Old Dominion Team Driving information

Bump - What's it like Husband/wife teaming for OD today (July 2018) - any real differences from when this thread was originally posted?

ANY new info is greatly appreciated.

Anyone here team out of Roanoke, VA for OD?

 

I’m interested in current team info also. There’s quite a few terminals with team postings.

 

Do they allow pets ?

 

Great write up OP, thank you very much for this!! To be clear, that part that I bolded in your quote, that average of 160k - 185k that you and your wife earned, that was your total gross for BOTH of you, right? Or is that 160k-185k for each person?

You edited in your OP that you're no longer with them. Do you miss teaming there at Old Dominion? Do you know anything about them some 5 years later in 2020 or do you not keep in touch with anybody from there?

I was personally surprised to read about the bare bones equipment. I thought all their teaming trucks were automatics that would come with a fridge and a stereo, and even for their solo trucks Old Dominion seems to have a much better reputation for keeping newer equipment than other LTL companies.

Thank you for the write up again OP!

 

I don't know what Team split pay is now but solo linehaul is mid 70s top and P&D is $31 per hour top . You reach top pay at 3 years I believe . (Arizona)

The money he mentioned is to the team ; So $80k to $92,500 each driver and he/she mentioned taking a bunch of time off . At my local terminal the teams run a 6-2 schedule

Another company thats easier to get on with is R&L carriers . Great pay for team drivers . At my terminal they're making $1800- $2000 each per week running a 5-2 schedule and the team trucks run 72-75 mph so you have more wiggle room but Old Dominion seems like a better retirement company

 

Thanks for clarifying this for me! I didn't realize that R&L pays as much as OD does, $1800 per week puts R&L drivers at about 93k for the year. I always thought OD was the highest paid LTL.

What would you say solo drivers average at R&L if they do linehaul and stay out 5 days a week, @gpf87 ? Also, does R&L for the teams have automatic trucks? OP didn't respond to my question but I was going to ask him if OD teams had automatics now, since he made his post about 5 years ago. I thought OD ran autos for the teams but I could be wrong.

 

You make great money at either place running as a hard working team

As far as I know the highest paid LTL would be UPS feeder drivers (Brown)

For the longest time R&L had a team job open where I live and they said $2000 per week per driver plus a nice sign on bonus

The Solo linehaul drivers don't usually stay out a week . They come home every day and usually run at night pulling doubles . There are some solo linehaul runs where the driver will stay in a motel throughout the week but I don't know if R&L does this

Also , R&L is kind of different because your line haul pay(cpm) depends on the exact run you get ..

R&L team trucks are mostly automated petes and Internationals

 

Holy ####! $.80 X 6000 miles per week = $4,800 per week, so $2,400 per driver per week. Do that 52 times in the year, that's $125,000 per year, per driver. ####. That is life changing money. Probably about $80,000 take home for a single man like me.

Do you know if they're running automatic transmissions at ODFL @blairandgretchen or at least is your buddy running in an automatic?