Too tmc or not too tmc ????

[stang1991]

I'am looking too go to TMC but unclear about if I should or not after reading the 201 pages from the other TMC Thread.

So my Question is TOO TMC or NOT TOO TMC ????????

[married to the road]

I'am looking to go to TMC but unclear about if I should or not after reading the 201 pages from the other TMC Thread.

So my Question is TO TMC or NOT TO TMC ????????

Fxed it. You were using too many o's.
You didn't say if you were experienced or not or only looking at flatbed. I know about all companies still aren't doing as much as they usually do this time of year, but I still see a lot of loaded TMC trucks rolling down the road. If you are looking for a flatbed company, I would give them a call. I noticed that Maverick has put their hiring signs up again, I belive they had taken them down for a while. Might want to try there too. You can do a lot worse than these companies.

[NoBama]

Just last Thursday I had a breif conversation with a TMC driver. I asked Him how business was. He told me that He personnally had a 5 load week. He also said that TMC management were going to turn their trucks down to 62 m.p.h. soon in advance of an anticipated slow-down. His words. Personnally if it came down to it and I had to put food on the table I would head out to Des Moines, Iowa. Just my .02 cents. Best of luck to you driver.

[Mr. Ford95]

TMC and Maverick are the 2 biggie's in flatbed these days that many a driver flocks to. Heard good and bad for both and came to the conclusion that the TMC management are very @nal on many issue's of wheras Maverick isn't quite as bad about it. I've seen the same number of both's trucks around me, few and far between compared to 2 years ago when you could pass a truck of each every 10 miles.

[rkeck]

If you want to flatbed, TMC is a good outfit. I'm concerned that construction is going to be slowed, longterm. All trucking is slow(er) and will remain that way, but my perception is flatbed trucking will suffer more than van/reefer.

It's been a while since I was at TMC but I suspect their model is still mostly the same meaning regular home time can be expected but at a cost of fewer miles.

[Mr. Ford95]

I'm concerned that construction is going to be slowed, longterm. All trucking is slow(er) and will remain that way, but my perception is flatbed trucking will suffer more than van/reefer.

Your concern is very valid. It all has to do with the banks right now. Until they start releasing money to entrepreneurs and construction folks, flatbedding is going to continue to be slow. Plenty of home building going on, but that is not helping flatbeds at all, it's the big buildings in commercial and industrial that get built. Until that takes back off, by the bank giving those folks money vs the residential people, it will stay slow.

[carterbeauford]

I've stayed plenty busy hauling the John Deere plant down to Mexico one piece at a time...

nice, soon to be really slow trucks, a lot of political BS with management, a lot of rules, still not a bad place to work. for the most part they give me decent miles, get me home most weekends and leave me alone.

I run about 2500 miles a week and bring home $650-$850 a week depending on accessorial pay and toll reiumbursements, since I switched to mileage pay. on percentage I was about to quit. I hear things aren't so great for new hires, I have been here a year and a half.

[carterbeauford]

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tru...stryforum/tmc/

plenty of reading for you sir.

[waco's sunshine]

carterbeauford:
u still feeling the same u was a month an a half ago??

[Justruckin]

I've stayed plenty busy hauling the John Deere plant down to Mexico one piece at a time...

nice, soon to be really slow trucks, a lot of political BS with management, a lot of rules, still not a bad place to work. for the most part they give me decent miles, get me home most weekends and leave me alone.

I run about 2500 miles a week and bring home $650-$850 a week depending on accessorial pay and toll reiumbursements, since I switched to mileage pay. on percentage I was about to quit. I hear things aren't so great for new hires, I have been here a year and a half.

I have never worked for TMC, but I know why your percentage pay was going to break you. They came into my area roughly 3 years ago and slashed rates to the point it was not even worth servicing my regular accounts. They really came in and gave us a good shellacking. Not a fan of them in the least.

[jd112488]

i never knew that we counted toll REIMBURSMENTS as part of our income??

[Jumbo]

Haha.

[repete]

I was just in the streakin Beacon last night on 81 near Binghamton NY and watched a TMC truck back around the curve and out the entrance, another TMC seemed to just drive tru the wash bay?? When inside the office I saw a notice on the wall that said they would no longer accept TMC as a charge customer. HHmmmmmm Can you say hard times?

[Jumbo]

I dont believe your story. You say you saw a flatbedder back around a corner. Flatbed trucks dont even have reverse.

[Justruckin]

I was just in the streakin Beacon last night on 81 near Binghamton NY and watched a TMC truck back around the curve and out the entrance, another TMC seemed to just drive tru the wash bay?? When inside the office I saw a notice on the wall that said they would no longer accept TMC as a charge customer. HHmmmmmm Can you say hard times?

Honestly, with what they have done with rates starting a few years ago, I am surprised that they are still in business. They came in and actually took rates of $2.50-80 and bid them down to $1.35-50 at one of my customers, and that was before the fuel spiked. Let em rot in hell.

[navguy05]

I dont believe your story. You say you saw a flatbedder back around a corner. Flatbed trucks dont even have reverse.

We had to learn to back up to get around all the dang O/O's and freight boxes making their own parking places at the fuel stops. Must be to much physical exertion for a door swinger to have to waddle all the way to the buffet from a marked parking spot instead of the fuel pumps or 3 deep around the scales. And I have a quick question, why is it that "drivers" who spend their time backing into docks can't hit a hole in truck stop without being all crooked and taking up 2 or more spots or hitting the truck next to them? Hmmmmmm.

[geeshock]

Your concern is very valid. It all has to do with the banks right now. Until they start releasing money to entrepreneurs and construction folks, flatbedding is going to continue to be slow. Plenty of home building going on, but that is not helping flatbeds at all, it's the big buildings in commercial and industrial that get built. Until that takes back off, by the bank giving those folks money vs the residential people, it will stay slow.

My dad has a construction company and I can tell you he hasn't had any work in over a year. I just hope he can get something b4 he has to fold permanently. Times might be tight for us but they are killing the construction industry.