What's the disadvantage of teaming up?

Sorry I could not leave this one alone. It stuck out like a sore thumb to me. "OLD BOYFRIEND" I wonder if he knows why he is the old boyfriend by now

 

I did training as the trainer way back in the mid 90's. It came to light I don't play well with others!

Some of the problems I've heard of with teams and training teams:

Sexual harassment and not only harassment but rape also! And that went both ways M4F and M4M! As for F4M there is NO such thing as a woman raping a man! It's impossible to rape the willing! But the sexual harassment does flow 3 ways and then there are the LOSER trainers that will put your passing like this "put out or fail" and you'll be surprised how many women and yes men will fall for this POS low life crapola!

Then there is the hygenitally challenged! I mean in cleanness in body and living space.
Nasty body functions: Now it's true if you eat properly, 3 meals a day with all the "proper" foods the body can how to put this nicely fart as many as 14 times a day. I'm reading it from this pamphlet my wife got this week after a colonoscopy! But there are people who enjoy eating things that will make them spew forth smells and yep loose it things and aromas that would choke a dog! All in the name of fun! At least for them it's fun!

The ones who think that trash cans are only found on the fuel island and not in a truck, but still has no idea how they work and thinks it's a waste of time to put a towel down on the floor to wipe all the dirt off the shoes and has no idea what a whisk broom or vacuum is for! Has crapola on the dash board that looks like he's a horder from hello!

Drivers that can't turn the steering wheel to stay out of pot holes! Even L/P's and O/O's who must enjoy beating the suspension apart just to piss you off while you're sleeping not thinking of the dollar amount of repairing things!

Completely stupid trainers! Yes I've seen them attempting to "show" someone how to back or drive! Watched one CRST driver attempt to get into 2 holes at the Pilot in Minooka, IL one night. He had a little girl trainee with him that had no idea how to "guide" someone into the hole. He kept screwing up on the first and then went to another and finally got so PO'ed that he was shifting like he was at Daytona and turned the corner to go through the fuel islands the wrong way and wound up on the hood of a Stevens truck! Not IN the hood but the trailer was ON the hood. I went in to call CRST's safety Dept to give my "witness" account before the DRIVER made his as I wanted to go to bed and get gone the next AM and I found out that he was on his FIRST trainee and had just finished CRST training that week! Now he is a trainer! That's not a good team mate to have!

Stealing money from you.

Stealing clothing from you. For some reason I've heard many women state how their dirty undies disappeared with a male trainer! Go figure that one out!

He's a little bit rock and roll and you're a little bit rap, country, religious. classical or news freak.

He likes to go through you unsecured laptop computer looking at your naked wife or husband or lover phoitos and reading your mail.

He's a CB Rambo or just has to ratchet jaw with that STUPID talk back as if he's to stupid to understand what's coming out of his mouth but he talks constantly while you're trying to sleep as he also hits all of those afore mentioned pot holes!

Thinks yelling into the mike or cell makes people hear him better! Of course while you're trying to sleep!

Can't do a thing right with a cell stuck to his ear, but can talk on the CB and properly use blinkers, maintain speed, look in the mirrors, back up or all the things he can do without the CB in his hand but that Cell turns million+ milers into complete morons while they attempt to carry on a phone conservation while driving! Whats the difference? HMMM

Keeps stopping to feed his face at every Pilot that has the 2 for 1 hot dog sale putting the truck behind schedule.

Not telling you he stopped to get fuel, shower food leaving you to wait for the next fuel stop maybe 1900 miles down the road (300 gals x 6.5 MPG) or the next day to wash the skank off of your body because this is the second time he did it to you and he thinks it's a good lesson for you to know how it was in the "old" days! Screw him!

Hitting the brakes real hard knowing you're not under the harness throwing you to the front of the truck as he's laughing like the moron he is!

Left his pee bottle on the floor with the top off and you come to start your shift and knock it over.

Or that driver who chews and leaves the spit cup in the same place.

Or you're a non smoker and get stuck with a smoker, and no the company doesn't have a non smoking trainer or they do but it'll be a few months as he has a waiting list for this services and you're 5th in line! The same for a regulat team mate but you have to wait for his team member to die before that spot comes open!

