Turned down by TMC, next suggestions?
 

My husband is finishing driving school this week. He really wanted to flatbed, got turned down by TMC, still have an app out for Maverick we'll see how that goes. We're looking for decent hometime (2 weeks or so out or less) and not bottom of the barrel pay but it doesn't have to be great either. He is now looking at van/reefer, etc, but doesn't want to do Hazmat.
He was home for 3 years with our children while I was working, and that is the source of the trouble getting approved (that was a year ago, he's had one job since).
Any suggestions postive or negative would be helpful, thanks.

Have you looked at Southern Refrigerated Transport? They will take students out of school. They seem to have a pretty decent reputation. Maverick would be my first choice if they give him a pre-hire.

Re: Turned down by TMC, next suggestions?
 

Its going to be hard to get what your asking. He might just have to bite the bullet and take something that might not be exactly what he is looking for. But after a while he can look for something else. Most company's want continuous employment of a few years and up to ten at Maverick asks for ten but you never know. Good luck to you.

I was under the impression that they had the training then put you with another "newbie" to run as a team first, from another thread. Something about that just doesn't seem right to me... BUT we may get there.
Thanks for the info

i know here at arrow we've worked a few stay at home dads. if yr interested you can pm me and i'll give you the # of our student recruiter.

Melton
 

What can Melton out of Oklahoma do for you? BOL

Re: Melton
 

Haven't heard of that one. Will look into it, if you have any info let me know please. Thanks.

Well, so far at least according the their website Melton is flatbed, but requires at least 3 months experience if I'm reading correctly. Do you know that they hire newbies?

Good Luck
 

My Boyfriend did a lot of research on Maverick and was on the waiting list. Great Company it was his first choice. Good Luck

Did you try calling the TMC recruiter and asking them if there was any thing that would change their mind? Perhaps some extra information or a cover letter would ease their fears.

You see the recruiter hands the application at TMC off to a member of the hiring committee. All that they see is a gap in your employment history. They don't know why. Perhaps you could list that time on the employment history and put your job as homemaker/ house husband or something like that. You will need a reference letter from a Clergy person and/or Lawyer verifying that you were not employed but stayed home caring for children and were not incarcerated or involved with terrorist activities. . .

Do the application the right way and TMC may give you another chance. With the 95 people this week they may not need as many new drivers and will be more selective about who they will accept. With a less stable work history you may not make it through orientation and the hard work that TMC expects. You may need to prove them wrong and keep fighting for that job. If you work hard for what you want that shows good character.

And now you're down to part of our problem. We were not involved in a church for any of that time (except for a "mega church" for a small amount of that time) and have no one in either field that even knows us, much less can verify that he was at home. We were in 2 different cities for that length of time, and don't have contact info for anybody else who could verify the whole time, except a few personal friends.

We have been talking to Passmore as well, and seem to have more willingness to work with us coming from them. It is from them we found out that its a DOT reg for them to verify at least 3 years. They have stated 3 personal references (non-family) would be acceptable as long as they're notorized, so that is what we are working on. Once we receive those letters we plan on submitting them along with another app to TMC as well.

He does have a pre-hire from TransAm now, so its there to fall back on if nothing else. He would prefer to go flatbed though.

Thanks for everybody's suggestions, I will keep you posted if anybody is interested.

Keep us updated. I'm interested in how it plays out. Good luck! :)

I know they're north of you but How bout Jack Kelly?
they're not flatbed but.........

I think I found who you're talking about, out of Amarillo? Not much info on the site if I have the right one. Any information or should I just try the 800 number in the morning? The only real info I can find on the site I found is this:

Currently JBK is hiring Drivers. If you are a Owner Operator or Company Driver and want to work with a competitive and great company, please request more information by calling 1(800)225-5525 x1713 or by email.

They're a Tanker outfit and I can't say if they're good or bad but I used to run with a bunch of them.
Yep-They're the one in Armadillo
Give em a Ring and see what they have to say-Nothing lost doing that.

Small update, called Maverick again, and was informed they "never received" his application. The recruiter I spoke with recommended turning another application in online, so we did. Called back to verifty they received it and was told they did :) Was informed they should know an answer by Friday, and was also told that his time as a stay at home dad shouldn't be a problem (now, this was just from the recruiter so we will see).
Yoopr, I will be calling Kelley before long here, so we'll see what they have to say as well.

Good Luck
They do alot of hauling around your area and NM

I thought I might resurrect this thread and use it as updates for right now.
Yoopr, Jack Kelley requires experience (6 months), at least thats what I was told, Melton requires experience also (3 months).
Every flatbed company that we feel will give proper load securement/tarping training has turned him down. We are at the point financially that we can't wait for another slew of applications to be processed due to bills piling up.
Therefore, he is going to go with TransAm. I think I may start another thread and do somewhat of a journal/diary, since the info on TransAm is rather scarce it seems on here. So far so good, he leaves on the bus early Sunday morning to be there for a Monday start for orientation. They've promised they verified everything before orientation, so hopefully there will be no snags.

Call Falcon and get busy today.
I have been there 6 months and am making 1 k a week average flatbedding.
They sure are not the best but you will make out ok if you can cut it.
They get susidized for trainees by the gov so they train alot.
Good luck and god bless.

Maybe I went to the wrong website, but last time I looked into them they require minimum of 2 years OTR experience.

I believe you have posted this on one of my other threads. Either way, the ONLY falcon transport I can find is NOT flatbed, its intermodal out of somewhere in Florida, NOT hiring here, and requires 2 years experience. No Falcon is in the company listings for flatbedding here, or easily findable elsewhere. If you have another website we'll take a look, although with less than 24 hours until he leaves for TransAm, and its the weekend, it would take a lot to change our minds at this point.

Re: Turned down by TMC, next suggestions?
 

And, why did he get turned down? Criminal/credit/employment verfification problems? High blood pressure?

Falcon takes students.
They are located in Youngstown Ohio but have many terminals.
They hire pretty much any where east, middle and south.
Call 1-800-533-5505 and sk to talk to some one in charge!
That is the West Middlesex terminal where they hire out of and train from.

do they have a website?

Re: Turned down by TMC, next suggestions?
 

Employment verification, more acurrately lack thereof, although thats a guess. TMC was never kind enough to reveal anything beyond "the hiring committee picked someone else" and "we go through over 50 apps a day they don't give us reasons" and no willingness to tell us what might make it better.
That said, he has 3 years of being a stay at home dad that we have limited references for as we had virtually no business contacts in that time. Our landlord at the time has completed one, and we could get several more personal ones, TMC doesn't seem interested no matter how many times we call them etc, so we moved on.
His blood pressure is fine, absolutely no criminal history, totally clean MVR and DAC, graduated school with a 96.7 GPA and made 100 on his road test, gotta be the work history.

I think this is the Falcon you are looking for. Good Luck.

http://www.falcontransport.com/