Complaint Review: covenant transport - chattanooga Tennessee

Well all I can say is when my wife & I drove for Covenant (1999 - 2002) all we did was make money & have a great time doing it. I was an experienced driver & she went to their school, when she got her license (three or four weeks) we hit the road for Tacoma WA. But had to drive from Chatt. to Chesnee , SC to get it. Well they wanted it there in 48 hrs, so I filled out the little load conformation macro on the Qualcomm, and in the spot that asked if we would deliver on time I put the word NO. They then sent me a message wanting to know why, and I explained that she just got out of school yesterday, Covenants answer... ok do the best you can. So we did 3 days later the load was delivered. We got a 10 hr layover and were dispatched the next morning to North Carolina where we lived to take 5 days off. If I thought they were being overzealous with the delivery schedule I would just tell them so and they would adjust the load. We were in Salt Lake once and got a load going to Orlando Fl. We decided that when we got to Orlando it might be nice to go see Mickey, so I called my dispatcher and told him (here is where it gets tricky all you rookies I would NEVER ask dispatch if I could do something I ALLWAYS politely let them know what I was doing) to take us off the board for 10 days after we delivered, he did. We had a great time at Disney World. My wife got sick and could no longer drive, so she went home and I stayed for about another year as a trainer. I only had one conflict over one student who just could not drive, they wanted me to continue with him & I said no. After a slightly heated argument with a new dispatcher, I called safety & explained the situation to them and they took him off the truck. When I was driving with my wife we never made less than 2K net per week. With a student it averaged 12 1500 per week. I had a great time at Covenant and I don't think they have changed that much in only 3 years. Yea at first I had a junk yard on wheels, so when I got to the shop (North Little Rock, anyone who tries to get the truck worked on in Chatt. is just plain nuts, you'll be there for at least a week) When you get to the shop you'll be amazed what a $10 bill will do. It's all what you want to do, you're the new guy, your gonna get the s**t work, buck up and do it, it will get better. Don't you think in a company that has such a high turnover rate now, that if they see someone doing it right the might notice. Maybe not right away but they will. For all you old timers at Covenant (and I know there are a bunch) Oddball (NYPD) says hey. Truck # 6454 PS My wife & I were #1 team on our board,

Well all I can say is when my wife & I drove for Covenant (1999 - 2002) all we did was make money & have a great time doing it. I was an experienced driver & she went to their school, when she got her license (three or four weeks) we hit the road for Tacoma WA. But had to drive from Chatt. to Chesnee , SC to get it. Well they wanted it there in 48 hrs, so I filled out the little load conformation macro on the Qualcomm, and in the spot that asked if we would deliver on time I put the word NO. They then sent me a message wanting to know why, and I explained that she just got out of school yesterday, Covenants answer... ok do the best you can. So we did 3 days later the load was delivered. We got a 10 hr layover and were dispatched the next morning to North Carolina where we lived to take 5 days off. If I thought they were being overzealous with the delivery schedule I would just tell them so and they would adjust the load. We were in Salt Lake once and got a load going to Orlando Fl. We decided that when we got to Orlando it might be nice to go see Mickey, so I called my dispatcher and told him (here is where it gets tricky all you rookies I would NEVER ask dispatch if I could do something I ALLWAYS politely let them know what I was doing) to take us off the board for 10 days after we delivered, he did. We had a great time at Disney World. My wife got sick and could no longer drive, so she went home and I stayed for about another year as a trainer. I only had one conflict over one student who just could not drive, they wanted me to continue with him & I said no. After a slightly heated argument with a new dispatcher, I called safety & explained the situation to them and they took him off the truck. When I was driving with my wife we never made less than 2K net per week. With a student it averaged 12 1500 per week. I had a great time at Covenant and I don't think they have changed that much in only 3 years. Yea at first I had a junk yard on wheels, so when I got to the shop (North Little Rock, anyone who tries to get the truck worked on in Chatt. is just plain nuts, you'll be there for at least a week) When you get to the shop you'll be amazed what a $10 bill will do. It's all what you want to do, you're the new guy, your gonna get the s**t work, buck up and do it, it will get better. Don't you think in a company that has such a high turnover rate now, that if they see someone doing it right the might notice. Maybe not right away but they will. For all you old timers at Covenant (and I know there are a bunch) Oddball (NYPD) says hey. Truck # 6454 PS My wife & I were #1 team on our board,

