Knight Transportation

Knight Transportation plays stupid games. With 2000+ trucks if you won't run the load they can find some one to do it.

Knight Refrigerated is a different story. They don't play the games. With 400 trucks they are only interested in moving the freight. Legally. You work hard and do your job right. Work with your DM and you will get the miles and then get home on-time. Play stupid and del late or spend to much time at home and your out of there. As long as the truck is making a profit. They will never screw with you.

 

Certainly good information for one interested in pulling reefers. Are the Knight Refrigerated drivers any brighter than CRE or Central?

I cringe trying to read the posts on CRE and Central. If you want a real laugh go to safestat and read Central Refrigerated's violations. Same with CRE. Really knuckle headed stuff.

Companies should have random IQ tests to weed out the imbeciles.

Thanks!

 

LOL I'm afraid it's the same as any where else. Some are really smart and others a to stupid to be driving rocks. For the most part they have good drivers.

 

Not chaining up doesn't mean a driver his lazy. My life is more important then any #### load out there. My father has been driving truck for well over 54 years, and never once has he chained up. He's always told me that if the weather is bad enough for chaines then it is not safe to be out there. I am not lazy, nor is my father or grandfather. I come from a long line of truckers, and never once have any of us chained up. It is not safe for many reasons. But if you feel you need to chain up then so be it. Chain up, but don't call the rest of us lazy because we wont. We just feel it's safer.

 

Right now, the oldest person in my terminal is 28 years old. And with three people in the office, why Knight hasn't closed Kindergardern is beyond me.

It shouldn't matter what number is on the nose, they all say Knight on the door, but it's true, each one is run almost completely different from the next.

 

I've discovered the real problem you are having:


Location: arizona


I wouldn't work out of that terminal.

 

can you details more knight preplan load thank

 

Correct, RP!

I ran out of Phx for 5 yrs as Express, been to all their W. terms, and Phx is the worst---Tulare one of the better, they take care of their drivers there. I left with a 'clean record' but fought many battles with the 'incompetence' there: over-bearing & unreasonable mgmt, inexperienced college grad DM's, panic mode & erratric operation, high turnover rate (both with drivers & in the office), bad Qcom directions, saw 5 ppl named 'Knight' leave their family's co. while there, and the list goes on.

Knight Phx mgmt will try to blame the driver for any problems and take NO reponsibilty for any mistakes---THE DRIVER IS ALSO WRONG!

I only stayed there for the perks: close to home, ran 5-10 days with 3-5 days off (sometimes took 1-2 weeks since had no truck # assigned to me so lots of vacation (unpaid) if I needed it), no out-of-route miles tracking, etc.

My main problem after I 'trained' the young DM's biggrin_25525 was with non-Phx Safety types---tried to nail me for parking in a street (was legal and in an industrial area with other trucks, (was turned in by a Fontana weenie) as violating their stupid version of the 'sitting duck' policy! Fortunately they never caught me making the many U-turns (done safely, I might add!), usually as a result of their bad Qcom directions.

Almost no expereinced drivers in upper mgmt there, and the ones that are, are brainwashed into the total intolerance demanded by upper mgmt to 'real-life' driving situations !!

I could go on, but my BP is rising

OD

 

So the DOT of every western state is allowing thousands of trucks to endanger the public, by letting drivers chain when as you claim, it is not safe to do so?



The weather does not have to be bad to require the use of chains.

I have been chaining my truck going on 19 years and have not wrecked yet. How is that possible if it is so unsafe to do?

Now what is unsafe is having a bunch of fair weather drivers clogging up the parking at the truck stops every time a snow flake hits the ground or the sun goes down.

 

Everyone please listen to this super trucker. By the way super trucker ive seen people with chains on go into the ditch at 15 mph. but who am i too argue with 19 years experiance?