Company Guidance / Advice

[jasonlepak]

I pulled a flatbed for a few years before I decided to purchase my own truck and lease on with a company...
I've talked to a few drivers from both TMC and Maverick...
TMC drivers liked the fact that they had newer trucks, but they did say the pay wasn't as great as it should be considering most of the loads they pull have to be tarped.

Maverick drivers said pays was pretty good and they usually got good miles.

TMC runs newer Peterbilts and Maverick runs mostly Freightliners.

Most of my experience was with smaller, "real" family owned companies, and in my experience the smaller companies didn't pay too great with company drivers, but did pay better for owner operators.

I'm pretty sure that even though you're going through the schooling now, you'll have to go a while in the flatbed training with any larger company where they show you their way of load securement and tarping. I know TMC is really big on this, and it shows because they always have a pretty tarp job done on their loads.