If I were to get a ticket of any sort, I can't take the classes to get the points off my license. And due to the way insurance companies will jack up your rates for any points, I thought it was best to give up my Class A. Especially if I'm not going to use it.
If you go to some of the first of my blogs on this site you will see they are about trucking school and trucking in general. It has been a part of me since 2008. It like, "how do I not be a truck driver?" Some of my best songs for my band are about truck driving. In fact, I think my best song is, in part, about truck driving. It's such a part of me, and I feel like I've just killed it off.
Despite all the crap that I went through with Covenant, I liked the job. I had a few great runs, and a great co-driver in Eric. It was all the paperwork, and things that got screwed up at the front office that I didn't like with them.
Going to Carroll Fulmer was the worst mistake I could have made. It was one lie after another, and they sent me to some of the shittyist places I've ever been. There's no way they should have sent me to some of those places. And all the crap they put on my DAC report just killed any chance I could get on with another company. In the end it just wasn't worth what any trucking company was paying. There's a reason they always need truckers.
So like a lot of things in life, the world isn't split into perfect and awful things (or jobs in this case.) There was a lot I liked about it. And there was a lot I didn't like about it. But regardless it was a piece of me. And that I will miss.
And for memory's sake, here's a picture of my last truck with Covenant:
And here is a picture of my favorite truck, Trouble. She was the first one I got after training.
