Choice: Home every weekend or cheap health insurance?

Remember,

that team crap at covenant will be with a NOOBIE !!!!!

Scary huh ????

 

I dont really know anything about Covenant so I have to ask, is the .14 to you for your miles driven or for the truck, which would actually make it .28

 

NEITHER!!!!!


Seriously! NEITHER!! When we finally put our feet down and stop settling for crap pay like that, perhaps trucking companies might finally decide to stop treating US like crap!

There are plenty of starter companies that will pay you MUCH MORE. If you are not ready to stay away from home for at least three weeks at a time, you may not be ready to drive a truck for a living. You may luck into a local or regional that gets you home every weekend (usually Friday nights or Sat morning, then you go back out on Sunday afternoon/evening - that enough time with the kids?), but it may be tough for a newbie.

Please... whatever you do..... don't settle for that garbage pay. If $200 per week gross is good enough for you, go to McDonalds and be able to see your kids every day. (Gotta remember, for .14/mi you are assuming that Covenant will actually give you and your co-driver miles and not leave you sitting for days like I've seen all over the country). If you encourage these bottom-scraper companies, they'll continue to do this.

 

Just to let the OP know...I have been offered $.34/mile and even $.25/mile and I havent even graduated yet.

You can do better. Hell, Swift pays $.25/mile AND has really good insurance and it is cheap.

 

Who is Superior?

 

I'm thinking that the .14cpm is all miles of the truck, which makes it .28cpm for half the miles. I don't know of any company that would start a driver at .14 for straight miles. Heck I started at .24 back in 97.
Covenant is a rookie company, no better, no worse than the rest. A driver has to start somewhere and get the experience under their belt. Like it or not we need rookie companies. Somebody has to train the new drivers and show them the ropes. I'm not saying I agree with everything a rookie company does, but they do fill a need in the industry.

 

From the information you gave, training at Covenant seems better... but if you do go with them, get out as soon as you can. AND, really... .14 per mile? What Rollover said... though not so loudly! lol That is an insult. That won't even maintain YOU on the road, let alone the truck and make some money besides. Industry average for even limited experience driver seems to be around .34 per mile... So .28 for a trainee is decent - although I certainly hope they pay more once you are out of training.