Rumor has it, Knight 2 go 2"paperless" logs by 1 Jan, 2010

The Hometown Carrier ! Buy a laptop so you can keep up with the news in your hometown that your never going to see.

It was good when I started but after a year it went down the toilet. Managers are supposed to lead but my terminal manager was such a lieing con artist it became painfully obvious that Knights SOP was to reel them in, steal all you can from them, and then dispose of them. Like I said before, after awhile they start looking at you in disbelief that you are still there. What a great company. Someday they will run out of victims and those that have been there and done it will laugh and they will laugh !

 

I worked with 4 of the Knight 'kids' while there for almost 5 yrs: Greg Knight (my DM, Ops Mgr, and later El Paso Term Mgr), Casey Knight (Safety), Aaron Knight (Div Mgr and later SLC Term Mgr), and Tricia Knight (Personnel). All quit and left the company before "I did!' ha ha. All got out of trucking and went to Realty, etc. back in UT (last I heard).

Does that tell anybody something..?!!!!

 

At least we know some in the Knight family have morals and ethics. How far in the trash do they have to dig to find some of these common theives that they have running their terminals ? I don't know how some of them look at themselves. People come to Knight to make a living and provide but how can they ? All they do is cater to idiots and cheap customers looking for "value" Why do they stockpile junk trailers at the yard leaving no room to park ? Everywhere you look at Knights...idiots, short bus riders, theives, con artists, and I'm sure there's a few sex offenders thrown in for good measure.

 

7/10 of a mile aint accurate most likely. He probably measured that...and it is accurate for the stretch of road he was on. But, I work for werner and

I've driven 10+ miles on line 2.

I've got out of the truck and gone to the bathroom and had the system put me on line 3 because i rocked the truck when i got out


See how it varies? It's because all these systems use a grid system. If you go from one cell to another cell, you've moved. If you dont leave the cell, you didn't move. Cells seem to vary in size by where you are, honestly.

you know whats weird though, is the name of the "city" that comes up on my logs. I park my truck at the hook in benton harbor, MI. It logs that as Fair Plain, MI....Fairplain is a neighborhood, hardly anyone calls it that anymore though. Doesnt have its own school district anymore or anything. Never was recognized as a town. Slippery Bob likes to hangout there though.

It even has Benton Heights, MI, which is the worst neighborhood in benton harbor....its a "census designated place" outside the city limits. It's even on the rand mcnally motor carriers atlas michigan map. But theres nothing there that an OTR driver would stop at. You can drive through it sometime, these are truck routes but the airport is being expanded and roads are being deleted so they might not stay that way: take the St joseph/Benton harbor business loop 94, take a left onto crystal avenue, follow it until you get to a 4 way stop sign at Red Arrow Highway.....thats the middle of benton heights. Make a right, keep going until you get to I-196 and continue on your route. Fun Fun Fun.

I parked it at a place i used to work at, it comes up as Shoreham...a very tiny village. LOL.

 

keith also left to get into real estate. that was about 2yrs ago. lots of veteran drivers at this company have said that this company started going downhill 2 years ago.

after a long night of partying and drinking heavily, i ran into some high school friends of ren knight. they aren't mormon and had plenty of real nice things to say about ren's parents. nothing good to say about kevin, however.

 

I never heard anything bad about Ren, but Kevin had an all-business, screw the drivers mentality. His atttitude b4 the economy flopped was "they're lucky to have a job." And just like Swift and other co.s dealing in cheap freight, they expect both the driver and office high turn over rates, as in "it's the nature of the business."

 

kevin hides behind ren whenever somebody other than a white collar individual wants to see/speak to him. i wanted to speak with him after an instance during the summer where i got blamed for a high value load going to hell in a hand basket, costing the company the customer. the load was shot before i ever got the pre-plan and picked it up. fortunately my then time dispatcher backed me up and pointed fingers to some other people within the office who were breaking company regs just to satisfy their own selfish desires. kevin doesn't ever pick up the phone, either.

oh, and this company IS undercutting swift from anywhere between 7 - 10 cents. somebody at the arizona republic newspaper came out had some stuff to say abotu knight. he said the company has become extremely chicken S. unfortunately i didn't have him elaborate any further. i should have.

 

Kevin stays remote from the drivers since that is probably the only way that he can live with himself!

Swift used to undercut everybody to the point of short-term loss so that they could drive their competition out of the market of cheap freight..

And, as I said several years ago, Knight had become a "Swift Wannabe."

 

i only know of the undercutting because i used to be on the catalyst paper account when i had driven for swift. that account sucked bawlz. loads were always heavy, and my route (when not going home) was always to and from denver. the same warehouses, too. the only good thing is that swift uses dual 155 gallon fuel tanks. i could go one way without having to refuel. man, it was absolutely boring watching the vast nothing between snowflake and colorado springs. i dunno what's worse: i-10 between san antonio, tx and el paso or the stretches between snowflake and colorado springs.

i also remember seeing a crapload of heartland and jb hunt trailers at a place in kingman that received copper coils from the copper mine in miami, arizona. seems knight undercut both of those companies, too. now you can see mostly knight trailers in the yard of that place. however, drivers CANNOT take an empty from there. they're using them for storage, or something other than shipping.

 

Hated Snowflake paper loads! Ran Phx-Snowflake and Tucson-Snowflake too many times and was glad when Swift got the contract. Heavy loads up/down the hill with snow/ice in the fall-winter. I would rather due Snowflake to the Springs any day---at least there was some miles in it. Problem there was getting out of CO...

Yeah, ran the Miami-Kingman run many times, but when I left most of the trailers there were Heartland (dont remember many JB's). Used to run US 93 when it was mostly 2-lane and hazardous as Hell, esp. in rainy weather with everybody wanting to pass my heavy truck over the many steep hills. BTW, one time had to hit the breaks going thru Apache Junction when a car right-turned on red in front of me, and when I got to Kingman, all the coils had sheared off their 2x4 cleats and were at the bulkhead---probably had 55K+ lbs on my drives most the way ..ha ha (thank God no scales along that stretch!!!)