Any current Covenant Drivers??

A friend of mine went with them right out of school, she makes good money, and she is very happy with them, now she is a trainer, she has been with them about two years now!!!



American only truck crazy girl, cause nothing else will do!!!!!!!!!!

 

I don't know what's more mind blowing. 15 cpm OR people okay with working for 15 cpm. Shame on you Covenant !

 

its 15cpm TOTAL TRUCK MILES , so if you hook with a good partner , no reason you can pull in $750 week ... of course you have to put up with some b/s if your a new driver

 

What's your point ? 15 cpm...yea I'd say working for slave labor is BS.

 

15 cent a mile for 5000 miles works out to 30 cents a mile for a newbie solo at my last company doing 2500 miles a week . The difference is they get to park their truck for 10 hours and get some real sleep not that half assed sleep you get when you run teams in a bouncing and rolling stripped down company truck..

Covenant does not run their trainees team for 6 mos for safety. They do it because they can get high paying team loads and pay their wide eyed newbies squat running them.

Another news flash people. $750 a week to run teams or solo is crap pay.

If you think you are doing great making $750 a week being on the company clock 24/7 for a month at a time away from home in a hot or freezing truck because they won't let you Idle. Then your last job must of been filling up salt shakers one grain at a time with the lid on for minimum wage.

Must be some real desperate people out there if they are willing to work for a outfit like Covenant.

 

I have to respond to this.

After getting turned down by practically EVERY single trucking company out there that does training because of his being an immigrant with no U.S. work history, I have to applaud Covenant for being the ONLY company willing to give my husband a job. Actually, I take that back. He went to Arrow's debacle of an orientation where he had to compete with 28 other people (half of which already had experience) for 4 positions. Then he gets jettisoned by Swift two days into orientation because he hasn't had his U.S. license for a year -- a fact we had already told the recruiter but which somehow got lost in the translation I guess.

Unlike most other people who go to Covenant, my husband has a flawless driving record only it's not in this country so it doesn't count. He has no family issues, no arrests, no health problems, no baggage. What he DOES have is a wife working 10 hours a day, seven days a week struggling to keep our financial boat afloat while he gets turned down by company after company because our situation doesn't fit their *policy*.

I've heard "get local work to get experience." Well that only works when you actually LIVE somewhere. We don't live anywhere. My job takes me all over the country so I live full-time in an RV. This is a job I found after getting fired from a good job and having to sell my house. Without going into a lot of detail, I had a volunteer assistant do something (unbeknownst to me) that when it was discovered, I got the ax because I was the head person in charge. Nothing personal. Just business. Crap happens. But I wasn't going to sit and cry about it. I got busy and found something else.

And I was kind of doing OK until we met and got married in January. Do you know how much it costs to get a green card these days???? Thousands of dollars for application fees, attorney fees, physicals, shots, background checks, travel for appointments, etc. We are in debt up to our eyeballs by trying to do things the right way. The LEGAL way.

Anyway, I'll take that crap pay of $750 a week from Covenant and I'll make our rig payments with it and jeez I might even be able to take a day off now and then. In my younger days, I could suck it up. But I'm 51 and I can't keep this up for months while my husband sits around waiting for six months to a year to have his license just so someone will hire him because "it's our policy." That's BS and that's where I lose my patience.

Is he happy about team driving? No. Is he happy about their convoluted idle policy? No. Is he happy about coming to the US to be with his new wife and ending up having to be out for weeks at a time? No. But as an older person, he'll do what has to be done to get the experience and to contribute to resolving our debt. He's not going to moan about the crappy pay, the terrible hours, the weekend temp help, and every thing else folks complain about in here. He's going to man up and do what he has to do to help me and I'm proud of him for doing it.

So, yeah, I guess we must be desperate. But sometimes circumstances put you in a place that you never intended on being and you'll do whatever it takes to get out of it -- even if it's working for an outfit like Covenant for crap pay.

 

You will not be getting 750.00 a week from covenant you may get 500-550 per week if you are lucky. Do not forget about that tax man plus your man will need about 150 a week to eat.
So you will only get about 350 if you are lucky.

 

RedCoat wife I hate to burst your bubble but he could be making double the money at Schneider or anywhere else with his perfect driving record.

Please don't make excuses for Covenants unwillingness to pay a fair wage. It is wrong and I am not speaking of your husband, but now I can see why they hire felons.

I'm also not surprised that a Covenant bobtail pulled up to the baithouse in NBC's To Catch a Predator. That guy was the dirtiest of all them.

 

Of course its crappy pay , but $750 for a NEW driver through their training period isnt that bad is it ? And no my last job wasnt filling up salt shakers smart guy ... you work for the "perfect trucking comany" do you ? mind letting us know which one that is , that you dont put up with any crap your first year ? Whatever redcoats wife earns , hes trying to support his family , what the hells the matter with some of you clowns out there? Hes doing the best he can right now and all you want to do is tear it down ....... "GROW UP"

 

Nobody is tearing him down for supporting his family. But why would he not want to double his income somewhere else ?