Knight Transportation.............Can't Do it.....

I have no experience with 53' footers outside of trucking school. My experience is with FedEx Ground 27.5'-ers as doubles.

If the gig was NOT local; if the gig DID cost me money and time commuting to; if the gig wanted me to shell out and 'application fee' like many messenger companies I worked for, then I would not donate my time for gratis.

Because of the little investment from me other than time, I believe that it would be a decent learning experience. In one week, I should be able to tell if I want to do containers or not. In one week, maybe I don't work out and they do not hire me.

The dispatcher did warn me that some weeks may be as low as $400 such as all during February when China is on their New Year. He did say that is should be 'all guns blazing' from now until December. We shall see....

 

so what if they want to hire you in a week, and you decide you dont "want to do containers"?

 

I wish I could have a Chrystal ball and see my future. However, I do not, so ever thus I do not have a answer to you last question.

However, I do not believe I will pass this chance up. I hear that carriages can be in bad shape and that sometimes a hunt for trailers can be sorta Knightish. However, I also heard from former classmates that O/Os hauling containers around my area pull in some very good silver and gold.

 

They should be paying you something for the week......... Even minimum wage..! Also from reading your posts it appears that dealing with pos chassies is not going to go well .

Best of luck to you

ps I hate the megas to !

 

Ya--but like I said in an earlier response, I attempt to seek what pays-off better in the LONG-run. Knight would pay me some $400/week while at Squire--or was that Schneider...I cannot remember. A better short-run I admit.

However, if this container thing works out, I donate a week's worth of time an effor to get back some $35-50k by December 2013 all while home every night, able to raise a garden, time to sell my van, organize paperwork, continue to prosecute the bum the stiffed me while driving his Sprinter, and clean out my abode, etc. Or, I can look at it like I am getting a weeks worth of 'behind-the-wheel' instruction without pay the going rate of $60/hr around here.

Again, I am not having any expenses to speak of with this arrangement as I have typed earlier today especially commuting wise. If nothing else, then at least I am showing the apologists--Knight Pom-Pom waving hecklers --that I am NOT so spoiled or that I am NOT avoiding seeking work. I AM willing to go the extra mile provided I feel that running the marathon will pay off.

 

Any updates?

 

Nope. Pretty much nothing happens over the weekends. Job searching is pretty much a Monday through Friday gig; recruiters, evidently, use 48 hour resets on Saturday and Sunday.

The container driver who was to call me, whom I have been trying to get the company to have call me Thurdsay and Friday for confirmation, did not do so until Sunday morning. I am scheduled to leave for training tomorrow. I am also checking back with a linehaul company and a refrigeration outfit where I applied also.

I am doing some maintenance on my van; I will put it on the road if I get nothing by the time the calendar turns to April.

It's 'slow as she goes' progress.

 

I put in my two weeks of training for free. It is okay--I feel like I got another 100 hours behind the wheel and another 30 hours of 'loading/unloading', containter picking up, live lifting, and chasis light changing experience.

The company is giving me 'she is not in yet'--the lady that purportedly is in charge of the issuance of the drug testing paperwork. I was to test Friday---and then today--and now tomorrow.

I have become a violin in my job searching and I know when I am being played. I fill out an application to another outfit even yet closer to my abode in an hour. It is a not a container outfit and I would be OTR M-F. However, after working 14-18 hour days anyhow, I could use the break of the 10 consecutive hours off.

 

Just so i dont have to go search this thread..... can you remind me why you just dont go apply at a place like PRIME (what seems like the best of the CDL mills), THEN, while you are actually WORKING, you can go find the job you really want?

 

Two reasons I don't PRIME, and they may or may not be good reasons

(1) I consider them a 'mega-mill' -- maybe not a top of the hill in size, but similar in treatment of newbies

(2) Prime popluates the "Report a Bad Trucking Company Here" forum. Not as often as Knight, Swift, CRE, et al., but it is there

(3) There is no Prime Termianal anywhere that I can google search close to where I lay my head down for rest.