Team driving explain this please

Well??

 

Closer but still wrong as a team at 60split you get 30cpm for every paid mile the truck runs so if truck runs 6000 miles you get 1800 on YOUR check so does your teammate

 

Your effective pay is .60 for every mile you drive running a team with a .60 split pay.
Assuming you both drive the same amount of miles.
And I guess it would also work out if one driver drives less but has more responsibility for the loading and unloading ends, since there is time involved.

This thread has allowed me to see team driving, and the split pay, in a different light.

I would never team with anyone, even so. I like my down time and space to do what I want.

 

I can't understand why anyone would want to team. I need my space and personal time. When I am not driving I want to get out of the truck and walk around or do whatever. Being stuck in a truck that is constantly moving sounds horrible to me. I would not do it for $5 a mile.

 

My thoughts exactly.

But different strokes for different folks, as the saying goes.
Some people like it, or want it..

 

Teaming is a special and most craved capability to trucking companies. When I stopped over the road work with the wife who also stopped we were recieving hard offers of 10,000 dollars to us cash at the end of a 6 month period on top of a 2000 dollar check to each to sign on plus payroll rates that to both of us would approach 120K a year if we continued to run the miles that FFE gave us. This was for strictly a company set of one husband wife team.

I think not everyone has had a positive contact with FFE but for us it was a good match provided the office staff rolled the paperwork through and paid us on time each week. Ultimately they were consistantly behind and we started getting 0.00 checks for 7 to 8000 ground miles run. Something is not right from our perspective.

We moved on to join another lucky company out of Little Rock that contracts to McKesson and the two of us found our Paradise. Deliver narcotics, reload with carboard waste right back to memhis and do it again and again. The money simply piled up and then overflowed.

Million dollar load values did not intimidate us either. Spouse was a big money agent inside Uncle Sam's VA work force and I had been involved in what I consider priceless and irreplaceable cargo before. To be honest it was for us the very best trucking has to offer, except one little plush. When you hook onto a trailer that is loaded, your qualcomm beeps with your taxes, withholding and net pay. How would you like to have that money sir?

Boom. Time to run the truck and it's load like a business to assure maximum money making. Tolls across teh GWB taken care of by the little box on the windshield so that takes away the exessive losses in cash.

Many problems were solved in trucking up to that point. And if for some reason I am rehabilitated medically with a new valve and a couple of other parts to get back into it I would demand nothing less than at least these services. So that the money will take care of itself and that the equiptment is top notch and so on. And no Im not one of those slobbering whining millineial who has been helicoptered all life and need a limo or large car other than your standard big company tractor. Hell with the payroll that comes in today it wont be too long before I am no longer a company driver saying yes sir. But become a Motor Carrier hiring people to go forth and get to work.