My experience with Knight Refrigerated

I was a knight for one year before going o/op. I averaged $400 weekly in that whole year. I filed my taxes at hr block. Made $19,200 in one whole year with knight. I ran western 11. With 1 day off every 2 weeks. Sometimes 2 days if the truck made it into the shop. I received a huge return last year because I was below poverty level. My return was close to 10k. I have kids.

 

my W2 for 2011 with Knight says i made $15,145. I started with them in the middle of May which means i had only worked seven months. Also i was on perdiem the entire time, and perdiem doesn't show on the W2 because it's no taxable along with the $1,439 in untaxed medical insurance. just to make it easy we'll say Knight pays an average of $0.33 a mile, not counting extra stops, hazmat loads, or safety bonus, perdium is about $0.11 a mi which means that almost one third of my pay doesn't show on my W2. So if you only made 19,200 for a full year then i donno what to tell ya.

 

Sorry there P-T, I really can't believe what you're trying feed us here..Even if you had a 1/3 of your income which would have made you making a little over 30k for the whole year working for Knight(Which would make more believeable to us here)...
I worked for a company that pays you less per mile with per diem also for the last 2 months of 2011 & made $7116.99 for those 2 months.

All be it that I was hand unloading @ each stop($20 per stop after the 1st & $90 for the empty). But I know for a fact that if I wasn't unloading @ each store I would have been rolling to deliver the trailers to the other guys that was going to do the same..I figured it up also that if I had done the same...at a minimum I would have pulled in just over 42k... So, unless you were a "Truck Stop Warrior" or had very crappy DM's or just plain pissed them off then yes, you would only do the 19 grand.

You have to take a lot into consideration. But there is no way in
Haties
that you could have been that much of a D.A. to stay there for a whole year to bareley make 19 grand!
Hell even a newbie pulling with C.R.S.T. splitting 28cpm would stay for what you're claiming to have done.
Atleast I would hope not!
I am sure Smaggs(Please take no offense on me mentioning your name here. Just an example) is doing better than that.

We all know he is a newbie & has never done this. So before you try to dis them please come up with a fishing or hunting tale that we can atleast believe.

So, know I would like to ask you how are you doing now that you have the payments to make for the truck nut & ins. & such? And are you on a dedicated run to have constant revenue coming in? Or just running on an open board?

 

You have it somewhat right. I did argue with dispatch quite often about missing pay, t calling loads"I hated that" take my loads away to save and p/u a late one. As far as the o/op thing, I do fairly well. I'm on an open board with a dispatcher I know for about two years. And he knows me. We get along really good and I get lots of respect from him. I avg about 4000 miles a week. I keep all miles as an o/op ofcourse. My weekly charges are up to $600. My variable costs are at 1.18 per mile. Which is my actual operating cost. Add 30 cpm for my fixed costs each week.....and it will all add up to 1.48 per mile to keep myself in service. I can net around $1,800 a week on a good week.

 

what's wrong with T-Calling a load? i don't do them often, but usually it's so i dont have to sit with a load for a day.. like the load i'm under now, picked it up around Florence, Ky to deliver in Temple, Tx. Picked it up on Mon with a Thur del date, sent a message asking for an early del. My DM asked for an eta and i told them around 5pm on tues, we both knew it wouldn't get taken but he made calls any way and said that if i dont receive an updated del time to call in and see which term they wanted me to tcall it on, Memphis or Dallas.. all jus so i wouldn't have to see with it for a whole day..

 

My problem with t calling was not to get rid of a load. They would take loads right off my hands halfway to the consignee and have me go and p/u a late load that was sitting at the yard for a while. It happened alot.

 

professional trucker ive had that happene 2 me twice, not getting paid for a load & u gotta call ur dm, transflow it again and it'll b on ut next check....

 

25k? i made more than that first year at swift 57 mph in 1996
smaggs should walk into a real trucking company office every time he get a day off and talk to them

 

well....if Knight had bought 379 Exhd petes it would be, but knight bought i beleive 388 petes if i remember correctly, not the same truck, looks the same though. Still better then a Vulva




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