Yeah, Knight (with its mgmt roots in Swift) is a Swift wannabe----cheap freight, short runs, lots of hunting MT's, etc.
Tulare when I left was one of the better Knight terminals. But hope you like driving CA99 in the fog & heavy traffic with many accidents and no MT's along the way...
If you could improve 1 thing at Knight, what would that be?
Discussion in 'Knight' started by lcfd15, Oct 17, 2014.
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27butterfly Thanks this.
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Yeah, drove for Swift o/o (DSW) for 4 yrs---hated the Swift fuel routes, but the Qualcom bad directions are still the same w/Knight....however, generally Knight is still a step above Swift.
And altho Knight touts their trailer tracking system (was Terion back then) and inconvenienced drivers to wait and have their trailers modified enroute saying would help find MTs, was mainly a ruse as was installed primarily for lost/stolen trailers---and even if an MT could be located (which wasnt often) Knight would still send multiple drivers after the same MT where it shud have assigned the MT ahead of time to save the wasted driving of the others for the same MT!! -
icdf15, the bendix system we are referring to is a radar mounted right below the license plate on the front bumper of the truck. During my time with jbhunt I had to deal with this so called....."system" which calculates and monitors your following distance using distance and speed parameters.
If you are following too closely, it alerts the driver by a very distracting, annoying beep with 3 yellow bars and 2 red bars (this monitor is a iPhone shaped message system on the console near your speedometer). If you're following too close, depending on the distance, the yellow bars light up. when you are in dangerous following distance the red bars light up.
Also if the first red bar is lit, the bendix over-rides the driver and brakes the truck at 2/3 braking power. Irrespective of whats around you, it brakes the truck.
you heard that right, the bendix overrides the driver and brakes the truck. Very Very unpopular with the drivers here at jb hunt. Many drivers have left because of it. Management lives in la la land as usual. like my 25 yr old so called 'supervisor' who has never driven a truck. 10-4 over and out.lcfd15 Thanks this. -
All of these technological 'improvements' are not geared to help the driver but to get more ammo to beat him/her up! Used to be safely delivering on-time freight was up to the driver's discretion what was primarily counted---now they want to micro-manage the driver with a technological 'whip!'Last edited: Oct 20, 2014
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One of the benefits of being an OTR driver was the "illusion," again the Illusion, of working for themselves---were given a pickup point & time, a delivery point & time, and how the driver got from point A to point B was up to him. Now, they monitor the driver to the point of how much toilet paper he uses to wipe his butt in the process!! -
next we will have heart rate monitors and daily piss tests along with 10 cameras all over the truck
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