the way i understand is u work 14 hours and try to follow the web log as closely as possible but if u haveread my post and others on here this weekend u should know by now that this weblog is not accurate so its up to u to determine whats right and wrong on depends which way your trainer taught u i taught both ways just in case mytrainee left and went to another company where he wasn't being babysitted

 

Glad to see you are still hanging in there. I am sorry to hear they are messing with your paycheck. There is always an excuse for them to do this. Right now it seems they are using the "we gotta be legal crap." Unfortunately the same thing happened to me years ago with them. You can remember me discussing this with you a little while back. Everything you have said is exactly why I don't work for TMC anymore. If you have better offers on the table like you said, take one and don't look back. The frustration level is building and will only get worse. I truly do wish the best for you, and hate to see someone with your ambition get s*it on. Unfortunately I saw it coming....You just had to find out for yourself. Like I said before, I would be willing to talk with you anytime about my own personal frustrations with TMC and why I left. But it seems to me you can start writing your own book on the subject.

 

Its very simple actually golds log exactly what you do, here is were it becomes tricky you got detained for 2 hours unloading drive a 1.5 hour bounce then get held up for 5 hours at shipper. That leaves you 2.5 hours to drive with a 500 mile run you wont deliver tell the next day and 6 to 7 hours of your days driving is already used.

Now you may say yeh but that doesnt happen just visit the steel warehouse in Indiana and tell me how it doesnt happen.

Here is another one I start my short week out with a 5am delivery time in Indy. At 7am I have a full service scheduled say it takes 3 to 4 hours I run my bounce at 1 hour load at 2.5 hours. I am at 9.5 hours of my 14. so i can drive 4.5 hours. Thats a 270 mile load. with a 4 load week after a 2800.00 week to the truck. Recovering isnt gonna be easy.

I am just gonna run it out for a month or so and see how it all plays out. By the way I have always run legal ocassionally I have back logged the load unload when i got completely screwed. The primary difference now is the freight seems to have fallen off from the regular shippers. THose "legal loads that used ot be readily available are no longer available probably due to the fact that alot of people who were not running legal are taking them now. So deliverable loads are becomeing scarse.

 

i thought about going longhaul but dont think i will. who knows maybe things will shape up soon.

 

tcurr,
You just don't like that dang Gary Indiana steel plant do you! Not looking forward to it.

As to the subject at hand.

Many weeks I have been short loads. It is usually because of my stupidity, BS shippers, or things totally out of my control such as traffic accidents and the like. This week was the first time that I was shorted because of TMC and this new policy. That ain't gonna work.

I fully understand that they are being forced to do this. I hope that management will coordinate the factions (safety, logs, and dispatch) so that we can run as we should and make the money we came to TMC for. I can fully understand that there is always going to be missteps in change. I can tolerate that for a period of time. I once was an agent of change in previous management positions. I understand what they are going through. I expect and insist that the problems be worked out. If they are not, I expect a revolt - a revolt of drivers and trainers exiting. They may have to increase the percentages and take a cut in the profits and growth of the company to compensate for these new policies.

I guess I need to be patient and see what happens.

We all know what the true cause of this is, the stupid 14 hour rule.

Pa Parazzi, you asked about long haul. That may be a viable option for me, finance wise. Long haul drivers tarp and load less, driver more normal hours because they have the opportunity to catch up on multi day runs. Unfortunately it digs into hometime. I am always eager to get home.

 

yep its going to be rough for a while but i dont see an increase in % pay for the drivers because their going to push out of route and fuel mileage
before they decide that thats going to work either


because the shorter the loads that u take now the higher the out of route
so thats going to work but they will insist that it will but i'm no rocket scientist but i have ran enough short loads to know enough that the short loads yield a higher out of route


and whether we like it or not tmc is in it for the money just like we are

their solution to their bottom line will be that we are working less so the % that u are working at is justifiable for the work u are doing that will make up the bottom line for taking the shorter loads now our % will drop so it will be feesable for them to just give any load to any driver because everyone will eventually pull even across the board % wise after peoples revenue drops off some sooner than others like me i might make it till the end of summer before my revenue drops off below 900 because our point system is so stretched after 120 points to go to 29% u gotta get 150 points + but from what i've gathered right now that thats not going to be restructured because they dont see where u as a driver will be affected


thats why now the fm etc will be pushing u to not idle to conserve fuel mileage and to start picking shorter routes not necessarily the fastest but shortest to save your out of route but if u end up in the east at any time there go's your out of route

so it will be a while before the driver will be compensated for their loss because the company will compensate for their loss before we are but thats bad because without us there would be no safety no fm no log dept
thus no company thats where i think large companies lose sight of what actually makes the company go

but its going to be a long and rough road hopefully they get it fixed in time before they lose a lot of good drivers for no reason legal is fine but less money is not why strap and tarp when u can close and open 2 doors every day for the same money

in retrospect they should keep their eye on the prize which is ultimately us they dont see it yet but they will its us not numbers because without us there is no numbers to worry about

 

Wow, I have talked to 10 TMC drivers over the past couple of weeks who were all extremely pi**ed off at the company and I couldn't figure out exactly why. Now it is all making sense...

I looked at TMC very hard and actually was pre-hired by them and scheduled for orientation before they kinda ticked me off with the "Our s**t don't stink" attitude so I headed to Maverick. Boy am I glad I did! The one thing that I can't understand now that I just read in this post is how are you running as a team while in training??? I was told by two different TMC recruiters that this will never happen because there is no way that you can train someone if you are in the bunk sleeping. Which I agree with 100%.

I can tell you guys that their are several brand new burgundy trucks in Little Rock that you could be driving in less than a week if you just made a phone call. You can also still run 100% totally leagl as I have and make anywhere from $850-1200 per week... :wink:

 

yeah there might be new trucks in little rock but i'm not quite ready to trade in my nice black and chrome peterbuilt for a plain jane frieghtshaker just yet


but we will see how good tmc is as a company because their just like any sports team


difference of a good team and a bad team is how well and fast u make adjustments so we will see the clock is ticking so they better step on it


but i'm glad for your success be safe and good luck :moose: :moose: :moose: :moose: :moose: :moose: :moose:

 

Yeah, but you have to realize....It's not how pretty your trucks looks....It how pretty your bank account looks after your direct deposit. Trucking companies have been playing the same game for years.....Trying to get the driver with stars in their eyes gazing at the shiny truck, not focusing on all the crap that comes with it. I know, I was there once too. Now I drive a plain jane, but "brand new" International, I am home every night, sleeping in my own bed, and make more than I did busting my hump at TMC.

 

bull on that how about an hour or so with a .50 cal or m-60 machine gun 2 500 foot belt feeds