How come more people don't drive as teams

Doing solo, you can stop where you want, go on home time when and where you want, you can exercise, you have more room without another hard leg sharing an already crowded truck. The list goes on and on. If I die in a crash, I want it to be because of my fault, not someone else's while I'm sleep with a false sense of security. I can't tell you how many rolled Schneider trucks I've seen at the OCs across the US.

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Finding a good teammate is key. You need to get along with your partner 24/7 in a truck, not an easy thing. Sleep issues can be problematic. My back hurt constantly from trying to sleep in a bumpy moving truck. "Extra days off"?? Never saw that before. I was out for three weeks, back on Friday out again on Tuesday, I believe. (If the wheels ain't turnin, well you know) Schneider is a very good company. My DBL was great. My opinion, it comes down to life style, a little bit. I want to stretch my legs and get out of the truck a little more. Glad you are having a good experience.

 

I simply don't want to share my truck...I like my own space.

 

I drive team with my wife. I think one of the biggest reasons people don't is that you have to TRUST the other person, their driving skills, their ability to make rational decisions. My wife used to work at SWIFT her mentor was a new owner/operator. The only way to make any real money at swift is to be a trainer/mentor. Well long story short, a couple years after my wife completed her training and is at the terminal getting a new truck she sees a rig being brought in in a dumpster! Finds out that it was her mentors truck and he was in the hospital hanging onto life. His student fell asleep at the wheel, crossed the median and went over the side of a mountain in Utah.

 

To me, it's a simple economic decision. If the revenue/pay is split between two drivers, supporting two families, I don't think it's worth it. Married team makes more financial sense.

 

WOW!!!!

 

I like my own spaceteam no no no

 

Normally to make the same as a solo driver, the truck needs to run 5-6K miles per week, which means moving down the road 22 hours a day after you get fuel a dro and hooks. Your sleep will be woke up every hour to two because of the road bounce and stops and go and back traffic, so both drivers are getting very little sleep, makes for grumpy people.
Only half the time it works if two people love each other. So to take to guys or two girls, sooner not later, the truck gets very crowed and war breaks out.
We all need our space and little peace. Very hard to get that in a moving truck.
Under normal companies, team trucks can not run twice as hard as a single truck so for the driver, it's not normally as good of money also.
It's one of those great ideas that works well in a perfect world.

 

What he said.