OTR drivers almost never get home. It means that they spend a lot of time away from their families of course, but it also means that when something goes wrong, they may be far, far away. This was the case with driver Raymond White.
It was July 15th when Cathy Rossi, White’s girlfriend, knew something was wrong. White usually called her in the mornings, but she hadn’t heard from him, and couldn’t reach him. She tried calling the company he was driving for, Southern Refrigerated Transport (SRT) to see if they could help.
“I made a couple phone calls that day and they got kind of nasty with me on the phone,” Rossi said. “They never called back. That’s when I found the missing truck driver network on Facebook.”
With help from The Missing Truck Driver Alert Network, a group that utilizes truck drivers on the road to help find their missing fellow drivers, the New Mexico State Troopers were able to find White’s truck 12 hours later using the same information that Rossi gave to SRT. The troopers found that White had died of a heart attack.
Though tragic, the story up to this point is not unheard of. What happens next though clearly shows a huge issue with our industry. SRT, the company that wouldn’t help track down one of their own drivers, refused to transport White’s body or personal belongings without first receiving a cash payment. Though the amount requested wasn’t disclosed, it was beyond what the family could afford.
SRT is by no means a small company. It is part of the Covenant Transportation Group which is made up of six different trucking companies including Covenant Transport and Star Transportation. SRT certainly had the means of transporting White’s remains and his belongings back home whether in their own trucks or by paying to have them returned.
As one user on our forum said, “I understand it’s not the company’s responsibility to get the deceased drivers belongings home, but how about a little human decency??”
Instead, White’s family turned to Trucker Charity Inc., a group that’s dedicated to “fostering the brotherhood of trucking that we so deeply miss.” The Trucker Charity helped White’s friends and family raise $2,000 and helped connect them with multiple truckers who took White’s remains and belongings as extra cargo.
Thanks to Trucker Charity and the three drivers they helped find, 15 days his body was found, his remains were delivered 2,730 miles to his family. Raymond White had been a professional truck driver for 20 years.
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I guess, being part of Covenant Transportation Group, i’m not a bit surprised at the scumbag tactics outlined in the article. Condolences to the family.
Condolences to the family of this Truck Driver. I was overroad Truck for 6 year. I was in Maryland and rush to Va Hosp to find out i had Kideny Cansure. Had get remove then. I was stuck in Marland . They came put up the truck. Put me on Med Leave. But no retrun to job becasue of my Med . Then i had stay in Maryland for 2 year to recover. Then took me nother 3 year befor i got home to So Cal. I think some should be put in writting for any Truck Driver that if this happen that company take care of this problem . Something need to be done. This not frist time i hear this problem about orther Trucker Over Road. Again Condolences to Family. Again not only this company has done nothing their are more Company out their doing the same thing. Some need to be done so this not happen to next Trucker family.
It is too bad this story is still around considering it is false.
Bill, can you direct me to information that disputes the version of events told by Raymond White’s family? SRT didn’t respond to requests for comments prior to the story being published, and they haven’t reached out to us since then to provide an alternate version. I’ll update the story if Covenant ever provides us with a response.
I’m the O/O who delivered Raymond to his family on the last leg. this story is not false. SRT hung up on me while trying to figure out what was going on.
I’m just going to assume that Big Bad Bill is part of covenant’s sales team or part of upper management…
Show some proof please
Isn’t Covenant Transport supposed to be a Christian trucking company? I guess the only religious thing that they practice is the love of money!!
At the same time, at your job are you not a part of the team? Does that mean you should be held responsible financially for something that is not in your control? Covenant may be “part of” SRT but does not mean it had knowledge of this situation. What a poor attempt to knock Christianity in another brother truckers tragedy. Is it not possible that with your statements you may have disgraced and personally attacked the deceased if he himself were Christian.
My wife’s father had a heart attack and was hospitalized while she was working for Covenant. They told her that if she went home, she would be fired. Real “Christian” of them…
I wasn’t knocking Christianity, I was knocking on that the fact that a Christian company denied him this very small right to be home with his family. That was not very Christian-like.
Your statement is extremely true.
Well I will knock the Covenant Group on their supposed “Christianity”. I am a Christian and the commandment to not take the Lord’s name is vain is oft misused. While it does imply not using God’s name in swearing, the literal interpretation of the Hebrew the original is written is to not carry or proclaim the name of the Lord in vain. If one claims to be a Christian, they have taken on the mantle of carrying the name of the Lord. When they broadcast how they are a Christian company, and then pull a load of rot like they did in this instance, they have trampled all over the commandment in spades. And whether SRT and Covenant are separate entities, they are part of the same group. And the group sets the direction. So, the Covenant Transportation Group set the standard and have to live by their actions, which are shameful, dishonorable, and worthy of condemnation. Deal with it.
Cliff, You are exactly right.
Well said, Cliff. Kudos.
But you can’t judge an entire company based on individuals that may not be Christians and may be there only for a paycheck. Remember evil will enter dressed in sheep’s clothing. Besides like I mentioned before, it was a connected company of covenant, not covenant itself.
You can judge an entire company as they have control over who they hire and they set the standards for all companies under their umbrella. Don’t forget the name of the group is also Covenant.
Amen.
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
First , srt is part of covenant. James is right. If you are going to fly the christian flag, then act like a christian. There are alot of companies that display the fish symbol and call themselves christians. But its there just as some sort of lucky charm to make them rich, or to instill trust. But ive found that the companies ive dealt with are just “phoney christians”. That wouldn’t help Jesus himself if they didn’t know him.
I was thinking the SAME thing. All their “Jesusy” talk is just plain BS. This man DIED in YOUR service. What wankers.
Back in 2000, my wife was going to be getting on with Covenant Transport; while staying at the motel with another woman, sharing a room, another driver , who was also going through orientation was drunk and tried to force his way into her room. What did Covenant do? Those bastards fired HER along with the driver that was drunk. DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH COVENANT !! You will be sorry, and you WILL be shafted one way or the other. Bottom of the barrel!!!
Isn’t that the “new way” for Christians?
Welcome to the world of being female! Always the hunted,and always at fault for some dumbarse males actions!
….and these companies while they won’t hire adequate armed security because they are either to cheap, to stupid, or to greedy or some combination of the three but they will tell you that you can’t protect yourself from a rapist in their school or in their truck for that matter either…..even if the scumbags have you delivering a load of guns to Dicks Sporting Good or expensive electronics or whatever.
Yeah that’s them. Guess if you’re dumb enough to spout “it’s not a choice it’s a child” on the back of your trailers then you’re dumb enough to allow this PR disaster to happen too.
just because the OWNER is a christian doesn’t mean the ones that manage it are. I’m sure that if they had brought this up to the owner he would have done the right thing.
Amen
How very christian of Covenant! They should be ashamed! Hubby has been driving for 15 years after spending 20 years in the Army active duty. It took seven companies to finally get him the respect he deserves and it sure as hell isn’t Covenant, bunch of hippocrates!
How can you say that the only thing that they love is the love of money?Evidently not the love of money if the continue to treat their drivers in the articles regards.What will you say when?That they didn’t take money seriously?Doesn’t seem to get the religious intentions that you are implying.Money isn’t so bad,it is how you handle it.When you take money out of it then you get confusion.Just as they are in this story,so i don’t think that money thing is going to float well.Why not just say that their math sucks?
yes they are, the same thing for England, was having a kidney stone there and could not get anyone to take me to hospital, real believers. of momey
Yes, England is the very very BOTTOM of the barrel! There are lots of bad trucking companies out there, mainly entry level ones, but England is the extreme bottom of the barrel!! And whatever you newer drivers do, NEVER get into a lease purchase plan with ANY of them!! You will be very sorry and will get shafted! Take it from me, with 40 years over-the-road and 4 million miles driving semis. My kids just got on with Schneider Transport, they like Schneider and are treated well. Schneider will also be reimbursing them their driving school tuition which was $3500 for each of them for a total of $7000 reimbursement over 1 year. I personally was with Schneider from 1978-1981 before deregulation. My first tractor with them was # 1194.
I agree, Schneider has them all beat as far as how they treat new drivers. When I first started driving, you had to have 6 months experience to get hired by them. I starved it out with Werner till then and swapped over. Best thing I ever did. Totally made the difference between quitting or being where I am today. Drove for them a year, then got a good job, staying close to home. Would do it all again in a heartbeat.
I am a company driver at Prime, Inc. Over the past 2 years, my family has been plagued with health issues. Our daughter was diagnosed with stage 2 colon cancer. On 3 separate occasions, I had to take off. Prime had no problem with that. As a matter of fact, the 1st time was an emergency situation, and dispatch sent a team to get the truck. Just 7 weeks ago, my wife for the past 31 years and still counting, had to have brain surgery. Prime allowed me to take off again. I was off for 5 weeks with her, now back on the road. People can say whatever they wish negatively about Prime, but in my book, they’re an understanding company where family comes first!
I loved driving for Schneider on a Dedicated flatbed account. I always made over 2800 miles a week, livable wages, and was treated with respect. Due to family illness, I had to leave to be home daily, but I miss Schneider every day.
I work for a company out of AL and they treat me with respect lease purtcising a truck almost payed off but I know there are a lot of companys that will throw the shaft to you have had a few do it in the 17yrs ive been driving
Most truckload carriers treat drivers like scum. I’m glad I paid my dues years ago and was able to get away from that type of treatment. I’ve been with one of the medium/large LTL carriers for quite awhile now. I’m paid and treated fairly, have outstanding benefits and am home every night. I am so sorry for that drivers family. I won’t judge Covenants actions because the Lord is the only judge, but I am curious as to how he would judge a company that professes to be godly but then treats one of their own like that.
