Team food service drivers

I have very limited team experience, did it for 6 months with my brother when we were in-between working for Copart as company drivers and starting our own car haul companies. Then I did it again for 6 weeks to help a owner/operator friend that had lost her team partner and was going to lose her contract if she didn't have a co-driver. Never again! I am much happier solo, don't know how you did it at Buster Brown with not being able to chose your partner, never could do it that way.

 

Sygma doesn't run teams, they run driver with driver helper sometimes. That's why they are staying in hotels, only one guy is driving and he's out of hours. McLane runs teams, both guys tend to help unload, but as someone said earlier, not legal. Shamrock runs teams.

Lot of the LTL world runs teams for long haul stuff (and UPSF).

 

The only time you didn’t choose your partner is when you ran on call and covered when one driver called off. That really sucked bad. When I ran it as a bid the senior driver picked his team driver and this was actually a pretty sweet gig other than working weekends. If one driver called off or was on vacation you could choose the on call driver available to fill in.

 

Not as bad as I thought, someone had told me it was simply luck of the draw based on who bid to be a team driver.

 

They may not consider it a team and I agree it isn’t a true team, but I still will call it a team. In 31 years of many different aspects of trucking and several as a true team driver I have a reasonable grasp. Some of the easiest money of my life was this very thing. When Frito Lay was short on drivers with hours available, they would put 2 of us in a sleeper truck to run a long turn run. They would pay us both what the normal run would pay. We could run it in about 2 hours less than if we ran it single and made the same money. This was a no brainer when given the option.

 

The “A” driver gets the bid with his seniority and then can pick any driver on the board that chooses to join. Most times low seniority drivers will jump at the opportunity because it gets them a schedule and off the on call board.

 

I currently run team half the week in food service. I'm the senior driver so I picked my teammate, it's definitely way more exhausting than doing a solo run but the pay is very good. That being said I'm pretty sure I'll pick a solo run again the next bid.

I've been in food service for a while now and for a few different companies, my entire time I only saw one female food service driver and she didn't make it past probation.

While I personally don't think it's too physical, definitely takes a rare breed to put up with it (crappy hours, you work every holiday despite seniority) and you can easily get hurt. Just in the last 2 months we had one guy get robbed at gun point (company made him finish route) and another guy get assaulted really bad where he's in the hospital.

 

A few drivers that post on here went to Roadtex running OTR. Get the phone number off the website and give a call. I think they're headquartered in New Jersey.

 

they run two teams in the same truck