Well all I can say is when my wife & I drove for Covenant (1999 - 2002) all we did was make money & have a great time doing it. I was an experienced driver & she went to their school, when she got her license (three or four weeks) we hit the road for Tacoma WA. But had to drive from Chatt. to Chesnee , SC to get it. Well they wanted it there in 48 hrs, so I filled out the little load conformation macro on the Qualcomm, and in the spot that asked if we would deliver on time I put the word NO. They then sent me a message wanting to know why, and I explained that she just got out of school yesterday, Covenants answer... ok do the best you can. So we did 3 days later the load was delivered. We got a 10 hr layover and were dispatched the next morning to North Carolina where we lived to take 5 days off. If I thought they were being overzealous with the delivery schedule I would just tell them so and they would adjust the load. We were in Salt Lake once and got a load going to Orlando Fl. We decided that when we got to Orlando it might be nice to go see Mickey, so I called my dispatcher and told him (here is where it gets tricky all you rookies I would NEVER ask dispatch if I could do something I ALLWAYS politely let them know what I was doing) to take us off the board for 10 days after we delivered, he did. We had a great time at Disney World. My wife got sick and could no longer drive, so she went home and I stayed for about another year as a trainer. I only had one conflict over one student who just could not drive, they wanted me to continue with him & I said no. After a slightly heated argument with a new dispatcher, I called safety & explained the situation to them and they took him off the truck. When I was driving with my wife we never made less than 2K net per week. With a student it averaged 12 1500 per week. I had a great time at Covenant and I don't think they have changed that much in only 3 years. Yea at first I had a junk yard on wheels, so when I got to the shop (North Little Rock, anyone who tries to get the truck worked on in Chatt. is just plain nuts, you'll be there for at least a week) When you get to the shop you'll be amazed what a $10 bill will do. It's all what you want to do, you're the new guy, your gonna get the s**t work, buck up and do it, it will get better. Don't you think in a company that has such a high turnover rate now, that if they see someone doing it right the might notice. Maybe not right away but they will. For all you old timers at Covenant (and I know there are a bunch) Oddball (NYPD) says hey. Truck # 6454 PS My wife & I were #1 team on our board,

Well all I can say is when my wife & I drove for Covenant (1999 - 2002) all we did was make money & have a great time doing it. I was an experienced driver & she went to their school, when she got her license (three or four weeks) we hit the road for Tacoma WA. But had to drive from Chatt. to Chesnee , SC to get it. Well they wanted it there in 48 hrs, so I filled out the little load conformation macro on the Qualcomm, and in the spot that asked if we would deliver on time I put the word NO. They then sent me a message wanting to know why, and I explained that she just got out of school yesterday, Covenants answer... ok do the best you can. So we did 3 days later the load was delivered. We got a 10 hr layover and were dispatched the next morning to North Carolina where we lived to take 5 days off. If I thought they were being overzealous with the delivery schedule I would just tell them so and they would adjust the load. We were in Salt Lake once and got a load going to Orlando Fl. We decided that when we got to Orlando it might be nice to go see Mickey, so I called my dispatcher and told him (here is where it gets tricky all you rookies I would NEVER ask dispatch if I could do something I ALLWAYS politely let them know what I was doing) to take us off the board for 10 days after we delivered, he did. We had a great time at Disney World. My wife got sick and could no longer drive, so she went home and I stayed for about another year as a trainer. I only had one conflict over one student who just could not drive, they wanted me to continue with him & I said no. After a slightly heated argument with a new dispatcher, I called safety & explained the situation to them and they took him off the truck. When I was driving with my wife we never made less than 2K net per week. With a student it averaged 12 1500 per week. I had a great time at Covenant and I don't think they have changed that much in only 3 years. Yea at first I had a junk yard on wheels, so when I got to the shop (North Little Rock, anyone who tries to get the truck worked on in Chatt. is just plain nuts, you'll be there for at least a week) When you get to the shop you'll be amazed what a $10 bill will do. It's all what you want to do, you're the new guy, your gonna get the s**t work, buck up and do it, it will get better. Don't you think in a company that has such a high turnover rate now, that if they see someone doing it right the might notice. Maybe not right away but they will. For all you old timers at Covenant (and I know there are a bunch) Oddball (NYPD) says hey. Truck # 6454 PS My wife & I were #1 team on our board,

