K&B Transportation reviews

This is a great place to drive. Certainly isn't for a lazy person. I don't worry about time off and make really good money.

This company has been good to me. In the time here I have met my share of complianers at the company, but upon talking to them they seem to bring on a lot of the problems themselves. Like I told a guy the other day on a relay, they pay me to drive the truck, deliver freight on time and most importantly to do it in a safe, efficient manner, not for my opinion or an argument on everything they ask me to do. For the most part my trips are planned out and all I have to do is drive. If your a nomad, or someone that wants to do it their way, especially if it is the wrong way you won't like it here. In my experience the pay is accurate, truck does the job and they get me home as directed. I am also told that there is more dedicated options coming as well as home weekly in many cities. Overall while this isn't the easiest company to work for as they do expect you to work, the company itself will take care of a good driver. I read reviews before coming here just like I read them on everyone else and the one complaint I never saw was money or hometime. Honestly minus some initial struggles a lot of what I have read don't apply at least to me. This certainly isn't a 1000 mile length of haul solar powered with 3 days to do it place, rather at this place over three days you will have turned 1200-1500 miles and you better be ready to use your headlights!

Terrible trucking company…recruiting is over eager to get you! Two days orientation 4:30p end of day two, you are given load. Dispatch is barking, end of day you are at fault, 10 mins later on Chicago load out of s. Sioux City, NE. I’d rather book my load with planner. Night DM states load was first come first service, so how am I 10 mins later?

I work for this company for 9 1/2 months had to leave her personal business with family came back and then was turned away. Was told I was gonna be reinstated waited till the last minute before the plane ticket to get on the flight and was told not to come back very deformed people. Their trucks are at 65 miles an hour. They’re dispatches at 75 miles an hour. They will run you seven days a week two months straight with no days off no restarts they recap all their hours. You don’t know when to sleep, we’re going to eat be careful

This Company is a joke. This is a company your trainers warn you about if they were worth anything during training. K&B is going to cost someone their license one day. Let's talk about it and just so its stated; I am in no way writing this out of anger or any bad taste in my mouth but out of obligation to protect other drivers who care about their career and love what they do. First I want to call out the Safety department and all their disrespect to the hard working drivers in the company. When you arrive at Orientation; you will be forced to go take a new Medical Examination Cert. for their company. That would not be such a big deal except the place they send you to is a chiropractor who does not belong anywhere near a Class A driver. He sent my Medical Expiration date in to the MVD wrong and after a week and a half trying to get ahold of him; I had to go the Motor Vehicle Division where they gave me a number to file a DOT Complaint, and then call his office and let him know if I didn't receive a call back I would file a complaint. ONLY THEN did I receive a call back and by then I had already gone and just got re-certified because I needed it for this new driving job. What does Safety have to do with this? When I first found out about this mistake; I called Safety and informed them to which they told me "its not that big of a deal"! They don't care about your license; all they care about is that their freight gets moved and they make their paycheck at the end of the week. Next thing to note; Safety limits cruise control so I hope you like having having your foot on the pedal because that is all you will be able to do at night. They also limit your speed; which means you will never go over the speed limit, and in my experience you will be caught in the city and city outskirts where the speed limit is 75 and you are now governed at 55 which is plenty enough for a officer to write you an impeding traffic violation. Luckily there was never an officer when I went through this predicament but when it does happen; who do you think is going to be the sole loser in the situation? I can assure you it won't be K&B. These are not major events but they are evidence to show that K&B does not respect drivers. They can not even give them the authority over their trucks. As a last and final regard to Safety; you should know during orientation they will swear up and down that their inward facing camera's do not work but then send out a message to their drivers implying they are watching you in the camera's. The big one in the middle may not work but rest assured they are watching you while you drive and they just don't respect you enough to be completely honest about it. Another issue I had found during my time at K&B is their Dispatch and how much you drive. It is not advertised so let me first state that K&B runs you 7 days a week and you will be on recaps. In theory this should make it really easy make more than your minimum and hopefully make enough that working every day feels justified. Unfortunately though, that is simply just not the case. You will be lucky to run 2000 miles and it doesn't matter if you show them how strong of a driver you are. Never be late, and never argue a load and you'll still only make the minimum because they route very poorly. You will have days where you work 15 hours and only drive 56 miles or you will shut down for 27 hours and then drive a hour to your pick-up, then 4 hours to the receiver and shut down for another 20 hours. If you begin to run out of time; they'll just edit your logs, leave a note that says "driver request" and then leave you to deal with the consequences if DOT were to catch it and not agree with the change. You will also probably PC out of a facility using Safe Haven and even though it is completely legal; I personally don't think using it all the time protects my license because DOT hates PC and every time you use it; you run the risk of it hurting your career. Again I state my case that this company does not care or protect their drivers. You are an essential tool to them, no different than the keyboard they type on to tell you how to do your job. Even though the closest any of them, in any department; have ever got to being behind the wheel of a rig is probably that very keyboard itself. Last but certainly not least if you are thinking of working for this company still even after this review; please allow me to explain to you what happens if you try it for four weeks and decide the cons are too much for you to keep driving for this company. First, I recommend you just quit. Especially if you have another job lined up. Notice or not they will still put you on a bus home, and they will still be completely disrespectful once you get back to the yard. If you have the money like I was fortunate enough to have; you can buy a plane ticket home but they are going to fight with you over it and it's going to be a full thing trying to get to the Omaha Airport. I had to essentially leave an ultimatum on the table saying they can either get me down to Omaha themselves or I would pack everything and go to the hotel across the street where I could wait for a Uber. One of the guys from orientation met me when I was back on the yard and it was his complete lack humanity that forced me to leave with this ultimatum. I was hoping for a much more respectful and easy transition. My best advice to any driver looking to work for this company is simply to find something else. I have held multiple other driving jobs in the past that paid just as much, working less, and treated their drivers with the basic respect anyone deserves. I made the decision to drive for K&B out of desperation after a move across the country, and I learned my lesson the hard way. I could've lost my license or received serious penalties and K&B showed they did not care. Don't let them make you learn the lesson the hard way as well.