Team driving is a scam

bigkev1115 · Jul 15, 2017

Sandman 660 said: ↑

Serious?! Haha it's like a Ringly Bros clown car!
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Yes. I was shocked when I seen it while I was parked directly across from them

Sandman 660 · Jul 15, 2017

bigkev1115 said: ↑

Yes. I was shocked when I seen it while I was parked directly across from them
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LOLZ!!! That's one of the best I've read yet dude. Wow

haz-matguru · Jul 15, 2017

One could team drive at Air Products and make 100k per driver.

JC1971 · Jul 15, 2017

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It is very difficult for two people to get along in a small box, even for a husband wife team. (If any of you have spent any time at all married, it's even more special getting one spouse or the other to listen and mind lessons to learn...)

I had some trouble with my spouse now and then as she had trouble with me once in a while on the road on bad days. It is human to be mad about something that is not doing well but if it is not taken care of asap and that mad person made ok again, then it festers and becomes a REAL problem. Same with single drivers.

I offer you the a broken A/C system as a example. Driver gets mad. But what you want to do is fix that A/C asap and spend a little money (Not that you really want to...) to make driver happy. If you fail to fix that A/C it will fester into a real nasty bad war against you and your company in a few days.

Once in St Louis my spouse was angry with me for percieved mistreatment when docking the previous night. I asked her to hop out so I can get the trailer in and did not do it the right way. ANYway it festered on the spouse and developed into a no no which is a full blown domestic arguement at 65 mph rolling down the freeway complete with bad words and armwaving.

A detective spotted us from the middle lane having trouble with each other and at that point the truck was a threat to everyone around including him. He pulled us over essentially ending the entire argument and pulled a sham inspection process with the real goal of seperating us and listen to our problems that hour. And he did. He spent one hour with the spouse and she was fine and spent some time with me making me safe again to drive on and I think to this day he saved lives. With that little manuver.

It's a rarity. because when that truck is parked, spouse and I knew enough to leave work in that truck. We don't look at it, we don't visit it, we don't talk about it. We are literally OFF DUTY at home. That means all things trucking OUT. Not allowed in the house until it's time to pack up and go to Memphis. For us that was the key to harmony and peace at home. Leaving the workplace problems with the truck, you can burn that tractor trailer we don't care (We do but for purposes of establishing how little that truck means when home...)

For strangers to do team together, that's a little different. It can be done. But if I was to team with some stranger, it will be a pretty intense process of making discovery what makes the stranger go. Example. Do you run at night or not? Are you lazy? You able to work unloading 48,000 off the floor? (That means I will be in that trailer with you working too...) and so on. find the weaknesses and vices too. If you like to go to the strip joints to play with the female, I might have dispatch route us to states without them so that you are not distracted.

I had one who was my trainer first and later a team partner. It was a good team for purposes of running that truck down the road and I retained much of what I learned from him for all future teaming during my time out there. We had what we called radio wars. At night I'll pass the miles listening to Unshackled or some other radio programming dealing with the word of God in human problems and vices etc while he is trying to sleep. Or I would be listening to his metal music while trying to sleep. Basically a christian on one side of the truck and a hellion on the other. *Shrugs. However what made us work well was not religion, it was a combined goal to get that truck down the road no matter the weather etc. That was a good team effort.

I recall another who did not last one hour with me. He demonstrated unstable talk and behavior. I had the truck back at the shop to drop him off which is pretty much the best way to handle a potentially explosive problem safely. I never saw him again, apparently the birdie on the wall heard and saw him continue to be unstable in front of officers of the company trying to decide what to do with him and ultimately discharged him from the work force. You cannot be demonstrating signs of mental problems whatsoever in trucking. At that time we just had a trucker aim his company tractor trailer into a state house out west all over the news. I'll have to research it and find it to link if any of you are interested in a classic mental trucker problem.

Alls well that ends well. Have a great time out there.
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In his defense, it WAS the State Capitol building of California.

johnwayne187 · Jul 15, 2017

mustang190 said: ↑

I don't care what anyone says, you do not get any sleep/rest running team. No matter the truck or sleeper.
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i slept like a baby for the 6 months i went team. i slept good with no problem, the co driver they assigned me with is a really cool guy. thankful i hve such a cool person to get along with, i could almost trust his driving behind the wheel most of the time, he was also a mechanic that knows truck

Rusty Trawler · Jul 17, 2017

I'd only consider it if Jennifer Anniston asked me.

sdaniel · Jul 17, 2017

dngrous_dime said: ↑

Four guys in a truck.... They're gonna get lonely.
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Guessing that's what the goats job is.

Brandonpdx · Jul 18, 2017

Rusty Trawler said: ↑

I'd only consider it if Jennifer Anniston asked me.
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Caitlyn Jenner?

Snowball 4847 · Jul 19, 2017

Lepton1 said: ↑

Team is a good deal if you have a good partner and dedicated coast to coast or similar. I did that and made more money than solo, because the miles were more consistent. Solo drivers aren't normally given the high mile loads, those usually go to teams. Running solo you can have some weeks that are great and others that are really bad.
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Snowball 4847 · Jul 19, 2017

Thats ######## Lepton it depends on CPM end of story if your splitting low CPM your wasting your time.

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