WHAT IS YOUR EXPERIENCE DRIVING TEAMS?

First of all you really don’t get much sleep.
Then you have to find a driver who your compatible with, smokes, not a slob and a reliable driver.
Good luck.

 

I don't trust anybody's driving enough to sleep with them driving.

maybe a short nap with the wife driving the 4 wheeler.

 

HAHAHAHAHA.. ya right. The problem is still the same. Forget the time and driving more.

I was a Husband wife team and we have actually had FFE dispatchers in LA CA call us on satellite and complain that were 10 minutes late leaving Avenel NJ yard expected to arrive in LA in exactly 52 to 53 hours straight through.

We made it giving up a memphis fuel stop for a gamble on Holbrook AZ. Which would have been just over 2150 miles with 6 gallons left in both tanks total. We made LA about 4 minutes early. Otherwise it would have been at LEAST 40 minutes LATE if we fueled in Memphis.

This was with a 63 mph truck. If we had a unlimited ungoverned tractor we would have made LA between 2 to 3 hours early. So all of FFE's problems with that load is on them. Not us. And for that given situation it was BETTER for FFE to pay me 2000 in salary, pay the wife 350 in salary training pay that load of 2965 miles.

IF they had to pay regular .75 to the truck, (Wife .30, me .45) that would have been a 4400 dollar week once a round trip of LA to NJ is completed in about 5 days and change drop and hook. So it benefited FFE to have trainers and trainees on that route to save half the payroll expense.

Teams? HA... you will be abused.

 

Metal fart coffin....

 

Here is another team screw up from FFE, I am not picking on FFE. I was with them for a small number of years.

Wife and I were told to hurry go to Americold in Salinas one spring day, two big managers told us its emergency hurry and show up there.

Ok fine.

We sit on front of their two docks 50 feet from their office entry door idling and precooling at -20 83 hours later we accepted two facts.

ALL of our fuel is essentially gone. We were making arrangements to have fuel delivered to us to maintain tractor and precooling trailer by a local fuel dealer tanker. When they came out to load us. (This is on the afternoon of the third day going into evening)

The load was about 1200 miles for that week. A total and utter waste. LA and San Fran Yards had drivers locally all the time. THEY can fetch the trailer. Not us.

That was when we started looking into McKesson Medicine with a Little Rock Employer out of Memphis. No more of that food BS. And in due time we quit FFE and joined McKesson things improved drastically.

Teams? HA.... you will be reamed and don't even know it.

I am actually working towards being cleared medically next year to get back into it I already know one thing. ANY time a officer of a company says hurry up emergency to somewhere, I tell them no. Send some other chump. They can always fire us. Thats not a problem.

 

On paper teaming seems like an amazing idea. Travel the country with a buddy. Make all kindzz of money. Have a set driving schedule, and rarely have to deal with parking situation.

Where does it all go wrong? Once you realize you have to spend every waking minute trapped in a rolling cubicle with another full grown person.