Knight Transportation.............Can't Do it.....

I have no experience with 53' footers outside of trucking school. My experience is with FedEx Ground 27.5'-ers as doubles.

If the gig was NOT local; if the gig DID cost me money and time commuting to; if the gig wanted me to shell out and 'application fee' like many messenger companies I worked for, then I would not donate my time for gratis.

Because of the little investment from me other than time, I believe that it would be a decent learning experience. In one week, I should be able to tell if I want to do containers or not. In one week, maybe I don't work out and they do not hire me.

The dispatcher did warn me that some weeks may be as low as $400 such as all during February when China is on their New Year. He did say that is should be 'all guns blazing' from now until December. We shall see....

 

I wish I could have a Chrystal ball and see my future. However, I do not, so ever thus I do not have a answer to you last question.

However, I do not believe I will pass this chance up. I hear that carriages can be in bad shape and that sometimes a hunt for trailers can be sorta Knightish. However, I also heard from former classmates that O/Os hauling containers around my area pull in some very good silver and gold.

 

Ya--but like I said in an earlier response, I attempt to seek what pays-off better in the LONG-run. Knight would pay me some $400/week while at Squire--or was that Schneider...I cannot remember. A better short-run I admit.

However, if this container thing works out, I donate a week's worth of time an effor to get back some $35-50k by December 2013 all while home every night, able to raise a garden, time to sell my van, organize paperwork, continue to prosecute the bum the stiffed me while driving his Sprinter, and clean out my abode, etc. Or, I can look at it like I am getting a weeks worth of 'behind-the-wheel' instruction without pay the going rate of $60/hr around here.

Again, I am not having any expenses to speak of with this arrangement as I have typed earlier today especially commuting wise. If nothing else, then at least I am showing the apologists--Knight Pom-Pom waving hecklers --that I am NOT so spoiled or that I am NOT avoiding seeking work. I AM willing to go the extra mile provided I feel that running the marathon will pay off.

 

Nope. Pretty much nothing happens over the weekends. Job searching is pretty much a Monday through Friday gig; recruiters, evidently, use 48 hour resets on Saturday and Sunday.

The container driver who was to call me, whom I have been trying to get the company to have call me Thurdsay and Friday for confirmation, did not do so until Sunday morning. I am scheduled to leave for training tomorrow. I am also checking back with a linehaul company and a refrigeration outfit where I applied also.

I am doing some maintenance on my van; I will put it on the road if I get nothing by the time the calendar turns to April.

It's 'slow as she goes' progress.

 

I put in my two weeks of training for free. It is okay--I feel like I got another 100 hours behind the wheel and another 30 hours of 'loading/unloading', containter picking up, live lifting, and chasis light changing experience.

The company is giving me 'she is not in yet'--the lady that purportedly is in charge of the issuance of the drug testing paperwork. I was to test Friday---and then today--and now tomorrow.

I have become a violin in my job searching and I know when I am being played. I fill out an application to another outfit even yet closer to my abode in an hour. It is a not a container outfit and I would be OTR M-F. However, after working 14-18 hour days anyhow, I could use the break of the 10 consecutive hours off.

 

Two reasons I don't PRIME, and they may or may not be good reasons

(1) I consider them a 'mega-mill' -- maybe not a top of the hill in size, but similar in treatment of newbies

(2) Prime popluates the "Report a Bad Trucking Company Here" forum. Not as often as Knight, Swift, CRE, et al., but it is there

(3) There is no Prime Termianal anywhere that I can google search close to where I lay my head down for rest.