Best Team Dedicated run companies

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by SianP, Apr 9, 2019.

  1. kemosabi49

    kemosabi49 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Philly and Boston both can be worse than NYC.
     
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    Siesta. My brain hurts.
     
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    Hobby Lobby might be a place to consider. I don't know much about them but they are a private carrier that only does Hobby Lobby deliveries and I know they love Husband/Wife teams.
     
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    Probably due to bad gas. In my experience most random teams break up after about 3 months. A driver can ask his partner not to eat flying j pizza anymore because it causes bad gas. But a wife can command her husband to stop
     
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    Give forward air a call been here 13 yrs and no plans of leaving drive faf.com tell em trk XXXXXXXX sent ya (truck # removed by staff)
     
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    Be careful dedicating yourself to a plasma run. My partner and I did one before moving on to pharmaceuticals.The problems we had were numerous. We were being delayed at almost every pickup because the collection centers were short staffed and didn't like doing all the paperwork. The also didn't like going into the freezers with their heels on. The pickup schedule is tight and it was always so stressful when we were delayed because any delay always caused problems with all the remaining stops. Another thing is loading a 1500 lb pallet by yourself using a lift gate and a hand jack. Moving the pallet around inside the trailer was always a problem because at -25 F the aluminum floor is always super slick. If there is any slope to the parking lot at the centers then often you have to wake your partner up to help you out which really sucks for them. You get no help from the staff at the centers because they aren't allowed on your truck. Besides the ones wearing heels definitely won't help. The last problem would be the seasonal shutdowns of the plasma warehouses for refrigeration maintenance... which can be often and last several weeks. Our run had us going out the the warehouse in California from Ohio the back to the Midwest for pickups then taking that stuff to the quarantine warehouse in My. When the Cali warehouse shut down we lost our big easy miles for the weeks they were closed. Plasma is a really tough job. If your female partner can't push a 1500 lb pallet uphill then don't even consider it.