COVENANT -- From a wife's perspective

I asked the question. Redcoat says that there is a windowed office just inside the front door where security used to be but that is all shuttered now. Instead all the admin types now have cards that they use to get into all the closed/locked doors. He also found out that the elevator won't go up to the second floor until after a certain time in the morning (8:30 I think). When he was at Chatt. he went in early around 8:00 to go upstairs to use the bathroom and the elevator wouldn't move because he didn't have one of the cards. But an office worker stepped in and used her card to make the elevator move. She told him that before and after a certain time you must use the card to operate the elevator.

This morning Redcoat called the man in charge of dedicated accounts (skipping over his DM's supervisor that he says is a real "wanker" and in bed with his DM anyway) and they had a frank discussion. The head man agreed that Redcoat's DM should have come out to talk with RC while he was at Chatt. about driving dedicated since RC was still relatively new to the industry. He said he would speak to the DM about his one-word replys on the QC (which lead to much confusion about which QC message is being replied to) and he tried to smooth ruffled feathers by saying it's nothing personal just that the DM's are very busy on Monday morning. He told Redcoat that in the GP account they like to try to get the drivers home for their resets if possible. Well that would have been good intel to know before he left Chatt.

Redcoat also told him about the circumstances of getting his service failure and the man agreed that it partially wasn't Redcoat's fault and said he would look into it and review the particulars.

Wouldn't it be nice if they would actually retract the service failure?

Other from that, Redcoat is stuck waiting in Doraville, GA. He arrived for an on-time delivery but Covenant had not made any appointment -- yet again. This is the third time he's had to wait because no appointment was made. Such a waste of time and money.

 

Well we found out today that it ain't gonna happen. The man said he'd change it to a "verbal warning" whatever that means but he also said that two more and he'd be fired.

Whatever. At this point Redcoat really doesn't care anymore and neither do I. The man is just totally burned out and I can't blame him. You would think that after a year things would start to get easier but it's still one obstacle after another. He found out today that he won't be getting any home time here in North Carolina because NC is "out of his lane." Currently he's trying to find out where, exactly, IS his lane. Based on the assignments he's had, my guess is it goes from GA/SC to TX. Although he came up to NC on his first trip when he spent the night at the 'chicken killing place' as he calls it.

Apparently, if I want to see my husband, I'm going to have to talk to my boss to see if I can get work in those states which sucks because I've been making some really good money here in NC.

I have resolved to compile an orientation manual (of sorts) for driving GP dedicated to post here in the forum for any other newbie drivers since Covenant doesn't think it's necessary to sit down with a driver to give them the information they need to do a good job from the start. They leave it up to chance meetings with other GP drivers to fill in the new guy.

 

Hey MCR! Good to see you are still alive and kicking.

Kinghunter, I called about the WM dedicated slots and within hours of posting the fleet message about them, they were snapped up. Redcoat doesn't qualify for them yet anyway. He's got a year with the company but they want a year driving experience which Redcoat won't have until the middle of November.

At the moment, Redcoat is hanging around Chatt. waiting for his "new" truck to get fixed. They sold the other one he had and gave him a trainer's truck. It's a 2008 with 291,000 miles on it and right now they're fixing something to do with the brakes. He said it was still dirty on the inside but nowhere NEAR the biohazzard his other truck was. He said at least this one won't take long to clean.