A judge is one who sentences a person those who find them either guilty or not guilty are called Jurors of our peers they weigh the evidence and come to the conclusion that the person is either guilty or innocent so to judge would be to sentence a person the Bible tells us to be fruit inspectors and when we find bad fruit disclose it as bad.
Maybe in this world. There will be a just sovereign one day soon. And the word judge means just that. Look it up.
The righteous shall judge the wicked. Some of those people should be fired for this and it is right that people question and criticize them for intentional wrong doings. This was MORALLY wrong for a company to act this way.
That’s not biblical. We are commanded to judge in certain situations several times in the New Testament.
That whole judge not nonsense is hypocritical and a misinterpretation of scripture.
Think about it….If you were looking for a babysitter and someone who was a child sex offender offered to babysit it would be evil, wicked, and vile not to judge wouldn’t it? You should most definitely judge in some circumstances.
Jesus never issued a blanket condemnation against all judgment. He forbade hypocritical judgment not all judgment.
In fact he commanded us to judge in some circumstances.
Look at Mathew 7 for example…after Jesus forbade hypocritical judgment (not all judging but only hypocritical judgment) he then proceeded to command us to judge in the very same chapter.
In Mathew 7 Jesus also told us to beware of wolves in sheep’s cloathing and said that we shall know them by their fruit.
That would be judging btw…so the irony is that not only did Jesus only forbid hypocritical judgment in Matthew 7 he also commanded us to judge in Matthew 7.
Also there are verses like Matthew 18:15-17, 1st Corinthians 5, ect. ect.
David Parker was a piece of crap when I worked
For thes in the 80s , the only half ass decent person
Was Clyde fuller . I see it hasn’t changed.
I have worked on some of srt’s trucks, and they don’t want to fix anything ever…once there was an exhaust leak with gases blowing straight into the shifter boot, and into the cab, and we fought tooth and nail with them trying to tell him how dangerous it was they decided they wold fix it when it got back to texarkana, a good 12 hour drive from here, they do not care about there employees one bit.
Then it is hypocritical of covenant to be partnered with them. You should let the owner of covenant know and see what he says if you can get into contact with him.
After all the $$ mr White earned for them, and work he did for them it is a tragedy what corporate America gave back. Shame on you covenant. What goes around comes around.
And trucking companies wonder why they can’t find good drivers. Because all it’s about is the bottom line, making money. They could care less about when you’re home, what you deal with on the road, the breakdowns and downtime, all the bs that comes with driving for them. The lies about loads. Refusal to pay layovers, detention, drop pay. They forget that when you aren’t driving, you are still at work living in that truck for days and weeks at a time, while they go home to their families after their shift is done. We have to worry about being robbed, killed over the freight we haul, trying to comply with countless regulations and laws, finding decent safe parking, eating healthy so we can pass a physical, getting enough rest to drive safely, making sure the load arrives on time and intact. Yes it’s a job, a lifestyle, but a little more respect, compensation, and dignity would be nice. Especially if I die driving your truck.
Then when they here that they need to quit worrying about money the first person that they cut out is the driver.Good One.What company do you work for?
First off, SRT’s only concern at first was a missing truck and of course undelivered freight. Usually, this means a driver would have quit. Hense the telephone response to Cathy. The amazing part here is to blame it on the driver first. What becomes shocking is their actions after they found out he had passed away. To think that a fellow driver and veteran truck driver would be so poorly accused. An extreme insult is not to take care of their own driver. A fallen driver left with nothing and no help, and one who I stress did nothing wrong. What about afterward where they knew they did wrong? Any sort of financial help and good will to the remaining family? None, because they already replaced him and have gone on. I can only hope all drivers and businesses boycott this outfit. Obviously it’s all about money in their own pocket and nothing else.
Where did you see that they accused him of anything? I’m certainly not defending the SRT dirtbags but quit reading things that just aren’t there.
As a wife of a trucker. we all have this fear. We get use to them calling home at basically the same time everyday. When you don’t hear from them you pray they are just busy but, sometimes that is not the case. My prayers go out to this family and a big Thanks to Truck Charity for helping to get him and his belongings home. As far as the trucking company. It doesn’t surprise me how they acted, it’s all about the$$$$$. They should be ashamed of themselves!
I’ve been out here for 40 years & have the alarm on my phone set for 0800 every day & I call, tell her where I am & how things are going & we don’t even get along that well & I just had my 40th wedding anniversary on 7/26. Anyway, I had a couple of close friends who died in their trucks while out on the road and never heard of a company being as inconsiderate as Covenant.
I am the wife of a trucker who died in his truck far away from home. No one offered to help get him home either. I took care of it and 4 weeks later his cremains were sent to me. I won’t name the company out of michigan but if anyone asks about this company I give them a hands down. Total lack of empathy but my husband knew that’s how they ran their company. Just a sad situation.
That CHOSEN behavior, IS, both a Sin and a shame. In order to have shame, one MUST FIRST have integrity. My Father told me as a teenager, “The only thing a man’s really got, is his word and his reputation.”
I’ve been very out spoken about the way Truck drivers are treated by company’s Like SRT .Covenant, Star and Many more who treat there drivers like trash just ask for their CSA score . I hope the family of the victim Sue there ass .Any company with high driver turn over is not worth driving for . drivers should boycott SRT.
This shows you how drivers are treated .not only by company’s but by the federal government. I think Drivers should stand together and go on STRIKE !
Yeah, I agree, but if there was ANY time drivers should have gone on strike, and I mean the ENTIRE industry, was when they deregulated freight in 1981. And after the 2010 regulations hit, along with the continuing rotten Obama economy, I went on my own personal “strike” and retired after 40 years and 4 million miles of OTR. It NEVER gets better, it only gets worse, and the only way you can make DECENT money anymore is for a husband and wife team to get on with a decent company. My daughter and her fiance just got on with Schneider and Schneider asked them if 5500 miles a week would be ok with them, and they said yes, and Schneider has been doing just that, they are very happy so far with Schneider.
Schneider is an intelligent company that knows where the bottom line is, with the drivers. Keep the drivers happy and you will have a profitable company.
As seen on the back of every Covenant van. “It’s not a choice, it’s a life” I guess the views of this very (professed to be) religious company when life leaves the body it is no longer their concern.
As happens wat to often, we will be religious and upright when it suits us most..
Too many people businesses, and organizations advertise that they are “Christian” or Christ-like to draw in business, employees and to create an image of honesty, compassion and trustworthiness. From the report, Coventry SRT is none of these. This is blasphemy to God–using His name in vain. Their actions spoke much louder than the words on their rigs.
When I meet someone for business and they declare their Christianity, a red flag goes up. One’s actions will show their Christianity…..using the words to influence or to sell …that’s a red flag and a common tactic… watch their actions.
Nancy you are right. I have been a pastor for 35 years, but have never just announced that in order to get an advantage. If people don’t see Christ in me, I am doing something wrong. Actions truely speak louder than words.
Charlie,perhaps during you would be interested in pointing out more of what is going on in the imbalance of power in regards to some of the statement that I have heard in regards to money.I notice that many people like to claim that money isn’t a part of the equation,where as I certainly don’t think that it should be taken out of the equation because when it is taken out of the equation then this is where people like the trucking companies get out of hand and start taking more.Certainly religion has played a big part of this on the road and in our economy.Do you think that the subject should be less about money or more,or a better balance by eliminating those that just don’t get what money is at all.
Great point, Nancy! You are right, it is blasphemy!
Covenant needs to change their moto to “Giving “it” to the drivers and their families is what counts.”
They should remove the word family from their website ads cause that’s not how you treat family.
This is exactly why you should drive for a small company. Please have Trucker Charity contact me and we’ll donate $500. Curt Morehouse – W. N. Morehouse Truck Line, Inc. – Omaha, NE.
800-228-9378 x 202
Classy act, sir! We all should pitch in a few bucks! It could have been any of us and our families!
Wow never had much good things to say about morehouse until now never worked there just there drivers are … I will be nice and won’t say it as far as the company just went up in my book
Wow! Very impressive Curt!
Now that ^^^^ is Christian behavior. Caring for the widows and children, just a Christ instructed 🙂
You’re a good man, Mr. Morehouse. May all your kindness be returned to you and yours tenfold.
That is despicable. What a terrible way to run a business. Your workers should always be treated as if they are needed, wanted, and valuable. This reaction shows that the company holds zero value in its workforce. Such a shame.
I am so sorry that this family had to go threw this. Big company’s have no respect for their drivers. No body gives drivers the respect they deserve . And we keep taking it, we need to grow some and stand up for ourselves! Shut it down for a week and see what they think of us then. The bs has got to stop! Eighteen years I’ve been out here and it just keeps getting worse. You con bet I will never drive for STT or any of it’s sister Companies!
I ment to say SRT, get to excited sometimes
Sometime in big companies they dont even know that you work for them shame on them
My condolences to his family and friends, my heart
is saddened knowing that he may have spent his lastb
moments, alone. How, can I donate
to trucker charity inc? Truck drivers
made me the woman I am today, and
this seems like an appropriate way
of giving thanks…
http://www.truckercharity.org
Went to work for a West Coast trucking company a year and a half ago to provide some encouragement to a cousin who’d been unemployed for quite a while and who had just gotten a job with them. Would have made less than a quarter of what I was making in my own business, but was able to keep my own stuff going while on the road. One trip from Chicago to the East and across the country to the northwest and back to Chicago was all I needed to know that the people running, recruiting and dispatching in the trucking industry were cheap, controlling, manipulative abusers of the folks doing all of their work, the drivers. What good is a dispatcher if he/she hasn’t got drivers to carry and deliver the loads? I’d never treat people in my business the way these clowns treat their drivers. With so many drivers being ex-military, seems the trucking companies run their businesses like a freakin’ military unit… always issuing orders and all the crap flows downhill. This behavior by SRT/Covenant is not at all surprising to me. Just incredibly disappointing when it comes to realizing that this really shows the disdain they hold for their drivers. But then, I forgot… things have changed from the ole mule-team driver days. Today it’s the dispatchers/Driver Managers who are the real drivers… they see the OTR drivers as their mules and nothing more.
