Is it worth it to do teams?

Hmmm..... I have read every post on this thread.. not one of you sound as though you have run team long enough to know what you are talking about. Except for maybe x1heavy.

Running as a team during a training period does not qualify whether 3 weeks or 3 months ... I'm sorry but it don't. And I already know the reply I Will hear to this " it was enough for me" Right?

Well... learning to adjust and run as a team takes time,whether husband and wife or just 2 good friends such as me and my codriver. I have run teams With my mother yes you heard right my mother , my brother, my brother of another color. And some I just despised before I even climbed in the cab with them. IT TAKES TIME!!!
You will get on each other's nerves at times. Sometimes even little things will get to you. IT TAKES TIME!!!But after a while you learn to adjust ,things smooth out, you get a routine down, a schedule that works for the both of you, IT TAKES TIME!!! and then you will even refine that routine and schedule until it's perfect. IT TAKES TIME!!! The first 2 months I didn't think my codriver and I were going to make it. Slowly things started smoothing out IT TAKES TIME!!!
As far as the $$$$ ? well as was said before, depends who you work for. We leave home every Monday morning 7am on a dedicated route and back home by no later then 19:00 fri. usually earlier but no later then 19:00 fri. afternoon. 4 1/2 days around 5100-5200 miles a week depending on our backhauls. And will gross over 71k each this year. Home EVERY weekend.

Is it worth it? With the right company ,the right pay, the right company, the right codriver ,the right company, the right retirement,the right hometime, the right company, you darn Skippy it is. IT TAKES TIME!!! some longer than others,some not so long.

Did I mention it takes time ,and with the right company ,and the right codriver? Yes it really is worth it.

 

And for GOD sakes don't do it on a #### lease purchase

 

Life's too short to be waiting on "it takes time" for a half dozen issues to work out, that may or may not work out before a critical event may develop. Solo, the only issue you have to work out is how your a cappella voice works with the acoustics in your cab.

But do what you want. The more teams there are moving cheap dry freight [that's not even time-sensitive], the more parking spaces are available in the truck stops.

 

Yeah I understand what your saying to a point. But as stated a couple times before... depends on who you work for. I myself don't work for a traditional trucking company. I am with a private carrier. And we are a team oriented company. Hauling our own stuff to our own stores.so don't know about being cheap freight. As a matter of fact we have other carriers hauling our freight. And thank God we don't have to fight the truck stop crowd for a parking space. With only having to deal with whatever you may deem as being evil running as a team for 4 1/2 days for over 70k a yr. As long as you can trust your codriver, I'll take that over fighting truckstops 7-14 days or longer at a time any day. To each their own I guess.. I MIGHT could make the same as a solo driver but not being gone only 4 1/2 days.

 

That is incorrect. The team would split .60 on all 11,760 miles. They'd split $7,056, and get $3,528 a piece.

A team driving 250,000 miles per year making .60 per mile will make $150,000 plus throw on $5,000 for bonuses and extra pay, and each driver would get $77,500.

 

Yeah.... most don't realize especially with teams there is more to the pay criteria then just miles. We average around $208 a pay period over our miles. Add other bonuses it adds up fast

 

Not sure how it works in other places but around here teams split the rate as well so I don't see how it's worth it. I make .44/mile and our team drivers split that for .22/mile. You can run double the miles if you want but I'd much rather make 60k a year in the truck alone than make 60k a year sharing a closet with a stranger. Not to mention sleep while the rig is moving and try to make shower stops work for both, etc.

 

Got one of those air force refueling tankers following you along side the whole time? Or is that one of those new nuclear trucks that can run 24/7/365?

 

lol i was using an example of the max u could most likely do, but as one poster mentioned i got the math wrong, but it still wouldnt b worth it to me even in that scenario