COVENANT -- From a wife's perspective

Redcoat is still in his 6-month team driving segment. He will be 3 months into it on the first of March with 3 more months to go. Remember that once your husband is finished with his 35 segments with his trainer and passes his test, he'll spend the next 6 months with a team driver and they will be team driving for weeks.

SavageSam you asked what Redcoat did while his trainer was on home time. Of the three trainers that Redcoat had, only one took home time during his training and that was so the man could vote. His trainer ended up taking a week's vacation because once they ended up in Orlando where he lived, they had a heck of a time getting out of Florida. So rather than losing several days worth of pay, his trainer burned vacation days until they could get a load out. Meanwhile, Redcoat sat in a hotel bored out of his mind making $50 a day layover pay. Sometimes his trainer would come down and take him out to dinner.

This may not happen to every trainer/trainee but that's what happened to Redcoat.

And speaking of hanging out. After Team Redcoat delivers the load they have now (the frozen water), Redcoat's partner has requested home time in Phoenix. He's asked for 4 days so I think that means Redcoat should get 2 days of layover pay while his teammate is putzing around.

Other from that, I've nothing new or exciting to report. Team Redcoat just crossed the Ohio/Indiana state line about an hour ago and since their load isn't due until 6:30 tomorrow morning, Redcoat is pondering a good truck stop to take a few hours break to watch the race this afternoon.