COVENANT TRANSPORT Life After Covenant Crestview, Florida

It's been nearly 9 months since being "layed off" from Covenant Transport. They layed me off because they said I quit. The Unemployment Court didn't buy their story and I won weekly payments. After a break I found another job and am really over the experience. The administration as a whole are a terrible group of individuals. To sum up my time there:

My first trainer was a pervert who tried to convince me that he was a former homicide investigator. He was demoted from Master Trainer, but that was back in the days where some of the administration still had a bit of decency (2001). The second trainer was great. After leaving for a few years I returned. My first trainer was a pervert who claimed to have gang raped women over seas during his Navy career. He owned a big home near Florida beaches and was very popular with dispatch. When I got off the guys truck they stranded me in Iowa and cut off my Comdata Card. After spending two weeks up there I spent my own funds to get to a new trainer in TX. This lady ate veggie hotdogs out of a can and multitasked by talking on one phone; texting on another and working a laptop at the same time she drove. "Drive it like you stole it" was her motto. Shortly after leaving her truck I heard she rolled it. Then I had to drive with a whiney lady that had no mental stability. Later I ended up on a truck with a prostitute codriver; a former butcher who refused to drive and hit a driver in a parking lot; a guy who fought with dispatch over every little thing; then a few other short timers. I've got better stories about driving than most people I know. Training was a trip too. I had one perfect student who was born to drive; two who were never meant to drive; and two that took alot of work, but learned how to drive quite well. Tommy Whitecotton is the biggest jerk in dispatch and if you ever learn how to piss him back off the veins stick out in his neck. Jimmy Shields and Paul Allen are incompetent, spineless idots. And Jessie Goodman was spawned straight from hell.

Anyone stupid enough to stay past getting their basic experience are either a bit off themselves or will end up with equally interesting stories. Our government is broken for resolving such issues or they would have shut that place down long ago. Their drivers kill people and the company gets away with it by firing the surviving driver. Their training program is a joke for both students and trainers. If a student is not able to test out legitimately the trainer finds a Master Trainer to pass the student. If they don't wreck during the test, all is well. I've done plenty of complaints and finally realized that if I'd listened to others I'd have seen the pattern sooner. Nobody is special there and as long as drivers believe the lies that it is always the other person, they will thrive. It's a major head game they are professionals at playing.  The best I can say is that they taught me to stand up for myself and to recognize bulls**t when I see it. If you don't like it there move on, your sure to find something better, anything better. Don't worry, they will find more where they got you!