Profile For Carol G.

Thanks guys for all your help at least I'll know what to ask the recruiters when I start calling around. But if you come up with a company that will hire super solos let me know. As far as sleeping I can sleep anywhere but my husband isn't so sure about my driving. Lol

Thanks for your reply. I know that big companies are all about the $1 and I understand that, but running that hard makes trucking unsafe because who actually can sleep good in a moving truck. I was hoping there might be some smaller companies, not expedited companies, that might want some dependable drivers.

I'll take a stab at this...

You won't always be running your full 22 hours (11 each) a day, but many times you will have to. There are plenty of times when you'll have days where you do almost nothing but sit around and wait on people or on situations which are out of your control, and you could view that as down time when you can take care of personal things. However, teams get paid more because they expect teams to be able to run twice the miles in the same time frame, so you can take more time-sensitive loads and get them there in half the time it would take a solo driver. Running a team truck only 16 hours a day may make your delivery window impossible to hit in many cases.

Because of this, every company (that I'm aware of) that runs teams is going to expect you to make the most of your allowed driving hours in a day whenever possible. If you want to run as a solo truck instead of a team truck, that could be a possibility and would leave you more time for personal stuff, but you'll only make what a solo driver makes for a paycheck. If you want that big team paycheck, you'll have to run the miles associated with it, and that means running your full 11 hour shift each whenever possible.

I'm wondering if there are any companies that will hire a husband and wife team but not make them run 22 hours a day? My husband and I want to drive but we only want to run approximately 16 hours a day so we can still have personal time? We will gladly run 3 weeks straight just want to enjoy it too...