I need help with this Covenant Trans. thing

I finally gave in to my husband and agreed to go back to Covenant Transport with him to team drive. I really wanted to work with another company, but he remained working there after I quit. I lost the battle so I had to attend their orientation again even after I drove for them for a year. My DOT physical was only good until March 08, so they gave me an other physical. I listed my meds on my long from nothing to hide. The physican signed off on my long form, no problems. I was later called into the office and told to call this number. The woman on the other end named RJ told me that I could not work for Covenant taking the medication I was on. She also told me to not stop taking it. WOW, didn't know she was my physician. The medicine that I am taking is not a controlled substance nor a narcotic. It is for mild depression. I then went to Covenant personnel to speak with the supervisor there. She told me that DOT does not allow anyone on anti-depressants to drive a CMV, nor does Covenant. I then wrote the president a letter and included the DOT rules and regs. proving they were in the wrong big-time. I also contacted the medical review officer's office where I found out that RJ, is not a medical doctor nor an MRO even though she told me was an MRO. You have to be a medical doctor to be an MRO.

This whole thing has brought on a lot of discrimination and fraud on Covenants part. Covenant told me if I brought in a letter from my doctor saying she would never give me a prescription for this medicine again they would put me back on the truck.

I need some advice here....

 

Thanks for the advice. I have already researched the drug and I have mild depression. I'm a retired RN so have a good knowledge of medical things. I would never work for Covenant again but they are federally funded training company with puts them under the hiring laws of the EOC. It is just the principal of the thing at this point. They made me feel like a looser and that just does not fly with me. They continue to lie to their drivers and really lay on the crap to those poor unsuspecting newbies. covenant gets $5,000 for every driver in training that stays with them for 91 days. They just beg those poor souls to hang with them for at least 91 days without telling them why of course. After that time they could care less about you. That is how it worked before for us. My husband is just a die hard for them don't know why.

 

You are right about them cutting miles and treating you like crap. We are going with another company, thank God. I can't wait to tell them to take my old personnel file and shove it where the sun don't shine. Let them keep hiring newbies and brokering out loads and eventually it will pay off for them. My medication has nothing to do with this because it did not make any difference on my new physical. They won';t even give me the long form for that , so I have to get yet another physical and most likely pay for it myself. What a crazy bunch over there.