I'm sure you can figure out how 2 people stuck in a rolling closet can get under each others skin! Way back before I settled down having a female on the truck was the best I could do and it still didn't matter how pretty or flexable she was we would get under each others skin! Even my wife doesn't like to travel more than a week with me! Heck it's been a miricle that I'm not duct tapped to the wall having been medically unable to drive the past 2 years and sitting here at home! Maybe having hidden the rolls of duct tape and informing all the stores in town not to sell tape or Gorilla and Super glue to her is the reason I'm not there right now!!

It's a space thing and then look at the pay!

You get to split WHAT?

How do they figure that having two people on the truck the CPM goes down? HMMM? I have NEVER understood that! it's the same with me about pulling doubles! If they aren't going to pay me double the rate to pull 2 trailers they can KMA and those of you who do and don't get extra, talk aboiut working for free! That union is worj=king for you too aren't they! I just had to get that jab in! LOL

TEAMS: If a solo driver makes, oh let's be realistic in todays "depressed" or "Recessed" market ROFLMFAO makes a whopping $.30 a mile but BFI comes along and says that the team gets to split $.25CPM because the team gets "more" miles! Gimmie a freaking break! The team is getting BENT but they, because they're rookies think they're on top of the world and it's been that way for a while also! Husband and wife company teams are driving for insulting pay but "because they just have to be with each other" will drive for this paltry amount thus making it harder for other H&W teams to get fair pay! Ask those husband and wives that drive their own trucks how much they make over that piddling insulting BFI team pay! I bet they BOTH make twice the NET than teams do! But they're (teams) together so whats the big deal! Fair pay is the big deal! BFI comes out ahead because they KNOW you'll fall for the team deal just to bring a LITTLE paltry amount home!

If there is something I didn't cover it's because I kept getting kinda off topic but I have an excuse!

 

It isn't that you get paid more per person per mile because you don't. It's that you get paid for every mile the truck runs on a load not just what you drive. At least that's how it is where my husband & I team.

So yes you can make more. And it's just like any two income family you have more income.


Depending upon the company, the fleet and frankly how many miles you run, yes you could make that. We do. However, we're on a dedicated fleet and we run hard. Maybe not hard to some people but to us it's hard. We run between 5 & 6 k miles a week. We're tired.

 

lol You are not butting in.......you read it just like it was meant!l lol Hopefully he learned a few manners for the next "luck lady" that came along! lol I did say he did it "once" lol. Hey we all pass "air" but to ask a date to do that ..........well lets just say we went our seperate ways. (###### he had a NICE bike too).

 

try it , you'll see.
slobs
hygene lack of.
slackers
texters = driving in wrong lanes while texting.
watching movies while driving
constant talking on phone.
slamming doors while trying to sleep.
chain smokers
rap music fans, i disconnected radio.
all for a few cents more per mile, what a deal.

 

Three man dedicated is the best way to go. I did it for almost two years.
Now here me out, its not what you think. There are only two guys on the truck at a time. You run from LA to NJ non stop line haul (drop n hook). Shower and eat prior to going to Philly to be loaded. Drive to Chicago, drop, eat, rest, hook and head to San Francisco. Get unloaded eat rest. Pick-up some load in the "Gay Area" then head back to LA. Unload or drop in LA. Go to terminal and put truck in shop (turn of engine). One guy goes home for a week, one guy goes to the motel. Next day the third guy gets on the truck with the guy from the motel and they talk crap about the guy that just went home. Then the cycle repeats. Great miles, good money and outstanding hometime. Needless to say you dont need a vacation so that money goes in your pocket.

 

HUH?????!?! So... wait ... first question is; what's the "Gay Area"?

 

T'was an attempt at a pun. The San Francisco bay area. (gay area)

 

For the love of god, please don't dig up Lupe's old threads!

 

1. You really dont get good sleep when being bounced all over the bunk.
2. You have to put up with someone else for long periods of time in a small confined space.
3. All kinds of smells and noises coming from someone else.