Why Do We Demonize Team Driving?

There are a couple of things wrong with this post . . . for one, you are NOT just driving, you are trip planning, budgeting your time, being a diplomat (some shippers and receivers are just that ###### bad), you are away from your home and family, and if you can't drive defensively, then you have no business in the seat of the truck. Simplify it too much in your mind, and you will be one of those statistics that many of us avoid. The more one pays attention while driving, the less likely one is to have an accident.

 

You said it there!

 

The only way I would team is with a wife.

Every driver is not exempt from an accident. At any moment someone can run a stop sign or something happen outside your control. You can apply odds to that like anything else. Let's say your odds are 1 in 200,000 you will be in a wreck. When you team drive you cut them odds in half to 1 in 100,000 because the truck is rolling twice as much.

You really don't make much more money to justify giving up your off duty time. Being stuck in a sleeper is not really off duty time. If one is so money hungry they should of went to college.

Today's teaming is so much different. They will pair two trainees together. Okay let's say you are that perfect pair. There's going to be a month or two until the trust factor kicks in. What happens in the first two months is the kicker. You might get that driver that runs you off a cliff while sleeping or into the back of another truck and you burn a horrible death. Oops, I picked the wrong one. Sorry but I'm not willing to chance that. You can have your few extra dollars.