My experience:

JB Hunt:
1. Paid orientation.
2. $39,600 earned first year with 13 weeks off.
3. Preplanned on more than 90% of my loads. No waiting for dispatch when empty.
4. Dispatcher was a grown adult, not some 20-something know-it-all ######## kid.
5. After 60 days had full medical, visual, and dental coverage.
6. Drop and hook on more than 90% of my loads.
7. Toll-free number to check automated dispatch status. No being married to the Qualcomm while waiting for a load.
8. Updated safety training every 90 days.
9. Only drove at night twice in 2 years. That was voluntary.
10. Kept same dispatcher the whole time.
11. Never had to pay cash for lumpers or tolls.
12. Was paid mileage pay when sent in rental cars to recover trucks.
13. Was never asked to operate illegally.
14. Dispatcher ALWAYS scheduled my home time before I left terminal with the first load.
15. Was ALWAYS home when agreed. A-L-W-A-Y-S!!!!
16. The longest it took corporate safety to assist me when I had any real problem was about 45 seconds. And they will fire the hell out of a dispatcher that tries to make you run illegally.

Knight Transportation:
1. Unpaid orientation AND had to sign agreement to pay $250.00 if I left the company before 90 days.
2. Earned less than $17,000 My first and only full year with them.
3. Never preplanned. Always had to wait for load after empty message, even under 14 hour rules.
4. Company changed my dispatcher about once every 2 months. ( This is probably because their paid $9.00 an hour and there's a huge turnover. )
5. Was threatened with my job daily if I wouldn't run illegally to compensate for the ineptitude of load planning.
6. Was dispatched on average about twice a week to deliver loads on Saturday and Sunday to customers that weren't even open on the weekends.
7. My last time to call corporate safety, after sending a breakdown message and blocking New Orleans rush hour traffic, was answered after a 4 and 1/2 hour wait.
8. My last month to work with the company, I was supposedly on their 7 days on and 7 days off program. They kept me out for three weeks, including a week my wife was hospitalized. I earned $211.00 for the sum total of those three weeks.

You can make a better living sacking groceries at Wal-Mart than driving for Knight Transportation. They make their profits by screwing everybody that works for them.

I challenge you to find 10 Knight Transportation drivers who have been with them at least one year.

For 18 years driving i thank you know what you are talking about, great write up.

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Layoff Yellow worker

I went to Knight Orientation a few months ago and something did not feel right ....I am glad I didn't go back. A few years ago I took a day off from work and went to JB Orientation and was told the regional run I was being hired for was no longer available and would have to go OTR I left!

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"Keep it between the lines"........

I hear that's how JB gets you in the door. Apparently, they hope you quit your job and HAVE to take their OTR job.

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I love it when a plan comes together!!!

I worked for JB Hunt and most of what this guy said was total bunk. The best I can say about JB Hunt is that you will not make so much money that the taxes will be very little if at all.

Freight is Slow. What do you do? The companies like Knight,Swift, JB, Scheneider have contracts based on Cheap Freight. In order to make any money the companies have been reducing cost. As the bottom has leveled off they companies have cut every last controllable expense. You and your truck are the only controllable expense. Fuel surcharge is billed to the customer. To make a profit 1st your truck must be paid for. (that why KNIGHT and Others Buy the trucks for cash) 2. pay the the driver the minimum rate. So good drivers are dumped and replaced by trainnees with no experience. Create a NO-Idle Policy! Run the Tires down to 2/32 cut all bonuses, haul crappy freight no-O/O wants because it is not profitable. Pay the driver household good miles vs. practical miles.
So how does the company make any money? Fuel Contracts. Pilot will Discount up to 20 TO 30 cent off posted price to a large fleet depending on size. As with knight they also limit fuel purchases to 50 gal at PILOT unless specified. Big companies require volume to offset the loss. 3000 units averaging 2500 miles equals 7,500,000 miles per week. (7. 5 million per week!) if they make 2 cents profit after all expenses are paid they will pocket $ 150 thousand dollars per week (profit) x 52 weeks per year equals $ 7.8 million dollars. The CEO makes 1 million dollars (bonus) per year and stock holders continue to receive dividends each quarter.

That how these Clowns do it!

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will lead you there!

Why is this in the Koch section?

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No load is worth your life. Or anyone else's.

Don't be exploited--DRIVE LTL!!