Pros and Cons of TEAMING, for Newbies

So I must have read my paycheck wrong. I thought I made as much in 6 months as I made my first year. How careless of me. I wonder where that $13,000 I saved in 6 months managed to come from.

I averaged more than 500 more miles, at 30% higher pay. Yes, the miles a split. But the pay is three times as much. Splitting 3 times the pay means you EACH get 1.5 times as much.

Or some companies will pay you half the CPM, but for all miles. So youll get paid 20-24 cpm on 5000-7000 miles, which is far more than a solo driver would make being paid 30 something on less than half the miles.

Ive already posted checks, there should be no confusion. Its almost as if some members CHOOSE to be confused.

 

DVD? Maybe in 2005. You can fit 100 to 200 movies on a budget laptop, and use it for business use. Not sure why I come across so may drivers who are a decade behind.

I also had several chances a week to do laundry, and usually a day off. If you run your clock completely out in 7 days, there is 28 hours of time left over, and one day until you get your time back.

Im not sure, but most people can get laundry done within 56 hours of time left over in an 8 day clock. The only problems I ever had with laundry is if I got sidetracked on my computer and forgot I needed to do it. But there are usually 2-3 chances a week to do laundry.

I beginning to sense a pattern here.

 

Honestly, because the other companies Ive worker for were micro managed nightmares. Wanted to control EVERY aspect, but had no idea how to do it. So Im being basically told to do everything as wrong as possible, and they were adamant that I do exactly as I was told. As well as demanding their paperwork be done a specific extremely time consuming way, and making me stop 3 times a day to respond to messages or they freak out.

A lot of companies have the attitude that you do it their way, because its "Their company". Well, yes, its their company, but I am my own person and I do not have to work for them if they want to micro manage drivers for no reason. There is nothing more arrogant that micro managing people to do the WRONG thing.

Both companies had some sort of device installed that would set off the check engine light if you went over 65 too many times. The trucks were set at 62 or 63, and heavy heavy loads. So you would break 65 constantly. It was absurd. Who comes up with this garbage?

They would demand I followed directions that often did not make any sense, and would end up driving on county roads instead of US highways or Interstates. When I would ask to drive on the main road for no additional miles, they would tell me to stick to what they gave me. It was incredibly irritating.

Now I understand why there are always 3-5 returning drivers in every Werner class. Mine had like 10 people, 5 of which were returning drivers. All of us had stories about insanely controlling smaller companies.

What people dont want to admit is that a lot of small and medium business owners are immensely arrogant people. Most of the posts about small companies portray them as nice mom and pop places, when in fact they can be some of the most nightmarish companies in the country.

I can have anything fixed any time I want. I cannot be made to run illegal. I can take time off when and where I want. I do not have to explain myself to some micro managing jerk.

These were all HUGE problems with the other companies I went to. Companies promising higher pay, but ended up having so many problems, pay ended up actually being lower.

 

They take down your personal preferences, day or night driver, music, smoker/non-smoker, things like that. Then let you talk to each other. Its not forced. And they will usually give you different options.