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Posted:  9 years ago

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CDL student looking for advice

Hey Jose, I use to work for tmc years ago. They treated me pretty well, I got home at noon most Fridays and left out Sunday nights/ Monday mornings most weeks.

My fleet manager was pretty good to me. I live in New Jersey and it was almost like clockwork every Wednesday night to be heading to Massachusetts area to deliver Thursday. That was usually followed by a drop and hook pre loaded trailer at a Lowes distribution in Westfield, Massachusetts to be delivered Friday morning in a Northeastern new Jersey Lowes store. Lowes unloaded us between 6 and 7 am and always got a load of shingles out of Owens Corning in Kearny, nj and was home by noon because i only live an hour away from kearny. That was followed by a Monday delivery anytime before 330, 4pm usually only 4 to seven hours away, so i left Sunday nights, Monday mornings depending on how far it was. This was a number of years ago, so I don't know if they still have those accounts.

I was all over the place east of Mississippi river every week. The only times I was west of the Mississippi river was when I told my fleet manager to keep me out longer because I didn't want to go home.

I made about 700 to 1200 weekly. I think they paid ten dollars to tarp back then. I made about 27,28 percent most of the time ( I liked to idle while not driving when it was hot outside) .

Truck went 65mph Peterbilt 379 13 speed Eaton.

This is all older information, maybe some one that's worked there more recently can help you better.

Any other questions feel free to ask

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