KLLM Drivers: Tell me more about KLLM

Discussion in 'KLLM' started by Jarhed1964, Nov 10, 2007.

  1. Jarhed1964

    Jarhed1964 Road Train Member

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    They are on my short list but are not on the top of the list. I live about 4 miles from the Fontana, CA terminal. Looking for the opportunity to run through Fontucky while out or get a day home every 10 days. Every KLLM driver I've talked to on the street says definitely, especially since Salinas is closing.

    What say you?

    How is the sitting situation? Sit a lot? Can I get 2700 miles per week if I want to run hard?
     
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  3. thecdrdog

    thecdrdog Bobtail Member

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    So did you ever end up going with kllm? Just wanted to ask because I was thinking
    of appling there. thanks for any info.
     
  4. lynn38654

    lynn38654 Bobtail Member

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    I'm looking to go to kllm.. I have a few questions whats there running area, pay, and benefits... I know things are slow... Thinks again..
     
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  5. sailorman1

    sailorman1 Light Load Member

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    Hi guys, I just signed on with KLLM and they told me run with trainer for three weeks than they assign you a truck. Pay .32cpm, 400 a week during training. Ill be going to Mississippi for oreintation in January.
     
  6. Wookie Dude

    Wookie Dude Light Load Member

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    Training is six weeks long, not three. Only way that you're getting out early from training is if you can shift with no problems and know how to do the paperwork and qualcomms without any problems.
     
  7. oldtootr

    oldtootr Bobtail Member

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    My best advice is to keep looking, dont go with kllm, they used to be a good company, but not anymore, i have been driving for them since 2002, if you are fresh out of driving school, it will be 6 weeks training. I would advise going western regional if you go w/KLLM, Don is terminal manager there in Fontana, he is a decent guy, and if you run for him he looks out for you. Beware!!!!! After you finish training they are going to try real hard to convince you to go into lease purchase program, dont do it!!!! Get a couple yrs under your belt, make sure you like trucking before making that kind of commitment.
     
  8. onlyone

    onlyone Bobtail Member

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    KLLM seemed to be fine at first. I leased a truck with them and during orientation they covered the contracts very well, handled things with the up most honesty. When I got into the field driving in the Tyson Dedicated division that all seem to go out the window. It seemed that qualcom just wasn't in the truck, dispatch didn't want to respond to questions with the use of qualcom. It was always, "call me." I can understand that the need for a well defined long explanation it would make sense to call at my next stop, but to ask questions that can be answered with yes or no, a short answer, that starts to make a driver wonder what it is they don't want in writing to the answer at hand.
    My personal experience here, they don't want the answers in writing.
    Yes, I caught them lying on more than one occasion. I quit calling dispatch and anyone else in that group, and made them answer me in writing. That's when the trouble started. So, I figured leaving the Tyson dedicated division and go OTR might be the answer, and it turned out things didn't change much.
    My entire ordeal started with my truck. The darn was thing was neglected by a previous driver and was filthy when I looked at it, and needed all kinds of work as I found out over the next month.
    The sad fact is, I didn't want that truck. I said so before I leased this truck. I was told, "hey don't worry we will detail it, and make sure repairs are done and that the tractor is ready to go." That was a fight right from the get go. The CD player was broken, I like to listen to music rolling down the road when it is safe to do so. The entire truck inside and out was filthy, and I mean unlivable, the truck hadn't been washed in weeks or maybe even months. They made good on this, but not without a fight on my part. Their actions to my request to fix the truck was less than stellar, trust me. So, I got the notion to go to Freightliner and have the vin. ran to check on previous repairs, and any recalls the truck may need or had been done. Turns out it needed a Trubo charger replaced, and the mechanical night mare began. For the next month I was in and out of the shop, no exaggeration either, and left me in the negative as soon as my first settlement came in. I asked for the lease payment to be deferred and that didn't happen, the entire lease group in orientation had the payment taken out a week and a half before it was agreed upon. Breech....The 30 day warranty covered some of the repairs, but I still got a Repair Order on some of the repairs that were and should have been done before I left for my first dispatch. The kicker, I get a warning violation after all the screw'n around I got, for a drug test that was done during orientation. I had gone to the dentist not a week prior to going to orientation and had Lortabs in my system to alleviate the pane. I told them about it, wrote down my prescripts on the med form, and get a warning and violation on qualcom a month later, that any future violations, that disciplinary actions would be taken. What the F....??? Lortabs that are legally prescribed by a licensed physician are not a disqualification by the DOT. Plus, I didn't have them on the truck, nor would ever use them before driving. I say stay away from KLLM...Yet, there are some very happy drivers there as well. Your call man.:biggrin_25510:
    If you do lease, run that tractor over to the Freighliner dealer in Richland, MS. Make #### sure you get the repairs needed done before you leave for your fist dispatch. The reality of this is, you may never know what the tractor needs with just a very good pretrip. Don't fool with that Tyson Dedicated division, unless you like to sit, and run short relays, wait a day and half for your next load, and like to run night and day. That isn't much fun, and very hard to get the miles you need. The Christmas bonus of a grand they promise is a joke. Go home for the holidays, they won't pay it, unless you are dispatched thru Christmas and New Years. All they have to do is stop the truck on New Years eve, and its done, no bonus.
     
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  9. bama07football

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    well i am going to richland mississippi may 1st for orietation ....i hope i like it ....
     
  10. bama07football

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    well my orientation got switched from mississippi to atlanta....but its still may 1st....i would much rather go to mississippi than georgia.....oh well i got to start somewhere...i got a question for yall veterans of KLLM...after training can i pick my home terminal or do i have to take the atlanta one?
    ....because i would rather have mississippi or texas..because in july i am moving to kansas
     
  11. shevyshon78

    shevyshon78 Light Load Member

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    Atlanta is the southeast regional terminal, Jackson is the otr terminal. They have 1 terminal in Laredo but I think only a couple of local guys are dispatched out of there. Dallas is a drop yard not a terminal,they used to have one down the road in Seagoville a few years back but closed it. When you go to orientation in Atlanta, the orientation guy is a complete prick, so dont mess around he has a little man complex and likes too fire people. As I recall all those guys in Atlanta are miserable jagoffs. I was a trainer for a while and had too run Ed the orientation guy back in the terminal and now that I think about I still owe him an a#$ whipping haha. He thought he was gonna get me fired but Kllm told that wasn't happening LOL! Either way your gonna be an otr guy and don't really remember too many customers in Kansas except over there by Dodge City. I see you live in Alabama, if your gonna work for Kllm you would be better off staying in Alabama cause thats one of their primary running lanes.(I-20)
     
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