Manager pain in the arse.

No. You can have non CDL passengers. Just make sure the company fills out a form. Of you don't have written authorization, DOT officer can make her get out and find another way home. And under certain circumstances, a CDL teammate can be off duty in the passenger seat while the truck is moving. As long as you have 8+ in the sleeper, you can be off duty in the passenger seat to complete your qualifying 10 hr break.

 

Maybe she likes you lol

 

(Gotitmadecij, answered this Apr 27, 2010)
167;392.60 Unauthorized persons not to be transported.
(a) Unless specifically authorized in writing to do so by the motor carrier under whose authority the commercial motor vehicle is being operated, no driver shall transport any person or permit any person to be transported on any commercial motor vehicle other than a bus. When such authorization is issued, it shall state the name of the person to be transported, the points where the transportation is to begin and end, and the date upon which such authority expires. No written authorization, however, shall be necessary for the transportation of:
(a)(1) Employees or other persons assigned to a commercial motor vehicle by a motor carrier;
(a)(2) Any person transported when aid is being rendered in case of an accident or other emergency;
(a)(3) An attendant delegated to care for livestock.
(b) This section shall not apply to the operation of commercial motor vehicles controlled and operated by any farmer and used in the transportation of agricultural commodities or products thereof from his/her farm or in the transportation of supplies to his/her farm.

 

I know that at Averitt the fleet managers are required to ride with one of their drivers for a week so they can understand what happens on the road. I don't know if it makes a difference but I found it interesting.

 

It's not illegal if she works for the company.
There are a lot of companies in the process of changing the way they do business and the way they interact with drivers.
I've talked to several drivers from different companies that say even the new dispatchers, shop personnel, managers etc, have to go through several days of the same orientation that the drivers go through.
Several companies have already started doing ride alongs.
Just makes since.
Would you rather have a manager, dispatcher, planner, whatever, handling you as a driver, that at least has some knowledge of what you go through, or that person telling you what to do, when they have no clue what you go through, never seen the inside of a truck, has no clue to the challenges you face getting loaded.