knight refrigerated

keep it going.It's great!!

 

Have you talked to Marten Transport; all the drivers I have talked to seem very content.

 

No. I have made up my mind and am going with Transport America. Leaving in the morning for Fort Wayne,IN. Orientation begins Wednesday morning. I'm pretty excited. Have heard a bunch of great things about this company.

 

Well TA is a training company where your earnings are held back due to the actions of others. BUT I would agree that they are LIGHT YEARS better than the production the stupid idiots at Knight put on.

 

Yeah I hear ya. Not much good on here about knight at all. I may become a trainer again.Just not sure as of yet.Wanna feel it out for a bit at first.

 

Knights so bad, even your fellow drivers are your enemies. Not a place you want to be. TA sounds like they pretty much put it all there for a driver to work hard and make some money in the process. Kind of like Schneider was when I was there from 2002-06. The only problem I had was the mandatory safety meetings and overall noob atmosphere. Knight was so terrible I would have gone back to Schneider had I not found my current job three years ago.

 

Where ya driving now?

 

I won't say. The last thing I care to do is recruit for them. However I will say that there is nothing special about them. Just a 60 truck operation that maximizes their bottom line which translates into my bottom line. All the while realizing that good drivers are hard to come by and if driven into the ground they will leave.

There's nothing unique about them they just know how to operate a trucking company. These big companies and their rules that end up costing the drivers time and money. The constant passing broken junk onto the next driver which never ends no matter what are some of the reasons I won't work for a big company again.

 

I hear ya! Does not take long in this industry to hit major burn-out. Then we quit in order to get a break. Take some time off then it's back to orientation at some other company.Drive,get burned out.Repeat cycle.Kinda like the instructions on a shampoo bottle.

 

Apparently driver comfort is a factor they don't consider important.
Which turns over quicker, their fleet of Big trucks, or those who drive those Big trucks?
What formula do they use to determine the fuel bonus? Seems to me that a Big truck truck driver who averages eleven percent more idle time and yet averages a mile per gallon better fuel economy is doin' SOMEthing right.

Eighteen thousand Hostess employees might not agree, not to mention the former General Motors, now Government Motors, employees. No doubt some of which will be applying for jobs in the Big truck truckin' industry. What are the odds they'll land a union gig?
Having no job is better than a pay cut? I fail to understand the logic in that.
I wonder if they worry about their pensions, especially those near retirement?

Are you suggesting that those just entering the industry apply for union jobs?