Knight Transportation.............Can't Do it.....

You should also remember that I said I would not last at a bottom feeder so my employment at such would just be a short while and that I would forfeit my intelligence for success eight day a week.

 

The gig is in limbo. There was a poster in this thread that said to the effect "three strikes and they're out!". I am not saying I will ditch them, but I use a 'Bruce' rule.

The guy named 'Bruce' intoduced me to a gig in January that I was led on to that I would be hired. Three weeks--I mean, almost three months later, they call me. WTF..?!! I was jilted for 11 weeks and they think all is fine?

The 'Bruce' rule is that after two weeks, if no paycheck is coming my way, I continue to look onward for another company. The eleven weeks since the interview also allowed me to rethink the daily 155 mile round-trip @ $42.00 commute to the yard too..

Also, some jerking me around has come my way. The dispatcher sent me for a drug test and asked me to pay for it. I informed them that I was informed that the company was supposed to pay. The dispatcher goes, 'Oh Yeah, right.' Right indeed. This is after I made the four mile drive in rush hour traffic to the clinic no less. Four days later, still no test.

Also, no assigned truck yet either on the horizon; it seems that I am getting a bit Knighted after all---or is it Transcammed if an applicant chooses not to lease...or maybe CRE...I cannot remember; all these bottom-feeders congeal together after a while.

Also, the container company 1099s and not W-2s, they clam they don't have the money to wash the filthy trucks which have bald tires, brakes that pull hard to the left when applied, the air compressor leaks more than 4 psi in one minute with the brakes applied---just one DOT fail after another.

And if the truck violations are not enough, one out of five carriages has to go to the mechanic for lights or tires or whatever else. Last Thursay we had to get a flip as there were three flats on the #### thing. Only another 75 minutes shot in the ### for the effort. It also seems that the pay here in Chicagoland is not as good for the container driver as it is in your area.

This all said, they are still on my front burner, but also said, I filled out three applications today at other companies--the 'Bruce' rule rules.

 

Pretty much. More accurately, I cannot handle even sleeping for a job if the pay is substandard. I am fighting it--and I may lose--but I ain't putting 70-80 hour weeks in months away from home at a time for $400 OR LESS per week. I also ain't putting up with much of what I stated in my opening post. Either a company pulls on the same side of the rope as me and they offer me a living wage, or they don't. If they don't, then I don't go there.

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Some hard work I cannot perform such as landscaping/digging/planting shrubs trees or working in a 115° heat in a pizzeria kitchen or blast furnace steel mill or anything that requires me to exert hard cardio--yes, I raise my right hand and plead guilty as charged.