K&B Transportation. HONEST review!

BaldBull · Nov 18, 2020

RU4Sportymom2 said: ↑

I am leaving K&B, I have had 5 of my own trucks and and guys work for me. I have been a trainer myself and in all of my years have seen nothing like this. I was told on more than one occassion to drive over my hours and illegally by more than one person here on multiple occassions! My second day here at K& B, I was told by someone on the phone( I was calling dispatch) who refused to give me his name that, "They were not going to make it easy for me here". I asked his name and what was meant by the comment? He repeated, " We will not make it easy for you here!" I am the only female I've seen here at K&B.
Unbelievably, I was awaked from sleep because of one of the nightshift guys calling and yelling at me from a dead sleep, grilling me over why I'm not at the shipper getting loaded?! (He invallidated my 10 hour clock by calling me "back to back" 3 consecutive times, I have a health issue as well as being in hotel due to APU being broke, My APU has been out since 2-3 days ago. I can't sleep without A/C.
Also, no one here notifies anyone from the next shift about "any changes" in regard to loads or personnel). There is no respect here for anyone, there is work and pay.
The lady in maintainance said, "your dispatcher has to route you for it that he would get it in for maintenance that she would message him". Never happened!
I've learned that unless you tell each person here individually anything you need or want it will not be done. They do not call, email or text each other to keep each other apprised of loads, etc. Everything here is very vague! Hey, but they DO have loads and guaranteed pay. They do 8/2 split "ONLY" absolutely no 10 hour breaks. They will call you and harrass you at all hours! Which is True, blatantly violating your DOT mandated 10 hour break!
I had breakdowns with trailer's 2 of which were one behind the other, they will come and have another driver get your load and leave you an empty.
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Hi, just getting m CDL out of school. Do you recommend good companies to start with?
Thank you

Dennixx · Nov 18, 2020

BaldBull said: ↑

Hi, just getting m CDL out of school. Do you recommend good companies to start with?
Thank you
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Start a new thread in the new drivers forum and ask that question to the senior job placement guru @Chinatown

Chinatown · Nov 18, 2020

BaldBull said: ↑

Hi, just getting m CDL out of school. Do you recommend good companies to start with?
Thank you
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Dennixx said: ↑

Start a new thread in the new drivers forum and ask that question to the senior job placement guru @Chinatown
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Yes, you'll get more responses on the "Questions From New Drivers" thread.
Add to your question:
Location . State & nearest town/city.
Do you have endorsements?
Do you prefer local/regional/OTR?
Age; are you over 21, 22, 23 yrs. old? Some companies have a minimum age requirement, but there are no maximum age requirements.

mjd4277 · Nov 21, 2020

Obviously K&B is still up to their old tricks again and didn’t learn anything from the expose on “20/20”!

drvrtech77 · Nov 21, 2020

mjd4277 said: ↑

Obviously K&B is still up to their old tricks again and didn’t learn anything from the expose on “20/20”!
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They won’t ever change..frankly they’re a bunch of crooks...

Bakari742 · Dec 3, 2020

BaldBull said: ↑

Hi, just getting m CDL out of school. Do you recommend good companies to start with?
Thank you
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K&B requires 6 months experience. Good luck

truckersworkhard · Dec 5, 2020

Bakari742 said: ↑

This is my first time posting a review about a company. I went through the 'The Truckers Report' page and read some positive and negative reviews about K&B Transportation out of South Sioux City, NE. I'm not going to comment or discuss on the previous reviews posted by other drivers about this company, because I don't know the reason why they were happy or unhappy about their whole experience at K&B.

I will try my best to explain and give my feedback about K&B. And before I proceed, I want to make this clear, I'm NOT a dispatcher, recruiter nor a spokesperson for this campany. I'm just a driver trying to help others out there. I promise to keep it 100% honest with you guys. I started with K&B back in October of 2013 after months of research and finally decided to give them a shot, and I was happy with them until when I decided to leave on May, 2014 and become Owner Operator. But things didn't work out well for me as an O/O, so I decided to come back to K&B on August of last year and I'm not planning to leave unless they fire me, which I doubt will happen because I do my job. K&B is one of the few best companies left out there because of the following 17 reasons;

1- Guaranteed 2500 miles or $1,250 a week minimum! The only time you'll be disqualified from the guarantee is when you refuse a load, when late for pick up or delivery out of your negligence and when at home for home time. By the way, I've never missed my guarantee and most of the time I go over the minimum miles per week.
2- New trucks and well maintained trailers.
3- APU on every truck!
4- Refrigerator in every truck!
5- CB in every truck! And it's pre-installed.
6- GPS on Qualcomm. FREE!
7- Your day Dispatcher knows and address you by your name and not your truck number!
7- Amazing home time (1 day off for every 7 days out).
9- The shop guys are faster than anyone I've seen in my 6 years driving.
10- Free truck wash every month at any truck wash place (Mostly Blue beacon).
11- $100 for every clean DOT inspection regardless of level!
12- PrePass and EZ-Pass on every truck!
13- FLY to orientation!
14- ZERO waiting for your truck after a short 2 days orientation.
15- Friendly faces at the terminal. Open door policy. No prison Windows!
16- $500 bonus after every 6 months with zero accident and no violations.
17- $900 sign on bonus on your FIRST two paychecks!

K&B would be the the perfect company if they didn't have these two issues which I believe are fixable;

1- The motel they put driver in is just bad, but that's my opinion maybe some of you love that motel. I think they'll improve on this issue in the near future.
2- NIGHT DISPATCH! Not good, not at all. Every company out there has problem with night dispatch and I understand they are under staffed at night, but they shouldn't be like that, professionalism should be 24/7. I really hope K&B employs more night guys to handle drivers with respect.

But on top of the above issues, I don't think there is any OTR company out there that is better than K&B! I'm glad I chose them over the others. Please don't believe every negative thing you hear or read from former drivers, most of the time it's lies. Focus on the positives and follow your instincts. Good luck and I hope this helped you a little. Drive safe!
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truckersworkhard · Dec 5, 2020

drvrtech77 said: ↑

They won’t ever change..frankly they’re a bunch of crooks...
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Do NOT work for K&B. period.

Lonesome · Dec 5, 2020

truckersworkhard said: ↑

Do NOT work for K&B. period.
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Care to elaborate?

Bakari742 · Dec 5, 2020

truckersworkhard said: ↑

Do NOT work for K&B. period.
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