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Originally Posted by arky
Don't let Fred sugar coat TMC too much. He may not be paid to recruit drivers, but he's definitely motivated, huh? Oh...I'm sure it's just out of pure love for his fellow man. Especially when he goes to the trouble of building and maintaining a website AND a toll free number for driver recruitment. Geez, how stupid does he think you guys are?
TMC pays for the toll free number and the website is FREE as it is hosted on the same site my business is
www.goldiesplating.com . I do it because I had no such resource to turn to when I started so I figured it was a nice thing to do.
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BUT, if I were trying to get on with Maverick and they put me on a 6-8 month waiting list, I would probably go to TMC if I could afford to pay for my schooling since they don't do it for free like Maverick does. You can always get your experience at TMC and then come to Maverick later if you want. I know of more than a few who have done that. Whether or not they set out to do it that way is unknown to me.
I didn't pay a DIME for my CDL as I went through TMC's sponsorship program.
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As far as Maverick having slow freight, I can't remember when I've waited for more than 10-15 minutes for a load assignment after I send in my empty call. In fact, I am regularly preplanned on my next load well before I deliver the current load. That doesn't sounf like slow freight to me. It's more like, they know how they want to run their business and how many trucks they want to operate. I'll leave it to Steve Williams to decide this. Since he has made millions of dollars in the trucking business, I doubt that myself or Fred need to waste our time offering advise. Fred kind of reminds of the Jimmy Johnson commercial on race day. I can just see Fred telling Steve how he needs to buy more trucks so that he can hire more drivers and keep this waiting list down to a minimum.
Perhaps I was unclear. I didn't mean to say that for their EXISTING fleet they had slow freight. I meant that they have no additional freight that they can not handle and so don't need to grow any larger too quickly. As far as Steve wanting to keep his company the size it is that argument would fly if Maverick had, say, 10-100 trucks. A small outfit that wanted to remain small. They have grown far beyond being considered "small" and any company the size of Maverick or larger would NEVER turn down the opportunity to grow larger IF the opportunity were there.
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By the way Fred. Do you happen to know what TMC's turnover rate is? I can see where if you can't keep drivers in the truck, you would definitely have an empty seat for anyone at anytime :wink:
TMC has one of the lowest turnover rates in the industry for LARGER companies as does Maverick. BOTH are great companies I feel. I just think a several MONTH wait is not in a driver's best interest if he needs a job TODAY.
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Of course, I guess by the way your talking, one should not bother applying to ABF, Roadway, Old Dominion or any of the LTL companies. After all their business is so slow that they don't even HAVE recruiters. I'm sure they have a waiting list in some areas of the country, so THAT must be some REALLY BAAAAADDDDDD jobs right there! LOL
Those companies only hire EXPERIENCED drivers who have been "around the block" a few times and usually have no need for recruiters. A recruiters job (if he or she is a good and HONEST one) is to "hold a newbies hand" so to speak and explain their company to them TRUTHFULLY. An experienced trucker needs no hand holding.
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Your a freakin' joke Fred and everybody here know's it too.
And as I've felt MANY MANY months ago about you and your demeaning avitar towards single women, you are a total waste of fertility medication.
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BTW, I've told you before. If you want to bash Maverick over on the TMC thread, feel free. But if your gonna come on a Maverick thread and bash us, I'm gonna bash back. Tough schit if you don't like it.
Arky
Didn't say I didn't LIKE it. It just shows what a moron you truly are. I wasn't bashing Maverick, just expressing my opinion as to their long waiting list. The waiting list is FACT and I was only commenting on THAT. Never did I say they were a bad company. I'd work there just as well as TMC IF I liked Maroon Freightliners with autoshift trannies. I just don't as a matter of personal opinion.