COVENANT -- From a wife's perspective

Just a quick note to let you all know that Redcoat made it home at 10 this evening. Got dropped off at the Just Diesel truck stop on I-380 which was only about 10 miles from where I'm camped. How cool was that???

He's had his food and a couple beers and now we're going to bed. I've found out some other stuff that was going on and will post it all tomorrow if I get a chance. We have a lot of catching up to do. Also tomorrow is payday and I need to sit down with him to see how many miles he got and how much he got paid for those who'd like to know.

Y'all take it easy!

 

Good morning everybody. For the record, Redcoat likes Bud Light which they can't get over in England (only regular Bud).

Redcoat has dug out his Trip Information Sheets this morning and I've been kind of trying to figure out how his trainer has figured his mileage. He's written on the sheets loaded miles and empty miles and added them up. I'm figuring that if ANYthing is going to be accurate as far as paperwork, this aspect will be because if he shorts the mileage, he's cutting into his own paycheck.

With that being said, here are the numbers from Redcoat's trip sheets from August 31 to September 10. He didn't get the one for September 11 because the trip wasn't finished yet and so I will guestimate that one.

August 31 -- Garland, TX to Kansas City, MO to Ft. Worth, TX -- 1109 miles
September 2 -- Dallas, TX to City of Industry, CA -- 1395 miles
September 3 -- Los Angeles, CA to Austin, TX -- 1379 miles
September 5 -- Muskogee, OK to Red Bluff, CA (changed to Pomona, CA) -- 2062 mi
September 7 -- Pomona CA to Santa Fe Springs, CA -- 35 miles
September 8 -- City of Industry, CA to La Vergne, TN -- 1853 miles
September 10 -- Jackson, TN to Avon Lake, OH -- 630 miles
September 11 -- Avon Lake, OH to Iowa City, IA -- 534 miles (estimated using MapQuest because Rand McNalley mileage page was down)

Total miles equals 8997 times .14 per mile equals $1259.58 plus a few extra bucks for extra drops and a few extra hours of waiting at the shipper to be loaded ($9 per hour starting after 2 hours of waiting) Trainer gets .34 1/2 per mile so his adds up to $3103.96 for those of you looking to be a Covenant trainer.

Last week he got paid $196 (for orientation). Today he got paid $315 but he had taken a $100 advance so it probably should have been $415 after taxes. I'll have a better idea on how his pay got figured once I get his pay statements toward the end of next week. His pay statements go to my mom's house in Mississippi. I told her once she gets two of them to go ahead and send us our mail. He gets paid on Friday and she gets the statement the following Wednesday.

So there's the mileage update for the prospective Covenant newbies. Money update to come later.