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brian · Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 1005 Location: over here

you and your lady can make some good money running team, I never got the concept of taking it easy while i`m out, I take alot of time off, why the hell would I run easy when i`m at work.

One · Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 953 Location: Alabama

picking the right co. will be key here. you are a professional and will ask lots of tough questions and present 'what if' scenarios. document everything by communicating with email. choose a co. with lots of drop and hook freight to eliminate THE biggest time looser there is in this business- Waiting for loads should be minimal!! Just enough time for you to get showers and eat. Choose a co. that wont make you sign a contract, with a good rep and good pay. 40cpm split?? you should be able to do a bit better, however I dont have much to compare to off hand. You should be able to run 1kmiles in a 24hr period or at least 8oo miles if you use the 8 hrs each method as per the new (bs) regulations.
5k miles a wk. is low, you can do that in 5 days once you are used to sleeping with a moving truck and when each driver can run the truck as if they were alone. Staying out weeks at a time makes you a big asset to the co. as you can go anywhere, anytime and can choose to take a few days off while close to home provided that you let them know before they schedule you for another load.
Be sure to get looooong runs to do over the weekend, they will be the easiest running, best paying through less delays and traffic, no scales open, long run means less stopping and bypassing cities.
You can do well!!
Check into Conway truckload, they run only teams, and have good equipment (volvo 770). I used to drive for Conway Now that does expedited runs and they were very professional to say the least. Trckload was run from the same office. Avoid expeditors though, you will sit too much waiting on loads.
GOOD LUCK

Karnajj · Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 1126 Location: Cincinnati

syl77dar wrote: don't do xpress cuz after 1st of year you will get no runs at all. furthermore, there trucks break down a lot and trailers are worse yet. then they give best runs 2 senior drivers and teams.

And you know this how? You are not even driving yet!

Useless · Joined: 08 Oct 2005 Posts: 3177 Location: Canyon Lake, Tx.

Eastboundanddown?? :shock: I seem to recall a guy who called himself "WestboundandDown"!! :shock:

Sure hope we are not dealing with Multiple Personality Disorders here!! :D

On the other hand, if you do have Multiple Personality Disorder, then you would be covered under "The Americans With No Abilities Act", so you could run multiple log books, and no one could mess with you!!

I will say this much; if you live in Florida, but insist upon being "EastboundandDown", then you are going to have a very difficult time getting any miles!!

Longsnowsm · Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 563

The thing I question in this is the 55 mph to calculate the number of hours it takes for a driver(in this case team drivers) to get their miles. Nobody averages 55 mph when dealing with stops, and all the other misc stuff that has to be done and impedes getting ones miles. I I would guess that the driver will be looking at a 10-12 hr day, and then switch(just my guess). YMMV

The other thing that should be noted is the team pay at USX is per diem pay. This can be a negative depending on your tax bracket, how close you are to retirement, and social security situation. BOL

Longsnowsm

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