Knight has a History of 'unrealistic' Driver Policies

Cold mornings are made for danishes with the cereal. Hot chocolate is my coffee substitute.

Would it be better if one simply drove, say, nine hours per instead of eleven in order to attempt to beat the masses to a parking spot at a truck stop? If my truck is governed to 62mph, I may just take US highways and stay off the interstates anyway. The truck I drove OTR was governed 69 mph and I had trucks running up me backside from Nebraska, through Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

What percentage of your days driving at Knight did you need more than ten hours driving per twenty-four hours? Finally, if I have to drive team again, it better be someone older than thirty years of age and in a truck with better suspension than the one I rode in this past winter.

 

Thank your for answering my questions. The responses were pretty much what I figured. DNA Mach says a typical week at Knight can be a 1,400 mile dispatch on Monday morning delivering Thursday. If one is lucky enough to T-call it, then one gets a 400 mile load on Thursday delivering Monday. I simply see no reason to sprint to the finish line with just 1,800 miles per week and 66 available hours to drive them, a 27.27 mph pace.

I generally do not get along well with others. Yes, this was the case even in the space of an entire office. The confines of the truck make it more difficult to 'co-exist'. More than one time in my ten-day stint I told the guy I co-drove with to drop me off at the nearest airport and then to have a nice life. Obviously, this does not bode well for me as a team driver.

A major reason I am deciding on Squire/Knight is because, allegedly, they do not force team driving on newbies during the training period like Gordon or WEL or CRST and in the latter team driving is force for one's duration at CRST unless one goes O/O.

Do not forgot about having to deal with the local yocals. For about 421+ miles I drove on US 54. It was a bit fatiguing having to get way over to the right as the on coming 18-wheeler also had to get all the way over to the right to ensure no trading of mirrors or paint.