What to expect at Orientation with KLLM

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Hello.. I'm looking to go to kllm to drive.. I hear they are a good company.. Whats there pay,benefits, and running area mainly. Also what fuel stops do they use?

 

Check out their website. Pay starts at $0.34 cpm. They run all 48 states. Fuel stops seem to be mainly Pilot and Loves, but anything but the J.

 

Anybody can look at a website, but companies put whatever they want on them. It is best to ask quite a few drivers to get an over all feel for a company.

 

Pay is based on experience and starts at 34cpm for brand new drivers.
Benefits are health, dental, life and 401K. Additional stops on a run pay extra and Hazmat pays $25 each for pick-up and delivery, for a total of $50 if you run it start to finish. Dentention is paid after the third hour and we do get layover pay. I don't remember the figures for a company driver as I am a lease driver and my amounts are different.

We run the lower 48 states. We do have one customer in Canada but it is a dedicated run and there is only one driver who does it. Main areas are midwest, east and California (for the produce and some beer runs from various breweries mainly).

I love this company and am fiercely loyal to it. Is it perfect? No. But it comes far closer than the other companies I researched when I was looking into becoming a driver. It is small enough to have retained it's ability to be personal yet large enough to have a solid customer base and good, consistent freight. I know that if I have a problem, I can keep calling, climbing the ladder, until it is resolved, up to and including calling our CEO himself- which I did on one occasion. It is still "family" enough that I feel like I can speak to anyone in the company frankly- like I would my own relatives. They maintain an open door policy and I know I can walk into anyone's office during normal business hours, without an appointment, and ask any question or discuss any issues I need to.

As a solo driver, your main areas will be the midwest and east, all the way north and south. You may have some occasional runs out to California but mostly midwest and eastern seaboard. I've been as far north as 1 mile from Canada in NY and up in NH, and as far south as Guflport, MS and down to mid-Florida. As a solo, I have run up to OR and WA (the legendary "I have the flu, a temp of 104.2, I think I'm dying, so why the h*** am I doing this 2300 mile run, I must be certifiably insane! trip). That was only my second run up there as a solo in 18 months of driving.

You get 1 day of hometime for every week you are out. They are good at getting you home on time. I was only late getting home once and that was voluntarily so that I could get out of an automatic truck they had me in and go pick up a new Cascadia. I hated that automatic enough to readily and EAGERLY agree to postpone my time off just so I could get rid of it. The automatics are now gone if I heard right so you won't have to worry about getting one.

No pets allowed for company drivers. I'm leasing so now that I've paid my pet deposit I have my pup with me (today is her 4th day on the truck...she's a "truck dog" in training..lol! Doing pretty darned good too for a young pup...)
(Attached her picture for you...love my pup! )

Hope this helps.

RT

Our main fuel stops are TA, Loves, Pilot and Petro but we do occasionally use just about any Comdata location in a pinch. I seem to get mostly Pilots for fuel stops. As a lease driver I can use any fuel stop I want and I find that Pilot, in general, tends to have the lowest prices on fuel

 

Hey roadtoad one question from your post.. If i do get hired on to kllm i will mainly run out of the Jackson terminal cause i live lets say 130 miles straight down I-55 from there Jackson terminal.. The question if i do solo otr will i run east and midwest like you said in your post or every region like northwest and west and northeast and so on.. and will they send me to their other terminals and run out of their regions..And one last quest do they have constant freight up in the midwest like Colorado and so forth..... Thank you much and be safe

 

just to help out RT here I,ve been with KLLM now for 3 months and running solo. you will run out of jackson terminal 99.5 % of the time unless you are at another terminal. I've havn't hit CA since I went solo only beeen out as far as larado, TX and mostly eastern side of the country.
Some of the states I've hit are; TX,LA,MS,AR,MO,IL,IN,KY,TN,AL,GA,SC,NC,VA,WV,OH I think thats all of them for now.

 

What fuel stops are mainly used??

 

Most orientation I have been to, they provide hotels, lunch, lots of paper work, so have all you ducks in order. Lots more paperwork, you will also watch videos, on such things as safety, insurance, etc... This may differ from what KLLM does,but that is what I went through.. You might also see videos on how to user the qualcomm,or what ever they call it, but it will be boring as all hell.. You will also have your road test, physical, so make sure you list all meds if your on them and don't leave out anything.