Knight Refrigerated?

In the old days of KR, I ran 800+ miles a day. overnight to Denver or SF no problem. How many of us ran the Smith/Albertson runs to N.M. and back strait through? No issues with KR when I was raking in 6K+ a month.

I challenge these trip planning guru's to show me how to run like this on ele logs.

In fairy tale land (orientation) they say you can run just as many miles with proper trip planning. I see some fools here even believe it.

I wont even consider working for less than 6K a month. If you found a way to get a KR truck to run 72. and travel like the paper log freebirds do. let me know.

 

E=log is by the minute. 5min pretrip-5minutes load-5minute fuel-5minute unload= 20 minutes or 40 minutes less then paper logs per day. This in a week with a 65 mph truck gives you 343 miles.

Now with e-log you lose about 5 mph versus logging speed limit on the paper logs so you will gain around 350 in miles over the e-log for a difference of around 7 miles per week.

Now the real difference is in traffic or short movements like dropping a mty at a shipper but logging it as a drop and hook at a yard. On e-log you get dinged for most movements. But we are comparing Legal logging not creative logging where you log 2 hours from San Diego to LA at 4 in the afternoon. Does anyone know what legal paper logging is? thought so, it is logging everything as it happens just like with e-logs.

So even though you can log the speed limit and get away with it most everywhere except maybe OR. There is little difference between e-log and paper if you are currently paper logging to the letter of the law

We are not in the oldin days. It is 2012 and you are challenging someone to show you how e-logs can allow you to make trips you used to do illegally? Not gonna happen.

You either get with the program or find somewhere else to work like I did so I don't have to run like a newbie and make the same pay as they did 20 years ago to stay legal.

 

You said it well. E-logs cut your pay. cut & dried. I have issues with folks on this site that say "with proper trip planning you can run just as many miles on e-logs as with paper logs".

Bzzzzzzzt Wrong, it cannot be done.

I left KR for a union job. If Im at work-Im on the payroll and overtime to boot.

I took the good pay while it was there and left the KR e-log scraps for those so called trip planners LOL

 

I got out of the industry B4 Elogs were becoming mandatory. But in the 10 yrs that I drove, and having been in many, many, many situations of trying to deliver on-time freight in all kinds of circumstances, I dont see how I could have done my job using them! I've talked with several Werner drivers in the past who hated them and couldnt make $$ as O/O's. The time they spent in navigating large drop yards, etc. ate up their clocks. The little 'cheating' but only out of necessity, was reqd when I drove with paper logs, and I was not a hazard in those situations....I was just 'being real' while doing my job!

 

I work for Millis now and am looking in to KR. Any ideas?

 

Dont you all know now that the big companies are the fricken same, If you put all the companies in a big bag and shake it real good and pull one out, There all the same, I got 37 years exp, 22 years as a owner- operator, I would give up my CDL if i ever had to statrt over stay with the mom and pop companies, They are the best and less rules to follow, Learn by someone elses HELL

 

Amen to that man, I got 36 years exp. Would never drive for big companies The Mom and Pop companies are the ones to work for

 

Man your right about that i have 36 years exp and when i get a smart ### punk ### kid who never even stepped foot in a truck man that just piss you off

 

dude i have 36 years exp 27 cents per mile is like 1972 wages, Its good your sticking to it i give you credit for that hell even 36 cents a mile is like 1992 wages, There is no money in Trucking and thats a true fact and its been like that since i retired in 2006, I own 2 Kenworths w-900 l show trucks and if i dont get $ 2,25 cents a mile i tell them to shove it

 

If you are retired and want to travel the country, this is your company. Get ready to sit and wait a lot. They talk a lot about proper trip planning but planning won’t speed up the mph of your truck. Get ready to cook in the truck too. They gripe if you idle your truck. I’m not fired from knight, I actually like KR, I just cannot afford to work for them. No $$$ so I moved on.