Knight Transportation - Adventures in a big red truck

I make the most out of where I'm at. Run hard, be on time, don't whine, and don't turn down loads does make a difference.

You can't pay me enough to haul Can's out of the port. If you get one that is overweight or has Mechanical issues it can turn into a nightmare of a day.

Setting about 40 miles from the end of my 1000 mile load and got a pre-plan for a 700 miler picking up just down the road from my drop. DM is doing good.

 

Delivered this morning and then picked up my next load. Only spent 5 hours sitting in a dock today .

Still managed 331 miles for the day. Tomorrow will be a 500 mile day so I get to where this load delivers a day early and knock out a reset Sunday.

 

Those are called local Jobs and I can't stand them. All hurry, all city traffic, dealing with picking up and dropping off constantly. No thanks. For some they are great but for me if I'm gonna drive a truck it's gonna be at least 11 western.

Knocked out the last 458 on this trip. Now I'm sitting at a petro a couple of blocks from the receiver. Load delivers on monday. Gonna get in a reset tomorrow and do some laundry and truck cleaning. Oh and leave it to me to find a snow storm out west at the end of april. Went over OR58 early this morning and it was indeed snowing near the top. It was fairly light and dry so no worries really.

 

On your first point, I live 200+ miles from a terminal.

On your second point my local job was hauling milk from dairies to a cheese plant. Brutal hours because we ran under the california ag HOS. 12 hours of driving/16 hours on duty/8 hours off/No weekly cap(iow no 70 rule). Usually we worked 6 on 2 off.

 

First, learn how to use the quote function correctly, you made it look like I said this, "Do you really think that all local jobs are just P&D? I can assure they re not. I run between 340 to 440 miles everyday between Mon-Fri and I am home every night."

Good for you, you found something that works for you. I'm not so stuck up to believe that what's right for me must be right for everyone. Yes I know not all local jobs are p/d but most of them are. That or line haul like what you are doing. Either way it's still to much like a regular job. I prefer OTR, what part of that statement does so many people seem to have a problem understanding. OTR pays by the mile, I knew that before I signed on. So please, everyone, stop trying to convince me that I want a ####### local job because I most definitely don't.


Second, Knight's not my last stop, just the first. I have a plan and it ends in me owning a truck and either hauling under my own authority or hauling under someone else's on % and picking my own loads.