I was surprised to find out all the bad things that went on inside the TMC military compound. Yes people I thought I was choosing one of the best trucking companies out there but I was wrong. they suck... While at orientation I had drivers staying in my room and they gave me the truth.
ok.............and here's a "little game" i like to play, its called "pick apart the story for more details than what someone is saying".....
first of all, i think you "might be" a newbie. because if you were a "seasoned pro", you would be able to sift through the dis-information you got in orientation.....
read-on..........
1. do not exspect to make 8 to a thousand a week cause you won,t unless you stay out there for months.
not the slightest bit true.
in fact, most truckers WILL make that and more each week, without having to be gone months at a time. i think those guys in your room were trying to scare you away, hoping for better first out assignments after orientation.
2. Yes you will have the national anthum blasted in your ears every morning on the bus.
well, 1) you could have asked for the volume to be turned down
2) you could have just gone along with our NATIONAL ANTHEM
3) what's wrong with being proud to be american...?? maybe the owner of the company, or the bus driver is "super-patriotic".....??
4) i hope you ARE NOT a foreinger, if so, get out of MY COUNTRY
3. If you leave the company before 6 month period you will have to pay 38% of your check back to the company.
you need to explain this, as you left us in the dark on your reason, or lack of them
4. The instructors are arrogant asses that believe that are gods and you are a piece of crap.the load securement instructor is even worse then that and ignorant to boot.
then, you were never in the military (neither was i), but any instructor has an awesome responsibility each day for your training, safety to everyone, and proper teaching. if any instructor were to slack off or do a crap job, what learning would you have done...??
5. I f your hair is touching your collar you,ll be getting cut at the motel or out you go.
ok.........if YOU, the original writer of this thread, have short hair, then why would you be complaining about this....??
however, i am of the thinking that YOU have long hair, and think that NO COMPANY should have a dress code requirement...
well guess what, a famous baseball player (Johnny Damon) from the Boston Red Sox, had long hair and a beard when he was with the sox.
he then went to the New York Yankee's..........
guess what..........the NY Yankess' HAVE A DRESS CODE....NO BEARDS..NO LONG HAIR.....NO FACIAL HAIR.....
Johnny cleaned up.........heck, if he can "clean up" for the millions of dollars he gets, you could have cleaned up the thousands of dollars you WERE GOING TO GET.............
Well I.m not going to waste anymore of my time talking about that place I just wasted 9 days of my life I,ll never get back. I,d rather work for Werner or Swift then the communist TMC.
i think you are a case of sour-grapes.
i think that those guys in your room scared you right out of a very good paying job.
i think that from reading your thread YOU ARE A NEWBIE, and YOU THINK the world owes YOU SOMETHING..
well guess what, you want a good job, you gotta earn it. if it means you gotta shave and get a short haircut, than DO IT.....!!
sounds to me like you're the type of driver that i'll be smelling while i wait in line for the cashier, because you don't like to shower either..............
be carefull.............if you go to those other companies...........showers ARE required by the driver-trainers.............:banana1: