knight

But "the little guy" says it the best like Raven and Prime and Werner

 

I can tell you this, I left knight September last year after going through their squire program in November 2014. I went through their olive branch (memphis) terminal that no longer has a school. I was dispatched out of atlanta.

The good
Consistent miles- I ran my rear off. I would have 2800-3600 miles a week pulling dry van.stayed out 3-4 weeks constantly.

My dispatch there, Brad Moore, was awesome and kept me moving and pre-dispatched through the weekend.

It was easy to get hired on as a new hire with only my permit.

The bad
When you leave, and I gave a proper 2 weeks notice, they held my last check and continued to pay my benefits with it until the total amount was expended against my authorization

Once you tell them you're quitting, you're cut off. No phone calls answered, no emails replied and barely any zonar messages replied to.

They say they know your name, but they program it into the phone so it shows up at your terminal so it's a "personal " BS feel

They'll suckered you into a l/p if you run your assistance off and seem gullible to where they can take advantage of you. (I told them they could shove it each time)

They had me with a trainer that was with the company 3 months who had flipped a truck, who quit under dispatch and told the dispatcher, in front of me, "if he wasn't getting over 4500 miles a week, he didn't want to deal with me".

Besides that if you don't mind low pay duextra to low miles until you prove that you're worth crap to your dm, yeah go for it

 

My driver manager is easy to get in contact with via personal phone, company phone, email or zonar.

I'm often preplanned (given a load) to carry me through the weekend.

I'm rarely sitting for a load, often dispatched on a load while still completing another.

Safety department is very active, one on one with drivers to improve safety and driving habits.

Nice terminals with plenty of parking and modest lounging collectively.

 

Sounds like a recruiter.

 

Good article. I wonder how they came up with the $19 a hour average pay for drivers? Even if you make a thousand a week that is only $14.28 if you divide it by 70 hours. Many drivers at megas make less. New drivers make around $700 a week after training. I guess they looked only at local jobs. The woman from Knoxville was wise to go go back home and get a job at Home Depot. To me OTR drivers should make at least $1,800 a week guaranteed gross to make living out of a truck worthwhile.

 

Thanks.

 

This is thought of the day from some dude at the Stanfield, OR. Pilot who felt he needed to leave us all a message.

 

I trained a guy years ago to drive , about the second week in he realized there was
not much money to be made in this trucking world , (he had paid the company up front for the training rather than get snagged into a two year
work/payback deal ) on the fifth week he
completed the traning and got his official
CDL .... Once we got back to base camp
he took his stuff out of the truck and walked away and never looked back .
He returned to his old job from what they told me.

Smart fellow , got away before driving got its hooks in him

 

Not really that smart. Gauging your success with trucking off of Knight is a knee jerk reaction. Trucking has been very good to me, but I pull tanks. Still did okay pulling junk freight but giving up 2-3 days per week unpaid isn't for me.

 

Yes I make most of my life decisions and take my philosophical direction from messages left on the walls in crappers. However I find Waffle House and T/A much more enlightening than Pilot.+=TB John