Is anyone else having any problems with Knight?

I am not a dispatcher nor a brown nose. I am a professional driver who does his job and does it right. The stuff I write IS the truth.

It was supposed to read .31x2000 not 200. typo

I work for Knight Refrigerated. In this economy smart drivers haul food.

I'm pro-Knight because they ARE a good company. Not perfect, but good. If you had a problem then that is you.

 

Like I said .47x nothing is noithing .31x 2000 is $620.

 

dont know if u all care or not,but here it goes:if you wanna come and wrk here at knoght refrig. for the looks of the new trks,if u get1,kool,welcome,if you prefer something family oriented,make lots of money,its the wrong co.to wrk for,and i aint bsing,i started on big trks back in '95@.33cpm,your entry level pay will be .31cpm,and as someone b4 said,u ar going 2b on perdiem for one wk,at .22cpm,loads are ok,sometime u run back to back,sometimes you dont,as a second income for that lady upthere,its ok,if you are counting on ur husben salary here to complete hse payments,car payments,or whatever,wrong co for that!family oriented,i dont know where you from or what kind of family u grow up with ,cause this aint no family oriented co,and i know what family is,its an ok co to start ur life as a driver,maybe,im finishing mine here,quite,relaxed,and with a nice trk,but please,do your research guys/gals,and remenber,aint nothing to a co.name,equipment,whatever you go by,its on the money u can make while at the same time you feel at home and happy with the people,thats all it is,in this hard times,young ladies,young guys,go where the money is!!!god bless.

 

I believe you meant 22cpm taxable. The remaining 11cpm is untaxed. I feel certain you didn't mean to mislead.

 

Well, now it's 20 cents, with 2 cents just "disappearing" as I was told and a new starting wage of 31 pennies a mile. Still, company ran per diem is a scam, and leads some people to believe that the 2 pennies that just go the way of the dodo end up in the coffers of the temple in SLC.

 

Sad Panda, why do you stay at Knight? I have yet to read a positive comment on them by you. Lots of other companies, large and small, out there, if Knight is so bad, why do you stay?

 

I ran the numbers on another thread comparing per diem to full pay. In that scenario not taking per diem won out by a couple of thousand over the year. The bottom line to the per diem question is this...

If your deductions at the end of the year are not greater than the personal deduction offered by the IRS or to put that another way, if you do not itemize your deductions, Per diem is most probably a good deal. Without itemizing, perdiem would lower your adjusted gross income and you would pay less in tax while bringing home about the same amount. In fact per diem is likely to increase your weekly net.

However, if you itemize, you would have to run a what-if scenario to see what works for you based on your reality.

You can run this comparison using Turbo Tax or whatever program you can get your hands on. Put in all the information you used last year but instead of using real income make assumptions based on the number of miles and the pay package you get from your company with and without per diem. This is the only way you can prove to yourself which is better for you.

You shouldn't have to pay for the software because typically you pay for the software when you actually file taxes. To do the comparison you stop before you file so you never even get to the part where you pay.

 

Read deeper, I was pretty happy at first.

Knight has gone to the trucking turd bowl in the last couple of months, and I plan on leaving after a year, which most likely means I'll be folded into a different area.

 

While that might be good at first, you lose out on shown income, so if you get hurt on the job, they base your payments on the taxed income, not the whole nine yards, same with unemployment and SS. Loans also show that you make less than you do, while that might be good for food stamps and the like, it doesn't help get the new auto loan. It also burns me up that Knight "burns" two cents "just because"

Plus if you do a lot of sitting, you aren't making any money, but you can claim days away from home. So while I would have made $27 dollars more net if I was on Knight's per diem plan last week, at the end of the year I can deduct $229 by taking 80% of $41 a day IRS, or $32.80 per day. Right now I'm at 175 days for the year (appox) so I am looking at $5740 in deductions for per diem alone.

Just means I'll get a good party coupon at the end of the year and a warm fuzzy feeling for helping out people to lazy to work!

 

Yeah, OK, I understand. My experience has been different, I guess.

While I had a terrible 6 weeks around the first of the year, it's picked up considerably since then.

Bottom line is that there are still more trucks in the USA than freight to fill them, so...