Many years ago a man was a mule driver in a coal mining operation. He operated in extremely dangerous conditions ,and was told by his boss “don’t you dare let that mule get injured or killed” to which he replied “how about me,what if I get killed” his boss said “I can have another man here if five minute,but that mule is costly and hard to come by” So there you have it ladies and gentlemen. This is exactly one of the many,many,many reasons I sit down with folks who are considering a driving career,and make sure he/she fully understands the job is primarily for mules.
Veteran turns to driving school graduate… “Son, are you sure you want to get into this business?”
OH MY GOD!!!!!
What the heck is going on in this industry? I am an ex trucker looking for a job that has respect for there drivers. But for sum stange reason I can’t find it. There are other factors also.
I feel so sad for the family because these low lifes have no respect for the people that got them the way they are and we as drivers let them get away with it that is why companies do what they do. We brought this kind of crap on our ownself.
If their ever was a job sector that needed to get together it’s this one. I don’t have any problems what to ever on my MVR. So it goes to show you how bad trucking companies are.
Again my condolences goes out to the family.
I won’t go so far as to say you can’t find what you are looking for,but it’s going to be pretty damned hard.
My ex drove for several companies in his short life. I remember 3 companies that were good to him, one was John Christner. They helped him get home when my brother died and I needed him home. All I had to do was call dispatch and they arranged it. The next company was for STG, Stallion Transport out of Beebe. Both him and my father worked for them. My dad retired from there after they got him home after having problems with his heart. The last company who will always have my respect was TRIAD. He was with them when he was diagnosed with Cancer stage 4 mets. He was not at home when he got sick but they helped him home and did not pull benefits from under him. After 8 months of chemo and while he still had his strength he wanted to take one last ride and they TRIAD gave him a trip. It was not a long one, but he so needed that trip to lay his career to rest. When he got back from that ride he died shortly afterwards. So I know that there are decent companies out there. They are not big cooperate companies for the most part.
I worked for Cal Ark back in 2006/2007. My mother was diagnosed with a massive brain tumor that had to be removed. My dispatcher called me while I was driving through Houston, Tx. and told me to drop my load at the yard and pick up a load going to Decatur, In. Then he told me about my mother’s condition. This dispatcher helped me through the terrible month of March while my mother went through the surgery, making sure I got to Ft. Wayne, In. for the surgery and then when I felt up to it, he would give me short runs to Chicago and get me right back to Ft. Wayne. My mother died April 4, 2007 and my dispatcher made sure I got back for her funeral and the company even sent flowers for my mother’s funeral. Cal Ark was a good company to work for. They got me the miles I needed every week, got me home when I requested to get home and they were very compassionate when emergencies occurred.
I know I will never work for a company as ignorant as SRT. That is sad and I
All we ever hear is these companies say is they care about their drivers. There need to be laws that make the company responsible for the return of personal items and remains.. RIP Ray…
The bigger shame is that laws would be required to make some trucking companies do the right toward their drivers.
I’ve been a trucker for 20 trs the only company I ever worked for that cared about the drivers is Southern Frieght in Atlanta I got sick in Hardeville,SC it turned out I had 6 bloodclots pass thru my heart and the owner himself paid for my wife to come to he hospital and be with me and also came there to see if I was ok that’s the difference between a big and family oriented company
Amen to that, I don’t know why anyone wants to woek for these big companies. They all suck.
It is no surprise to me. I have worked at both Swift and Werner. They all have great logos that make you think they care, like Weners logo of “We Care, Werner Cares”…
The truth is that they care abou their trucks, profits and the people that work in the office. Over 90% of the time I “HAD” to talk to office people, the only ones that were nice are the recruiters and they give you a rosey picture of the company.
Glad I work for a small company now, make 2X more money, home more and the people are friendly.
A bigger load of crap ive never seen anywhere as in the trucking industry. Ive sat through a recruiting drive by smith trucking, and it was such b.s. The recruiter would say how much they can make, then says “who would like to make x amt of dollars too! Like one would say to kids, “who would like ice cream”. And everyone would oo and aww. What a lack of integretiy in this business. Unless you can run your own truck, I would recommend to any young person, to get educated in another vocation, and stay out of trucking.
Werner and Swift are bottom of the barrel, right down there along with CR England and Covenant. SRT included. My daughter and fiance just got on with Schneider as beginning team drivers and so far they really like it.
I used to drive for Covenant. I had a trailer brake cam over and they wouldn’t fix it. I had to drive from Oregeon to Vermont to Florida then was supposed to be routed through Tennesse to finally get the brakes fixed but an old lady ran out in front of me causing a jacknife when I slammed on the brakes. I left the truck in the middle of the highway. I didn’t drive again for 15 years. This is a company to be avoided because they don’t practice what the preach. My prayers for the loss of the driver and his family.
There’s an easy solution for that one. If the company won’t fix something like a cam or any part of the brake system, then the next time you go across a scale just walk back and let them know you’d be happy to get a level one. Just sweet-talk them into not saying it was by your suggestion and that they flagged you over for a random check. You’d be out of service quick and the company would have no choice but to fix it, especially because the coop has it’s eyes on the truck.
All the trucking companys run the drivers illegal.they preach all there safety vs once you hit the road that all changes.they should be held liable for his death and poor family.I have a clean license and once the co.pants start that with me running illegal.I QUIT.hrs trucking in nj is like that.they told me they don’t care if u lie on it log long as it’s legal when u turn it in..what a shit hole company and the dispatcher was a big big Brown nose u know who u are.
Stop working for them.
Seems like this is a worker compensation matter. This company should be sued.
this is a very sad end to a career. and I applaud the morehouse trucking owner. sounds like the kind of company we all would like to drive 4. on a side note. I would be very surprised if srt paid the wife for any of the drivers last load? it is more likely that even though the driver has passed I,ll bet they put a bad mark on his dac. all larg companies are crooks. prayers to the family. again. kudos to the owners of morehouse trucking.
But, but….Covenant Transport is a good christian company that hands out religous tapes to it’s drivers. Bunch of freakin phonies.
Yes, right……..actions speak louder than words!!
Funny how you see all the religious crap on the backs of Convenant trailers. I guess that’s just more BS to try and make you think they care. Seriously, companies would eliminate drivers if they could. People are just a number and if you quit or die they just put someone else in your place. Trucking is very unhealthy and its very sad that the schedules we have to keep does not allow us the energy or time to take better care of ourselves. With trucks having tracking now days, it would have been simple for SRT to find the truck and call local authorities to do a welfare check.
Source logistics is just as bad . If their piece of worn out crap truck breaks down and your left there all week baby sitting the cargo while it’s getting repaired they won’t give you a dime. They think people just ought to hang around for free like we don’t have bills to pay. They want you to run their freight and fudge you logs . Cheap , Cheap Company. If you stop working there it will take you six months to get all your money.
Yup…just another bunch of bible-thumping hypocrites. Who’s surprised??
You know what Rick? I can’t argue with you. When these hypocrites use God as an advertising gimmick, they open themselves up to being judged, and fairly in this instance, for being the true jerks that they are.
I used to feel the same as you, but God showed me how to see above the hypocrites and liars that claim to be “his Children”.
They will answer for that one day, I can assure you!
Wow sounds strage here that SRT didn’t have GPS tracking on the unit? Find it darn hard to believe a dispatcher wasn’t concerned over a no contact for beyond a 10 hour break?
Very close to this was I drove for Smith Transport out of Roaring Springs PA. On my very first assignment I was to ride passenger from Roaring Springs over to Remington IN to get my assigned Pete. On the way over the trailer which just came out of a annual inspection lost a set of duals off the trailer in Ohio. (I have vedio of TA checking the torque of the lug nuts on the other wheels (gasp) of course one cnt grab a kug nut by hand to check for 450 foot pounds of torque. From there on I was on a search for bad trailer tires as it was common plaace to find flats or steel belt hanging out of their trailers. With that and dispatch screw ups I had enough in 5 weeks! I warned them about my concerns to no avail. I finally asked to be routed back to the main terminal to turn in the unit. I went to management and was 50/50 on quiting. I wanted the APU fixed which they wouldn’t do and hd my wife standing by in Ohio to come and get me if they refused to service it. ST answer no they were not going to fix it, so honey come get me.
In waitng for my ride home I went over into the serevice area to get my cell phone charger and gear out of the cab. Surprise, after they said NO to fixing it they were pulling the APU off and replacing it, but they wouldn’t do it to keep a driver! Well later the wife called in a panic mode (found out mountain driving freaks her out and she was in a panic attack) I went up to dispatch explained the situation hitch a ride up to I-80 and over to exit 123 Woodland (not a good place for a single woman to be sitting in a panic attack) answer NO! Youd be a risk as your no longer an employee wasa the dispatchers answer. Ooooo wait a second your the dispatcher that tried to get me to drive a truck with a flat tire from a DC to a trck stop that was fully loaded and you say this?
Well all night in the drivers loung, other drivers knew what was going on (one driver offered but I refused telling him they would fire him just to be the AH they are) Had the PA State Patrol find her and excort her to a safe place. Following morning a management official caught word of what was going on knowing the other drivers knew what was going on and finally took me to where the wife was in his personnal car!
