Is it worth it to Team drive with Fiance

As a broker, team runs don't come up that often. They do happen, but I think I'm at one in fifty. To be fair,I mostly move open deck, but I wind up getting more teams on loads that don't necessarily need them. They're out there, but I'd say it more depends on what you're making at your desk job. The team bump probably won't even out what you get from working most likely.

 

it isn't.
who knows you may not be able to handle driving a truck.

 

Maybe yes
Maybe no
Maybe I just don't know

 

So we can count on you as a definite maybe?

 

Plenty of team runs if he had a reefer trailer. Lots of time sensitive produce loads going coast to coast.
I used to do those runs as a solo driver, but was on paper logs and poppin' pills.

 

I'll tell you how.

Put two people into a walk in closet. With a bit of food, fluids, clothing and bedding. Stay there for a month, you can only come out once or twice a day for a few minutes to get fuel, deliver, eat etc.

Let's see how good your relationship becomes by the end of that first month. It's either a love match, a very professional and rewarding team effort or... a Panther tied to a Lion by the tail inside of there. Follow me?

When you come out here into trucking with someone, this Country is big enough to give you two various problems and situations. Eventually you two will know how the other ticks, fears, likes and so on. If you havent scratched each other's eyes out by then.

To be a team or to have more than one in the truck, you deal with rules older than you, me and them combined today. One such rule is that the driver in the seat at the wheel is Captain. If he or she makes a decision and tells you do something NOW. You hop to it right quick and do it. Lives depend on it, possibly your own.

After all that, you two are going to be awesome. Or you two will most certinaly understand that maybe one is lazy. Or perhaps ineffectual in battle or business problems unable to comprehend say GWB into NYC. The smallest things between two humans crammed into a small space and no Doctor Who to come in and fix it. =)

Enjoy.

 

After the divorce, for him ... No. For you, yes.

 

If you don't have your CDL for a year, the insurance premium will probably double if you get put on as a driver. Team loads are good if you have a customer that demands them, not so much on the spot market. Then when a team load does come up, you have to be lucky enough to be one of the only teams in that area, or else the broker may not be willing to pay enough to make it worth it.

Can you sleep well while the truck is moving? Can your partner sleep well while you're driving it? Can you both handle constructive criticism to each other?

My situation was insurance quote of over $26,000 a year. New authority, two drivers in one truck, one with under a year experience, both clean MVRs. As soon as she hit the one year mark, It dropped to $12,000. More often than not, we super solo our loads on an 8/8/8 schedule. She doesn't have to drive in the dark and we both get sleep. When we do 12/12 shifts and I have to sleep while the truck is moving, it can be hard to sleep for me. If I tell her to increase her following distance so she doesn't have to brake as hard, she feels like I'm nagging. Then she gets depressed, starts eating ice cream, and gets overweight. Now I have to worry about overweight violations.

 

Sleeping is the biggie.

When you lie down and commend your soul to God... and that stranger you met last week who has had a full day...

Nope, no sleeping tonight.

It takes alot to sleep when someone else is rolling that semi with you in it. Not everyone can do that. Even if you stuck me with someone today and one of us has to sleep into Kansas, that person is going to be very very very light sleeping for a while. The truck will tell him or her if I am stable or not. Literally.

That's why I don't ride buses. I can never sleep. I think I had a delicious 4 hour sleep when we hit the interstate with a former trucker settled into One RPM and hardly no shaking on the airride or shifting back then. ZZZZZZZZ. ####, we there? time to get up. The moment her engine came off RPM Im wide awake. Nope, no more buses.