Teaming and HOS. What arrangement works best?

If you log 8.75 or less hours of on duty or driving time each day, you'll always be able to recap. Including time to fuel and pretrip, your average day of running hard is probably going to be around 10 to 11 hours, unless you really run like animals non stop. Basically, if you cut an hour or two off your drive time every day, you don't have to worry about 34 hour resets. That also gives you more hours in the day where the truck is stopped, so you can have more time with partner not driving and more time to get solid sleep in a parked truck.

 

Teams sitting 6 hours a day, 7 days a week cooped up in 16 square foot of space with nothing to do as the truck sits? What, are you a sadist? Take you time off [resets] if you have to at home/terminal or parked long term (hotel)

 

We work for crappy starter companies (I'm assuming on their part), we don't get to go home every weekend if we team in general. Many people don't get good rest while the truck is rolling either, so it really helps to have that much time of the truck sitting still. Even if you don't sleep while the truck is moving, you can easily survive on 5 or 6 hours.

 

I wasn't sure about that plan myself, but it's reliable. Sometimes you lose an hour of drive time that you could have done easily, but you gain the ability to drive everyday, not worrying about what kind of loads you're going to get, if any, on the days where you're not getting hours back, or only 5 and the like.

 

We did shifts of tens and at shift change we would stop eat shower dump

 

10 on, 10 off has always worked best for me. Try and stop with 1.5 hours left on your drive time. Only work a ten hour shift even if you sit somewhere for a few hours getting loaded. That gives you a couple days with less hours so you won't run out.

 

What did you end up doing?

 

From what I have read, it appears that you are new and that you work for Pam. Are you happy with your choice? Also, are you teaming by choice? What have your weekly miles been like. I am coming back to trucking and I am checking on different companies.

Janet