no matter where i am on thurs or fri it may be 1000 mi away and the boss says head home empty , now thats a family orented bus.... and still (bring home) 800 to 900 a week there is freight in al but tmc cant/will not haul it