Choice: Home every weekend or cheap health insurance?

Is this Superior Tank Lines you are talking about?

 

Hi Jeff, since you seem to be in the insurance biz and in a way, are actually here to sell insurance (please correct me if I'm wrong and if so, I apologize), why is it that alot of companies want drivers with recent OTR experience or drivers that are fresh out of school instead of someone who has drove local for the past 10 or 20 years?

 

Speaking of money.. I have a 99 FreightLiner that I just got. Free by the way.. I was told it needs Brakes. Around how much am I going to be looking at to get them fixed?

 

sorry posted on the wrong thread

 

I think the teaming at Covenant is only 6 months. Yeah I now it's gonna seem like 6 freakin years

So if you can make it through that and go solo, well you can probably do anything.

 

Actually you made an illegal right hand turn. Especially if that Traffic Circle was the one on Rt. 9 in Latham. The inside lane (left lane) is not a turning lane. The right lane is both straight and turning. Burn or not you were at fault. I picked up many a patient in the Latham Circle. You were lucky you weren't one of them.

Back to your dilemma. By your own words you need more than a week worth of training. Since Covenant is forcing team you might be better off there, especially if you can get a team mate who have been driving a while.

 

He said that he didn't mind Covenant. But, he knew the DM personally, so he got whatever loads he wanted.

 

Well, I read your post. And McD's and BK will pay you as much, if not more than Covenant will at .14/mi. Grow up? HAHAHA!!! I'm deadly serious here, bud. Don't screw YOURSELF and dont screw your FAMILY by being underpaid on the road. I'm absolutely serious that you would stand to make MORE money at McD's than you would running with a co-driver at Covenant. If you want to see your kids, you might want to think that through. You wont see them much on the road.

Sorry if that is not what you want to hear, but it's realistic.

Millis
Crete/Schaeffer
TMC
Central
Watkins/Shephard

Thats is just a partial list of companies that take newbies that you did NOT list. If you are going to give up and go with the lowest common denominator, you aren't going to last long. Reach for the stars and you just might get to the moon. If you want to drive, do yourself and all those new drivers coming after you a favor: Stop letting bottom-feeders like Covenant take advantage of you. If more new drivers avoid them, they may end up being forced to increase their pay to attract new talent.

I'm no "supertrucker" but I know what I've seen and have learned quite a bit about the business since starting. Take my advice or leave it, doesn't affect me much.