Team Driving for Rookies

Don’t run team. You won’t get decent sleep and will be driving tired. A miserable situation

 

I don't have thoughts often. However, it is very difficult to get along with someone 24/7. I can not get along with myself all day. That is just me everyone is different. Also, hard to sleep in moving bouncing truck.

 

Agreed. Hold off on teams for now. You WILL NOT sleep. Why? First you are literally committing your life into the hands of someone you don't know. (And vice versa.) You probably don't have that yet.

Run solo around the USA, learn the lay of the land so to speak. When it's time to run team, you cannot and must never be late. You will need alot of fuel in winter. (Winter is coming...) and you best spend this winter working out what you don't yet know.

There is no point in two blind mice trying to team right now. It's not good fit.

You might spend some time with a trainer, but it's not teaming with the right good trainer who is teaching you.

A whole library can be filled with what you don't yet know right now. Teaming is not a good idea. At some point in the future you will be able to and be a good one. But not just yet.

 

What type dedicated run is it? What type trailer would you be pulling?
Where is your location: state & nearest city?
Do you have endorsements?

 

This depends greatly on the individual. I spoke to a driver who was having a very bad time running solo, he went team and was okay. He couldn't take the stress of being on his own, while I enjoyed being alone when I was new, didn't find it stressful very often at all.

I have a lot of trouble sleeping in the moving truck, some are just fine with it. Been teaming with my girlfriend for about 10 months now, we try to stop for a few hours each night and sleep. If we don't have time for that, we run all night.

You should get some experience running team with your trainer, this will give you a better idea of how you will sleep 8n a moving truck. It rides very rough, nothing like a passenger car. Also, if your trainer makes you sleep on the top bunk, it is much worse up there. I was miserable during training, got barely any sleep.

 

Rough is right. You would think all that airride and plush would do it. But nope.

I spent many nights (Or days) monitoring the suspension, tires, engine, shifting etc. Essentially following along as the wife drove when things got rough on the interstate.

We put the matress on two rectangular sleeping bags, then 4 body length pillows packed with a number of what I call mexican blankets. Enough to make a nest that soaks up the rough riding easier or bury two people to endure a cold dead truck a while if need be. (Not wise)

In addition with two people in the truck you need half a day or so each week or so to disinfect, clean and pull laundry etc.

 

Pretty much everything has been. I run team with my brother and neither of us can really sleep while other is driving.

Only positive thing is that we can help each other in certain situations and when backing.

 

If it doesn't work out like you want, look at Seaboard Transport in Shawnee Mission, KS.
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