another newbie question

Don't forget about the time zone you are in. That will still mess with your schedule.

 

It's day by day sometimes nighttimes too.

It's never going to be pretty and pat schedules. That load will be on the other side of the USA yesterday when you are both facing a 2 foot noreaster blizzard raging on the Sandstone followed by big rains and bridge closings across the eastern seaboard after. The recent Sandy storm had truckers going into situations where the customer either no longer existed or were in a zone with no law except imposed by mob rule or organized by a block of homeowners who have barricaded your route to the customer.

These are extreme situations. But anything is possible in team.

Whoever is on the wheel at that time is on the hot seat. So much for schedules.

Sometimes whatever you think you plan to go do something will turn into a completely different and unwelcome problem as my Spouse discovered once when fueling our big truck in Jackson TN and then having a sexual predator chase her into our cab creating a invasion situation where I had to wake up one moment and get set to do whatever it takes to stop or end that threat with that blade I had stored in a spot for that purpose. He saved himself.

The United States is a BIG Land. Sometimes just the Land itself is your enemy if you allow it to be. You both better have water and food for several weeks in under that bunk space if the great salt lake is a location of your breaking down 20 miles from Salt lake with 10% humidity and problems with a Satellite during a geomagnetic storm which led to further losses in time to get a wrecker to your rig. Being able to communicate with people who have or will be effective in fixing your rig fast. Because teams are diamonds in this industry. To have them sit means the possibility of losing their shirt.

The extreme low humidity combined with the fact you are on a great salt lake that dehydrates everything including people VERY quickly. You will have a half day or two days at most before both of you become a real medical problem prior to death in less than a week without water in a land like that.

at the same time dont allow your dispatch to fritter both of your time away doing small stuff any solo can do. That is not what teams are for.

Your first problem for the both of you will be sleeping in a moving truck driven by someone else, possibly into a Nebraska tornado and hail country or into a raging winter weather in the rockies before it has a chance to really spread out and close everything west of Omaha in a day. (Your problem is to get east of Omaha before it does.)

And then both of you are going to find that you will have to learn how to make the load happen regardless of the situation with you two. I can go on. But Team working is rewarding with the right partner and can be a real loss with the wrong one or one who is not your equal etc.

 

My partner and I tried that. Didnt work. Too many variables threw too many monkey wrenches in the plan.
Might work for you though -

 

No it Won't be a good plan.

Number one is alright, number two will put you behind more often than not, and number three is .... well I hope is a typo - 12 hours is not right.

Really think about the purpose of a team and team driving.

I have several teams who work 14 on, 10 off, even if they sit in the seat for 3 hours, or what ever. A couple use that time for sleeper time a couple use it to catch up on their on line activities.

BUT they keep consistent schedules that are mirrored.

 

In my situation the night owl (me) has it harder. My codriver will not drive after 9pm or before 6am. During the day i still have to wake up to load the truck (2-4) times a day. We also still rotate driving during the week Since we shut down evenings when we are doing pick ups. As a result the day driver is guaranteed sleep every day at the same times. My sleeping schedule is all over the place. Also when I am driving during the day and end up having to park for the night say at midnight, my codriver wont drive til morning so I have to find a place within 2 hours of the first stop to park which is hard. If I have to park on a ramp or whatever I have to risk the ticket.

Even then the guy might shut down a couple hours early and wake me up to drive because it started raining hard. Lol

 

Definitely my experience so far. Monkey wrenches everywhere all over the place. Mostly due to the day drivers not being able to do any night driving.

 

Roflmao , you don't have a co. Driver.
How much longer do you have to put up with this?

 

Is this a joke?

 

Tues-Thurs are my sleepy days usually. Fri-Mon are easy because we are just driving,lots of time to catch up sleep there if I needed it. If it got too bad id say something. Also can pull over and sleep if I get too tired. Dispatch is good they will reschedule appts. If needed.

I am not sure We shuffle around fairly regularly so far.