Couple looking to drive together

Highly doubt it on the training thing. Most likely you will both be with individual trainers for x amount of time required. My uncle is a trainer and I’ve never heard of anyone putting 2 people in 1 training truck for a total of 3 people. I’m not sure if it’s illegal or not, but it’s highly unlikely.

I’ve team driven twice, once with Dad, once with best friend. While my experience with it was great for the most part there’s no way in hell I’d be in a truck for 4 - 6 weeks with 2 extra people instead of one.

As far as a bonus goes, it’s just an incentive and recruiting tool. Military uses it and they have 0 issue finding people.

On the plus side, get In with the right company and you can make some serious jack hubby/Wife driving with no major bills or what not at home. Heck, my best friend runs solo and has virtuall 0 bills outside of cell phone and car and all he does is stack money. @Chinatown seems to know a whooooole lot about companies so he would probably be the one to ask on that.

 

As far as your physical goes, get one now or get one in school it doesn’t really matter cause unless you bring your long and short form to orientation MOST places make you get another one regardless. Unless there’s any major health issues I don’t see why there would be any problems.

Note: I’m not a doctor so I can’t say anything for sure lol.

 

I just don’t see it happening to be honest. In the “safety” conscious environment and sue happy world of today that would be a recipe for disaster I think. Good luck. Welcome to the forum.

 

I know Swift gets a bad (and largely deserved) rap on these forums. I drove for them for two years and have no complaints.

My last year with them I was a trainer (mentor in their vernacular). The first trainee I had was a 43 year old man that wanted to team with his wife. Their 20 yo son had just moved out of the apartment, they had $65K in credit card debt, and their plan was to sell or give away EVERYTHING that didn't fit in a truck. They paid off the debt the first year, saw the country together for another three years, then fell in love with a small town and took a 34. They saw some houses with a real estate agent, found a beauty and paid cash at closing.

They did their research before going with Swift. Swift has a "Friends and Family" program for training. He went through their school and started training with me. Then she started school. By the time he finished training I arranged to drop him off at a terminal that has mentor/trainer orientation. He finished that orientation and then got dispatched back to home terminal to pick her up and then she completed training with him.

In their case it worked out well. He had over 10 years experience driving a box truck. He needed work on backing a trailer and how to maximize efficiency in the Swift system, but was ready to train his wife IMHO.

If YOU have previous driving experience you might be the better candidate to start the process. That being said you both will miss out on having an old hand give you wisdom, from two points of view for each of you, if you choose to go this route.

Trainers can be less than optimal in ability to teach, attitude, and experience; especially at larger companies. But there are some gems out there, those that love to teach.

 

Covenant Tansport used to do "Husband and Wife" training, you might want to check them out and see if its still offered.