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Hixson,#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Fri, April 18, 2008
This is meant to clear up any loose ends. Drivers, pay attention. Multiply the caustic comments and rotten attitude by several hundred and you will get the Covenant Transport experience in a nutshell from coast to coast. If you choose to work for this company, you will not be treated with anything even approaching respect. Even if you are a veteran. In fact, as evidenced, it will be turned and twisted to get under your skin, as was done to me, only you'll be under load several thousand miles away and trapped in that truck and these comments will be on your Qualcomm. And you will be unable to do anything about it. You will not be able to stop when you want, or anything else for that matter. You'll be a prisoner on their truck and treated as such. Drivers, do not work for Covenant Transport. If you currently drive for them, finish your current load and turn in your truck at the nearest Covenant terminal. You've suffered enough. Covenant will tell you that no one will hire you, but it isn't true. I had no trouble finding another job. However, as was donne to me, Covenant will try every means legal or not to discredit you, and make it hard for you. But you MUST fight back, as I have done, through correct legal channels. Document everything, and don't let coercion force you to take matters into your own hands. That is not the way. As in my case, just because I have the ability to put someone in the hospital doesn't mean that I should. And choice should never be confused with ability. But I wont allow belittlement by individuals who think this is grade school make me break the law. If you are a new driver just out of truck driving school, do not work for Covenant Transport. The promises made will never be delivered. It is true that you can make a lot of money driving a truck. In my best weeks at US Xpess, I was bringing home 1200 dollars a week. But here is the catch. The normal D.O.T. approved workweek for a truckdriver is 70 hours, but you will be working well beyond that in most cases. It often added up to around ten or twelve dollars per hour, with no overtime pay. That is the reality. I would urge all drivers to join a union, such as the Teamsters. These trucking companies are big, and when it comes time to fight one of them legally you'll need someone eqally big on your side. And don't let the trucking companies treat you as Covenant has done me. If we all join together to fight them, we'll all be better off. What helps one will help us all. Take care...
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Hixson,#3Author of original report
Wed, April 02, 2008
I can tell you've never been a driver. You no doubt are what all us drivers despise, a Company Terminal employee who has no clue what it's really like out there. You go home every night at five to a nice warm bed, while us drivers are out there making your payday, and unappreciated and even abused by the lot of you. It's no wonder Covenant Transport is so despised in the trucking industry. You say that I should grow up... ? Well, I think you should. Bravery is easy on a keyboard, but I can bet you'd never say any of that to my face... Go get your CDL, if you can pass the requirements, then drive a truck for three years with all that goes with it. Only then will I give value to what you have to say. Otherwise it's just brown-nosing rhetoric, and I don't have time for it.
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Hixson,#4Author of original report
Wed, April 02, 2008
I can tell you've never been a driver. You no doubt are what all us drivers despise, a Company Terminal employee who has no clue what it's really like out there. You go home every night at five to a nice warm bed, while us drivers are out there making your payday, and unappreciated and even abused by the lot of you. It's no wonder Covenant Transport is so despised in the trucking industry. You say that I should grow up... ? Well, I think you should. Bravery is easy on a keyboard, but I can bet you'd never say any of that to my face... Go get your CDL, if you can pass the requirements, then drive a truck for three years with all that goes with it. Only then will I give value to what you have to say. Otherwise it's just brown-nosing rhetoric, and I don't have time for it.
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Hixson,#5Author of original report
Wed, April 02, 2008
I can tell you've never been a driver. You no doubt are what all us drivers despise, a Company Terminal employee who has no clue what it's really like out there. You go home every night at five to a nice warm bed, while us drivers are out there making your payday, and unappreciated and even abused by the lot of you. It's no wonder Covenant Transport is so despised in the trucking industry. You say that I should grow up... ? Well, I think you should. Bravery is easy on a keyboard, but I can bet you'd never say any of that to my face... Go get your CDL, if you can pass the requirements, then drive a truck for three years with all that goes with it. Only then will I give value to what you have to say. Otherwise it's just brown-nosing rhetoric, and I don't have time for it.
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Hixson,#6Author of original report
Wed, April 02, 2008
I can tell you've never been a driver. You no doubt are what all us drivers despise, a Company Terminal employee who has no clue what it's really like out there. You go home every night at five to a nice warm bed, while us drivers are out there making your payday, and unappreciated and even abused by the lot of you. It's no wonder Covenant Transport is so despised in the trucking industry. You say that I should grow up... ? Well, I think you should. Bravery is easy on a keyboard, but I can bet you'd never say any of that to my face... Go get your CDL, if you can pass the requirements, then drive a truck for three years with all that goes with it. Only then will I give value to what you have to say. Otherwise it's just brown-nosing rhetoric, and I don't have time for it.
Momof_2
Small Town,#7Consumer Comment
Tue, March 25, 2008
I can't believe you would blame others for your actions. First you calm that the guy was trying to hold you hostage Why you didn't realize then that you had Marine training? News flash You are not cut out to be a driver. You stated yourself everything that YOU hit wasn't in action--- only you.
Southern Belle
Fairmont,#8UPDATE Employee
Tue, March 25, 2008
YOU HAD 3 ACCIDENTS AND YOU ARE STILL WORKING AS A COMPANY DRIVER OR SHOULD I SAY WERE WORKING. YOU GOT REAL LUCKY THERE ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY WERE BACKING ACCIDENTS AND TOTALLY UNCALLED FOR BECAUSE YOU WERE TOO LAZY TO GET OUT AND LOOK !! THE WAY YOU DESCRIBE THINGS ON HERE SOUNDS LIKE COVENANT DID WHAT YOU WANTED. YOU GOT A NEW TRAINER AND A NEW PARTNER THEN YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH EVERYDAY THINGS THAT MIGHT HAPPEN AT A CUSTOMER LIKE CONSTRUCTION AND YOU ARE BLAMING THEM FOR THIS? THEY SHOULD PUT THOSE ACCIDENTS ON YOUR DAC REPORT MR MARINE MAN BECAUSE YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR BACKING. YOU CAN LOOK AND SEE THAT CONSTRUCTION IS GOING ON BUT YOU CANT NOTICE A TRUCK IN A DOCK? ALSO WHY WOULD YOU AND A PARTNER WANT TO GET PHYSICAL AND FIGHT? AND MOST IMPORTANTLY IF YOU ARE TIRED, OR OUT OF HOURS OR FEEL UNSAFE THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD THEM ABOUT THE SITUATION ON THE QCOMM. IT WOULD BE IN WRITING AND YOU COULD ASK FOR A NITE SUPERVISOR AT DISPATCH. THE LOAD GETS THERE WHEN THE DRIVER DOES. YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE THE RIGHT THING AND SHUT DOWN AND NOT DRIVE THOSE HOURS LIKE THAT. THAT WAS ILLEGAL AND THEY CANT MAKE YOU DO IT. THAT TRUCK PROVES YOU DROVE IT AND NOT THEM BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE WHEEL. MAY I SUGGEST MORE MILITARY TRAINING FOR YOU TO DEAL WITH THAT ATTITUDE YOU HAVE BECAUSE YOU ARE IN CONTROL NOT COVENANT TRANSPORT WHEN THAT TRUCK ROLLS AND BACKS UP!!! QUIT BLAMING THEM FOR YOUR MISTAKES.