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Trucking is a whole different ball game versus railroads. My wife and I drove Reefer team for a year. All we did was rescue troubled and late loads from single drivers who for whatever reason cannot get to customer on time. 24/7, cooking, sleeping and restrooms on board and on the move. Stopping only for fuel and maybe a rest break if things get too intense in that cab. We covered loads that literally cannot stop. With the waste in terms of time leaking out of the railroads a team operation wont improve things. Now. You can design a locomotive to include bunks that are isolated from the rest of the engine. We do this all the time when building semi tractors. Sometimes things are so quiet you dont even realize the engine is running. Then you need to design a space for the crew to live in. A cab is a small place for two people over time. Fit in the necessary storage space and eletrical/climate support and a small desk you already are intruding into current locomotive technology. We would have to add space onto the locomotive itself to make this all work. No. I veto the team engineer idea. I dont think railroads will make deliverys any faster using teams. In order to speed up trains with teams you gotta speed up everything else to keep up with train. For example we could load in New Jersey at noon monday and be passing Little Rock Arkansas tuesday at noon with Armarillo Tx by midnight tuesday. Can you keep up? When you consider the potential for work orders, slow areas, yards and division points as well as possible problem cars and everything else that can interfere with the high speed transit over a short period of time along with the Human knack of throwing a monkey wrench into everything at the worst time. If the rails can do it they would have already done so.
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