I started out with TA. Bear in mind, this information is over a decade old, and we all know how trucking companies can go from "great" to "suck" (or vice versa) in a heartbeat.
Picture this: I'm off my weekend. My truck is stocked, I have all my stuff taken care of, I'm ready to roll. I end up waiting all day and finally get a <300-mile load that was due an hour before I picked it up. I tell them I have to stay close to the house due to dental appts or whatever? Ten seconds later, I get a 1200 mile load. I basically had to tell them the opposite of what I wanted.
I found out the hard way that it's advisable to get your truck serviced anywhere but Eagan. They had good mechanics everywhere else, but Corporate sucked the big one.
I got screwed out of >200 miles of pay. A dispatcher sent me to pick up a nonexistent load, and TA decided they weren't going to pay me for it.
After over a year, I found myself getting @ 2400/mi per week(and I stayed out three weeks at a time and turned down about 4 loads in a year). I finally told them where to stick their 64mph cabover and endless South-and-East, overnight, multiple-stop, driver-unload, just-in-time overweight hazmat bullsh*t, and found a job with a real trucking company.
Your mileage may vary, but that's the experience I had. :x
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No load is worth your life.
Or anyone else's.
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