Na NEVER AGAIN with SMITH TRANSPORT!
I drove for a tanker company (yellow trucks) for 21 years without an accident, ticket or spill. I just took time off for 3 surgeries and 32 radiation treatments, so they listed me as being on a medical leave. When I was ready to go back to work, they told me I was terminated for taking too much time off. I doubt a trucking company exists that seriously cares about it’s drivers. My cancer was most likely caused by agent orange, as I’m a Vietnam vet. Everyone says to get a lawyer and go after them, but I don’t see how I can prove anything, they don’t put the garbage they pull into writing.
I cannot believe in this day and age SRT doesn’t utilize GPS in their trucks. With a few taps on their keyboard they could locate their truck in seconds. To not claim their own driver is heartless. Their attitude to Mr. Whites girlfriend was terrible. I wouldn’t want anything to do with a company that doesn’t have any human decency or kindness. I feel sorry for Mr. White having to work for them. Can you imagine how they treated him while he was alive? There should be a clause built into all employment contracts to bring home drivers when they die on the road.
Yea mixbrix I feel you. I had this one manager at a security company once who would quote me an amount per hour for a site and then I’d get my check two weeks later (I got paid biweekly at that company) and the pay per hour would be way off…..and the dildo would lie to me and even his boss when I reported him and say he never quoted me that rate.
I learned to record his lying butt every time he called me on the phone….and actually I even told his boss I don’t want to deal with the slimmey conartist anymore.
I will record any call from any employer if legal to record said call I’m whatever state I’m in at the time….and I won’t let them know I’m recording it either….if I’m not required to in that state.
If anyone tries pulling the “I didn’t say that” conartist game with me they are going to get nailed!
My father in law died in his truck overnight at a rest stop in Rockville MD. Werner paid for his remains to be cremated and sent back to his home state in time for the funeral. They also paid for his belongings to be shipped across the country to family as well. I thought it was a classy move on their part.
I’ve seen a lot of really bad things done by trucking companies but this is about the lowest I’ve ever seen but the sad thing is I’m not surprised. Ever driver that works for these deadbeat companies enable them to get away with it, as long as a drivers do not take the responsibility to not work for companies that practice these kind of disgusting acts they get away with it.
How is a heart attack workers comp matter? If your eat like most of us eat, and don’t exercise we are all a heart attack waiting to happen.
Pretty sad day when you can utilize your entire fleet of trailers to push your views on the American traveling public by putting neon signs on them that read “It’s not a choice, it’s a child”.
The message says to me, “Look at us, look at our company, we are a christian organization, we have christian morals and values, we are God fearing christians, we attend church, we pray, we are good christian corporate citizens, we expect our employees to adopt and practice our christian values by placing our views on the trailers they haul around the country.”
But at the end of the day, when the sun sets and christians say “another hard day’s work is over and another honest hard day’s pay is earned” “it really is a choice”! There is nothing more important than the company’s money, everything else comes second, including God!
The neon sign’s should say “It’s not a choice, It’s our Money”!
This is OUR American Dream! You are our employee’s, WE OWN YOU!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
Most companies that say they are a Christian trucking company, turn out to be much worst than those that aren’t. Sad to say, this is what give Christians and Christianity a bad rap. But one thing about all of this is this, God see what is going on and venenge is his, he shall repay. I hope it be quick and fast though. Condolences to the family. Plus if I get a company, we will transported any drivers in a case like this. Sad, Sad, Sad, Shippers should boycott Star, Coverant and SRT forever move. God speed to all drivers!
None of this surprises me. I have spoken to their recruiters at srt twice in the last ten years, and found them rude at best. I found their way of doing things to be take it or leave it. Recently I spoke to one of their drivers who told me he had to ride a bus from Texarkana back to his home in Arizona. Why, you ask? He was taking ten days off due to having surgery. It took him at least a day of that on each side to ride that damn bus. That shows me what I would expect to receive. This is one ten year driver who will never end up in one of their trucks
it just shows that companies don’t give a damn about their workers ! you’re nothing but cattle to these people !
The Hypocrisy in trucking has been expansive for decades. I spent more than 20 years and 3 million miles as a driver and owner/operator with 3 trucks. Other than Harold Ives, The companies I worked for/leased to, were the same as covenant. Truck drivers are just cogs in the machinery, these companies know the drivers are at their mercy, and that the turnover is so great that very few GOOD drivers are valued any more than the bad driver.
If Drivers ever get enough people together to move management more toward the Driver as opposed to Load Coordinators and dispatchers, these companies will never change.
What a bunch of scum. Just another reason for me to bail on this industry. Driving a nice truck and being paid well isn’t even enough to keep me in it anymore.
As a Christian, I believe that “taking the Lord’s Name in vain” is to tell everyone that you follow Jesus, then act like these jerks did. Using God to sell your services is bad enough, but to act like the devil while doing it? I wouldn’t want to be these shmucks on Judgement Day!
Here’s an interesting story… http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=2953
Jesus said, “As you have done to the least of these…. so you have done unto Me.” That goes both ways Covenant…
My deepest heartfelt condolences to Cathy Rossi and the Mr. White’s family…
Hang your Heads in SHAME…SRT
I’m not a driver but when I am on the road and see a Covenant truck I always think ‘I’ll bet they’re a good company to work with because they have Christian values.’
That’s clearly not the case and even worse, they are using religion and God to market a product that clearly has nothing to do with either. I can’t think of another company that has dared to do something so hypocritical and get away with it. Sickening.
I will donate to the Trucker Charity. They seem to understand what the covenant means.
Bob Schmitt
I will donate to the Trucker Charity…..
That would be the best thing everyone who reads this story could do and I’m with you Bob.
I’d never heard of them and it’s obscene that they had to contribute to get him home but employers just don’t care about you……….
http://www.truckercharity.org/contact-us.php
what? you haven’t heard of Pilot/FJ’s fuel scam? Even the owner feigned innocence!
That’s another reason I retired early!!
Me too – – after 40 years and 4 million miles and a perfect safety record, I could see that, especially after deregulation in 1981, that it was never going to get any better. For 20 of those 40 years I was leased to Landstar which is a good company, but the Obama economy caused such cheap freight, and coupled with the 2010 regulations by this lousy government, I said to hell with it and took early retirement.
Money first, anything else is just a issue prioritized by category and importance, I know if it were me, My company would have made sure that I got home and that my belongings were sent back to my wife
imagine working in a job and discovering that most of the people you thought you were working for you can ignore. then imagine thinking safety is the boss only to have safety do a one way on you everytime. then imagine you can put a company together yourself. I suggest finding a wino or a drunk to be in charge as that is who is usually in charge anyway. and drunks are easier to pin things on ,like crooked banking practices. there, now you know everything your boss knows, get a bag man,pin it on the bag man. hope this helps,good day. as for the died in a truck thing ,it happens,most companies are a little bit carefull as they don’t want ruined interiors and you know how expensive foam mattresses are.
All they cared about when my husband die was getting their truck back to put it back on the road.
I have a story to tell // after being on the road more than 24 days, note: I started with Westside mid Jan.2013-out 21+ days at a time. Found it very difficult to get home time after notifying them weeks ahead. This is what happen July 26 2013 WESTSIDE stopped/held pay on the Friday morning…Later that weekend took the truck and placed Abandment on me…..want to haer the full story on how this transpired over time…..E mail me and ill give you my phone no. kenn
I am not a trucker, but I insure them. They are good people. We are a small agency and we take care of them like they are family.
I see Covenant trailers on the road and have been impressed by the slogan on their equipment. Now I find out the truth. It is disappointing to say the least and truly pathetic that they would treat their employee (or anyone else) that way. It is too bad that someone does not sue them for false advertising.
My condolences to the family.
Unfortunately, there are enough out-of-work bodies out there that these types of actions can continue unchecked. As long as they have their hiring/training machine up to speed, this can continue ad-infinitum. Driver turnover rates hover around 120% nationwide (average). That means at the beginning of each fiscal cycle (which is the only cycle that matters), these owners and managers know and expect that all their current drivers, plus another 20% they haven’t even hired yet, will be history before the “fiscal” year is up. They know it, they work it.
corporate greed,over a human life what a shame,as long as they get the freight delieverdthats all that matters,family company,bullcrap
Why am I not suprise. This month marks the anniversary when my husband arrived at Knight s Transportation for who he work for. Per their words he arrives in Joliet Illinois in their facilities. He states I’ve arrived, I don’t feel well I need to go to the hospital. The dispatcer tells him to hold on they will get back to you. The dispatcher went home. My husband Richard Avery Parker died on August 30th 2012 he was pronounced dead on September 1st 2012. He was 100 feet if that from their front door. Instead of doing the right thing I to wait to bury my husband one month later. Now I find myself in a legal battle because they do not feel responsible for their actions. Good luck.
Lucy, I’m so sorry for what happened to you. Please know many of us care. It’s clear that you loved him very much and many of us are like you. Good luck in your battle. Don’t forget, you have a community here that cares!
I’m sorry this happened to you.
Did they fire the guy who let your husband die?
Did you win damages? I hope you did.
Covenant truly cares about their people until the day they’re born.
I can so relate to this situation. I once worked for a large trucking company and they constantly avoided getting me home. When I needed to go home for my grandfather’s funeral (grandparents who raised me) and to go to the probate hearing; they kept re-routing me on “high priority” loads away from home. I went to another large company and things were pretty good. On Thanksgiving eve 2004; I tore my rotator cuff trying to drop a trailer who’s landing gear hadn’t seen service in probably ever… I immediately contacted my driver mgr (and so did the client’s safety mgr )… I was told to shut down till the morning as it was about 2am. They got me to an urgent care center who confirmed a rotator cuff tear and was put on rest.The next morning I was dispatched on a “high priority” load and not to the nearest terminal. They told me if I could get this load it would take me close to one of the terminals and it could be swapped out. Being relatively new and on forced dispatch I did what I was told…. One month to the day; on Christmas eve; I was still running with that tear in my shoulder. At 3am (pretty ironic), I was dropping another trailer which probably hadn’t been serviced in years, and this time, my shoulder completely went and I fell back into another trailers landing gear arm which hadn’t been hung back up. I screamed so loud from the pain in my arm and back that the yard jockey for Kimberly Clark heard me and came to my assistance. He took me to their safety officer where they asked if i could move my arm, I told them I was and my arm was just dangling; my back was cut and bleeding. They called my company’s safety dept and was told they never knew of a prior injury. My dispatcher never sent or relayed what the emergency room report to them… all for the sake of “high priority” loads….. to top it off, instead of getting me to the terminal in GA via other transportation; they told me I needed to drive my truck and new load from AL to the GA terminal! It took another 6 months for them to get surgery approved and 3 days before surgery; they put me on a bus to Yuma,AZ where my mother lives and I had to start the process of dr’s, etc all over again….. they terminated me when FMLA expired and the dr wouldn’t release me to full duty (3 months after surgery) and having me transferred to the Phoenix terminal . They had provided a hotel room during all this and when I wasn’t released; they gave me less than 4 hrs to find other housing. These big company’s don’t give a damn about their drivers; we are just a disposable commodity robot to them….. The story of the driver who died says it all…. This company also had a driver die and I think did the same thing because they had sent me to recover the truck. Small company’s like GSTC; are great because they truly care about their drivers AND keep their equipment in good order. If I still lived in the mid-west; I wouldn’t hesitate to drive for them again. To all the “big outfits” who claim to be religious and family oriented (like most of the ones out of Salt Lake City) I say poo-poo on you….. it’s all and only about the money….. When the originators of the company turned it over to the kids (CR England, and Werner), they care and concern for the drivers went in the toilet…..Insteqad of changing your name and getting backed by the church England; pay up on the class action lawsuit you lost against the drivers you screwed!!
Reading the Comments from Everyone on Raymond’s last ride Journey to get back home on the link. I am so grateful that The Missing Truck Driver Alert with Kari Fisher’s group on facebook stepped up and helped to find Raymond when SRT wouldn’t even look for their own driver. Because Kari Fisher postings on Missing Truck Driver Alert many of us got angry that SRT was handling this situation this way. We all posted and shared to all the truckers and pilot car room to help get the funding to Truckers Charity to get Raymond home to his family. The Love, concern and care shown by everyone who moved the posts from room to room to get this funding together and those who donated money , shows that Trucker drivers and Pilot cars care more about human compassion , and respect for our Truck Drivers than SRT does. Together we all can make a difference by helping one another. I personally felt so Blessed to see the out pour of compassion everyone showed to make sure Raymond was returned home to his family. I want to say God Bless each and every person who Donated to the fund and who posted to all their friends and groups to get the word out at the atrocity that was being done to Raymond and his Family – God Bless all of you
Ah Yes Covenant. The same company featured on the TV show “To Catch A Predator.” That’s right. A Covenant driver DROVE his bobtail right up into the driveway of the bait house!! After they arrested the guy for soliciting a minor and searched his truck, you guessed it, they found a baggy of crack! Funniest thing I’ve watched in a long time. Not very Christian like. Unless you’re Catholic!
Holy crap what happened to humanity!
Isn’t that the truth. Give these companies years and years of dedication and the spit on you when you need them the most. Then they wonder why drivers are getting out of the industry. Just goes to show you that there is no loyalty whatsoever. Example. Arrow recently.
This is pretty much about the most outrageous thing I’ve heard in a long time, and I hear a lot of outrageous things. Especially where this industry is concerned.
This doesn’t surprise me. The majority of these large company’s treat you like s**t. This is one of the biggest reasons I’m moving 650 miles to a area with a much larger demand for drivers. I’m tired of working for s**thole company’s like SRT.
I have become very cynical of any company who pushes their religious beliefs along with their business. I have come across 3 companies that have done that and they turned out to be crooked. I am not saying that all companies that tout christianity heavily as their business model are that way but should be looked at more closely to make sure they aren’t trying to hide something. Sometimes a business does this to gain trust. Telling somone you are christian will make some “let their guard down” and get burned in the process. My condolences to the family. You have had enough pain without this hassle.
SRT/Covenant is by no means the only company that couldn’t care less about the drivers. While working for Simon before they became Central Refrigerated, I was denied a trip home when my stepfather passed away and lost the opportunity to say goodbye and attend the funeral. I was only around 800 miles away from home. My condolences go out to this family and every other family that has been put in a similar situation. God Bless all the men and women who sacrifice their time away from family, and even their lives, to drive a truck and keep America running.
The saddest thing is that I know they could have pinged that truck and pinpointed its location in seconds. Instead it took putting out an APB to police and truckers to find this man. That is a disgrace and his FM should be ashamed.
you know what I drove a truck for 17 years and I can just imagine that some trucking company`s would do that! but then again their are some people who have a heart, but that company don`t have one!! it`s ashame that their people out there like that, money hungry company that’s all . I`m Sorry for your loss!!
I cannot believe in this day and age SRT doesn’t utilize GPS in their trucks. With a few taps on their keyboard they could locate their truck in seconds. To not claim their own driver is heartless. Their attitude to Mr. Whites girlfriend was terrible. I wouldn’t want anything to do with a company that doesn’t have any human decency or kindness. I feel sorry for Mr. White having to work for them. Can you imagine how they treated him while he was alive?
This just makes me sick to my stomach. The Family is in my prayers and shame on you SRT. You wiull get yours in the end.
it is a sad day when your company even a small company let alone a large company as this one care so little about its drivers that it couldn’t even take the small amount of money it would cost to them to have the decency to transport that driver back to his family I say as of this moment on it all drivers driving for that company or the company’s affiliated with it should be leaving there is plenty of other companies out there that pays well or better need drivers I think this company needs to be shown what the consequences are of not having a little bit of respect for the drivers drive for it is time for all drivers to start leaving start buying other jobs and leave that company will get the message when they don’t have anybody to holler loads enough drivers leave that it put them out of business and then with no bill have to worry about that company doing it again
It’s a pathetic company that has no respect for its drivers. The men and women that make the company what it is. That’s true respect. Pisses me off the selfishness that surrounds us. I’m glad to not work for them.
SHAME ON COVENANT AND SHAME ON SRT. WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND.
if I was the family I’d hire a lawyer and go after the trucking company for liable he was in there truck when he died and Sue SRT
I’m a owner/op here at T-Bros. I work on the small logistics side hauling intermodal cans. One of our o/o drivers had a stroke, our dispatcher and our supervisor left in the middle of the day to go visit him in the hospital. Basically they shut down dispatch for a couple hours. This what you get at small family owned company vs a large corporate company. The funny thing is it never fails when a company starts out small things are good and as they get bigger they get greedy and everything suffers because of it, mainly the drivers and equipment. To many people in the office crunching #s trying to figure out how to squeeze more money out of the drivers and equipment. That is the corporate world. Condolences to the family.
Please see the comment noted below that a mechanic has knowledge that SRT has let trucks go with CO leaks. Carbon Monoxide can cause many issues one of them being a heart attack. I do hope an autopsy was ordered and blood work done. If they did not directly ask for a carboxyhemoglobin test, the family needs to .
Fallen families need to stick together and start making these company realize that we will not be forgotten.
Is their a general address in which we can send the family condolences?
Cynthia, I know a driver who used to be at Interstate Distributor Company who almost died in his truck because the company would not take care of the five massive exhaust leaks in the truck. A team abandoned the truck for the same reason in Florida before they gave the truck to this solo as part of ongoing punishment against the solo driver.
A company will kill a driver and not bat an eye when they’ve finished their harassment.
Oh, after the exhaust leaks were found, the driver asked to go to the hospital for a blood gas test. The women in human resources told him, “No, you cannot go have that blood gas test done. If you do, you might as well clear your stuff out of your truck right wherewhere. you sit. We forbid it.”
No wonder Interstate Distributor Company had to sell out to Saltchuk
Don’t you need specific operating authority to transport human remains? Shouldn’t the family, through a funeral home make those arrangements? I’ve never heard of that falling to the deceased’s employer.
I am the wife of a trucker. It has nothing to do with religion, let’s face it society as a whole has lost it’s common sense along with caring and compassion. Regardless if a company is Corporate or Family Owned they will still do you wrong just the same. Not all companies are bad but, those are few and far between. Most preach to have an open door policy or to treat you like family but, when it comes time to step up to the plate , they fall way short. I feel sorry for the family not only did they have to deal with the loss of a loved one but, then the company held not only him but, his possessions basically hostage. Hopefully the family will now be able to grieve properly.
I was going to pass on their email to post, but their site does not list it easily. Guess it must be googled. Their site indicates they are family oriented. People need to let them know how wrong their actions were…..if you can find the email of an executive in the companies. I see they are based in Tennessee…….wasn’t there recently another negative incident attributed to Tennessee??
I guarantee walmart would of not treated on of their drivers or drivers families like this.
I wouldn’t drive one of their trucks if they were the last company on earth. I hope their drivers leave in droves and they go bank rupt.
it is a dam shame that a company of that size would not send the remains and belongings home. how much money did that driver made for the company during his employment there and yet they want to be paid for that is just down right wrong my heart goes out to the family and to the company kiss my ass u get what u deserve
Co incidence, but NOT a reflection on the entire state and people of Tennessee….Tennessee is where the “Trucker Spy” (see previous article) got away with shooting at a truck driver in a road rage incident. The guy worked filming bad driving of trucks, presenting the film to the companies and requiring payment from companies or drivers to keep the film out of public viewing. Seems like extortion. This filming created a road rage incident in which the guy shot and barely missed injuring or killing an owner operator. The Tennessee Court was lenient and let him off with little consequences. Covenant Trucking is also based in Tennessee according to their website.
I’m sure if the trucker legally defended himself with his own guy. from that scumbag the trucking company would have fired him.
Christian Trucking Company? I can’t tell!
I work for a large retail store chain as a driver. While in orientation my wife’s father passed away and the transportation manager and assistant manager attended the services and we received cards from all over the nation. That is how a truly great company treats their drivers. Condolences to the drivers family god is steering his rig now
I would venture a guess that you work for Walmart, Kmart or Big Lots. You’re a fortunate person.
That does not surprise me one bit, don’t get me wrong, there is some companies who would bend over backwards for something like that and its usually the mom and pop companies. Big companies are destroying our values in life just so that we can feed our families and they could care less.
How about that dateline episode “to catch a predetor” that showed the Covenant truck driver show up in the company semi with hopes of getting it on with a 14 yr old…. That wasn’t very “Christian” either….
That figures…Covenant is a bible thumping bunch of hypocrites.
That driver probably wasn’t one of the gullible ones that would pray with them whenever he had to come into a terminal.
Sounds like Interstate Distributor Company. You could fill a clime of books with the crap they’ve pulled on drivers… like when one of their driver’s mother was dying, they arranged for him to get home. But, his dispatcher, who didn’t like the driver, took the home-bound dispatch off him and gave it to the driver’s friend,. At the time, they were forced dispatch so the driver would have been fired for refusing his new load going to the west coast instead of to Pennsylvania. Needless to say, the driver got a phone call from his family that if he wanted to see his mom alive he better get there right away.
The driver dropped the load on their Denver yard, and asked the company to pay for his flight home since they did this out of spite. They refused, saying the driver accepted the iload. The driver reminded them he had no choice but to accept the load or be fired.
So, arrangements were made by the driver to fly home with his usual airline… and he made it just in time to see his mom before she took her last breaths. (This same company wrongfully fired the driver by phone 30 minutes after major surgery after an on-the-job injury the same year)
The airline gave him a bereavement discount, $400 round-trip
@Thunder62, do you drive for Walmart by chance? They do stuff like this. So does Kroger.
By “stuff like this” I mean sending management to funeral, helping with arrangements and expenses… Only about 5% of the companies out there will go out of their way to help you. And about 25% will go out of their way to screw you. The other 70% just don’t care.
Kinda like church… every church is the same. You have those 5% to 10% that are the exemplary few who really serve God (the believers), and the 20% to 25% that cause 98% of all the trouble (the make-believers) and the rest, the majority, who go cuz they were brought up that way, like traditional thinking without an experience… (the unbelievers) which sums up EVERY CHURCH. All of them.
Trucking companies are no different, no matter what public face they put on, and what Scripture they put on their trailer doors.
The proof is in their actions.
One company I drove for recently, the owner answered a call from my bank, and pretended to be me. I didn’t have him arrested for what he did there but I DID report him to the FTC and the FBI. Strangely, all of a sudden I am getting credit card offers in the mail from hundreds of banks… proof he did something and I WILL. have to have him arrested when I find out what he did… so I’m ordering my credit report.
Given the choice, people will usually do the wrong thing if they have nothing on the inside to stop stop them.
Synopsis? An unconverted heart is the breeding ground of evil, and too much money blinds us from the fact that we need God in our life.
Ok. Well, that’s covered. The USA will crash within 1 to 5 years, there’ll be no jobs, no money, no gas or diesel and little food. Then the “high and mighty” will the same problems as the poor… maybe multiplied because they’ve never had to exist and survive before like many of us have had to do.
You better have your emergency supplies and your family/friend network solid with an emergency plan. Martial law will be certain to get the solo survivalists and put them behind bars. Safety in numbers.
American television… don’t watch it. It makes your brain mushy. It depicts men as weak, pathetic, worthless worms and women as dikey – spirited control-freak rulers of men… not the harmonious one-ness way that God intended it.
Keep looking up, everyone, and let’s pray for mercy for ourselves and all those evildoers out there too… we ALL need help from God, especially the wicked if their eyes can ever be opened to it.
God bless.
Tubby
@Cynthia Hightower, I know a former driver for interstate distributor company who almost died in his truck in December 2004, and January and February 2005 because the company refused to admit the truck had massive exhaust leaks… FIVE to be exact, and they forbid the driver to go to a doctor for a blood gas test. Most companies to not care about the drivers… and the bigger they get (except for Walmart, fedex, ups and Kroger) the worse they treat the drivers.
I’d go for the blood test anyways…..and then I’d sue the crap out of them when it came back positive.
I record all phone conversations with employers when legal though. Learned the hard way that one should most definitely do that and shouldn’t let them know they are being recorded unless legally required to let them know.
Just because a company takes a label of being a Christian ran company doesn’t mean they are.
If I was working for this Pathetic, non caring, heartless bunch of trash, I would immediately turn in my notice, furthermore, If their were a way to boycott this bunch of losers I would participate as the leader. This So called Company needs to be ran out of the Country.
this is disgraceful … all drivers in this company should quit ASAP.
The family is in my prayers. God bless you all.
I no longer need to wonder why so many Covenant drivers are lacking in necessary skills: most of the good ones go to reputable companies and the few decent drivers Covenant has know what management did last summer….
John Burleson
Covenant is not the good Christian Co. they claim to be. They broke the covenant with G_D.
I am 98% sure US Xpress owns all these company’s without changing there name, So they can fly under the radar of becoming a monopoly in the Gov. watchful eyes,
It might be possible this company is so big that the owner didn’t know anything about it. Dis patch didn’t tell anyone higher up the chain of command
We need a public forum (may I suggest Facebook), or some other public social networking website whereby professional drivers can report the character of their employers so that other drivers can be knowledgeable of the poor employment conditions and lack of respect exhibited by these atrocious selfish, conceited and greedy capitalist. No other industry or occupation is as tainted with distrust, lack of professional respect and out right egregious displaying of unethical treatment of labor as irregular route carriers in the trucking and transportation industry. This must stop. When will the collective professional drivers unite in solidarity and unionize and organize?
make that “No other industry or occupation is as tainted with distrust, lack of professional “disrespect” and out right egregious displaying of unethical treatment of labor as irregular route carriers in the trucking and transportation industry. The word respect was changed to disrespect…my apologies for the typo…
Shame on srt. And yes covenant preaches the mighty Christian agenda. Please dont say covenant doesn’t have knowledge about what goes on in their company, yes it may be managed but the management is well aware of their Christian views.
Secondly, it boggles my mind why drivers with that much of road behind them would even look at dirt bags such as covenant and s*it raggitty trucking(srt)
Condolences to the family.
So sorry to hear the loss of your beloved loved one. My deepest condolence to the family. But I guess this just goes to prove that, no matter what you do or how much you do for a company…it just goes to show that your just a number .. but I wander what would it be if it was one of their family members..!??,, Just goes to show that we as drivers, the backbone of America, are NOT recongnized or appreciated for what we do out here.. I’m 3rd generation of drivers in my family..my grandpa drove 40 years, my uncle, 20 years, and I myself for 10….way to go “SRT “, real Christian examples..!???, I’d be ashamed!!!
This man lived about and hour from my home and when I read this story I was appauled, granted I am not a trucker , but never the less the story broke my heart. I let SRT know how I felt by leaving a not so nice message to them on their facebook page, I let them know karma has a way to bust them in the balls and I hope that it does it soon.
It was terrible the way the treated this man and his family and then requested money from them to send them his belonging… May that company and the one who made that choice to deny the family the respect burn in hell
In the technology age that we now live in, I can’t think of a better way for SRT to ruthlessly screw up their recruiting efforts of future drivers than to be so blatantly disrespectful of one of their own employees…..I will never……ever…..look at this company with ANY respect again… Totally UNPROFESSIONAL and UNSAT!!!!!!
most trucking companies life insurance gets paid to the company as beneficiery rather than to the family – this is the reason when a beneficiary is declared it often times get deleted
wow just sad for a company to do this, $2k is nothing to them, thats just a load. Well I know that company will never see me looking at them for a trucking job. There was a story a few years back when a long time trucker died Swift Transportation actually sent a couple trucks to his funeral as a salute. Not saying Swift is a good company but at least they showed some compassion.
