Going Over the Road with Knight

Shrug, im sure someone will have to go "retrieve" it who knows, I wont be up to speed on the latest crap until I get there next week. Right now im up in Kent, Wa for AM delivery then off to grab a load and head back toward IF.

 

I can't believe nobody else got the nod for the job, Knight was looking all over the country for someone to take lead on that new shop.

Oh well, I wonder how well he is going to do with those container guys out of that area. Some of those boys are high strung like you wouldn't believe.

 

Tbh, I dont think he was givin the choice. From the sounds of it, he was told move or find a new profession. Not alot of people want to live in Reno, NV.

 

You know what, I swear Reno was once the dumping ground for Knight's problem children, and it got so bad it almost closed. They pulled some back to the mothership and stuffed a kid into the job and he turned it around, and he left a couple of months ago after doing the gig for years I guess.

And once again, trash gets dumped in Reno. Maybe they are hoping the Johnny Cash song will come true or something.

I remember a zillion years ago going into the office when it was the old office and finding two people in it and desks in pieces all over the place because someone kicked it apart. And these where the office workers LOL

 

Lol, well if your out of the Reno terminal, Enjoy your new awesome sauce of a Shop manager. Im just going to go over in my little corner and snicker to my self.

 

Idk why but I always love Reno. Granted I never drive for knight but when I was a swifty I liked it. And I like the Petro there

 

"Remember the Alamo!" When I 1st went there in 1999 it was independent until Petro took over. Was a really nice place, more casino than truck stop, with great food and girls in short skirts coming around passing out free Keno tkts to play along with your meal. I was driving for a Swift o/o fleet back then.

Reno used to be one of the hardest city's to get out of. Usually brought in a Sherwin-Williams paint load from the Bay area (w/no place to scale load until AFTER the DOT scales on I80) and often had to wait a couple days until getting a load out---usually one of the loads from the pet food plant east of Sparks. Challenge there tho was getting an MT trailer (out of the dirt drop yard across from the Alamo) 'clean enuf' for them to accept as a swap out for a load going east to get back home to Phx.

Knight started dispatching out of Reno a year or 2 b4 I left in 2008, and I remember having a run-in with a dispatcher there who was known thru out the co. to be an a-hole (dont remember the details about but remember him being unreasonable and couldnt care less about getting me out of there!)

When I left in 2008, most loads out were from the Kmart DC going to CA---there are certain stretches of road a driver learns to hate---I80 Reno-to-Sacramento was one of mine, esp in the winter, i.e. Donner Pass).

As far as a town (biggest little city in the US), I liked the Reno/Sparks area (altho in the winter could pile up some snow, esp. in the 'valley' north of town)..

 

Just through there enough to know some people is all. Well, KNEW is a better word. Turn over rate being what it is and all that. I think I'm going to go work for Subway, they need a new fat guy to lose weight eating there after all.

 

Reminds me of a couple of times over the years when a local cop would harass me (usually late at night) saying "You cant park here."

Not being familiar with the area I was in I would politely ask, "Well, where can I park?" The answer was always the same, "I dont know, but you cant park HERE!"