Knight's new Safety Bonus Program

Good question - just from looking at quarterly revenues it doesn't seem so but I'm definitely not an industry analyst.

Two examples:

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:KNX&fstype=ii
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:JBHT&fstype=ii

 

A quarter consist of three (3) months. 3 months at an average of 7000 miles = 21,000 miles. Well below the 28,500 miles needed to meet the bonus.

 

Crikey you're totally right! I'm not sure why my brain went 4x4=12.

Then scratch my comment. For some reason I was thinking there are four (4) months in a quarter.

 

What is so hard about getting 28.5 in a quarter...that is only 2375 per week! And that is only 340 per day! We do that +++, running I-5 CA/OR and a little into WA all the time.

How can you afford to stay at a company that only generates 7000 a month for the drivers? 1750 per week...PATHETIC...

 

Actually, the 4th quarter is a better quarter...freight grinds to the low point around mid January into February...then stays low through April/May. So 1st and 2nd quarters are generally the rough ones.

 

I worked for a company that had a safety bonus plan. Each quarter, they dropped the miles for each driver to end the bonus. It took excellent planning on their behalf.

It seemed the office got the bonus when the drivers lost theirs.

 

I tend to agree with you. I can see HOW the 28500 mile requirement COULD exclude a number of drivers that end up getting the short end of the mile stick, but it's not a totally unreasonable expectation.

 

Your not excluded under 28,500. If you did not turn down any load you had hours to run then you do not need 28,500. If you turned down loads that would of made you eligible, then you don't qualify.

From the drivers I have talked to the biggest hurdle seems to be communication with dp. If you don't sound like a walmart greeter when talking to those youngsters in the office you will never see the bonus no matter what.

 

So if you refuse one load, you lose your bonus???

So you are telling me that you never refuse any load???

All the company has to do is give you one garbage load, let's say less than 20 miles and it's a driver unload floor to ceiling full trailer and you would just bend over the fuel tank and say

"Thank you Sir! May I have another?"

 

First off, who the heck stays at knight for that long? When I was there 9 out of 10 drivers were fresh out of orientation! Honestly, most drivers I spoke to were new hires, and asking questions like, how do I transflow? F'n amazing....that bonus will only benifit knight some how as in, everyone runs some hard miles, but maybe 1 or 2 guys got dispatched good. Everyone else gets screwed.