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Originally Posted by belpre122
Did anyone see the Dateline NBC special on child predators that showed a driver for Covenant getting busted for going after an underage girl? He just happened to 'also' have cocaine onboard. The Covenant truck remained in the driveway of the house for the rest of the show while they arrested other child predators. I thought that was a nice touch. I bet that Covenant management was happy about that 'exposure.'
I saw that too. And it's a reflection on Covenant more than the driver. That guy had a rapsheet a mile long...with priors for drug use, pedophilia, etc and Covenant Transport...the supposed "Christian" OTR company with all the pro-life ads on the back of their trailers...STILL hired him. :roll:
Actually, it's a reflection on the entire OTR industry at large. You get what you pay for: nobody wants to work for these flea-bag cut-rate outfits so they have to scrape the bottom of the barrell for drivers. Just walk through any big truckstop and observe all the fine, upstanding citizens milling about. How many pedophiles, ex-cons, thieves, felons, drug addicts, etc are you associating with? Remember, you're judged by the company you keep. That's why nobody will hire you with "over-the-road truckdriver" on your resume.
A couple years back, someone wanted to build a new truckstop around here. Alot of residents were against it, and one of the issues that led to its defeat was that there would be a greater risk of pedophilia and child molestation with all the interstate truckers rolling through. Sad to say, that's how the public thinks of truckers.