Is Knight any good to start out with?

I see. The reason I asked is because I'm actually planning on relocating to Los Angeles soon, and looking at their website it says the Fontana yard is dry van only.

And I'll be sure to keep that advice in mind

 

What terminal did you run out of when you ran reefer BlueGenie? Also do you think that since reefer might be more in demand that if I start out in dry van I may have an easier time doing the opposite of your switch? Lastly, how often as a reefer driver were you given a non-reefer load?

 

Well, I'm now almost-committed to Knight. I'll be going in for orientation next Monday 29/8 and start in Phoenix on Tuesday 9/6. I was told that since Tulsa is my home terminal I'll have to go into the dry van side since they don't have reefer.

I also did manage to get a preliminary acceptance from Prime yesterday, but I decided to go with Knight because their training process isn't as lengthy (in particular you don't need to drive team with your instructor for 2 to 3 months). Also Knight's school is about $1000 cheaper, and while it's not forgiven, I believe they don't force you into a year long commitment like Prime does.

Since this part of the forum seems to be pretty dead I'll most likely be creating a thread to describe the orientation and training process to help other people out.

 

Hahahaha!