TWIC Cards Good Or Bad Idea?

Similar to TWIC cards, does cross border trucking pay more or less? If it's per mile it seems like the long waits would make it very low pay per unit of time.

But if it pays more I speak Spanish, have my passport and SENTRI and should have a TWIC fairly soon(I will go for the TWIC appointment March 7 assuming I pass my CDL permit the 4th)

Passed my physical early February. Been studying for the permit and passing all of the practice exams I can find. I go to Yuma to do the test the 4th of March. I actually just did the online application here from the site after doing one directly to Roehl from their site.

Thank you, gentlemen, for the great information.

So, how does a driver go about getting the TWIC?

Sorry for the late reply; just saw this again!!!

Obtaining a TWIC clearance/card.

Tom & I still have ours. I used to deliver to the ports in Florida (Port Canaveral and Cape Hatteras) when I hauled boat props, shafting, zincs, etc...hotshot back in the day. Still had to have clearance; easier just to keep it (yet NOT cheap, prices above, haha!)

Has anyone who had a SENTRI or NEXUS alread applied for their TWIC? Was it just insta-approved given they're probably the same checks?

Good to see YOU around again, Travis! Thinking out loud, wondering ... ever hear of THIS guy? ATHLEAN X.

How's the job hunt coming, btw?!?!?

Universal Enroll can kiss my butkis. They, somehow, cancelled my HME ine year and one month to the day after they issued it. They say its expired. When I asked Jessica where the money went fir my HME, she told me " It is none of your business". She also told me i couldnt talk to a supervisor because they would tell me the same. So. No, i wont give those clowns any extra money...

Who's Jessica ?!?!?

Best to y'all !!

~ Anne ~

Jeszica is the customer disservice agent i was saddled with when I called, trying to figure out why tsa was saying my hme expired a year and a month after issuance. Long story - short answer - I will keep my hme, but only that

My company regularly picks up bananas in Freeport, Texas. There are a few drivers who run that exclusively, and they have TWIC cards. Occasionally, I get sent there, and my company pays $80 to the escort truck to get let in. Google says a TWIC card costs $125.25 and is good for 5 years, so I don't know why the company doesn't just have me get one, although then I might need to go there more frequently, and I HATE driving that Dallas/Houston corridor! So, money-wise, if you need to get into a port more than once in 5 years, it makes sense to get the card. Time-wise, a TWIC card will get you in much quicker. I really don't see a downside to it. And FYI, having an escort does not assure that you will get through the port with no issues . . . my first time, I thought the escort was waving me to turn into a scale . . . it was NOT where I was supposed to go . . . eye yey eye, what a fiasco . . .