DoubleYellow's Covenant Thrival Guide

So much for holding out for July to go Solo... Codriver just had preventable #4 in 5 months -- somehow dragging the trailer about 3' over a guardrail on a sharp left turn onto an on ramp, taking out about 10' of guardrail, a trailer tire's sidewall, and a yet-to-be-determined trailer air supply source. He's attempting to call it in to breakdown as a run of the mill flat tire, but I'm hoping it'll be way too obvious when the mechanic gets here. If not, I'm just going to have to draw the line and turn him in myself because its obvious he'll just keep doing stupid stuff.

Recap of his accidents:

#1 After driving 2 miles into a clearly residential suburb, he came to a dead end cul-de-sac and drove over someone's lawn while attempting to turn around.

#2 leaving a receiver, he attempted to route himself through the automotive parking lot and negotiate a sharp right turn that would give a F350 trouble (semi has no business there). He would up wedged between a hedge (taking out a sprinkler system) and a now-leaning stop sign. Had to take out the hedge to extricate the truck & trailer. Apparently the receiver never followed through with the claim so this may not be on his record despite having called irc...

#3 backed into a parked truck while attempting to back into an ordinary truck stop parking spot

#4 off-tracked trailer over a gaurdrail. Worse, he didn't stop until halfway down the onramp when the brakes locked up from an air leak...




Obvious question: wtf am I still doing on the truck with him? To that, I have no good answer. I guess your standards go to hell when 5 of your 6 codrivers have stupid accidents like the above...

 

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I'm just beyond baffled. Codriver's 4th accident didnt get him fired, didnt even get him a drug test and lecture. Just cost him the price of a new tire... And I have to ride with him another week before dropping him off in California. And since I live in California, I can't go solo with Covenant even though I only take hometime every 6-8 weeks...

But really I'm just so incredibly disappointed that he isnt fired. If our trailer wasnt loaded with over 40,000 lb, the guardrail may have held and tipped us over. And it could easily have been a car waiting at a stoplight. Judge for yourself:






Really want to give Covenant a year, but I'm definitely looking at options