Knight squire program

I just graduated a week ago from the school down in Phoenix, had an awesome time. What questions do you have??

 

Are they picky about work history? Hair test or urinalysis?

 

Work history they want the last 10 years of work history including any jobs you attended orientation at. Also any trucking schools you attended must be listed as well. Before you show up for orientation in Phoenix you need to have the last 3 years of verifiable work history by providing either your latest pay stub or the last 3 years of your w2's. As for Hair Test and Urinalysis they do both.

 

I will start orientation on Monday in Las Vegas for the Squire program, but I don't have the money to travel to Phoenix and get a hotel, does anyone have any resources? Also, will I start paying Knight back while I'm in training, during or after the 3,000 miles? And if I'm training out of Phoenix if I don't pass my CDL test will they send me home on my own dime or let me go back out with a trainer? What areas will I mostly be running in? Thank you

 

Your recruiter should have told you all this information. All these questions you should be asking your recruiter. Orientation is in Phoenix Arizona as well as CDL school training. You must pass all portions of your cal school training with 80 percent or better. If you don't then you have to go through a review process and it has to be approved by the higher ups.

I'm pretty sure getting home is going to be on your own dime if you fail. There is no over the road training while in the process of getting your del. Once you have your CDL then expect to go over the road training for 4 to 6 weeks.

After that phase of training you then go solo for 30,000 miles. Once those 30,000 miles are complete you finally become a Knight. Two months after you start being pay roll deducted 25$ per week or 100$ a month

 

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I have decades of driving & my girlfriend worked for Knight for almost 9yrs.
Personally I would not recommend refer driving for a new driver. More night driving, less time on loads due to loading/unloading delays, hiring lumpers routinely, delivering loads very early am & pu's in the afternoon.
Your pu's in rural areas in the winter can be challenging as well as mult drops that could take 2 to 4hrs at each location to get unloaded/ loaded.

I have done it & under current HOS & E-logs? Your just asking for lots of misery that you don't have running dry box. At what Knight will pay you? Do dry van or at least get something dedicated, other then that it is not worth it.

 

Your call, but suggest you visit a Workforce center or whatever the state employment agency is called, and see if you qualify for a grant for CDL school. It takes a few weeks to get it if you are. Then you can go to school right there in LV and not owe anyone a year of slave labor.

Southwest in LV also offers to finance their class at something like 19% last I knew.

Lots of work open around there as well, work construction hauling and be home every day.

If you want to work out of Kingman, a bulk company there has openings for new drivers and a state grant to train them for bulk delivery. Not great money but better than the megas and mostly home every day. Normally they require two years, so it's an unusual door that's open right now.

 

Thank you for your information, my recruiter did give me all of the information the hotel rooms are expensive as hell and that's not including the transportation out there so when I asked about resources I meant the hole in the wall hotels that are not the big name-brand ones, are there any like that in Phoenix? And I do understand the training process and everything thank you for the information so if I fail I'll probably be going home so I'll probably end up driving my car to Phoenix so the next thing I have to find out is where would I be staying because I can't afford to pay over $100 a night... My budget is very very strict and I will only have $300 spending money until I get paid for the first week of training. Or does anyone have any information of someone renting a room out that's cheaper than Airbnb? Thank you.