Team driver wannabe

Based on what I've been reading, unless your brother is a brand new teacher, you are probably looking at a pay cut at least to start..........

Also, if visitation is a concern, again from what I've been reading, teams are out longer and driver harder than most. I think team automatically equates to OTR which means hometime every 3-4 weeks. But again, I'm new and could be way off base......Good Luck!

 

Everywhere I look it's crazy on how teachers get paid. Then once you get tenure you set for life. I know most state start their teachers out of school right around $50k. You have alot of people jump up and say that's not very much for what they do. They only work 9 months out of the year. Most of all their class work is already laid out for them so how hard could it be? I saw engneers with the same schooling go into corporate and get alot less and work alot harder.
Tell you brother he's riding the ole gravy train and should never leave it.

 

You should listen to what GasHauler posted as well. Unless your brother absolutely despises teaching, the longer view would indicate teaching may be the better option. Trust me, if I were 20 years younger and could make some choices again, teaching would be high on my list......

 

My Niece started in New Jersey. She picked for her first year the hardest school to teach which was downtown Newark. She started at a little uder 50K and 6 years later she's making in the 6 figures. And she wasn't teaching young kids, she taught 9,10 grade.

Yes you get paid if you get your masters. But you also get paid more if you choach or volunteer you time. You're 30% below 50K then you must live in an area where the cost of living is 30% below most places. You'll never be able to convince that an $50 dollar an hour job with 3 months vacation every year is hard. I've seen both words and let me tell you that coporate managers jump off jigh rise buildings more than school teachers. My Nephew is teaching the same way and just got his masters. Both of them make well into the 6's and are raising a child in all their free time.

There's no truck driver that is going to have it better than a teacher so maybe you should move where the money is and forget believeing those advertisements.

 

Teamed for 6 years with my wife, she's off the truck right due to me getting custody of my 16 yo daughter. On visitation well there was a 12 hour round trip from my house to her moms. Her mom moved her out of state, and didn't even care to tell me
But back to teaming, how well can each of you sleep in a car traveling? But sleeping in a truck is more difficult, they ride rougher.
Also there is dictated runs for teams, that'll put you home every weekend, but the more exp/or years of service with same company teams has them.
Normally it's the same as solo's, 1/24 hour period home for every week out, up to an max usually 3-4 days home.
Good luck, and maybe you'll both find your soul mates out on the road

 

I agree that he should stick w/ the teaching,you just can't beat the pension and benefit packages.If he's close to 10 years teaching his pension benefits become vested it the end of the tenth year not something he should walk away from.

As for teaching being a easy job 9-3 with summers off;that's just the hours they have kids in the classroom.Many additional hours are spent on mandatory paper work;lesson plans have to be submitted every friday for the next weeks lessons.Grading papers can take several hours every night,much of that is taken home and is done at night or weekends.The bigest complaint I hear from teachers is all the time spent on preping kids for those mandated student performance tests;just teaching kids how to get good scores on those apptitude tests. There are too many teacher supervisors who have to justify their paycheck so they come up with more and more BS paperwork for teachers. So the actual that teachers get to really teach keeps declining due to regulatory BS;that is the real reason many teachers want to quit;they can't do what they really want to do because teaching is over regulated.

 

Haha oh man I am a teacher with CCSD here in Vegas and let me tell you we do not make 50 starting. It is more like 32 and the amount of side work outside of the classroom is unreal. It is almost 2 to 3 hours a night extra and I get to work over 2 hours early to prepare for the day and often have to stay after school. These kids dont just sit there with their hands folded all day and are ready to learn. Almost all students require some form of differiented instruction and one system does not fill all