Well all I can say is when my wife & I drove for Covenant (1999 - 2002) all we did was make money & have a great time doing it. I was an experienced driver & she went to their school, when she got her license (three or four weeks) we hit the road for Tacoma WA. But had to drive from Chatt. to Chesnee , SC to get it. Well they wanted it there in 48 hrs, so I filled out the little load conformation macro on the Qualcomm, and in the spot that asked if we would deliver on time I put the word NO. They then sent me a message wanting to know why, and I explained that she just got out of school yesterday, Covenants answer... ok do the best you can. So we did 3 days later the load was delivered. We got a 10 hr layover and were dispatched the next morning to North Carolina where we lived to take 5 days off. If I thought they were being overzealous with the delivery schedule I would just tell them so and they would adjust the load. We were in Salt Lake once and got a load going to Orlando Fl. We decided that when we got to Orlando it might be nice to go see Mickey, so I called my dispatcher and told him (here is where it gets tricky all you rookies I would NEVER ask dispatch if I could do something I ALLWAYS politely let them know what I was doing) to take us off the board for 10 days after we delivered, he did. We had a great time at Disney World. My wife got sick and could no longer drive, so she went home and I stayed for about another year as a trainer. I only had one conflict over one student who just could not drive, they wanted me to continue with him & I said no. After a slightly heated argument with a new dispatcher, I called safety & explained the situation to them and they took him off the truck. When I was driving with my wife we never made less than 2K net per week. With a student it averaged 12 1500 per week. I had a great time at Covenant and I don't think they have changed that much in only 3 years. Yea at first I had a junk yard on wheels, so when I got to the shop (North Little Rock, anyone who tries to get the truck worked on in Chatt. is just plain nuts, you'll be there for at least a week) When you get to the shop you'll be amazed what a $10 bill will do. It's all what you want to do, you're the new guy, your gonna get the s**t work, buck up and do it, it will get better. Don't you think in a company that has such a high turnover rate now, that if they see someone doing it right the might notice. Maybe not right away but they will. For all you old timers at Covenant (and I know there are a bunch) Oddball (NYPD) says hey. P.S. My wife and I, for the time we were at Covenant were #1 team on our board. Truck # 6454

I LEASE A TRUCK FROM COVENANT AND RAN AS A TEAM WE RAN 9,338 MILES TWO WEEKS B4 I QUIT AND GOT 20.00 WHICH I HAD TO SPLIT WITH MY DRIVER

I drove trucks. I liked to drive, so I thought it would be a good job. Instead, the fleets run you to death. Not enough time to even sleep like you should. Logs are always falsified. Always over the speed limit, trying to make their schedules. Why run like that? Get the hell out and leave it for supertrucker here. He likes the job. Let him run all the loads. People with any sense can see trucking is no great bargain. Get the hell out before you either hurt yourself or someone else. Let this guy run the loads. That way, nothing changes. Everyone still has food and dry freight. Only, supertrucker gets to worry about how the load gets here, not you. Let them pile all the freight on him. He won't complain. He likes it.

Again, I say, rookie drivers (everyone has to start somewhere, I guess), the first thing you MUST learn about this industry is, DO THE JOB YOU ARE HIRED AND PAID TO DO!! That's bottom line.If your trainers didn't teach you this, you'll never make it as a truck driver. Also, again, I say, everyone has gripes about their job/ employer. It's sort of the working man's right to complain. But, if all you do is complain, you'll never get your job done. Let me give you an example: I'm driving an '04 Volvo. My opinion-- it's a piece of junk. Had 527 miles on it when I got it. Now has 203525.(Has had numerous things go wrong with it along the way.) I put 'em all on it. Bitching all the way. (Oh, I got the truck in August '03). I'm saying, bitching is expected. But, do your job while you do it. I'm in a motel (at Covenant expense) in Delaware, waiting for my truck to be fixed by Volvo tomorrow. When I get it out of the shop, I'll send a time-off request, to go to Chattanooga... to get into an '06 Midroof Freightliner. As an adult in the work-a-day world you have every right to complain. But, learn this, all you rookies out there who believe those tv commercials about,"...drive the big-rigs, make more money than you can spend..." All trucking companies are alike. They just have different names and paint jobs on their trucks. And some run a bit faster than others. The biggest thing they have in common is this... you are hired to drive that truck, to pick up freight ON TIME, and deliver that freight ON TIME. So, do the job you were hired to do, and you'll get along fine. In any line of work, if you exert all your energy on complaining, you'll never get the job done. If you can't handle the pressure, go back to college and work in an office. And leave the driving to those of us who know how to do it. The average length of experience at Covenant is 18 months. (Bloody ROOKIES) And they consider themselves "experienced drivers". Heck, I've got more miles in the Flying J buffet line than they have on the road! These people come into the industry thinking they know everything there is to know, because "I was taught this in driving school". And they don't know Jack about what they're doing. that's why we have so many accidents on the road. ROOKIES who think that truck will do whatever they want it to. That truck is an inanimate object. It's the professional driver behind the wheel who brings it to life. In the hands of a real driver, a truck is a beautiful thing to behold. In the hands of an inexperienced driver who thinks (s)he knows everything, it's a scarey 80,000 pound piece of steel and fiberglass rolling to destruction. If you run or try to run tired, you are asking...no, begging, for an accident. I have a sign in my truck that says, "Forget the alibis, there's no excuse for an accident!"

i recant about CFI they are not that good seems like no trucking company anymore is good all the bosses seem to care about is their own well being and money and not about their drivers. truck drivers is what makes america run if it wasn't for them where would you get the things you need in life?

Mr.Z, My father worked for this christ like company and are they bad. my dad too was on hot loads the DOT should go after Dave Parker for doing illegal things like that. Anyhow everytime my dad got a paycheck it was net pay $0.00 which was bad as my dad didn't take close to no advances out. Work for CFI in Joplin, MO I heard they are alot better than Covenant Transport.