Driving team - pay...hours, etc

I like running team personally. If you can't sleep with the truck moving there is no point though. I have troubles sleeping when we're not moving anymore, which isn't often.

At my company, the majority of dedicated runs are team, so that's a bonus as well. I make a loop from the west coast to east coast and indirectly back and get 2-2/12 days at home a week. Still can take a week off like I am this week as well. I've been running with my best friend for about 16 months, probably wouldn't with anyone else though. We have a good time on the road together.

 

Same here running solo on a dedicated account.....The team driving is not for me..Very hard to sleep in a moving truck.
I tried it for about a year and ended up doing 80% of all the driving while my lazy co-driver slept like a baby and got the same pay as me.
Heck with that!
They ended up putting me back solo running west coast and i still turned a trip a week.

Team drivers are a special breed i guess.Or i am too old and grumpy to have a co-driver.....lol!

 

I drive for Pride. Not sure if they hire out of San Diego. I've read a couple people on here said they wouldn't when they inquired, but I've met a couple drivers from San Diego so I don't know honestly. I know we have freight in and out of there, not as much as the LA/Riverside area though. If you call them up and ask for Joe or Diane in recruiting they'll let you know.

It'd be tough with a co-driver like you described. That's the hard part in getting work ethics and stuff lined up. I kind of had it easy though as I rode with him on multiple week trips before I ever had a license so we already knew we could get along in a truck together. We both run hard and both smell like crap at the same rate so it works out lol.