My experience with Knight Refrigerated

Most quit after a month because their job is too save the company money. I think we all are familiar with how they accomplish that goal. Some people have no desire too shaft hard working people. The shareholders rule at Knight.

 

Smaggs,If you quit I do wish you the best. This is typical company B.S... Basically from all big companies...If I were you, I would put in some apps for local companies. But make sure that you have enough experience. I have been following your post for a while now. I drive for a larger company & do know how you feel @times.
Tell me why you have to "T-Call" so much? Is it to try & get paid for it so quickly?
Does Knight pay you more than once a week? If so. That could be the problem. Try & get your pay 1 time a week(If you can do that).
Do you TransFlo most of you bills? Or basically in that format? If so keep your bills & Scale tickets until paid for them. My company only reinburses after $20 or 2 weeks which ever comes first.
I am currently on medical leave due to a possible heart attack & want to go back on the road. But have to get medical clearance first.
Wish you the best & try to get to Louisville,Ky for the MATS2012 show, for some good time & the ability to get to talk to some other companies there.

Sorry in advance for any typos

 

Smagg, we are bouncing around with the same DMs. I'll give the new guy 2 more weeks before he walks as well. LoL

 

Dispatch has us T-Call loads so that they can get it off that truck. Its just another way of saying that truck is no longer attached to that load. A few rrasons are to keep the truck rolling (1000mi run with a four day delivery time line), driver is out of hours and they need to keep the load rolling.

Got weekly pay and daily. and we transflo all paperwork.

Deductions only shows advances and lumpers. Taxes are in another section to its self aswell as medical. I can only guess that daily pay is another monster with the paystubs.

 

If you have 9 months in with them I would try my best to get that other 3 months in..Even an extra 30 days if possible. That way Knight can't screw you on the time in their own system & D.A.C.
My Ex-Brother In-Law worked there for about a year & had nothing but problems. Although I think it was him more than anything..He had a very foul mouth on him & would curse his FM through the Qualcom.
I also think he was on that "Daily-Pay" thing also..But I did talk him out of doing the "Per Diem" @ that time due to his wanting to refi the house & such..
Right now with the company I am with there is no way to opt out of the per diem. But they(My Company) doesn't do like Knight & take that extra 2 cents for themselves... So that does help me out & some of the financials I am dealling with.
Also you mentioned recently about the other driver that totally screwed you with the flats & such... Did yo take pics of it? I know that you mentioned that you sent a msg to your FM. But do you have a good repore with somebody in you maint.? Might want to get an email address to send in some pics & msgs. to them. I try to do that when possible even if I don't really know them. Just to cover my own rear-end in advance.

 

smaggs look into pulling a flat or a tanker. With just 8-9 months exp your options are still pretty limited to the sheety Van/Reefer companies. (translation: Unless its a SMALL 100 or less trucks...vans/reefers suck, some arent as bad as others but 99% of van/reefer companies TOP out at .42-.44cpm......which sucks, considering the wait time, and weird hours, dirtbag shippers/receivers)


Flats/Tanks can get you home allot more and makeing allot more money, plus at least for flatbed the non driving part is fun. Tanker just bascily a higher paid door slammer just with a more dangerous job (tank jobs can lead to AWESOME paying local gigs.....)

There is probably other specalized stuff in your area too....Oil field, local car hauling (adesa), containers (dont start speaking mexican if you pulll containers....its not part of the job haha




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