Knight

HAHAHAHA. HAHAHHAHAAA. No comment. Mods please delete my post HAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAA

 

OK... so as a company driver w/ Knight I was on pace to make $35,000/yr and I was one of their better guys. My trainer made about $55-60k so $61k isn't out of the question since he got paid on all miles we drove while I got $400/wk (not complaining, this is a fair wage as a trainee). Issue here is that you are actually team driving and logging everything as solo (illegally) so trainers get 4,000 miles/5 days (800 miles a day running your log and theirs). Sometimes they drive, sometimes you drive... 20 hour days between you and you might get 3 hours of sleep if you're lucky cause you both have to be awake. I make $60,000 a year now as a solo driver home virtually every weekend (2,500 miles/5 days). I don't know if I'd call training for Knight a "great deal".

Shaggy's post on page 1 pretty much sums up the Knight home-time experience.

 

Don't forget. The recruiter gets % of all drivers miles.

Source- current boss former recruiter at knight

 

Oh yeah, how could I forget that? My recruiter and DM got fired during one of Knight's cost-cutting brainfarts that turned an operational revenue-producing terminal into a glorified drop yard and created a state of mass confusion amongst drivers. If you actually work here, you know what I'm talking about...

 

that should really tell you all you need to know...

 

Elaborate a bit, not poking fun at you for working for this company. Gotten my attention for a possible funny story lol.

Co-workers and myself make fun our boss to his face all the time about his past employer. He started the stories, we just keep feeding it lol

 

Meh... recruiter troll post deserves good troll so why not?

I was out of Joliet... no one is dispatched from Joliet anymore because its been re-purposed for "training". They fired most of their staff a week before Christmas... it was an absolutely inhumane and monstrous move imho... I began looking for another company soon after even though I had limited experience. I saw the company in a different light and it scared the hell out of me. I took dangerous runs because I thought they'd be thankful and I wanted to pay them back for putting me to work (I felt like I owed this company as many new drivers do) but in actuality I was expendable and could be left stranded hundreds of miles from home on a whim which solidified my choice to gtfo while the getting was good. They fired about 30% of the drivers out of that terminal in the next two months for minor and stupid infractions. They said they don't trash DACs but they do- luckily most of the industry and the DOT knows they are full of crap so it doesn't carry much weight. Everything they do is to cut costs and even in the brief time I was there (about 8 months) I saw things deteriorate badly. I still don't think Knight is a bad starter company as long as you don't mind working for people who enjoy skirting the law and treat you like expendable trash to be taken advantage of but I'd warn anyone thinking of choosing this company to EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION when dealing with snakes.

Make fun of me as much as you want, I deserve it for working here... I have a much better job now and I had to start somewhere.

 

That's not a funny story, That's a autobiography
Don't care who your past or present employer is. still doing this trucking thing same as me. same boat different company name on life vest.

 

Well.. I guess your right there. Funny stories include being stranded in New York for three days without freight, being asked to deliver for Micheal's and forced to run illegal for about two days straight since these deliveries start at 3 a.m. and you have six stops (you read that right and they'll threaten to fire you if you can't make it), having a lot lizard in Alabama actually give me money out of pity (no other favors exchanged), bringing in the truck every 7500 miles for 'non-service', delivering for Budweiser and Purina (always over 45,000 lbs. and always a joke), listening to three DMs argue about what overweight load to give me overnight while the phone was off mute, waiting two days for a wrecker after my load shifted (he looked inside and laughed hysterically then asked if my truck was packed by retarded kids- all the freight was on one side, palletized on mats so it couldn't slide) AND there are many, many, more... I think the stupidity just became laughable after a while even though it was really dangerous... My personal favorite is when they asked me if I wanted to run the new 'Purina' dedicated account and I told them I'd much rather sign up to be a crash test dummy... ah well, it was funny if you were there.

 

At Knight you do or run 180k miles in a year.