I started driving for covenant transport out of chattanooga tn. I thought here is a christian company that will care about its employees. Wow, what a mistake. First let me give you a little info about these christlike folks in the white house (covenant hq in chat). It started with orientation.in a hotel in chat they made all their promises, even chased out demons from the hotel bar. I thought, gotta be honest folk. Not. So anyway i start my carrear.
Done well through training. Got sent to indianapolis to get my truck. It was a mess. Front end wobbled bad. Had to get work done on it. Jake brakes never worked. Everything i got to haul was a hot load. So im on my second trip, a hot load, and im in detroit and so tired from cheating my log to get the load there, i commit to a yellow light and smack an old woman in the rear end. Nightmare time for me, never a blemish on my mvr until now.
So i get a ticket for failure to yield to a traffic signal. Ok. Well i call my dispatcher, big dave, mr. Caring. He tells me to go take a urine test. Well my front end is really smashed but i try to make it across town in time but cant. So the next morning im supposed to do this. But instead he dispatches me across michigan to get a load. A hot load.
Well enroute i call and alert them to the fact that i have to take this test within so many hours, safety says ok. Well im loading the truck at the pickup. Its a driver count situation. Im busy trying to make sure its all getting put on the truck. And safety calls the warehouse and needs to talk to me.
They want me to take a urine test, i say ok. But im busy. They say dont worry about it. Ok. Well they send me to indianapolis to get the drug test. Which i passed, and only had about 30 minutes to spare for the federal guidelines on time after an accident to get the urine test. Here i was driving illegal again. So be it for the company.
So, anyway, here i go on the way to asheville to deliver. Its a hot load. Jakes arent working, truck fender is held on by the bungy cords ive bought. And they wont get me in to fix the truck with several warnings about the integrity of the vehicle. They just keep running me, promising to get it in. Well, i get to the delivery sight and yes you guessed it my load is short 30 huge cans of cherry pie filling.
I try to report this to outage dept. And cant get anyone to talk to me at covenant. For 12 hours i cant get anyone to talk to me. So the next day i try again and again and again. Noone is home at the white house. So, angry, and new in this business. I drive the truck home to missouri and call them to come and get it.
I give up on driving for some time. Finally i start again with a rag tag company with so many violations and violators that its scaring me to stay with them any longer. Ive tried to get a job with some decent companies, but!!! Guess what. DAVE PARKER (owner of covenant) and preacher of goodness, and his gang of good deed doers have put on my dac (truck abandonded). Which isnt true, i called them and told them where it was as soon as i arrived.
I know it was wrong on my part, i feel they were wrong too. Thats not a reason to tarnish someone forever. Thats just not christian.
I forgave them instantly though and hold no hard feelings. Thats just business. But its not right. But i am working, driving a truck. Been driving about 10 mnths now. Love it. Always loved big trucks. They should have helped me a little more i think. I
Just feel like a dac report is nothing more than a permanent grudge. Nonforgiveness if you will. Well anyway stay away from someone in the business of lying, (thetruckbiz), whos claiming to be a preacher. Lord help us all. Thanks for reading this.
Z
desloge, New Mexico
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