Why do team drivers get paid less???

If this is true, your the bad driver ,driving on his hrs and tired and you should be fired and your cdl removed ..

He obviously didn't kill his trainer, just cause your a skeered kitten who obviously thinks he's a super trucker...There is no excuse for your actions .. You should have pulled over and parked not kept going if you were out of hrs and scared ..... Your why the industry has a bad rap..


Hard to believe with 29 yrs you would even write this admission of stupidity.. I haven't read one thing he did wrong other than to letting you take the wheel on his hrs which I'll bet he didn't have much choice with a super trucker on board.... Personally I would have got off the truck and reported YOU for HOS violations ..

 

....i respect your opion sir , but at that time & the situation i was in , i made a bad dission that probrobly saved my life & the life of the rookie , that had never driven in the mountains with 47 k on the back , let me ask you this , how do you feel about going to sleep not sure if you will wake up dead or not ? ....you seem to have a thin skin ,so i will be alittle more gentle on you then you were on me , ....jumping up down & threatening to tell my boss on me and all that will not changed anything i did or did not do back then or anytime ....if i were you i wouldnt get so worked up over a scary trucker story , i understand tho ,my wife tends to get worked up too and i have too calm her down also
...PS ...please don't harrass me on this site anymore , im not into name calling & arguing with anyone at anytime
Thank very much , im a reasonable guy & will hear your opion but we don't need to attack each other , please mind your matters before the wind blows too hard & you fly off the shelf again , who knows where you will end up at
....i apologize if this story upset you so much that you would pm me and fling such insults at anyone
...now go in peace brother & you are welcomed back but only when you have settle down .....good bye for now

 

Most big companies pay their teams way less than solos. I do know that some companies pay their teams very well...one company I know of pays their team drivers .39cpm and they get paid for all miles put on the truck, so even while you are sleeping you are getting paid for the miles the other driver is driving.

 

I did the team thing for 8 weeks. My partner was everything a team driver could ask for.....(neat, clean, friendly, polite to others, and a safe driver) I just couldn't sleep with another driver behind the wheel. I was ragged out after a couple weeks. I felt pretty bad about parting ways, but he understood fully. He eventually hooked onto a nice lady who loved trucking as much as he did, and they are still at it 15 years later. He still sends me texts almost weekly. They had a load into Norfolk last year and shut it down for 2 days of golf, beer, and cooking out with me & the Mrs.

 

Nice

 

with a company is all about economics its like should i pay 10 experienced drivers 40c per mile or pay 10 newbies 32 c per mile. Its costing them 50 c per mile for a team compared to 35c pm for solo, a 15 c difference in profits so although the team get loads delivered faster the only real benefit to the company is they maybe can get a hot load delivered on time and this allows them to establish a good contract with the shipper.

 

Wife and I were a team.

Truck gets something a bit over 24 cents to the newbie wife and I got around high 30's that made it over .50 to the truck.

That was one company once our trainer salary came off when wife was approved, tested and accepted as a team driver with me.

A second company ran us full miles each week and paid .70 to the truck regardless of who drove how far because again we were a husband wife team. a 7000 mile on the ground trip miles per week generated close to a 5000 gross. THAT is way better than what company one paid us.

Company three, wife is gone. Im solo. I get now paid .48 a mile. After figuring I see it as a inflationary wash.

In the 80's I made either .20 cents or 25%. We did 25% because it's way better pay. Especially in the NE which was where I learned everything I needed to know about good and bad people. Fast.

During the 90's I hopped companys to improve pay per mile. 27, 30, 32, 35, 36,37 then stuck for 10 years. Until I met wife. Ran solo after we married and stopped working 60 hour weeks feeding a ready mix cement plant here in Arkansas at 8.00 locally per hour. (now the same exact driver job starts at 15.50 almost 20 years later) Ran for FFE at a high 30's per mile. Had savings built in several thousands of dollars against the feast and famine of miles. No problems. Much.

My entire life I did a bit over 3 million. Several accidents. No deaths that I know of. (Lots of cursing... so he's not dead) and almost a million dollars in mileage paid averaged over 3 million at 30 cents. What happened to that million? Poof. Mwah. US Economy. Truck stops, phone bills, more bills, showers, parking fees, tolls, lumpers, food, wine and women etc. all gone. shrugs. several hundred to a thousand dollars at a time over 35 years.

The final two years of my work approached 130K in earnings. Half went into paying off house, cars, lands and debts. Other half? some went to the wife of couse and rest went into house and cars for repairs, gasoline and food; plus 46K for college debt.

POOF> all gone. Next.

Consider carefully your entry into trucking. Your journey will be a very close supervised one. Backed by electronic and computer technology you cannot begin to comprehend to keep you in compliance with company polices, appointments and rules. Many rules.

Good luck grasshopper.