Is it worth it to do teams?

Did they kick you out of the truck?

 

I kicked one guy out at San Antonio TX greyhound he was on drugs. All the other ones I told my boss during home time I didn't want to go back out with them. It was a small company I was his favorite.

 

On further thinking carefully, if you are new. You need about a year of seasoning in the industry. Get roasted both sides until you are done. =) Then maybe find someone like a spouse to be a team with.

Another path is to get a few years in like a good boy and become a trainer. Then it becomes a salary issue, mileage irrevelant and you spend time teaching trainees and newbies a structured 8 to 12 week program of this, that and other things until they are tested and hired by your company. If they were good drivers then you were a good trainer. If you did not do well as a trainer, they bust you to doolie and assign you a regular truck like everyone else.

As far as the other people kicking so and so out for a number of very good reasons, drug use to me has to be the most noxious. ANyone wanting to do drugs around big trucks have no business being near or in them to be honest with you. IM on medicine at home and I could not think of being in a truck on ice at night in a storm. It's not going to happen what with the stuff it does to me sometimes.

Now that I got it out of the system, I say be very careful who you pick to run with in that cab. Good teams are pretty.. special.

Wives generally do not know what the hubby deals with until she actually rides with same. Take her along as a passenger first with insurance and company blessing and passenger papers before you two send her to trucking school. She will get learning pretty fast if Hunts Point would be what she needs to deal with several times a month. I had a nice looker ask me if I wanted a date in the Guiness Ale Bullpen in Rochester, I told the looker that my wife heard her and she best take off. And she did. Wife was already pre-taught about that part of trucking so it was no stress or trouble for me. It happened, she heard and saw it and that was that. If that was not proof of my fidelity to her then she can stick it. lol.

 

So NOT go team til after your first year. You barely have a gd clue til after 2. Seriously, if you have Jesus' GIFT of a truck, a bad teammate will KILL your income. Seriously, do NOT do this til you know WTF you are getting into.

 

well lets do the math in a scenerio that isnt likely

you have a 70mph truck, you run that truck 70mph for 24hrs a day, thats 1680 miles a day,

you run 1680 miles a day 7 days a week, thats 11760 miles a week

lets say you make 60cpm split, thats 5880 miles for each driver times 30cpm

you each make $1764.00 before taxes for running 24 hrs a day 7 days a week non stop.

now this is a scenerio that isnt likely to happen so does that sound worth it to you?

you can make that solo with a yr exp and you may even have time to pee lol

but everyone is different ive been told lol

 

If you are running teams, The Tripac isn't really a selling point. Is it? Been off the road since 05 so I really don't know.
Also, For some the Team thing is worth it but for many it is not. Tried Team for a short bit. Nope, Not for me.

 

If you're only running 4000-5000 miles a week like most of these 'team' companies do then yeah the apu is nice lol

 

Dont do it. You've been warned. I did it for a year at my first job. Had some guy call me up the other day wanting a co-driver. No thank you -

 

Why do you make less money?

 

Look at that picture I posted. Those are team trucks. They sat in the truckstop parking lot for 3 days. Do the math. Less mileage pay and the average team is not getting 2x the miles of the average solo driver. You have been deceived.


"Hey! Let's run more miles for less money and smell each others feet!"