Looking for a Decent Company to Drive For

Abilene Motor Express would be better than Knight.
Mostly dry van and some refrigerated and runs coast to coast. You're in their hiring area.

 

I was reefer at Knight and still pull reefer now as an O/O elsewhere. Wait times, Lumpers, night time hours, etc are long held misconceptions about pulling reefer. As if a dry load never has to deliver any other time than 8-5? Reefer is steady, good miles, and pay is normally higher. I have deliveries during the day or night; it varies just like any other freight type. You do encounter Lumpers a lot but that isn't a bad thing; would you want to break down 30 pallets of chicken with 10 pages of SKUs? Probably not. I have done very well with reefer and continue to do very well with it.

I left Knight because they closed my terminal and their O/O program wasn't that great. I made 65,200 my first year driving there. I got my CDL through their training program as well. I would recommend them.

 

I pulled reefers most of my career and liked it OK. The grocery warehouses were the worst to deliver to. The odd times such as deliver between midnight and 5 am didn't bother me at all.
Dry van load I did haul usually weren't grocery loads and most delivered in daylight hours. Lots of odd stuff such as bags of dental cement out of the desert in New Mexico or scrap copper from Egypt on the piers of Delaware, etc.

 

I pulled reefers most of my career and liked it OK. The grocery warehouses were the worst to deliver to. The odd times such as deliver between midnight and 5 am didn't bother me at all.
Dry van load I did haul usually weren't grocery loads and most delivered in daylight hours. Lots of odd stuff such as bags of dental cement out of the desert in New Mexico or scrap copper from Egypt on the piers of Delaware, students school supplies out of PA heading to west coast states, etc.

 

The no driver cameras is a tough nut to crack. I predict within a years virtually all large and medium sized companies will have them.

 

Try a union outfit. Nick Strimbu Inc. is Teamsters, but don't know if you're in the hiring area. Call and ask. Probably get BCBS pretty cheap plus be vested for a pension after 5 years. Probably get more miles in their reefer division.

 

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if you want to run out 3 to 4 weeks and a week off it can be done you have to find a smaller company close to where you live. I have a good friend that's how he does it. He found smaller company's like doing that. Most larger company's only had one day a week out off