Team driving is a scam

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  1. Daniel55645

    Daniel55645 Light Load Member

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    If you want to team drive, go LTL. Old dominion or Estes or Saia. You go terminal to terminal only, and you'll start out making $95,000-$100,000 a year just for being out Mon-Fri and home weekends. Once you top out, you're looking at about $120,000-$130,000 a year
    You'll be doing 6000+ miles a week, every week no problem.
     
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  3. IluvCATS

    IluvCATS Road Train Member

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    After 10 years you gross approximately $1,000,000.
     
  4. HL Drvr

    HL Drvr Light Load Member

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    Team driving isn't for everyone, but I enjoy it. I sleep just fine, and I like to drive during early morning hours.

    I'd have to run about 3800 miles at .43 to make what I make right now.

    I wouldn't want to do that on a consistent basis solo.
     
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  5. Brandonpdx

    Brandonpdx Road Train Member

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    At least if one person rips a real serious fart you've got some plausible deniability.
     
  6. Brandonpdx

    Brandonpdx Road Train Member

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    Good money but ####### what an awful life. If somebody seriously offered me one of those jobs I'd probably have to pass.
     
  7. Daniel55645

    Daniel55645 Light Load Member

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    Why is that awful life? Mon-fri with 2 real days off making over $100K a year. Not having to find customers or spend time at a dock. Better than any other OTR gig there is.
     
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  8. bigdad7

    bigdad7 Road Train Member

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    Even at 43 cents split in 2006 right out of school at cfi each of us averaged 1500 to 1700 a week
     
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  9. Zaros

    Zaros Light Load Member

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    Which ones?
     
  10. Daniel55645

    Daniel55645 Light Load Member

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    Any LTL company. See my post I wrote on the previous page.
     
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