Throwing team driver off the truck

I have read alot of posts where disgruntled employess leave the truck anywhere in the country when they quit, but if you run team have you ever had to kick him or her out.

I ran across this years ago at my company, we were running with another company truck to California and ran back into her on the way back, but this time she had no student with her. She said when she and her student got to the truckstop to take a shower he tried to make her his seat cushion, so when they went inside, she called dispatch while he was in the shower and they told her to leave right away. Then they called my partner and I and asked if we could help get her home to help out plus her load was time sensitive and so was ours.

So I drover my 10 hours, which is what you could drive at the time and then jumped in her truck and drove from Zare Oklahoma which was our fuel stop to somewhere in Tennesee 880 miles altogether. Had to fudge on my logbook, but we got home with both loads and on time, was wondering has anyone else had to do this. I realize today most teams are preplanned but in her case she was a trainer and got someone she didn't know. She wasn't your typical female driver either, she was HOT and I guess 2500 miles one way was all he could stand, no excuse though and he was fired on the spot and had to get his own way home from Cali.

 

Ah, it's not that bad, I did it for 3 years. At first it sucked, being the new guy you have to ride with someone different each week until you find someone who wants to team up. So at first road with some real trucker trash, fat, stunk, couldn't or wouldn't drive, smoked, breath smell like dog ####e, and I could smell them evey time they turned over in the bunk.

Then I hooked up with a really cool dude from GA, our terminal was in NC, 8 hour drive for him. We hit it off, drove hard and ran 5200 miles per week or more. Truck is always moving, none of this 34 hour reset crap, or take 4 days to get to california, just get on interstate 40 and don't look back, hammered down even with trucks that were turned down, we turned them back up, cost 3.00 to do this, 65 mph truck now ran 85mph and now we got fuel bonus we never could attain before. Put two minds together ther is nothing you can't figure out. I would do it again in a second with the right person.

Plus with team it's always west coast with usually only one or two stops, back then no gps, one person at night would read the map the other drove when you got close to your delivery. The only way to get paid to sleep in the sleeper.