kllm as a company driver beware

chickinqueen · Nov 11, 2010

oiljackpot said: ↑

This has been a great company. I had 2 relatives who worked for them for many years. It is very sad to see this company struggle to survive. Even worse to see the truckers taking hits in pay and benefits.
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KLLM was a great company, not anymore. I just left after 7+ years. I miss the old KLLM

roaddawg92 · Nov 11, 2010

Red Sovine said: ↑

KLLM recruiters are stone cold liers, they always have been. KLLM is going down, it's a crappy low-class outfit and like most of trucking today they are in a race to the bottom.

Thats just pitiful. truckers made 32 cpm over a decade ago. I expect that in the next few years trucking slaves will no longer be working for trucking minimum wage, or free, but will have to pay the trucking companies to drive their trucks. Actually I think they do, it's called leasing.
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well just look around alot of companies now are cutting the pay. using the economy as a excuse

roaddawg92 · Nov 11, 2010

Ranger70 said: ↑

Red Sovine said: ↑

KLLM recruiters are stone cold liers, they always have been. KLLM is going down, it's a crappy low-class outfit and like most of trucking today they are in a race to the bottom.

Yes they are so true went to Jackson in early Oct. left after 2 days of their BS. Going to go FFE . Just let me last long enough to get some months under my belt. The 1 year thing from I have been told does not have too be that long you get 6 months in then start looking some may say no but some will say lets see what you got. The newbie gets screwed we should all know this ,go into it knowing this ,do our time have some money put aside just in case crap realy hits the fan and deal with it. It sucks but this is the nature of the beast right now.
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good luck at ffe you going to need it
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LindaLou · Nov 11, 2010

Chainsaw said: ↑

Kllm has been circling the drain since at least 2005, if not before. After getting clear of the Bernie Ebbers and Worldcom backruptcy, the company got involved in some costly lawsuits resulting from accident liability in 2007. The silent partners moved in 2008 (Southern Tire Mart, Utility Trailer of MS) just in time for the collapse of the economy. Kllm is a single customer company (Fresh Express) backed up by a lot of broker freight.

In 2008 they lowered the governed speed on company trucks, began rigorous enforcement of logging regulations and started a campaign to 'steer' long time company employees into lease purchase plans. This coincided with a migration of management personnel from C.R England into the Kllm ranks.

Kllm is notorious for vengeful DAC reporting. The unwritten company policy was that if you were not good enough for Kllm, you were not good enough of anyone else, at least as far as they were concerned. The company publicly praises drivers as the most valuable asset while privately referring to them as pieces of sh#t. If you have ever fallen victim to the level 1 through 5 log violation system, you have seen this in action.

Kllm is a numbers driven company. They have a lot of numbers, especially when it comes to mileage pay. There is one number for the actual mileage between two points, another number for the mileage paid between those points, still another number for the mileage the Qualcomm reports and finally another number that the load planners use to schedule appointments for the drivers. When I started with the company in 2004, a driver was only required to log paid miles. That ended following the lawsuit hysteria in 2007. Company policy changed to all miles driven had to be logged from the odometer.

As I mentioned Kllm is a single primary customer company. The regional operations exist to support the single customer. Here is where a driver will get the most pressure to deliver on time. Safety and operations are always at odds, the driver is always in the middle of that fight.

Kllm paid me on time. That is the only thing I can say good about my 4 year relationship with this company. They are vengeful and spiteful. The company comes first, no matter what the circumstances. I would not recommend them, period. Stay away.

I know from first hand experience that high seniority drivers will report other drivers in an effort to make themselves look good to management. There are more rats in that company than a run down New Jersey tenement apartment building. Recruiters are known to frequent this forum and others talking up how wonderful the company is. Remember, they work on commission and will tell you anything to sign up. Drivers also scam the forums trolling for recruiting bonuses.
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One of the most clearly organized and best written bad company posts I've read in all the time I've been here.

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