Covenant Transport I was conned into taking a refresher course when the recruiter knew before I started the course that it would prove useless in getting hired with the company. Chattanooga, Tennessee

Chris Bumpus, my so-called recruiter, conned me into taking a refresher course to the tune of $1500 to get hired as an experienced driver knowing full well that it would only get me hired as a student driver. In addition, he knew about a hiring freeze in my state the morning I started this course. I know this because my roommate at the motel we were staying was taking the full course to also go to work with Covenant Transport and his recruiter had informed him that Monday morning. (December 3rd) Had he been up front with me about it I could have saved myself going into debt over $2,000 and selling all of my possessions to make this work. He also knew of my financial situation and my terminally autistic son.

This guy, and the company he works for took advantage of my willingness to jump through any hoop to get hired and knew too well of the difficulties I faced and the difficulty of getting an OTR job from my area.  I am just wondering what kind of a kickback they got from my tuition. KNOW that I will be contacting the school and informing them of this atrocity. I am totally sunk now with no way out thanks to this sham of a company. I can't imagine how many others they have taken advantage of. Lies and manipulation from a Christian-based company. 

I had repeatedly tried to contact Chris since my last conversation with him on Sunday. Since then he has not returned a single phone call, email, voice mail, nothing. When I called today I was informed that my file had been transferred to the student driver recruiting department  which was the department affected by the freeze.