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#2171
05-20-2007, 03:01 PM
It should be easy for you to make the same or more money with TMC. During orientation you will make $300 per week for two weeks. During training you will make $350 per week for 6 weeks. Your benefits will start 90 days from your hire date. I have had paychecks that range from $1200 after deductions to $91 after deductions, but my average is between $700 and $800, and you live in a much better freight location that I do.
If you don't make the leap you will always wish you had. :wink:
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#2172
05-20-2007, 03:18 PM
What's with all of the TMC trucks at the Pilot in Waco, Texas? I live thre, and keep my truck up there alot of the time, and I see 5-10 trucks there, everytime I'm there. There is also a 387 that parks behind the AutoZone on Hewitt Drive...anybody here???
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#2173
05-20-2007, 03:40 PM
Mudflap is from that area I think. I am not sure where he parks his truck. I think we must have a shippper there that trucks are always waiting for, but I don't get down to that part of the country much.
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#2174
05-21-2007, 08:16 AM
Originally Posted by Carolina Reb
Hello All
I Graduated from a PTDI certified school March 2nd and haven't done anything with them ,yet, just scared to take that next step i guess .Ive been reading on cad for about 6 month , almost daily and I have really learned a lot. I want to ask a question that has asked on here a hundred times before but.this time I would like to be a little more specific..but first let me give you a little background on myself. I work in a factory everyone knows how factory work is ,here today gone tomorrow, I have been there for 18 years, pretty good money and benefits but the working conditions suck, I know what everyone's going to say truck driver work conditions suck too. Hard to decide which is worse without seeing both sides.we have a new management group as of about 3 years ago an they have turned the place into' well let's just say' It's not a very pleasant place to work anymore. I've been trying to talk myself into leaving for over a year now.It's just hard to walk away from 18 years and all the benefit I have worked for. I could live without all the holiday and vacation I guess the real killer for me would be the money. right now I'm making a little more than $700.00 a week gross, after taxes insurance and the likes, I bring home about $475.00 . which bring me to my question I have read on cad you can make anywhere between $35,000 and $60,000 your first year that's a big spread. What can I reasonably expect to make, working for TMC, Go black and chrome!!,only way to go!!. driving line haul, and be home most weekends ? I have done a lot of research and If I go anywhere It will be with TMC and line haul, which is why I posted on this forum. I have to be able to make what I an now to pay the bills. is it possible ? what should I expect? sorry for the long post I know that's a lot to ask one little question. But for me this is a big decision one of the biggest of my life. thanks for all your input. any advice is appreciated.
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#2175
05-21-2007, 11:07 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: The Great State of Texas - Seguin
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Originally Posted by Rawlco
It should be easy for you to make the same or more money with TMC. During orientation you will make $300 per week for two weeks. During training you will make $350 per week for 6 weeks. Your benefits will start 90 days from your hire date. I have had paychecks that range from $1200 after deductions to $91 after deductions, but my average is between $700 and $800, and you live in a much better freight location that I do.
If you don't make the leap you will always wish you had. :wink: :idea: What kind of deductions would bring your check down that much, or was it an off time week? :withstupid:
#2176
05-21-2007, 12:24 PM
For that $91 week I just had bad luck. I had run three very profitable weeks and took Saturday, Sunday, and Monday at home empty. I loaded on Tuesday for Wednesday delivery in Maryland, but my consignee was closed due to a massive ice storm. I made that one delivery on Thursday instead and went to Tamko in Frederick MD to load. There were 25 trucks ahead of me and Tamko was having a hard time dealing with the weather. Something about having indoor rated forklifts to try to load inventory that was stored outside on ice covered pavement made for slow going. I finally got out of there and had to get a flat tire repaired. I made it to the nearest CAT scale and found out I was overweight, making it back to the shipper about 15 minutes after the loading crew had left for the day, so I was stuck there until the next morning. This meant that I didn't get that load delivered until the next pay period.
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#2177
05-21-2007, 12:42 PM
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"For that $91 week I just had bad luck."
That is what I was hoping you would say! And not the super-secret deducts some companies seem to pull out of thin air.  Louis
#2178
05-22-2007, 07:20 AM
My worst week??
$1,200.00 net pay -$150.00 TMC Regulation underwear with black leather lowers and a chrome waistband. -$350.00 for a two day supply of chrome polishing compound. -$150.00 for Chap-Stick for all the ass kissing we "TMC Groupies" supposedly do. -$300.00 donation to the TMC Race Car program that is supposedly costing all of our drivers a fortune. $200 is all that was left and I spent that on tolls coming home to NYC for my 3 hour weekend that most TMC drivers only get. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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#2179
05-22-2007, 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by countryhorseman
"For that $91 week I just had bad luck."
That is what I was hoping you would say! And not the super-secret deducts some companies seem to pull out of thin air. Louis Although, I have not set foot in a race track in 4 1/2 years. Hmm :wink:
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