K&B Trucking Company

We have a K&B terminal up here in I think New Boston MI, they run day cabs all around the Detroit/Toledo area. Seem busy, nice facilities. I believe they do some auto parts too. never heard anything negative about them, just positive.

 

I am looking into K&B I want real answers not all the other stuff. I hear they do not have prepass does anyone really know the answer and not BS stuff. Also I want to know anything good and bad about the company thank you

 

Upper right corner of the web page is a magnifying glass. Do a search of K&B. You will get it all, good and bad.

 

I know this is a late post to this thread. I have been with the company for a little over a year now and this is my experience. Pretty much most of what was said at the beginning of this thread is true with some exceptions. They have some good but the bad outweighs the good in my opinion. They will fly you out to Omaha and have a minivan take you 1.5 hours to the hotel in Sioux City. Orientation is 2-2.5 days. Depends on each driver’s abilities and history. You only need 6 months experience to get hired on. I have been told by other former drivers that they will put stuff on your DAC when you quit/retire that is not true just to keep you from getting hired on at another company. I will have just have to see if and when that time comes. They do pay a $1250 guarantee (before taxes and deductions) for OTR drivers as long as you stay out and are not late for deliveries. They do have some dedicated positions and salaried drivers but not sure what the pay is on those. I have only gotten the guarantee and nothing more except for orientation and safety bonuses. They do not pay detention, layover, or breakdown (no driver to date has ever gotten paid for that). You will get one of two trucks. You are either going to get a new automatic or a used high mileage (700k+ miles) 10 speed manual. The older trucks have refrigerators and inverters whereas the new trucks do not (at least not yet). When you switch on the headlights in the new trucks then the cruise control gets disabled. You do a lot of night driving so that would suck. All trucks have APUs, PrePass, Tolls, CB radio. They have a rider and new pet policy but I think the pet has to be under a certain weight. If the APU does go out they will put you in a hotel on your 10 hour breaks until it gets fixed. There maintenance department is hit or miss. They have some really nice personnel in that department but also have others that have no business being there or interacting with people period. Same goes for the rest of the office staff. They have the load before your life mentality. Unless the truck/trailer will not physically move or the refrigeration unit on the trailer is out then it gets put on their back burner (even clear DOT violations) unless you are not under a load. Night staff is a freaking joke. They will hound you to be 3+ hours early to a delivery that will not let you in more than an hour early (i.e. Walmart, Target). Some customers will let you park on site and K&B prefers you do that whenever possible. They will call you all hours of the day and night (even on your federally mandated 10 hour rest breaks). Should you refuse to answer too many of these phone calls they will then proceed to send another K&B driver or the police to knock on your door for a welfare check. They like you to do relays smack dab in the middle of your 10 hour breaks and falsify it on your logs so that load can be delivered on time. I have the Qualcomm messages to prove it. They do not like to send you back to shippers to get reworked if you’re overweight. They would rather route you go around the scales on a old dirt logging road than go back to the shipper. Anything to avoid getting reworked. I’ve been told you have to follow their route no matter what (even if there are road closures or your GPS says otherwise) or you get charged out of route miles. I have never been charged but heard other drivers get into arguments about that because a road was closed on their route or something to that degree. What dispatch wants you to do and what safety sends out in their daily messages are two different things entirely. You get a safety message at the beginning of the work week plus every morning at around 5am but it must fall on deaf ears of the dispatchers and other office staff because they do their own thing. Home time depends on where you live. If you are based out of the Midwest or Washington state then you could potentially go home once a week or once every two weeks. However if you live anywhere else then you might have to beg to get hired and then plan on staying out at least 1 month at a time. It’s an okay company but like all companies they have their good and bad. I wouldn’t recommend coming here unless you plan on staying awhile

 

I have been in the office with Kyle and he said if you have a handful of sh** and roll it around and try to make it look pretty you still have a handful of ####. He said a driver is the same way, you still have a handful of ####.

 

Makes you wonder why miserable people like to believe that others are as big of a loser as they are.

 

You were supposed to mention the good and bad.
I don't see one thing good that you written.
If you think that's a decent place to work,
I feel sorry for you.
So much better stuff out here.
I'd take a 1099 outlaw job before I put
Up with all that crap.

 

K&B is like any other carrier, it works for some people. Was that @Paul Bunyan that works there, and makes it work?

 

I saw a KB bobtail drive past my house this afternoon so I’m guessing that they let guys take the truck home.

 

Those safety messages don’t fall on deaf ears. They serve their purpose. They don’t send them for your benefit. They’re sent for nothing more than liability mitigation.

That way when you do something illegal (that they wanted you to do) and something happens, their arse is covered and yours is hanging in the wind.