COVENANT -- From a wife's perspective

if you all dont have no ties to any place to stay why dont you all go were the work is the south is still going fairly strong (ok tx la) alot of oilfield and smaller comp. are yelling for help around the okc area

 

What kind of "" are the oilfields yellin' for?
Well cappers?

With today's barrel of oil prices,
it's too expensive to drill for black gold.
The pipeline stopith here ------->
The gas line starteth there ------->
As we demand supply --- it dwindles.
Along with the jobs associated.

 

salt water, rig movers, hotshot ,drill pipe this part of the world always has oilfield work going on! have you been through fortwoth tx lately there are three or four working rigs in the down town area plus every were else around here .the oil companys have a break even point in the 20$ a barrel range and if it ever gets to that (big if)they will just stock pile it. thats what they did in the eightys after the last oil bust but there was always plenty of work its not all oil here alot of nat. gas rigs to

 

Hmmmmmmmm

Strange.
An acquaintance of mine's grandson in San Antonio,
and his friends, and co-workers, ---
who all drill for natural gas, ---
ALL got laid off this week.

Now, I wonder why? :smt102

 

usually covenant has paid payroll on wed b4 the holiday,so far no $$$. this could be the iceberg that will send me down, if these b*****d people don't pay by tomorrow
afternoon, i am done..............
i hope that they go down....to hell, and fast.

 

What you got to be kidden right? Who in their right might mind pays that! This is so said Mrs RC, that I hope your hubby, and you make it threw this difficult time.. Heck when I started OTR is making .26c per mile..

It is so said that a company can keep getting away with this type of business practice. If they want to pay that low, why not just give it to all the illegals.. Heck at 15c per mile X 3000 miles a week that equal only $450 week, talk about slave labor,

 

Because they're pulling out of the fields. They've been rescinding their sign on bonuses for leases left and right in the Fort Worth area as well as in the Haynesville Shale. Just last month they were offering $25000.00/acre. That's now down to $5000.00 if anything at all. They have been shutting down rigs also. Can't tell you the exact number right now, I just know it's nowhere near as busy as it was a couple of months ago. With the economy and fighting with city ordinances(at least in this area) it's just too much. Not to mention all the people with their hands out for the big sign on bonus, but now say "Not in my neighborhood!".

RCWife, I hope things pick up for y'all in the new year. Happy New Year!!

 

All my friend drivers at Covenant are upset about these changes, specially the per diem. But what can we do? Take co. to court? I will invest my time in finding another place to go in the near future. It wasn't ever my intention to stay at Covenant for more than a year anyway. I guess all big companies are similar, so I will try to find something smaller. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF U!

 

hi rocks...apart from the per diem what else as changed? did you get paid on wed? the 31st? let me know...
happy new year
mcr&deb.

 

The sad part about drivers quitting Covenant, is for every 1000 drivers that quit, there will bee 2000 newbies waiting to take their place for less money.

It's like back in the 70's. All the small trucking companies in my area, and there were a lot, formed a loose association. One night they were takling about how bad freight was, and the companies that depended heavily on O/O's would lose a lot of them. One owner stated the truth. He said for every O/O that goes out of business, two more dumb #######s will be waiting to take his place.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.