Covenant Transport

I see this thread starting an argument...As a company driver? ok for starting out as a student, or if your husband wife team perhaps. They are a team oriented company. Got a good partner, guess they are ok, Don't have one,..good luck finding one you can trust. Their new 'Engineered' thing is not what its cracked up to be, most do not get paid the miles promised them because they have a thousand excuses not to pay them and their runs are too tightly scheduled together for most of their engineered teams not to be 'Late' half the time. They change dispatchers more often than most people change their underwear, most of them these days have 0x experience and are very young, fresh out of some dispatchers school i think. If you can ignore all the 'Bean Counter' attitudes from all the upper management crew, then I guess you will be happy there if you can get a dispatcher that does not argue with you because he don't understand that it takes actual time to hook/unhook a trailer and deal with shippers and receivers between loads you are pre-planned on.

Their O/o program (not talking about lease program, that is actually a separate agreement) is actually decent for a big fleet. They pay a measley 0.92 whatever c/mile and FSC, not so inviting, but they pay for everything, literrally, except fuel, where you get a HUGE discount thru their network. Avg net from the few actually successful O/o's they have that actually know how to run a truck, are in the range of .68-80c/mile take home and they get paid all miles, empty and loaded the same including FSC. Dry van/reefer no touch freight is low margin, so this is not bad at all for a large fleet, like I said. You can almost predict what your net will be with them as an O/o. Just take your fuel mileage and divide it by 10...6.8mpg = .68c/mile, or a good 7.2 mpg = 0.72c/mile you will likely earn (as one O/o told me). Kinda makes sense because they pay all the secondaries. Was told their avg transit time is 50 mph or less, so if you want to go 55-60 and earn more off fuel mileage its very doable as well.

Their flease program is actually very doable, but don't expect to get a truck in great running condition. Its like any used dealer lot where the dealer has no interest in putting real money into them up front. They deal them like cards at a poker game and don't even know what color they are sometimes when you talk to them. Their warranty is mostly a joke where you have to fight with them to get something done. They claim it has to be 100% broken, and most of us out here know that your truck can get 2-MPG and loose money like mad from a bad component that has not been deemed 100% broken yet, like a failing turbo or other component. If your mechanically inclined and/or are willing to put real money into the truck to get it profitable yourself, then its a decent deal with an ok, but not great truck price. Of most of the leases I have seen out there from large fleets, theirs is pretty lenient, giving you breathing room to actually make a decent profit, as well as have the ability to do what you need to your truck as long as you are willing to pay for it yourself. They actually have lease price set in stone, no hidden crap or last minute tricks up their sleeves like werner and swift have been pulling on their L/p O/o's lately.

Overall Opinion,...ok for hubby-wife or other team as a startup company, pay not great. Very good for no touch freight as an O/o with a qualifying truck, and Decent for those who want to do the Fleace purchase thing as long as they are willing to learn to actually manage a truck and its maintenance themselves, getting dirty, and driving slow to get a leg up on the already low paying dry-van freight market.

I am not promoting them or putting them down,...Its just my opinion on them and nothing more.

 

Check out Covenant's guest appearance on To Catch a Predator. Great View of the truck at 1:52

 

That's ancient. so i suspect on the interview questions someone will answer that they are a scum pond pee pee mongrel? I think not.

you so much as stop at a adult store with a covenant truck, they notice it, and they will start msging you to move.

Do you reallu think ANY company would have condoned this ? NO!


I saw those videos and was as sickened by the tv station and the cops as much as I was the scum bags they caught. The TV STATION IS AS BAD AS THE TRUCKERS THEY DUPED!!! They got some teaney to secually tease, repeatedly, lonely drivers, focusing their attention on truckers specificly because everyone hates truckers, until they couldn't stand it anymore, then went out of their way to film the trucking company(s) logos in the process to up their dirty laundry rating, rather than focus solely on the scum bags themselves.

just think for a moment. If they had set up this trap in salt lake, those would be CR-ENGLAND logo's, no doubt.

I scanned through the bulk of your posts. Looks like you like just slapping negative comments around. seems to be your thing most days on here and if you had taken the time to read the title of the discussion group you would have seen that you have posted this out dated puke into the wrong thread, so by posting here you are saying that you possibly LIKE covenant, and for what reason??? I hope it wasn't for the reason above for your sake.

The discussion group is titled 'Discuss Your Favorite Trucking Company Here', not Companies I want to bash on because I like to bash randomly on things.

 

Sooner or later,

most drivers find a company they are happy wih.

Enjoy !

 

Calm down, you are wound too tight. I was being irreverent.

 

Thanks for your good opinion. I am new on this board and a "Wanna Be" trucker, interested in driving team with his wife. I was hoping you could qualify your opinion with some words about how you have this knowledge. For example do you work for them, or have worked for them recently? Thanks in advance. Sparky.

 

I started my carrier here at covenant transport back in 05 and have left a few times thinking the grass was greener on other side and always come back back when I started with covenant in 05 they were the best company in the world to work for I thought then I left and come back still the best then when we had a change in the upstairs office and things went down hill for a while but going back up and still to this day I would say covenant transport is the best large trucking company when I call in and my dm knows me by name some of the big wigs know me by name and when I have been out do to illness like I recently was they did everything they could to make sure me and my family were taken csre of thanks covenant transport if anyone would like to talk to me personally about covenant my email is faithsdad01@hotmail.com thanks yall

 

That is one long sentence.

 

Going to judge me for just typing like I would say it? Really man I'm typing on s phone. Is that better?