Is Knight any good to start out with?

They certainly have the positive social media coverage covered.
Also have the drama segment covered as well.

Search knight on YouTube, not very informative but entertaining if you like high school levels of drama.

 

AH Knight trucking on the TUBE...Always a good laugh especially that one short guy...great comic relief...reading his comments is fun as well...On the PLUS Side he should be a wealth of knowledge with ALL the companies he has been to

 

I have a lengthy thread of my experience there. I got my CDL through their school before they closed them down leaving Phoenix as the only option. Their training is very basic and you will learn just enough that you won't crash the truck your first day behind the wheel. 98% of your training is on the road with a trainer. It is about 4 weeks long but I requested an extra 3 weeks until I felt good about my skills. I did very well there. I was out of Springdale, AR until it was closed down. I recommend reefer. Dallas, Kansas City, or even Memphis would bring you on in reefer.

 

Dry van guys seem to have trouble locating empties and the average length of haul is shorter. I never had an issue locating trailers and length of haul was pretty long. Reefer is more consistent in general than dry vans.
I didn't have any issue with trucks. I had one with 100k on it but the DEF system went down and I was put into another with about 160k on it and had that one until the end. I recommend Volvo over the international. It's smaller but has a lot of storage and it's a very comfortable truck.

 

Most places don't mind if you switch divisions. I chose my division before I showed up at training. It may have changed but not all terminals have reefer dispatch. Tulsa was dry dispatch only. That's why I listed those other locations. It doesn't mean you wouldn't be able to run reefer but your dispatch would be somewhere else than your "home" terminal.

 

A tip regarding trainers; have some system in place that you always know one of you is out of the truck. I came out from breakfast one morning and my trainer had left without me. Luckily he hadn't gone too far. I still give him grief about that when we talk.