knight transportation

I was with Knight for about 6 months - until I broke my leg on ice at their terminal in Salt Lake City. I wound up needing to sue them for $10,000 in unpaid hospital bills.

To make a long story short, their workers comp guy was never there to take calls, and never returned calls. Only my lawyer was able to force him to the phone, and that was with a threat of punitive damages.

I had the same problems with home time, too. Except mine were workers comp related. . I had to reschedule follow up examinations 4 times. My workers comp agent told me if I had to reschedule once more, I was going to lose my workers comp benefits. I wound up needing to park the truck and fly home to make that last appointment. A $700 expense that I had to swallow. I flew round trip back to the truck after the office visit. Knight never reimbursed me for this.

Knight is a craphole company. You are a chunk of meat to sit behind their steering wheel to make their truck go. If you've not gone there, don't. If you're thinking about going there, think of another company. Knight will put it to you good.

 

It's slave wages and slave work conditions. C.R.E., Werner and Knight drivers need to have regional meetings and make some changes. Without truck drivers = trucking company investments are immobilized. Truckers are the most important part of this industry and they are literally treated like slaves.

 

Lets get something straight, Knight doesn't play the same reindeer games as Werner and CRE. They don't have the top pay in the industry, but they don't have the bottom pay either. They may not be the best company out there but they are a far sight better then either Werner or CRE. They sure don't force you into a Lease that you have to become a trainer just to make it on and they don't force trainees to run as a team with their trainer.

 

This isn't a conversation about Knight being better or worse than other companies. It is one about what Knight has done/is doing to its drivers. If you don't have anything constructive to add to the conversation, driver, then please keep out of the conversation.

Thank you.

 

Well, okay. I don't know facts about Knight. Werner and CRE are really bad, though, that's for sure....drivers need to stay away from Werner and CRE. Check out "Werner compared to C.R. England" in this forum...

 

I know what your talking about I thought it was just me. I worked for knight in 06-07 for 11months and only got home 3 times. You must be out of the Katy yard. When I put my foot down and spoke up for myself, they found an excuse to fire me but I took a long deserved vacation on they exspense unemployment. When they where lettin me go they said I had the option to resign or get fired.

 

Too many of these larger companies have turned into "lack-of-responsibility-towards-drivers" craphole bureaucracies. Of these, C.R. England is the worst. They take on under-privileged drivers and sell them a load of horse hocky - 24cpm with "Length of Haul" promising them competing paychecks. They make it sound as if C.R. England is offering them the best deal out there. They prey upon the ignorance of those who have no experience in the trucking industry. And then to top this off, they push and push and PUSH their lease purchase program - actually sending out Qualcomm messages everyday to their company trucks, hammering their drivers with advertisements for it. C.R. England is just one step this side of a Pyramid racket with their lease (take note, NOT lease/purchase) nonsense.

I have never had any experience with Werner (thank god, considering all that I have been reading about them), so I can't say one way or the other about them.

As for Knight Transportation, however, I CAN say for certain that they are arseholes.

I wake up one morning, have a dead battery. Do you know what their road service people tell me? They tell me to walk the truck stop I am in, to see if I can get another driver to give me a jump.

That's right, a jump. They wanted me to go around the truckstop panhandling a jumpstart from another driver. In other words, they wanted me to wander a parking lot at 8:00am on Sunday morning, like a teenager with a broke-dick junker, waking up drivers.

Needless to say, I was flabbergasted. And I refused. I told them if they didn't get someone out here to jump this truck, it was going to stay parked. I was not going to sacrifice my dignity and that of my company to save them a few dollars. It took talking to a supervisor to get this pushed through. They were dead serious and dead set on making me go through with me going around that truck stop humbling myself for a jump start. For THEIR company Volvo truck!

Knight is a company which has lost touch with what the rest of us know as reality.

Their Las Vegas office - at the time of my resignation - was like a nursery school with no teachers. The person in charge, a woman (I don't remember her name), let her dispatchers whine and throw fits in the office, and get all livid and petulant over the phone with their drivers. I did some of my light duty in their office when I broke my leg with them. What I was witness to was startling. It was in fact, like stepping out of reality, and firmly planting a foot in another universe.

Was this how dispatch offices were SUPPOSED to behave?! And then to top that off, their safety manager for the Las Vegas terminal, was like Don Knots on one of his pistol-firing days. Thank god he was ever allowed only one bullet! When I came back to active driving status from my injury, the first words out of this nut job's mouth, were "Where is your padlock?" I had frickin broken my leg and had to be taken to hospital by ambulance, leaving the truck and the trailer at the Salt Lake City terminal. To his credit, he did say "Oh" when I pointed this out to him. But he was poised and ready to give me a dressing down for a lost padlock for my trailer.

If you're a fan of the Twilight Zone, then you might like Knight. If you're not, and you're looking for a responsible, professional and SANE company to go to work for, then Knight is the last place you'll want to go.

Knight sucks, truly, and horribly.

 

I'm sorry you had to go through that experience.
How is your leg doing after this nightmare,healed completely?
Thank you for sharing this with us.

 

Oh my, that as about six years ago now. Healed up quite nicely. Just have a bit of a limp when it's cold and rainy out. Beyond that, I'm doing well.

Thanks for asking after me!

 

Lol No problem I was just wondering if you were ok