Comparison JB Hunt v/s Knight Transp.

My experience:

JB Hunt:
1. Paid orientation.
2. $39,600 earned first year with 13 weeks off.
3. Preplanned on more than 90% of my loads. No waiting for dispatch when empty.
4. Dispatcher was a grown adult, not some 20-something know-it-all ######## kid.
5. After 60 days had full medical, visual, and dental coverage.
6. Drop and hook on more than 90% of my loads.
7. Toll-free number to check automated dispatch status. No being married to the Qualcomm while waiting for a load.
8. Updated safety training every 90 days.
9. Only drove at night twice in 2 years. That was voluntary.
10. Kept same dispatcher the whole time.
11. Never had to pay cash for lumpers or tolls.
12. Was paid mileage pay when sent in rental cars to recover trucks.
13. Was never asked to operate illegally.
14. Dispatcher ALWAYS scheduled my home time before I left terminal with the first load.
15. Was ALWAYS home when agreed. A-L-W-A-Y-S!!!!
16. The longest it took corporate safety to assist me when I had any real problem was about 45 seconds. And they will fire the hell out of a dispatcher that tries to make you run illegally.

Knight Transportation:
1. Unpaid orientation AND had to sign agreement to pay $250.00 if I left the company before 90 days.
2. Earned less than $17,000 My first and only full year with them.
3. Never preplanned. Always had to wait for load after empty message, even under 14 hour rules.
4. Company changed my dispatcher about once every 2 months. ( This is probably because their paid $9.00 an hour and there's a huge turnover. )
5. Was threatened with my job daily if I wouldn't run illegally to compensate for the ineptitude of load planning.
6. Was dispatched on average about twice a week to deliver loads on Saturday and Sunday to customers that weren't even open on the weekends.
7. My last time to call corporate safety, after sending a breakdown message and blocking New Orleans rush hour traffic, was answered after a 4 and 1/2 hour wait.
8. My last month to work with the company, I was supposedly on their 7 days on and 7 days off program. They kept me out for three weeks, including a week my wife was hospitalized. I earned $211.00 for the sum total of those three weeks.

You can make a better living sacking groceries at Wal-Mart than driving for Knight Transportation. They make their profits by screwing everybody that works for them.

I challenge you to find 10 Knight Transportation drivers who have been with them at least one year.