I need help with this Covenant Trans. thing

reddemon71 · Feb 27, 2008

Aren't they still in the Holy rolling business?

The Challenger · Feb 27, 2008

dave99dave2003,

I have been offered a job while I was on the same type of meds for a school bus. This is BS. I have a hunch a lot of truckers take anti-depressants.

Kinghunter

ronbostic · Nov 16, 2008

nitecrawler said: ↑

I finally gave in to my husband and agreed to go back to Covenant Transport with him to team drive. I really wanted to work with another company, but he remained working there after I quit. I lost the battle so I had to attend their orientation again even after I drove for them for a year. My DOT physical was only good until March 08, so they gave me an other physical. I listed my meds on my long from nothing to hide. The physican signed off on my long form, no problems. I was later called into the office and told to call this number. The woman on the other end named RJ told me that I could not work for Covenant taking the medication I was on. She also told me to not stop taking it. WOW, didn't know she was my physician. The medicine that I am taking is not a controlled substance nor a narcotic. It is for mild depression. I then went to Covenant personnel to speak with the supervisor there. She told me that DOT does not allow anyone on anti-depressants to drive a CMV, nor does Covenant. I then wrote the president a letter and included the DOT rules and regs. proving they were in the wrong big-time. I also contacted the medical review officer's office where I found out that RJ, is not a medical doctor nor an MRO even though she told me was an MRO. You have to be a medical doctor to be an MRO.

This whole thing has brought on a lot of discrimination and fraud on Covenants part. Covenant told me if I brought in a letter from my doctor saying she would never give me a prescription for this medicine again they would put me back on the truck.

I need some advice here....
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the company was just following the fmcsa rules. they have a whole list of meds which a driver can not take.So don't blame the company for following stupid rules made by people in washington that don't know what there doing..by the way, whay would you or your husbans go back to a company like cov enant.

ronbostic · Nov 16, 2008

Kinghunter said: ↑

dave99dave2003,

I have been offered a job while I was on the same type of meds for a school bus. This is BS. I have a hunch a lot of truckers take anti-depressants.

Kinghunter
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otr.. bus driver.. differant rules

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