K&B Transportation. The real deal!

Why don’t you apply at K&B instead of ragging on this dude. You’ve been turned down by dozens of others you may hit on this one.

 

Maybe more fleets should call you when they spec equipment? I'm sure a 24 year old kid will make theyre bottom line much better lol.
I'm not defending K@B but they and they're drivers do make good money and earn every penny of it.
I also don't think you've done much meat hauling and most moves by night after the kill floor shuts down and it gets processed...those mid roofs sit most of the day and are much easier to heat and cool keeping the driver comfortable.

 

I’m not sure where you got that information from. I’ve never been turned down for a company that I’ve applied to.

 

"If you don't like it LEAVE" is a mantra that has been growing in strength since the mid 80s. If a worker quits over the work environment it's "they're too weak to handle the hustle" or some such BS. If a worker advocates for change they're "lazy and don't want to do their jobs" or "not a team player" or "not committed" or a "trouble maker".

Just look at the hubbub the last few years of "people don't want to work anymore" and "quit quitting". Last week an entire restaurant staff quit after the manager refused to take down a political sign and local news portrayed the owner as the aggrieved party and the workers were "wrong for endangering his business".

This is why workers don't have a lot of backbone - it's been conditioned out of them the last 30 years.

 

The one's I've been in - not so much. No upper bunk window so you can't get decent airflow and need to run the truck/apu even when it's nice outside. If there's no apu and you're relying on the main engine - are there enough ducts in the back to effectively cool it? And are their front curtains? If there aren't front curtains and you need to idle for AC, you'll either need to leave the bunk curtains open or roast.

And yes, more fleets should contact me before making any kind of decision.

 

Magnum never hauled meats and we very rarely hauled produce. Our main stuff was frozen pizzas, french fries, and a lot of egg products, both raw and finished. They ran lots of midroofs for a long time but started ordering all condos because the price disparity between midroof and high roof was a lot lower and high roofs have better resale value than comparable midroofs, plus it helps with driver retention.

 

I've never driven for CRE, but I know they run their trainees as meat in the seat and do a hard L/P sell to all their new drivers who 'pass training'. There are some things that you don't have to experiance first hand to know are true. KB gets dog piled on TTR, some of it unfairly but not without reason. Since the Abe video kefluffal, KB has done a lot of 'astro turfing' on social media. At this point any one posting postive KB stuff has the texture of a Nigerian Prince who wants to give me millions of dollars.

 

I’m in a midroof 579 and unless it’s below 55 or so, you need to run the APU or it gets very stuffy, even with the two vent windows on each side, and even then the windows just pop out a little and that’s it. In my Cascadia you could at least push the little window up.

 

If he's not tired enough to even get a short nap in during his second 10 hour break, he's not tired enough to go catatonic 3 hours into his (short) shift IMO.

Don't sign up for a job, agree to a load, or accept responsibility of something you can't handle. And if you can't handle it, don't pretend the company is absurd for thinking there are people who can.

I obviously don't mean you, as in literally you lol. Paving crews don't get extra pay for 105 degree days, Dakota oil field workers don't get extra pay when it's -15. Food service guys don't get paid extra when the warehouse stacks a pallet completely bass ackwards. Blue collar jobs suck at times. Reefer drivers don't get extra pay when the schedule doesn't perfectly fit a sleep schedule. K&B is a little extreme, but it happens at every company.

Too many drivers confusing safety with being straight up soft lol. Get things done or don't. Idc. All the ones crying about 'fatigue' and 'safety' are the same ones leaning on the counter and catching their breath after a short walk and dropping junk trailers for the next driver to deal with because they didn't want any minor inconvenience.

This isn't directed at you, specifically lol. It just seems to be the trend

 

If on the off chance I spec another truck you'll be the 1st one I call ...BTW I'd bought my 1st truck when I lived in Fargo and magnum got started and ran flat top flc freightliners and if magnum is the holy grail why arnt you still there ? You sure know alot for someone that's never owned a truck .