knight refrigerated

I can't ever get them to pick up the phone so I don't have a clue! But I've heard several good and bad things about the refrigerated side. I'm sure the others will chime in on this.

 

I'm on the dry side. As far as pay, cpm is a sliding pay scale. The shorter the trip (50miles-100) the higher the cpm and the longer the trip 600+ is the low end. Local for OTR drivers is payed per hour. Stop off, delay pay, unload pay might all be about the same. For dry van its 15$ per stop, 10$ hr after the first 2 hrs, driver unload is 50$ for half and 100$ for full. Equipment is mostly Volvo 670's and International Pro Stars. The Reefers are Utility trailers with Thermo king units. Home time is for every seven days out, one day at home. What location are you looking into? Again It may be a little different for reefer. I was never on that side. Hope this helps.

 

Ahhhh the reefer side of knight. From what I understand by speaking to many drivers there is...the paychecks are big, the miles are tall. But be ready to deal with tight tight runs always preplanned at 55mph. Always live load and unload that eats up your hours at the receiver, forcing you to take your restart right there. The planners rely on this to keep their loads moving. If you're unwilling to do all this, you'll have a hard time. This is a hard runner position.

 

Does anybody know if Knight Refrigerated still offers the 4 on/4 off or 7 on/ 7 off hometime program?? Do they offer this through Squire?

 

they do offer the 7 on/7off. Not sure of the other. Squire I am not sure. Its a completely different program because of it being the training division.

 

And their refrigerated division offers this too? Do they also do a 14 on/ 7 0ff?

 

The company does the 14/7 but if you can't find a partner to share the truck you are going to be waiting on a truck all the time and getting the junk that the last driver left behind. None of this will be available to you until you finish the Squire program, the complete three week training plus the 30,000 miles solo accident free.

 

So wait, if I got this correctly... you only have to drive with a mentor for 3 weeks while training?

 

No, three weeks of classroom local driving and 1 week OTR then you test out for CDL. Then 4 to 6 weeks with a trainer/mentor. After that you run solo for 30,000 miles.