TMC
#3641
05-07-2008, 01:04 PM
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Location: Earth, North America, North, East, 9th State, 42° 56' 1" N, 72° 16' 41" W
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Originally Posted by Rawlco
Originally Posted by vonSeggern
If it is illegal, then I sinned. It was either that or getting 3 hours sleep per night. How is Home Depot going? I heard that they are closing stores. Say hi to Wayne, another TMC/Home Despot guy.
Home Depot is going great. I left the house Monday at 2pm and got home again this morning at 6am. I don't have to leave again until around 8pm. Of course the nocturnal thing is sometimes hard to get used to, but at least I got my wife to not call me in the morning and interrupt my sleep. I haven't actually caught up with your trainee Wayne yet. We are all in and out of there so fast doing only the drop and hook that I haven't met a lot of the guys yet. As for the stores that are closing. Home Depot operates 2258 stores, so closing 15 isn't a big deal in my opinion. The stores that are planned to close are as follows: - #2015 East Fort Wayne, Indiana -- #2032 Marion, Indiana -- #2310 Frankfort, Kentucky -- #379 Opelousas, Louisiana -- #2819 Cottage Grove, Minnesota -- #6901 East Brunswick, New Jersey -- #6904 Saddle Brook, New Jersey -- #6171 Rome, New York -- #3702 Bismarck, North Dakota -- #3874 Findlay, Ohio -- #3865 Lima, Ohio -- #4552 Brattleboro, Vermont -- #4932 Beaver Dam, Wisconsin -- #4933 Fond du Lac, Wisconsin -- #4913 NW Milwaukee, Wisconsin Only the Brattleboro VT store is served by our division. I will bet that there is a Lowe's right accross the street. :wink: Some of the midwest locations I will bet that there is a Lowe's accross the street and a Menards around the corner. :wink: 
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#3642
05-10-2008, 05:33 AM
not a big fan of sleep aids, only "natural" one I've found that doesn't make me feel like crap in the morning is melatonin. should be sleeping much better given that the truck will be stopped, I will be laying on a better mattress, and there will be no trainer snoring at 110dB. I actually had to camp out outside the truck a couple nights.
what an awful week, I made more than my trainer. truck sat a total of about 40 hours. Mon: showed up at a jobsite with a load of A/C units in Bethlehem, PA. didn't want them because no one from TMC called. went to a truck stop and sat all day. 100 miles today. Tue: showed up again, took them 8 hours to unload 8 A/C units. bounced up to Stroudsburg to swap trailers with a guy who had broken down. 58 miles today. still in SE PA. Wed: delivered early, at 8:55AM received a load from US Steel with a 9:00AM appointment. place is an hour away. arrived at 10:00AM and sat 6 hours waiting for a new appointment or a new load. received a new appointment, got loaded with coils and headed for SC. Thu: arrived in SC early, delivered, bounced to pick up a load of insulation. they loaded the insulation 14' high and had to take it all back off. wasted 2 hours. headed for CT. Fri: arrived in CT, got unloaded, picked up a load of slinkies (welfare wire) and headed across NY back to PA, got in at 11PM. done with training, heading back to Des Moines tonight for Monday class and to get a truck.
#3643
05-10-2008, 10:24 AM
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Originally Posted by carterbeauford
Mon: showed up at a jobsite with a load of A/C units in Bethlehem, PA. didn't want them because no one from TMC called. went to a truck stop and sat all day. 100 miles today. Tue: showed up again, took them 8 hours to unload 8 A/C units. bounced up to Stroudsburg to swap trailers with a guy who had broken down. 58 miles today. still in SE PA. That is why (even though you are not suppose to) I called to verify equipment was on site and that they were expecting the stuff! Was burned one time by the CSR on a A/C Load, after that, if the phone number was available, I made the call, or had MY FM call and verify! Just a trick that gets learned the hard way!~
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#3644
05-10-2008, 02:36 PM
Well Lucky me. For my next full service the week after next I get to go to Des Moines and get my super singles switched for good old fashioned duals. Anybody else get hit with this yet? How long does it take?
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#3645
05-10-2008, 02:40 PM
Originally Posted by countryhorseman
Originally Posted by carterbeauford
Mon: showed up at a jobsite with a load of A/C units in Bethlehem, PA. didn't want them because no one from TMC called. went to a truck stop and sat all day. 100 miles today. Tue: showed up again, took them 8 hours to unload 8 A/C units. bounced up to Stroudsburg to swap trailers with a guy who had broken down. 58 miles today. still in SE PA. That is why (even though you are not suppose to) I called to verify equipment was on site and that they were expecting the stuff! Was burned one time by the CSR on a A/C Load, after that, if the phone number was available, I made the call, or had MY FM call and verify! Just a trick that gets learned the hard way!~
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#3646
05-10-2008, 02:45 PM
Originally Posted by Rawlco
Well Lucky me. For my next full service the week after next I get to go to Des Moines and get my super singles switched for good old fashioned duals. Anybody else get hit with this yet? How long does it take?
 All those No Parking signs saying "No 18 wheelers," didn't apply to me!
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#3647
05-10-2008, 03:26 PM
Originally Posted by terrylamar
All those No Parking signs saying "No 18 wheelers," didn't apply to me!
Will we still park there? Of course we will. :lol:
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Nothing is foolproof to a talented fool. -------------------------------------------- The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. -- J R R Tolkien
#3648
05-11-2008, 12:26 AM
Cool...If think you'll ever get up towards the Keene, NH HD and might head North on Rte 9, after or before, drop me a PM and you can stop in and visit. Plenty of parking and you can scare the other flatbed companies in to thinking that the evil TMC is in town; I now book freight
Stop by and tell my ex-inlaws at http://www.beaverpondfarm.us their "southern son" said howdy! (and throw a rock at my ex for me in Claremont! )
#3649
05-11-2008, 12:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Rawlco
Well Lucky me. For my next full service the week after next I get to go to Des Moines and get my super singles switched for good old fashioned duals. Anybody else get hit with this yet? How long does it take?
It should not take long, if they are geared up for the swaps, changing out the tires should take less than 1 hour with on guy doing it, if they have two on the truck, 30 minutes! I would guess the speedo will need a recalibration, since there is a slight height difference! The truck will also be a couple of hundred pounds heavier also, the duals are heavier than the SS setup!
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#3650
05-11-2008, 01:14 AM
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Originally Posted by DaveP
Cool...If think you'll ever get up towards the Keene, NH HD and might head North on Rte 9, after or before, drop me a PM and you can stop in and visit. Plenty of parking and you can scare the other flatbed companies in to thinking that the evil TMC is in town; I now book freight
Stop by and tell my ex-inlaws at http://www.beaverpondfarm.us their "southern son" said howdy! (and throw a rock at my ex for me in Claremont! )
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