I just did some research on American Furniture. They don't offer the hometime I'm looking for. They also pay worse than Knight. The pay thing isn't as important to me as hometime. My wife works and makes better money than I do, so my budget is fine. I just want to drive OTR, like I love to do, and at the same time get a bigger chunk of time at home than I do now. That's if I can get home at all.
I also looked at Furniture Row Express. That's refer work and sitting at food warehouses. Been there. Done that. Don't want to do that again!
Just looking for a company that has a yard or terminal in Denver and offers 14/7. Right now, that's Knight. Unless anyone has other info for me to look into.
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Discussion in 'Knight' started by crst trucker 06, Jul 14, 2006.
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I am not sure of the Denver terminal, I heard they moved to a bigger one recently. I live in San Jose and I have no real complaints about Knight except their insurance policy and ignorance about domestic partnerships. Since beginning with them in April I have 35,829 miles. I get home when I want to get home, and I stay home for as long as I want to. I do not get hassled. Like next week I'm taking a week off. I've been running for the last 3 weeks without a 34 hour restart and still managed 9,400 miles in that 21 day period. I am one of Tulare's most productive drivers because I get the job done and I'm not lazy and I don't get tickets or accidents (except for one single incident in which conway decided they could dispense with my services) and I have every endorsement, my TWIC card, and passport. I prefer elogs and I will never drive for a company that doesn't use em.
I speak mainly from my own experience. I've driven for others and to be honest I prefer knight over conway. Already I have been home more often than conway and I drove for them for a year. Being home is very important to me.Lab work and skyviper73 Thank this. -
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I'm starting orientation on Tuesday at the Tulare Termina. Really hoping Knight turns out to be a better fit for me since.
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I have met people in other terminals and for the most part I liked everyone I met.
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Concerning their 'default' per diem: I wised up and 'tried' to get off of it---took me a piece of paper and "3" signatures to the highest level to get an authorization.. Then when the next year Jan came around..they 'defaulted' me back!!! I was very, very, very disappointed with Knight, but had gotten used to 'bending over and taking it' during the 5 yrs that I worked there....<BTW, still hurts when I sit down 4 yrs later> -
Said it before, been here since March, still happy. Plenty of miles, great DM, brand new truck. I go home every third weekend and stay home for 3-4 days. So far so good. It took me one week to get off the per diem.
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I will be watching out for that. At least I am on daily pay, so I will be able to catch it quickly. Thanks for the warning.
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