What's a good team company

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  1. Jared89

    Jared89 Bobtail Member

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    My dad and I are talking about teaming up with a otr company. We're hoping to find one that does paper logs cause of the fact that we've only done outlaw driving. I've got about 18 months experience where I've averaged about 4k miles a week. He's got almost 30 years experience. And he's telling me we need to team up cause the bring home money will be about the same as what he makes as a owner operator without the headaches. What are some good company's that give long distance hauls. With decent CPM and detention time that doesn't take 5 hours to earn $20. Any advice from company drivers will be greatly appreciated.
     
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  3. TruckDuo

    TruckDuo Road Train Member

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    You should get on with a legit company. Old Dominion if money is what you seek. Speak with @blairandgretchen. Wife and I have been at USX for three years and are very happy.
     
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  4. 77smartin

    77smartin Road Train Member

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    Van Kampen out of Wyoming, Michigan.
     
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  5. Chinatown

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    At Old Dominion you can run legal and make more than you will running outlaw.
    It's hard to run legal after years of running two logs because you feel like a wuss; but believe me, it's not that bad.
     
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  6. oldtrucker66

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  7. Dave_in_AZ

    Dave_in_AZ Road Train Member

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    You have to run over 6000 a week to run out of hours as a team, especially if your an experienced team. And if you run coast to coast, then right back, your going to want to sit and rest, shower, and generally F/O for a day anyway. Why not just lease onto Landstar or someone like that, and do it legit, and make a bazillion dollars? When I teamed, the only time we ever reset was when we were bumping 6000. 6000 is an ### load of miles in a week.
     
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  8. blairandgretchen

    blairandgretchen Road Train Member

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    What he said.
     
  9. blairandgretchen

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    Also what he said, and - on a rare week, we pulled 7400 in 7 days well within our 70.
     
  10. MidWest_MacDaddy

    MidWest_MacDaddy Road Train Member

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    Newbie here... Must be more to "Running Outlaw" than creative logging of HOS... As a team you can legally run round the clock right? And everyone, outlaw or legal, needs to stop for fuel, food, and a pit stop now and then.

    {shrug}
     
  11. Dave_in_AZ

    Dave_in_AZ Road Train Member

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    Well no, not necessarily pit stops. I've been part of some truly cruel and unusual air freight runs, where you literally run through the truck stop, dump some food in a box, and didi mau. Oh yea, there's some coast to coast, and 2K mile runs with like a whopping 4 or 5 hours of fluff in them. And that's at dispatch, before the shipper doesn't have it ready, or it doesn't weigh. Before the 3 hour back up, and rush hour at a major city or two.
     
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