The Completely Pointless Thread

[LKTraz]

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Why don't they let you bring a co-pilot for such things? You can do it all in one run with no rests then. It'll cost them the same in pay really.

Are you posting this from home or the road?

It wouldn't have mattered with a co-driver due to the timing of the first appointment. There's no way short of strapping a rocket to the truck's ass that I could have made it to the pickup point in an hour (to make it before close of shipping). The 2 locations are 240 miles apart.

As far as the pay it would cost them double because we don't get paid by the mile (or miles driven for team operations). We get zone pay. If a trip is between X and Y miles it pays a flat rate as does from A to B, C to D etc. Each driver under this setup would get the entire zone pay.

Besides......I never could do the team thing as I find it impossible to sleep in the bunk while someone else is driving. Tried it and just couldn't do it.

I wrote that post from home before I let out for the trip.

The trip actually went rather well and would have been far less frustrating if they would have just made their minds up BEFORE I left.
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