My journey with Knight

yea that sounds about right. i am thinking about switching to that myself, because to be out here the bs we deal with isn't worth it. i would enjoy this job more that way. i've had my 3 bad run-ins...most of it is because the lack of either intelligence or either communication.

Situation One- that last load that i dropped in houston under WORD from dispatch that it was okay... seems like the terminal manager was not okay with that. i got a call from my DM 6a.m. my break wasn't even up asking me, hey man we shouldve sat under that load and delivered it in the morning, you shouldnt have come back to houston. i told him that i did what i was told. anyway he ended up telling me that i had to take the load anyway which wasn't a problem becasue it added an extra 180-200miles to the trip(that they did pay me for).
(SAME LOAD,SAME DAY): i finally get to my delivery and sat 7 hrs to be unloaded.... i made 5$ in detention, YES 5$!
i called and told my DM that i needed to be compensated for having to waste a whole day on that load... he gave me 48$ x-pay/layover

Situation Two- I take a medication that i can not miss and told my DM about this at the start of the week that i needed to be home to get my prescription by friday because i only had a three day supply left, he said fine that he would. I got all the way down to San Antonio for him to call me and tell me, " Hey i need you to work this weekend, your going to have to get your medicine from another location". i could tell that this wasn't him talking, this was him being a mouthpiece and could here how someone in the background was saying for me not to get the weekend off. I realized this and said, " that is fine, i only have a 3 day supply left...as long as i am home BY or BEFORE monday i dont mind." my problem with the whole situation is, one moment it is fine and the next it isn't? i feel like he isn't a good manager and definitely has the wrong position, i also feel like everyone gives you the run around about what to do....One person says Yay, the other says Nay and you dont know who to listen to because either way you are going to get into trouble...so i does YAY and Nay and document and record things ...just to cmoa when something arises. not if, but when, because i already know it will.

Situation Three- i was preplanned under a load from san antonio p/u down to corpus christi then back up to dallas... before my DM left and i drop my trailer, i called and ask if i would need an empty because walmart didnt have any and where to get it... i was told VIA Qualcomm, " this load is preloaded for you at the shipper, it is a drop n hook, you will run this and i'll get you home after this run". i was fine with Bobtailing down there(beauftiful place BTW)... anyway, i get to the shipper and they are surprised that i've BT'd all the way.... told me i needed an empty.......Now although i was doing what i was told, i called dispatch and i dont know how things work on weekends but the terminal manager was there.... when dispatch answered i explained i needed to find an empty. The very first thing that happened was i was Chewed out for going all the way down there without an empty and blah blah blah...After he shut his face i told him to read back through the Qualcomm messages...he put me on hold.... when he came back i could hear Terminal manager in the background, CURSING AND YELLING almost as if he was a child throwing a tantrum about how that was so stupid to go down there with no trailer annd just on and on. the dispatcher had to calm him down and tell him that i was right and that i was instructed to go down bt.... not that i am trying to build a bad rep, i am trying to do my job and make the money i need to get what i need and get the hell out of there but, when he told him the last three of my truck number, i could hear him say,"what's the problem now, is he calling for extrapay". How professional right..... all in one week i have managered to get 150$ extrapay out of these guys for simply speaking up and saying something.

now, for the (I-told-you-so-ers)...i had already planned and expected deceitful games out of the situation, i was being hopeful not gullible and i was also being a young man with his 2nd driving job. Now, i made this only to show and lay out MY experience for someone like me who may be at home considering or as hopeful as i was.... i will give my situations, good bad and ugly just the way that i am going through it, not MADE UP or any of that... but other than that stuff... everything else is ok and hell, maybe those situations that i had aren't as big a problem to the next man as they are to me, but being professional and educated those situations are irritating because they can be avoided and they will learn that working with me, they will be avoided.

(QUESTION)
can any KNIGHT LOCAL DRIVERS give me some insight on the company from that prospective.... apparently the regional/otr whatever is a joke to them. i ask because ultimately after i buy my car that is what i was going to do...try working local for these guys....im not thinking that anyone will pay me enough to sacrifice all the things that i have to be living over the road. sorry i just dont see it...but i do it and will always have respect for those who do.

 

Thank OD and i understand what you are saying very well.