Team Driving Shifts

I drive days and my husband drives nights. I know many other teams where the wife does the night driving. Many of them do 12 hour shifts. Some 6-6 or Noon - Midnight and I know another team that does 2-2. Before trucking I worked days and my husband has always been a night owl so what we do is what works for us. Every team is different and you just have to figure out which works best for you.

 

24/7/365. . . Man that's love!

I'd need to get my burial plot paid for first, she's a good shot!

 

I tend to stay awake better than my husband when it's dark outside... So I driver the night shift... However, if I get tired, I'm not shy about stopping for an hours nap!!

 

My wife and I started out doing 3 to 3, Me doing night and her morning but it gradually has slipped more into 6 to 6 with me staying the nights. She can't stay awake all night as I can, and is afraid of the truckstops in the middle of the night.

 

Are you on paper logs, or elogs... Just wondering how you work the 3/3 or 6/6 and log it...

 

What do you mean, how do they log it? You log it the same as everyone else. How do you log hours?

 

Elogs. Since we keep regular shifts, unless you have a really good day you never run your full 11 before you switch, we still manage to run out of hours and take regular resets

 

Always wondered how that worked. Thanks!

 

If you run 3/3 where is your 10 hour off duty to reset your 14? Same with a 6/6? We have tried a running 8/3 each doing a split sleeper. That was a pain to keep track of!! I sure wish they would allow teams a 5/5... But that was a few years back, and I wasn't driving then

Now there is always the physical driving vs. the driver of record... But lord help you if anything happens and you're NOT the driver of record!!