Advice from someone with experience...

My boyfriend graduated from trucking school here in Florida back in September, He went to work for Covenant Transport(HUGH MISTAKE), they have not gotten ONE paycheck right from the beginning! We are so far in debt that it isn't even funny, he just finished his first stage of "training" and is now in "phase two". His 90 days is up the first week in January and he is thinking about going to US Express(they said they would take him with only 90 days experience). We really need some solid advice...I have spent countless hours on different sights trying to do as much research as possible, but I just don't know. We truly can not afford to stay at Covenant, but I'm worried about going from one TERRIBLE company to another one. Can anyone out there PLEASE give us some advise on what to do from your experience??? Several members of my family were truckers (back in the day) so I know there's money to be made and we don't expect BIG MONEY to start, but we did expect to at least survive. I really appreciate ANY advise you guys could give us, I'm at my rope's end worrying about my man out on the road and stressing over not being able to get our kids Christmas. Thanks for listening and thanks in advance for any advise.

Stressed out momma.

 

77smartin, All but two of his checks have had some kind of mistake on them. Apparently, he was the "ghost" on the trainers truck. He and his partner from school trained together, but he was listed as the "ghost", so he didn't get credited with any of the miles they drove, he never got his orientation pay, his tuition reimbursement pay, or the last miles he was supposed to have gotten paid for, Heck, he didn't even get a check this week. And no they haven't fixed them yet, he is calling again today(they won't speak to me) but it is interesting that his partner got paid for everything I listed. They've screwed his up too, but no where near as bad. The latest beyond that is his first run on "phase two" he sat for 2 1/2 days and had 2 loads "canceled" during that time. Basically costing him around 4,000 miles. He finally got a load for around 800 miles multiply that by .18 cpm, that's not buying Christmas, that's not paying the light bill. Again, we don't expect him to make big money, we are not looking to get $1,000 checks out of the gate, but it would be nice to see one at least break $200.

 

Richter,
Thank you for the info. R u out of PA? We are talking about moving there(that's where my boyfriend is from). If so, in your opinion would it be better to be located there?

 

dennisroc,

Thank you for the information, I will definitely be checking those out. Thanks again.