Rumor has it, Knight 2 go 2"paperless" logs by 1 Jan, 2010

Yea what a concept ! I wonder if they ever figured out how much fuel they wasted sending drivers looking for trailers that aren't there. It was nothing more than unpaid busy work. But NOW they are making them verify it. See how important that valuable time suddenly becomes with e logs. Before when they were running illegal as hell it was just the drivers time and that 14 hour rule wasn't important on paper. It's not like they have enough freight to even run a driver close to their 70. Now the 14 hour is getting in the way of delivery all of a sudden.

So pick up the phone idiots and make sure theres an empty available before wasting five hours of a drivers day. That 14 hour rule is a killer, huh ? Driver be ###### your nothing more than a replaceable moron at Knight.

 

The whole looking for an MT thing is a farce (Terion) and a gamble!!

I cant remember how many times in the L.A. area when I was sent for an MT that might have been there when I left to look or had 3 other drivers showing up for the same one. And then, how many of those MT's had flat tires or other 'problems' if you were so 'lucky' to get it?! Seemed like I spent 1/2 my life with Knight fixing (as myself, since usedto shuttle trailers to/from US/Mex border in a daycab regularly) or limping over to repair shops, and then missing the load in a couple cases.

Why I always looked for live unloads in CA so as not to have to look for MTs!

 

Terion is such a f'in joke. If it worked so great, why do we keep getting these "IF YOU HAVE SEEN TRAILER 66666...." messages?

 

Still remember 'the horror' of bringing an MT into the Phx yard, having them tag it for Terion installation (supposedly would only take 60 mins, but in fact with backlog could take days), and then losing it for my next load. The ploy they used to convince drivers to bring in the trailers was that it was going to help the drivers find MT's and would speed up the process---NOT! The whole main purpose of Terion was to find stolen freight and missing trailers parked at unknown places. Later, they even offered a 'bounty' to the drivers to bring in trailers for Terion installation, but neither I nor any other drivers I talked to ever got a dime! The drivers were sold a bill of goods, for pretty much all dispatchers didnt know how to use the system or had no confidence in it...

 

Well, I see that as much as things have changed since I left Knight, they really haven't changed at all.

Company lying to drivers.

Can't find empty trailers.

Dispatchers without a clue...

 

And yet they still line up to drive for this worthless company. Too the drivers credit they do have some glossy looking ads in the trucking rags Oh well it's just a wasted week waiting for a truck until they get stuck out on the road with no freight before telling Knight thanks but no thanks.

Driving for Knight

1 You will be lied too
2.You will not be paid for all work performed
3.Why would you even want to know what #3 is ?

 

But that have such purtty red traktors!

 

I managed to get out b4 the fuel routing (smacks of Swift) and all the penalties for over-idling. I always delivered on-time freight, safely, but got dinged on review time for not doing the monthly Safety meetings/exercises. I only did the 50 gal max fill-up in CA when I knew my next load and could plan my own routing. I found ways to get around the idling off after 5 mins range of 40-70 deg, which on many trucks (I ran Express, diff truck every time out) varied (or, did not work!) from 30-100 degs!

Couldnt go back now and do the job with all the harassments. Since I once worked one summer as a part-time flex mail carrier, I know and fully understand the term, "going postal." Could also apply to working at many of the big national carriers these days...like Knight.

 

I can't believe I used to curse Schneider back in the day. Compared to the sub human treatment I received at Knight, Schneider from a few years ago was a Godsend in comparison. The fuel routing was all I could take. I followed the rules until the end but many times I was threatened with termination after telling them how I was going to do it to which my reply was "Finally ! Saved from this pathetic excuse of a trucking company" But they won't fire anyone as I found out. Knight does not pay unemployment, so remember that the next time you want to get 50 gallons of fuel so that you can get a shower while sitting all weekend and most of next week waiting on a junk load.

 

When I hired on Jan 2004, Knight was just starting to go down hill (about 1100 trucks). I met and talked with Knight drivers in their shiny new, clean Centurys while at Transmex in Calexico (they were all waiting on the Bud bottle loads back then!). Most of the drivers were veteran older types and were skillful drivers, as I watched them maneuver & park in that mud hole.

But a good sign that things were changing was what I saw happen at orientation at Phx (40 new hires/re-hires in weekly class)--someone smeared feces all over the drivers men's restroom toilet seats! Think that was a 'sign' that things were starting to go down hill. However, whomever did it was a coward!!......should have done it to the 'office' restroom!! ha ha

But the first 3 mos, after hiring on, I ran 3000+ miles/week, and when under load had 1-2 pre-plans on me. Those days didnt last too long with the opening of more terminals and the whole Hometown Carrier concept!!