Starting the Squire Program 10/10/14

Which terminal will you be based out of? I will be out of the Katy, TX terminal when I finish training. I have a long trip ahead of me since I will be leaving around 4AM on the grey bus and wont get there till around 9-10PM if nothing goes wrong along the way.

 

First off I want to say, Thank You for your service. Without people like you out there defending us this country would never be free. Im glad you made it home and that we still have this piece of ground to call our own. Again Ty and all the service men out there.

If your down in OliveBranch MS you might see me.. I should be rolling in there around Noon tomorrow with my load. =) If you see a Gray Truck that says "Leased to" with U5041 as the unit number don't be afraid to come say HI! Truck also says "Idaho Falls, ID" on the Box Door as that's the terminal I'm based out of. =)

Don't let the crap on here scare you or make you think twice. There is always someone that has a problem or likes to make little issues HUGE. Company is what you make it. They all have BS but its what BS you can deal with is what matters. =)

 

Speaking of "Leased To:"

On the Red side, years ago I arrived at the Lowe's in Yuma and was unloading when another red Knight pulled in next to me with "Leased To" on his door.

After unloading, I buttoned up and was waiting on a pre-plan and decided to talk to the "Lease To" driver---he had 3 pre-plans on him waiting for one to be accepted while me, a company driver, waited after unloading.

He finally selected (cherry picked) one of the 3 pp's and I got 'one' of the 'left overs' with no choice!

Why? Knight needs the "Leased To's" to pay off their trucks (to Knight) and so gives them priority...the "Leased To's" get a better deal than the run-of-the-mill company drivers....factor that fact into your mileage/load calculations!

 

I was a company driver for 2 years before I bought my truck. The miles were the same as they are now. You seem to remind of me of the driver that sits in the drivers lounge at the terminal going I cant get no miles man.. they just wont give me any miles.. then a dispatcher walks out and says hey I got a load to such and such. That guy tends to be the first one that says "well I aint taking that"

This company is what you make it the miles are there if you want them. Again every company has bs it depends on what bs you can deal with.

 

Well, spent 5 yrs with Knight as Express driver, clean record and left on good terms during the 2008 recession as having managed my finances so as to retire. Was chosen out of Phx to make several trips to the Pete factory in Denton, TX to pick up new tractors when the Refrigeration division was started (drove new, ungoverned Gray 379 long-nose tractors pulling Ft. Worth Miller beer loads in dry vans back to Phx doing 75 mph for fleet configuration---aka Qcoms/farings/stickers/certs/engine control reprogramming, etc.) and just gave my 2 yrs experience working 'directly' out of the main ofc for a DM named 'Knight."

So am very familiar with Knight, several of the Knight 'boys' and how the company changed over the years. Suggest you do your strutting and chicken fighting with somebody who's not a rookie, sonny..........

 

Today at the olive branch yard, around 3:30 to 4pm

 

The sad part is "you" think I'm a rookie. You have no idea my past experience or what I have or have not done. I said I worked for them for 2 years as a company driver. Never said they were the only gig I worked for.

You seem to think your experience entitles you to twist things how you see fit. You are a typical truck driver, you take something and have to exaggerate x10 so it looks good then will it with as much BS as you can manage. "Back in my day sonny we had to walk up hills both ways and that was only the first 100 miles" comes to mind.

Next time make sure your info is at least correct before you attempt to pick a fight. Learn facts and less BS. Come on grandpa back in the truck before you hurt your self.

Again! For the 3rd time maybe it will sink in, a company is what you make of it. Yes there is BS you have to find one you can deal with and that can deal with you.

 

Btw, as a kid growing up in Wisconsin, I did walk to school 'uphill both ways' as had to cross the Wisconsin River in a town of 350 ppl, in the snow, and also used an outhouse.

So guess that makes me cooler than you, huh, sonny.

Also, in regards to Knight being so great a co:

Why did 2 of the Knight boys (sons/cousins) of the Knight brothers who owned the co. and who I worked for, starting out as DM's & Operations Mgr, one was promoted to SLC Terminal Mgr and the other to El Paso Terminal Mgr, leave the co. and move to the 'Promised Land' (UT) to sell real estate, leaving nepotism & their inheritance behind?!

The Knight co. today is no longer a 'driver's co,' and has become a Swift wannabe bottom-line co. with a high turn over rate and had to begin the Squire program (getting $ BOTH ways) to staff their trucks with rookies making low-wages.

I was one of the 'few' experienced drivers there when I left with 5+ yrs experience with them only because I was treading H2O @ 7-10 days out/3 days off til I could afford to retire and leave all the CS behind. having started out in 1998 when trucking wasnt over-regulated and was 'fun'......I'll be thinking of you, tied to a leased truck with the illusion of working for yourself, as I'm sitting on my patio in sunny Tucson drinking a margarita...

 

Ugg, here you go with your again with your illusions. I think im just going to stop. This is going in circles and you have done well enough on your own making ur self look like a idiot so time to move one.

Also, fyi. You again have no idea my background or even my finances. You are once again just assuming. To the point its gotten sad.

Don't worry tho, I wont be thinking of you as you toll this board looking for some meaning to your life. Time to wake up gramps the nurse is here to change ur bigboy dipper for you.

Another point I never said Knight was a great company. I simply said there a company and they are what you make of it. Its a free market you can choose to go somewhere else if you please and work for who you please.

I will say this, the environment in trucking is getting alot better as more of these guys retire. So much BS I would sware they were life long politicians.