Good Knight, Bad Knight??

Here's the pros and cons:

Pro -
1 - I have never made less than 1k a week since joining Knight
2 - The dental and vision insurance is wonderful.
3 - I have always been able to get home in time and whenever I wanted to go home.
4 - No forced dispatch

Cons -
1 - The sitting duck policy is one of the most unfair policies in knight.
2 - They do not recognize LGBT rights and do not recognize domestic partnerships for riders and insurance.
3 - The health insurance is a total waste of money. I'd rather wipe my ### with the money I don't spend on it.
4 - Some people think it has a bad reputation yet they only point out an instance here or there and the people that did something as stupid as what they did they deserve all they get.
5 - Be very very careful around Fontana drivers, they are snitches. In fact, avoid Fontana, the people there all the way to the gate guard are ########.

 

I'll add one pro and one con to HBT's list

Pro
The trucks are fairly new.

Con
You have to stay on top of your pay, they miss a lot of reimbursements.

 

At the fontana yard,even if its an mty Trailer, they still want u to have ur personal on there when u leave that yard....

 

Yes, as per my earlier post on Knight's sitting duck policy <cough, hack>, someone at the Fontana terminal turned me in for legally parking among other rigs down the road from Conagra in Rancho Cuc, for 1 hr while waiting for the morning rush hr to clear out B4 heading back east to Phx....snitches is too nice a word to call them!!

I hated Fontana, and only went into the yard if I 'had' too!!!

 

Problem is they don't gain anything from telling on others. There's some child, I'll call him a child because he's short, he wears knight clothes head to toe, says he's been here since the beginning, and always hollaring at people for not beeping when backing, idling their trucks, and tells on you by taking videos and sending it to HR just to fire you. Step one toe out of line in front of him and he's on the phone. I really don't like him.

 

Speaking of 'toes'....

BTW, how's the toe? I had both big toenails removed in HS and early 20's that were ingrown & infected (lots of puss). And altho I've broken ribs, ankle, fingers, etc., since then, nothing was more painful than stubbing an ingrown toenail..ouch, can feel it even now! (And I also worked and learned to live with my last 2 yrs @ Knight with a torn rotator cuff gotten when closing the door on a 14' trailer during the winter and while fighting the wind...and I was working out & in good shape at the time). Working 'thru' injuries is a must for a long-term trucking career!

 

I don't do well with being "hollared" at, I would say ask the last person that did it but he's still working on the coloring book he got for Christmas.

 

speakin of snitchin, i thought Truckin was like a Brotherhood/Sisterhood ???.. u never snitch on another driver...

the day i was at the DMV standing in Line for The CDL skills test...somebody else was talkin about that...

 

It used to be, but people all around does it. While I would say something if it were a case of a person dropping a trailer that's loaded in a lot next to an adult supercenter, damaging private or public property, or in the case of theft in other jobs..... I'm not going to say anything about a driver making a U turn, or sitting on the side of the road..... I don't care.