Best Team Companies?

Whiteline64 · Sep 30, 2017

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Ma'am;
I'm a little late in jumping in here, but I just finished 18 months with USX. I did Solo for more than 10 months at .32 cpm (Almost all of it North East) but heard about "Team Max" and found a co-driver in July of 2015.
BTW, I'm a retired pilot with 42 years of 10 and 12 hours in the ####pit, and I drive 11 hours on a 12 hour shift. My partner is younger but also drives 11 hours on his shift, so we don't do a lot of stopping.We split .52 CPM as we both have Haz Mats.
Let me tell you the straight up on this "Team Max": They say you get a bonus for over 6,000 miles and a bonus for staying out more than 45 days. Total should be around $2,200.00 a week for each driver.
HOWEVER every time my regular dispatcher gives us a trip over 2,000 miles for the week end, the week end dispatcher takes it away and puts us on short trips that could be done by a solo or Regional driver, usually in the NE.
Today for instance we are waiting on an appointment load that can't be unloaded until tomorrow. We picked it up yesterday in Baltimore, mileage is around 900 miles. Last week was the same.
In 6 months we have gotten 5 bonuses and our checks normally are around $1100.00 each.
VERY DISAPPOINTING! We always get our loads in a day early to try to get higher miles, but it doesn't work. We did two resets last week, and I hate sitting around! Love seeing the country with a team, especially the North West, but have been trapped in two blizzards so far, not fun.
At first we thought it was a part of the job, but after 7 weekends of losing loads in the last 5 months it's not a coincidence, and it seems to be mostly one dispatcher.
We don't gripe, we just like to do our job and drive, so we can't figure out what's happening.
I'm calling our reg dispatcher tomorrow and asking him to resolve this, but as it is right now we are both looking at leaving and I'm researching Quest. If USX paid us bonuses we'd be really well off, as it is it's just "Blue Sky" when they tell you you'll get over 6,000 miles a week. Fat Chance!
Also, they pay you your "stay out" bonus of .05 a mile AFTER you come back from your home time. AND you don't get the first 45 days. So if you stay out 90 days, after your home time is done you get the bonus for 45 days.
I've been in this truck right now since July 28th, with 10 days off in October.Get along good with my team mate, but that's because we leave our egos at home and do 12 on, 12 off for a regular sleep cycle (I taught Aeromedical Physiology as a Senior Captain in my old career, so I'm a little familiar with the Circadian Rhythm on working cycles for crews).
Sadly enough I love this company and don't want to leave, but I'm supposed to be making money, being in a love fest with the company doesn't pay the bills.
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Quest Global ... good miles , bonuses , and very decent paychecks . Been here 1 year ...
no complaints .

mem · Oct 1, 2017

Most of the linehaul companies are the top paying that I've seen. I'm sure there are smaller specialized outfits that are close as well.

For regular otr, and I'm sure I will get crapped on for this, but the wife and I have done really well at Prime Inc. If you get a dispatcher that keeps you moving you can make some bank. The truck makes 50 cpm for the first 3,000 miles of the week, and 70 cpm for all miles over that. Pretty good bonuses on top of that every week for wellness bonus, safety bonus, service bonus, fuel bonus, extrastop pay, hazmat, etc...

Last week I made $2,223 on 6,153 miles, and the wife about the same.

Whiteline64 · Oct 6, 2017

mem said: ↑

Most of the linehaul companies are the top paying that I've seen. I'm sure there are smaller specialized outfits that are close as well.

For regular otr, and I'm sure I will get crapped on for this, but the wife and I have done really well at Prime Inc. If you get a dispatcher that keeps you moving you can make some bank. The truck makes 50 cpm for the first 3,000 miles of the week, and 70 cpm for all miles over that. Pretty good bonuses on top of that every week for wellness bonus, safety bonus, service bonus, fuel bonus, extrastop pay, hazmat, etc...

Last week I made $2,223 on 6,153 miles, and the wife about the same.
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Who is that with ?

Upinsmoke · Feb 26, 2019

Any decent team gigs with T680 tractors?

canviskiller · Feb 27, 2019

I'm at Estes Express team driving making 68cpm split and I think my teammate makes like 72cpm split (Max out on pay after 3 years) I think our least paid team run is still making 100k a year working 5 1/2 days a week.

LTL team is the only one worth it.

canviskiller · Feb 27, 2019

Upinsmoke said: ↑

Any decent team gigs with T680 tractors?
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At the Dallas yard we are getting in New internationals but still have a few t680s around..I think we are sending them to the smaller yards

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