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$Former Employee - Apr 11, 2021
Pros
Stress, stressed out, stressful, stressing Free bag lunch
Cons
They lie, the lease contract they give you a card email them if you have any questions
Former Employee - Dec 29, 2020
Pros
Not a good company
Cons
Stay away
Current Employee - Jun 6, 2020
Pros
The trucks
Cons
Everything but the trucks
Former Employee - Jun 20, 2019
Pros
None
Cons
Pay and everything else
Former Employee - Mar 16, 2019
Pros
Nice trucks
Cons
They lie about pay and don't have a dry van section which I applied for
Owner Operator - 5+ Years CDL Experience
Surveyed in Little Rock, Arkansas on Apr 11, 2021
Current Employee
No
Owner Operator - 2 Years CDL Experience
Surveyed in Olathe ks on Jun 20, 2019
Current Employee
No
Owner Operator - 6-11 Months CDL Experience
Surveyed in Greensboro NC on Jan 28, 2019
Current Employee
Yes
Company Driver - ... CDL Experience
Surveyed in Pasco Wa on Oct 4, 2018
Current Employee
No
Company Driver - 2 Years CDL Experience
Surveyed in birmingham, al on Aug 1, 2018
Current Employee
Yes
Army91W
Aug 7, 2016
I
am a former TA driver also truck 29012 from May 2014 to June 2015. I enjoyed my
time with TA. Keep in mind its an apprenticeship of sorts. You will make a
paycheck as opposed to 98 percent of the lease drivers. You will want to move
on after 6-12 months. You will do many swaps that may cut into your miles and
sometimes you may benefit from the swaps. As a company driver, you will need to
do what they need you to do. Its ok. Remember its a foot in the door into the
industry. An apprenticeship! To me, trucking has been a godsend, a salvation
and a deliverance of sorts. I love what I do. The traveling, interacting with
shippers/receivers, even sleeping in the truck. The TA trucks are nicely
spec'd! When I was there we could only run 62, but then at a Raleigh NC KW
dealer, they turned mine up to 65.
The reason TA swaps so much is to a) Insure on time delivery and b) to help you
get your hometime ontime. They were pretty good at it.
Wooly Rhino
Aug 5, 2016
Satellite radio (you have to pay for that yourself, but I can handle that), Satellite tv with HBO and NFL Sunday Ticket and a DVR, refrigerator, cb and an inverter. 96" condo cab that a guy 6'4" can stand all the way up in and to top it all off it's a KW. Pay sucks as all your second tier companies do but I'll be very comfortable while I rack up the time and miles it'll take to be hired by a top tier, well paying company.
Big Don
Aug 11, 2016
Do
learn that manual!! Know it backwards and forwards. Only way to know if their
screwing you or not. Training can be spotty, and that manual can truly help you
out.I did my 1st comcheck, right out of the book.
Make sure you know how to get into the employee system to check pay. Remember,
they are only required to keep a copy of your logs for 6 months. Ask how you
can get a download of it. You'll need it for tax purposes.
Ex-Con-Trucker
Aug 15, 2016
spent
all my years as a company driver with transam. Transam is designed to keep
their fleet at 70% lease drivers and 30% company drivers.
Company drivers do a lot of swaps (repower load). When you get a swap it
probably won't be because load is on time. In order to make sure you don't get
blamed for the late load you have to let your dispatcher know over qualcom
(treq) that it will be late and it's previous drivers fault. It's best to make
sure your DM knows on mon thru fri. The Night and weekend dispatch may not make
notes on who caused late load.
bamalife123
Sep 1, 2016
Main
issue with the hometime request is that you enter your request by qualcom/treq
unit, then that request goes into their computer system to see what days are
open. I believe only 25% of drivers can be on hometime at one time. So drivers
will put request in 3 weeks or more ahead of time. They tell you to request 8
days ahead but you would not get days you want in that short of time frame.
(If you want 4 days off such as friday to monday. You request thursday at
2001/8:01 pm till Tuesday at 0759/7:59 am.) This way you end up getting 5 days
at home and you can always tell your DM you can't leave till a day later.
(excuses; doctor, lawyer, dog ate homework, etc.)
Adrienna Brown
Apr 6, 2016
the other part that you need to look into is truck speed. I'm governed at 65 and I pass Trans Am trucks all the time, just something to think about
Adrienna Brown
Apr 6, 2016
They
have a 11 day training program for newbies and then they let them go on their
own.
They do push lease , all you have to do is refuse a lease.
Just stay company.
They have great trucks KW 680 & 700's
Fridge , APU and I think inverters.
The swaps come because people run out of hours so they give their load to
someone who as hours and then you will take their load that still has plenty of
time on it.
ethos
Apr 6, 2016
TransAm at least has top of the line equipment with all the driver ammenities.
Adrienna Brown
Apr 7, 2016
Trucks at transam are governed at 62 if ur company 65 if u lease which I don't recommend at all they are scam artists
Steven W
Apr 17, 2016
The
trucks are good and you get the direct tv, so resets won't be too boring. You
will average about 2700 miles per week. My advice is go company for at least 3
months, even tho they will push lease on you hard. No sense learning how to
manage your time and fuel on your dime when you can do it on theirs. Yes, the
lease always sounds good, I mean .84 instead of .31, but untill you learn time
management and fuel management, you'll make more getting that .31cpm.
Otherwise they aren't too bad a company to work for as starter companies go.
After 6 months to a year you can then go about anywhere and start making more.
Steven W
Apr 17, 2016
TransAm has a terminal in Rockwall Texas, a suburb outside of Dallas. If you do go to TransAm, you may want to move from Houston to the Dallas area, to be much closer to the terminal. During home time, you could park your truck at the terminal for both safety and repairs / maintenance that may be needed on the truck.
Steven W
Aug 3, 2016
Can't
say nothing bad about them at this point. I started out lease, first check was
$727 after all expenses for 2725 miles. Little less miles the next week but
will get close to 3000 this week.
But if you want to spend your time in truck stops or 4 days at home, lease
probably isn't a good idea.
First 3 days are classroom, the next week 4 days of pad, backing etc. Then 11
days out with a trainer. Was worried at first about only 11 days, but if you
got common sense you'll be fine when u got your own truck.
I'll keep this updated for those thinking of leasing and let you know how
things go. Heard a lot of bad things but so far I got no complaints, but then
I'm not sitting but driving. I mean that's what I get paid for and a sitting
truck makes no money.