Good day I am new to this forum. I would like to comment about team driving.

I teamed for close to 2 years. My experience is as follows.

When I was a newbie, my trainer was great. He wasn't a smoker, nor a slob. He was a from New Jersey. What an attitude he has. He told you straight how things were, and he knew his stuff. We got along most of the times, but, when we didn't, it was about things regarding common sense. Example. We were driving in towards Chicago in the dead of winter. Snow on the ground. I slowed down to 40mph and he got upset. I told him I was driving within my comfort level. (6 hours of death grip on the steering wheel) Next thing I know, 6 swift trucks passed me at I would think 60+. I told my trainer those guys were crazy and they were racing each other. Within an hour, all 6 swift trucks were either in a ditch, flipped over or spun out.

Common sense is a good thing. Common Sense and experience goes a long away.

After that, I teamed with my wife for 2 years. No accidents.

Yes.. It's hard to sleep in a moving truck. I was the one who could not sleep. Even when the truck was stopped and we were in a yard someplace and it was cold and the truck was idling, I could not really sleep. (Better, but, not great) On the other hand, my wife could sleep during an 9.0 earth quake. She was fine.

The other issue with teaming is being confined in the truck. After about 30 days, I had it. I was ready to jump off a cliff. I am an outdoor person and I don't like being confined.

This is something a driver must consider. If you and your partner don't get along, it will be hard to be with a partner in a truck for long periods of time.

Always keep a camera with you. As a co-driver, you can take pics when the other is driving and you can talk about what you see to the driver. Having a camera is also great for taking pics of accidents or license plates of stupid 4 wheelers.
One of the nicest things about our truck was we had XM radio. I programmed in the channels we both liked and when each of us drove, we listed to the stations that the driver wanted to listen to.

One of the other things we did is picked which time of day we would drive. I drove the night shift. Maybe this is why I could not get any sleep. It seemed to work for the both of us.

After 1 month in the truck, tension began to build. We argued over stupid stuff. We stayed in the truck as long as 3 months and it was hard. Of course everything was my fault. Even when I was asleep. (LOL (I can laugh now))

Our truck wasn't cluttered. Our truck was clean and had the bare necessities. That made out truck feel like it was roomy. (Given we did have a Kenworth T660 Studio sleeper)

In bad weather, rain, snow, tornados, floods, frozen conditions, we helped each other when possible. When in the bunk, I could talk her through problems I saw from outside the side windows and the sun roof. Also Vice versa.

Basically. we were very safe drivers, didn't get angry at other cars/trucks. We left large spaces between us and other vehicles especially when the weather was bad. We didn't care if you cut us off. We drove like we had hazmat explosive materials on board and no one was going to cause us to have an accident and we were not going to do something stupid.

If the speed limit was posted and the weather was bad (snow) we were pushing 30mph Max. We left tons of space for breaking. We carried a 50LB bag of dicer onboard. Why you ask?? Well, we were going across the bridge in Oregon/Washington boarder and the bridge was covered in ice. We had to stop on the bridge because of traffic and once we stopped, we could not move. I used the dicer as a traction aid and it stopped the tires from spinning so we could get momentum to move the truck.

Anyway... This is just a small part of my being a team driver.