Husband/Wife team want to operate as a "Super Solo"... Advice please. Thanks in advance.

Means you drive a few more miles than 1 driver can cover but nothing like a real team could....say maybe 700 a day or 750.

 

So basically loose leaf paperlog driving. I see.

 

But with 2 you can e-log it.......

 

a super solo is like this you don't want to run yourself to death as a team you're not looking for six to 7000 miles a week..
where the truck is constantly running over 12 or 11 hundred miles a day..
a little bit under it, yet more than a solo. :
let's say for example you and your significant other decide to partner up but you want to be in the same bed at the end of the night that somebody driving when you both go to sleep the truck goes to sleep..
so you basically look at loads let's say that are not made for a team but more than a solo show you take maybe an average of 400 miles a piece of driving so that's eight hundred miles a day that you want.. at the end of the 800 mile day you lay down in the bed together..
show a super single would be like let's say you're with a company that does allow to drop and hook so you're at the yard and they say hey we've got this load picking up it's a drop and hook whenever you get there it's 925 miles they wanted there within 2 days..
you can knock it off in the day in a quarter and not kill yourself you both share the driving on the load but you're not taking team dispatches as far as miles and having to run so hard..
so you choose basically to run a longer solo load as a team is what it boils down too. does that make sense?
or even say 700 miles a day each one drives 350 miles to truck move 700 miles a day

 

precisely and then at the end of the day you wear out the mattress hooah

 

Running as a super solo (or however you want to phrase it) is how my trainer and I ran the last 2 weeks of my training this past winter. So we would run about 800 miles per day. I would drive what I could or felt comfortable with and he would finish the day out.

Important to note also, when the truck shut down, it would shut down for 8 hours. Not 7. Not 6. A solid 8. And believe me I was tired that I could hit the pillow and immediately fall asleep after the truck had been moving all day.

Anyways, after hearing horror stories of trainers who would run their students as a full time after only a few days out on the road, I was very grateful for my trainer to only run super solo with me.

I couldn't ever do team, but if I could I think super solo would be the way to go. Your health is more important than money at a certain point.

 

Can I resurrect this thread? Does anyone know which companies might go for a Super Solo team? Hubby and I are into it, but mostly because we want to be able to work online some instead of always driving during "on duty" hours. So, we can't have our full 11 hours of driving.