Covenant Dispatching - A Comedy of Errors

Buncha whinners. There is only 1 person to blame for all of this !!! If YOU don't know what a company is like BEFORE you go to work for them, you deserve the treatment they give ya !! Sounds harsh, but its true...especially at that age. I could almost understand if you were 21 years old. Oh well.........

 

this is a dead thread, so you can't really expect to get a reply

everyone's level of comfort is different, and this thread was just their version of their experience with this company, your results may vary

while I don't agree with all the choices made, it was well done, and gave a good account of how things went for this couple

 

Hey jtrn1951,Your statement sounds rather moronic instead of harsh. One can;t possibly know what a company is like until they actually work there. And this applies to any job, whether or not its in trucking. You can read-up on it here on this forum, but one doesn't really know what the job is like until they work there for awhile.
This forum can approximate what the job MAY be like, but that's about the extent of it. Situations vary, and they can depend on who your driver manager is, how the freight movement is at that particular time period, if dispatch is unusually good or inept at the time period, if the powers that be have changed policies or attitudes, and the driver's attitude as well.
To make a blanket statement as you just did is unfair and poorly thought out.
I suppose some wold say that you can't know because you're not a trucker.
However, to me, I would say that no matter what job field you're in, you'd utter the same ignorant, similar opinions.

 

OOPS! spelling error here; I meant to say "would" not wold.

 

Not to get off the subject, but when you have a 25000 lb clamp truck picking a roll of 80" paper weighing 5500 lbs even though the trailer won't come off the ground, (with a tractor hooked to it) the suspension will compress to the point that when the clamp backs out of the trailer it will bottom out on the dockplate. Sometimes the clamp will even get trapped in the trailer because it sunk to the point where the lip of the dockplate is below the trailer's crash plate.

 

Right off of the website description.

Yeah, this sounds like going to make our image even worse than it is already.

 

rixcamp,
Thanks for your opinion. And that's all it is, same as mine...............

 

Thing is this is a problem with most companies now days. Only way I will go back OTR is if I'm an O/O. #### these big companies. I'm not gonna take getting screwed by them anymore while waving them (the companies not drivers) a one finger salute while doing donuts in their parking lot. Not to put it in a bad way because drivers need jobs but i hope all the big companies fold up.

 

`I am a Covenant driver on the GP dedicated board.And everything i have done since i have been on this board has plenty of time to be done in.Don't misunderstand me i work for Covenant do to lack of over the road experience.But i have never had any problems with time and logs if you keep the left door shut and drive your time you should always be a day early on every load.Gp always has my loads ready to pick up a day early and most of what we do is drop and hook Q/C might say 0800 delivery but must of the time that means as long as it is there by 2359 the day of delivery you are not late.As far as the A/C mine went out in the truck i started in and in the truck i am in now both were under warranty and both were fixed by TA in west Memphis or Earl AR if you like with no problems.I'm not defending Covenant Because its a great place to work its not but if you are late on this board it is because you took a load that was already late and didn't tell them you could not make it on time or you don't understand how to plan your days right.Either way it is not Covenants fault if you didn't let them know tell after it is to late to fix the problem.They tell you several times in orientation let us know as soon as you see that there might be a problem so it can get fixed.

 

What part of this does no one understand???