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                                                                       Exhibit 5

                                    April 9, 1998

Covenant Transport, Inc.
400 Birmingham Highway
Chattanooga, TN  37419

     RE:  Registration Statement on Form S-3
          4,000,000 Shares of Class A Common Stock

Ladies and Gentlemen:

     Scudder Law Firm, P.C. has served as legal counsel to Covenant 
Transport, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the "Company"), in the preparation and 
filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission of the Company's 
Registration Statement on Form S-3 dated April 9, 1998.  Such Registration 
Statement was filed pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 
1933, as amended, and the General Rules and Regulations thereunder for the 
registration of 4,000,000 shares of Class A Common Stock of the Company 
(4,600,000 shares if the underwriters' over-allotment option is exercised in 
full) to be sold as follows: 2,080,000 shares (plus the entire over-allotment 
option) by the Company, 920,000 shares by David R. and Jacqueline F. Parker 
and 1,000,000 shares by Clyde M. Fuller.

     In connection with the following opinion, we have examined and have 
relied upon such documents, records, certificates, statements, and 
instruments as we have deemed necessary and appropriate.

     Based upon the foregoing, it is our opinion that the Company's shares of 
Class A Common Stock, when sold in the manner set forth in the Registration 
Statement, will be legally and validly issued, fully paid, and nonassessable.

     The undersigned hereby consents to the filing of this opinion as Exhibit 
5 to the Registration Statement and the use of its name in the Registration 
Statement under the caption of the prospectus entitled "Legal Matters" and 
elsewhere it may appear.

                                        Very truly yours,

                                        SCUDDER LAW FIRM, P.C.


                                        By: /s/ Mark A. Scudder 
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                                            Mark A. Scudder, Principal

