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Originally Posted by AC120
What you will find is that no motor carrier allows unauthorized passengers. Reasons include insurance issues and, if I recall, a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulation that prohibits passengers in trucks unless
driver, passenger, and carrier have it all worked out in writing before said passenger even touches a door handle. The passenger would have to sign an insurance waiver and a hold-harmless agreement, and that's IF the carrier even allows it. Even guys who want to bring their wives along often have to sign waivers and agreements. I had to and my wife had to sign, as well.
I think you've asked this question before, but I'm not sure if you ever got an answer. If you're looking for advice about trucking, you've come to the right place--fire away.
Virtually every company I've worked for will allow a passenger in the truck, but will charge the driver for the extra insurance they require, even for the wife. But, it does seem that the amount of that insurance varies from one carrier to the next. Where I am currently working, about $110 covers you for a full year. 365 days.
Over the past two years, I've had more than half a dozen people ride along with me to see if they wanted to spend the money on driving school. Out of all of them, only one actually did. The others are working at other jobs. Nearly all of them thought it was fine until I had to jockey the trailer into a nearly impossible dock, with traffic flowing on the street.
If more people got to ride along, we would not have so many posts by people that can't get out of this industry once they get into it.