I am a driver for Srt. First off let me say my condolences for Ray’s family and friends. I have been trying to get back to SRT’s yard to quit. They are the worst company I have experienced in thirteen years. They treat me like a number and I was moving freight for them… no wonder how they treated Ray. They are part of the “Covenant Transportation Group”. They say that they are not owned by Covenant, but I can not confirm that. One situation, that happened to me just the other day: They wanted me to sit, awake, all day and wait for a swap to come to where I was located. I had several hours to kill. I asked permission to go 15 miles up the road to a Flying J Truck Stop so I could take a shower and scan paperwork. I was at a truck stop already. However, I have made such poor pay checks here I did not have the money to pay for a shower. I asked my DM (driver manager) if they would reimburse me the cost. “WE DONT PAY FOR SHOWERS” was her reply. I was made to sit there all day, and then they took the repower off of me. They find every reason to fine you, take money from you. One thing that is mandatory is a daily check call. This is when a driver sends in pertinent info the company uses to plan loads, keep in contact with the driver, and to show the customers where you are and what not. I am truly surprised that a DM did not notice that Ray had not done a check call, and not try to contact him, and, upon, no contact, dispatch emergency services to his location. GPS tracking on the trucks? YES THEY HAVE IT!! One on the truck, and one on the trailer. BUT, it costs MONEY to utilize this device to a pinpoint location. I have seen this tool used to pinpoint a trailer, satellite video close enough to read the trailer numbers. The inaction of SRT is DESPICABLE to say the least. I will not be surprised if they do not get hit with a major civil lawsuit over this one.
i am sorry for your loss God bless you and all the people that helped him get home to you i hate the way this company did yall my husband and i worked for a small company and if anything bad happened i will have to say the owner and everyone that worked there would pull together my husband pulled mobile homes and i was the flag car driver when he passed with lung cancer Home Transport in Waycross Ga was very good to us i will never forget it You can not do ugly and get get by with it one day the owner of this company may need someone and find out what it feels like
Drivers…. one more thing….. WE HAVE ALLOWED THIS TO BE HAPPENING TO US!! IF WE COULD JUST STAND TOGETHER AS A GROUP THE HOS REG’S AND THE TREATMENT WE RECEIVE FROM COMPANIES WOULD CHANGE!!!!!!!!
We need to get the news video up on you tube, and , drivers….. we need to make this VIRAL!! Nothing is ever going to change if WE don’t change it.
I live in Europe and took a job driving semi’s in 97/98 to see what it was like working in the USA.
It was the most degrading and frustrating experience I have ever had the misfortune to experience.
The dispatchers were swine and drivers were generally treated with utter disdain by management.
However I can’t say that the drivers deserve any better. Had they had the gumption and brains to have an active and strong union instead of relying on charity organizations to help when the drivers get treated badly by the trucking company.
Back to the days of Roosevelt when being part of a union was a basic right and applauded by the government ! Minimum wages for driving semi and living in a traktor for 8 months at a time ?
So very sad. Covenant, the parent company, once promoted itself as a Christian Carrier, I assume that is no longer the case. In my years as a trucker, 38, I can’t even count the number I have seen found dead in truckstops, rest areas, ramps and just along the highways. Companies do not care about us, we are no more than a added nuisance to their existence.
It just goes to show,this business has gone to hell,of course you look at a company like SRT or any of these large companies that operate today,it is about the all mighty buck.whether involves their own or not.You wonder,back in the sixty’s and seventy’s and even before that time companies did take care of their own!I do believe we have too many crazy sick bastards like SRT,Covenant,and the rest of these larger companies.in this business today, these companies don’t care about their personnel,it’s all about the buck,and the numbers person who is behind the operation.It really makes me sick to hear some of these companies say,we have a open door policy here,when I feel it’s just another way for these companies to figure out a way of protection towards a maybe problem area.Trucking needs to get back to the old ways,THE BASICS always works.Let’s all take our jobs and our business back,and take it away from those people who bulls–t the real drivers and their families,and deny those who really deserve the helping hand in need at such a bad time.
There use to be a Doc Holliday that lived close to a 76 truck stop in Tennessee that run the west coast back in the 70’s, would you happned to be that Doc Holliday? Did you know Gravedigger?
what else would you expect out of srt. that company is known for running drugs. I went to there orientation in 2008 and from what i seen on how they treat the drivers. was enough for me to know they were a scumbag company.
I am sorry that the family got treated like that. the truth! srt was taking advantage of the families emotional state. trying to profit from the drivers death. so the life insurance policy was probably file by srt once they found out the driver was dead. the family will never see a dime of it . I wish i could say that this kind of treatment is rare. the truth. it happens more then people know.
In my own personal life. on july 9 2013 one of my nephews was killed in a accident. at the age of 18. he was just out of high school. he was on his way home from the first day of his first job. he fell asleep at the wheel and hit a concrete truck head on. the wrecker company that worked the accident. the owner of the wrecker company refused to let my sister to have any of the personal effects that was my nephews. and the owner of the wrecker company demanded the title and a $350. fee for the tow and storage. well to make a long bad story short. when they were finally allowed to get the personal effects. the employees of the wrecker company stole everything of my nephews out of the truck that was in my sisters name.
so every one knows. they not going after the truck driver or the concrete company.
people get taken advantage of all the time in situations like this. plus for the people who want to know. the wrecker company is out of marshall,ill. I don’t know the name of the wrecker company.
in the case of srt. they don’t have to release or help with the transport of the drivers personal effects. so a great rule thumb for truck drivers to remember. only take your clothes,shaving kit,blakets, and the basic paper work that you need. nothing else. and you will want to make sure that every thing fits into 2 bags.
as a past srt driver I wonder if his heart attack could be linked to the inability to have cool air because of there no idle policy
Hire a good Jewish lawyer to sue their not so Christian asses. People like that company give real Christians a bad name. The Bar Association can assist you in finding a competent licensed lawyer.
Thank God for Trucker Charity Inc. There are always going to be companies like SRT, that make bad decisions based on budgets and company policies or the lack there of. This man and his family deserved better treatment than this no matter how long his employment or who he was driving for.
It is tragic that a driver is good for one thing ,MAKING MONEY, And then dropped of the list once he outlives his usefulness , As long as the driver is doing what his/her company wants, he/she are part of the team, but in this case I think the word team only works for one side against the other.
It’s a shame how inhumane companies can get to be, and ironically they demand our loyalty.
Wondering aloud, …did SRT dock the deceased driver’s final pay…or seize his money from the drivers Escrow account, failure to return their equipment???
Reporters, need to press this subject…im annoyed by their apathy by SRT, whom should of been concerned enuff to demand direct communication w/deceased after being told by someone their missing…that simple declaration does not occur often.
My condolences the White family and Ms. Rossi.
Back in the 70’s, my dad had a heart attack. The owner of the company I was leased to who is a jew flew me home from Seattle to Denver round trip. After a week or so, flew bacl got my truck and loaded for Denver. On my settlements I never saw where they took out for that plane ride. That Trucking company name was Curtis, it no longer exists wa
s sold to FFE on April Fools Day.
I’ve been leased to various trucking co. that were jerks like farty dart, Henderson, tripped leased to shady brokers and carriers. Have little more than 4.9 million as of May,2013. Am supposely (re)tired as of now. I still get the itch to drive.
When he was found to be missing, the load not delivered, do you suppose they reported him to DAC as an abandoned load? The ultimate insult from a poor ,unethical company. More’s the pity for any driver working there! To have ethics, you must have a conscience, so to the company, you have an empty trailer for a conscience!
Here’s hoping every driver walks away from SRT/Covenant. And here’s to the driver, may he 14 into Heaven before the DOT finds out.
God’s Blessing on the family of this driver, and may God rest him in peace.
My mom had the similar experience a fewonths ago, we had to have him cremaster out of state and shipped back never even got to see his body. He actually had been sick and asked to be sent south to home instead was sent all the way west . Anyways he had collapsed at a truck stop and a state trooper offered to clean the truck and ship the stuff back however the company refused to allow them and promised a safe return of all his belongings. Instead they sent another driver out to finish his delivery and return the truck to the yard the. Go through it well u guessed it several things went missing and never returned home. The hr lady was very rude to my mom said not her problem on the phone said ” are we done here” and hung up on her . What a bitch. Absolutely no consideration for dedicated drivers. He was with the company 7 years
What is name of company you are speaking of? Sorry for your loss.
I didn’t read all of the posts here. But I did read a few.
I’ve been apart of the transportation business my whole life.
From sweeping the floors in my fathers garage to running the company
And everything in between..
This is not about religion and what your believes are.
This is about a fellow driver with 20yrs under his belt a man
Who paid his dues to a industry that no longer cares about each other.
This used to be a brotherhood a industry of men and women who looked
out for each other. But not anymore its a dog eat dog world.
SRT should be a shamed of themselves…
It’s storys like these that piss me off..
This is another reason why we need to shut this down.
We need to unite and come together as a whole from big companys to single owner ops.
It can happen if we all do it together..
But it will never happen because all these large companys are lining the pockets of political powers
I have never heard of a trucking company doing this, with over a dozen years behind the wheel, and having driven for 5 carriers, I am sure all 5 of them would have made sure their deceased driver be returned home. I will never put my application in to drive for SRT or the other carriers mentioned!
What is this? Your first trip. This is a trucking company. Anyone who thinks they care about a driver is foolish.
Wait till the family receives his last check and finds a deduction for truck recovery. And, I bet they still post abandonment on his DAC.
Like I said…Welcome to Trucking. Drivers 101
Where i was driving it was a requirement to send send in our hours everyday. This lets the company know you are still alive and kicking. There would not have been a problem with the company tracking the truck down since they use a qcomm and should have known something wasn’t right if the drivers are required to make contact with the company atleast once everyday. Why this woman got treated like she did just shows the company isn’t worthy to work for.
Is Covenant still charging company drivers to mail in the trip pack? This is a dirty tactic as the driver makes minimal and the company gets the lion’s share of the profits. A little bit of leaven …
You all should email srt with your thoughts…
As far as getting a driver home after being deceased, that is an issue. But not giving a girlfriend information when she does not hear from her boyfriend in not outrageous. No company is going to give out personal information to a non family member. I doubt SRT was rude, I bet they more than likely told the girlfriend the facts. No personal info…PERIOD… My 2 cents that is standard of all companies.
