Somebody in a trucking Facebook group asked me last week why team drivers keep posting these huge weekly numbers, and whether it's real or just people flexing online, and honestly it comes down to how much do team drivers make once you actually split the number two ways. Fair question, actually. Team pay looks massive on paper because almost nobody explains upfront that you're looking at a combined number, split two ways, not personal pay, and the numbers work differently depending on which carrier and which lane you're running in the USA. So let's actually walk through how much do team drivers make in the United States, using real numbers instead of the vague "great pay!" language recruiters like to throw around on job boards. A solo OTR driver typically logs somewhere between 2,400 and 2,800 miles a week. A team truck, because federal hours-of-service rules apply to each driver individually rather than the truck as a whole, can kee...
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