ATS out of St. Cloud, Mn. Has sent trucks to assist local law enforcement when contact is lost with one of our drivers. In situations like this we have had. The closest authorized truck is routed to bring our driver and his personal belongings home. A second team will recover the truck after the assigned driver has made it home. If family approves a authorized company driver will bring the driver and truck home of an owner operator. Its simply the right thing to do to see to it that the driver and their belongings get home.
My company just went through the same thing with a whole different attitude. The fellow had been parked 2 days in Il. truck running while under a load. They phoned the local police to check on him. He had passed away due to a heat attack. They went into action. Sent a truck down (from Canada) with 2 drivers and an extra truck on the float. They loaded the float trailer with the deceased drivers truck (he was an owner op) put the extra truck under the load for delivery. Then brought the float home for the widow. NO CHARGE!!!!!!! They did not stop there. The interior is being replaced (smell was bad) truck is being detailed so the widow can sell the truck whole instead of parting out. They are doing this on their dime.
Actions speak for themselves. I won’t mention names for respect to the widow and family. But the next time I’m pissed off and want to change companies. I will be thinking long and hard before leaving a place that will go to those extremes for one of there own!
As a past employee of Covenant I can personally respond to the mis-information on Covenant. Yes, they (The Management) professes Christian ethics. But they do not support them. Promised loads available on my home lane (US59, and I-20). I live between Houston and Shreveport. Heavily traveled by CTG. but everything my load went thru there I was miraculously Re-Powered away w a so-called Hot Critical Load to elsewhere.
They (SRT) were asked to help, refused to even help locate driver. Much less being him home. Even told the family it would cost them to transport him home. Even if it is a sub of CTG, they still should have shouldered the bill to get Their Dedicated driver home. But greed is what funds CTG, not compassion. You cannot convince me the Management of CTG were unaware of this. Exactly why they have bullet proof glass between dispatchers and drivers!!! They know they are messing up on a continual basis. Anyone standing up for CTG is Guilty by Stupidity!
When the Roll is called, the man that started Covenant might be there, but his sons and stockholders won’t!
Some trucking companys need to remember that the only reason they are in buisness is because we are driving the truck for them. Its is getting hard and harder to find a company that cares. But this story is sad and I’m sorrry for there loss.
I had the same problem with the morons at cr england. I was 1000 miles from home when my dad was in the hospital. Not knowing if he’d live long enough to tell him bood bye. The company kept me in Tx. Almost 2 weeks instead of sending me to Ga. I finally told my manager I was going home with or without a load. I made it to eastern Louisiana before they called me with A load. Pathetic, cold hearted morons putting nore care into a load of broccoli than the drivers.
i’m not surprised by these dirt bags.they fired me after i gave 2 weeks notice.came and got the truck while i was at home so this nonsense they didn’t know where the truck was is a bold face lie.they then stole all my clothes and dvd’s and cd’s and a 300.00 cb.SRT and Covenant gives trucking a bad name
Just a heads up, you can download an app for your cell phone then you can be tracked where ever your phones at, most are accurate within 50 feet. Have your spouse install this if there on the road. Would make it easy to find if need be.
Apple’s https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gps-phone-tracker-locate-anyone/id460832829?mt=8
Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fsp.android.c&hl=en
covenant. now there’s a name that has ALWAYS been associated with TROUBLE (notice the capital letters). they somehow seem to dig farther down in any barrel for drivers that any other company has….and in fact i believe they probably move that barrel and scrape under it to get some of their drivers. some of the one’s i’ve witnessed climbing out of those trucks take ‘couldn’t believe my eyes’ to a whole different level. there’s no way in hell they can tell me that they do an aggressive background check for each and every bone of their drivers. it goes WAY beyond ‘one or two bad apples squeezed through’. surely they shouldn’t be allowed to continue to operate, it seems their sole purpose is to make every other outfit in the country is staffed with church-going choir members! hey covenant, please just roll over and permanently park those trucks, the only thing you’re accomplishing with them is wasting fuel and everyone else’s time!!!
Pure trash! The greed in this country has no limits!! Sorry for your loss.
New slogan for Covenant. We only care about the living. So you better not die on us.
Did they include the “Fuel Surcharge” ?
http://www.truckercharity.org/contact-us.php – We can’t change any of these companies that treat their employees bad – Just pay ahead and donate to Trucker Charity and we can take care of our own!
This is disgusting! What kind of company does stuff like this. I will never EVER recommend or work with these companies. As a independent company, we do many brokered loads and these companies will not get access to our trucks. SRT should immediately give that money back to Trucker Charity and sponsor them going forward. The family should be reimbursed any cost. The man died on duty in their truck, they SHOULD have some responsibility here. Like you said even a human component. I’m going to write to their owner/CEO and make them aware of the black eye they have given their company. They need to take the proper steps to correct this horrible act from a loss of their employee. Shame shame shame on them!
Weather or not they are part of the covenant team does not matter. Srt itself is a nationwide recognized carrier to the professional driver. They are as well known as covenant, swift, jbhunt, prime and so on and it only goes to show that the only thing they care about is themselves. It’s just a small life lesson that is hard to learn “work for small guy get the good company benefits, work for big guy get the good health care benefits” It’s impossible to say who the best “BIG” company to work for is but when a driver Passes away in your truck and your first concern is how much can we milk a family for versus let’s get the driver home to his family that just goes to show off some of those “BIG COMPANY BENEFITS”
The way I see i, I believe the white family should file a lawsuit against srt I am sure there is something they can can them on, furthermore I feel people should start calling the company and give them their piece of mind I know I am
I’m not a Christian. But in atheism that horribly wrong. People must respect other people. You don’t have to be a Christian to have morals, and to believe in the humane treatment of others.
What can you expect? The president of SRT & his brother got fired from their job at the Freightliner house in Texarkana years ago for stealing. He was the Service manager & his brother was the shop foreman. Them later down the road he did not pay his taxes on his trucking company & IRS stepped in, he was losing his trucking company & at the last minute the Covenant Group stepped in & bought him out & even gave him a high paying job. He did filed a lawsuit blaming his tax man but he was the one who failed to pay all of those taxes, not his tax man. He lost the lawsuit, appealed it & lost once again. Just search for “TONY SMITH TRUCKING, et al. v. WOODS & WOODS, LTD.”
Really? Then I guess the owner of covenant is 100% a wolf in sheep’s cloathing and a hypocrite.
As Jesus said….you will know them by their fruit.
My son passed away in his truck in Loredo,Tx. His last message was that he was done for the day,on september 15 at 2:03. The family called him several times that night and next day. On the morning of September 17 the truck stop ,where he was last known to be,was Called.. An employee of the truck stop checked and found him in his truck. He had passed away. The trucking company was called and advised of situation. His truck had a gps tracking system and the trucking company should have known something was wrong in that length of time.
I think it is the responsibility of the company to know where their truck ,driver and load is daily. Due to the delay in discovering him he was in a stage that we could not recognize him by his features.
Hope that doesn’t happen to the family of the southern refrigerated driver that was just found dead here in Fort Wayne tonight
Although I just now read this story in 2017, it is so moving that I am compelled to log a comment in. God Bless all parties involved for being there and taking the initiative to involve themselves in locating and transporting Raymond White – it’s people like them with good moral character who make a difference in our world.
It truly escapes me how Southern Refrigerated Transport could show no interest in looking into where Raymond White was after Ms Rossi contacted them with a viable reason for concern about his welfare. First, they’re nasty to her on her initial call – and the person who received her call HAD to have heard the extreme concern in her voice. Then even worse, they left her hanging in the wind by not
calling her back – talk about a lack of humanity – it’s disgraceful.
But her resourcefulness and determination to find him led her to “The Missing Truck Driver Alert Network” – and kudos to them and to the New Mexico State Troopers for helping her find her missing man. Thanks and kudos also to “Trucker Charity, Inc.” for stepping up to the plate and arranging to transport him home. And of course, love is extended to the three drivers who took Raymond home where he rightfully belonged.
I have never heard of the Missing Truck Driver Alert Network, and their dedication to “fostering the brotherhood of trucking that they so deeply miss” is a wonderful demonstration of keeping humanity and cohesiveness alive in their profession – I’m really moved by that. It reminds me of the sense of community that used to exist in our neighborhoods that is long gone, but needs to return; it makes for a much better society if we stick together for the greater good of all.
I belatedly mourn with Ms Rossi for the death of her man; for what she had to got to, to find him – and then to learn that her worst nightmare had come true when she learned of his death … when I learn of stories like this, it makes me wonder why things go this way for some. But amidst all the initial adversity, this story had a heartwarming end that showed us that there still are very kind people in this world, and thanks to Truckers Report for making this known. Stories like this should be showcased to remind everyone out there that there are more important things than pursuing money. It restores my faith in humanity to know that there are others out there like me who don’t hesitate to help those they are able to help rather than turning their back.
I have not had that experience with SRT. Twice I have not been able to get ahold of my fiance over the 3 years hes worked for SRT. Both times I became quite emotional because it was unusual for him to go long periods without any contact. I called SRT both times and they were very kind and understanding and helped get in contact with him. (His phone had died both times.) I cant speak to anyone elses experiences and thankfully mine was not as heartbreaking as this story.
I have a nice story back in 1980 I drove for Schneider transport now national. I was 33 years old my mother got sick and was was close to death. I was in fl and I lived in ct Schneider flew me home stay until everything was taken care of. Then they flew me back to work cost nothing to me. That’s a Co that goes the extra mile
That’s really SHOCKING to hear about covenant transport the owner supposed to be a devout Christian and pastor! Sheep in wolves clothing! VERY SAD AND SHOCKING TO HEAR!!!!!