knight

The bar must be pretty low huh.

 

Yup ... And it's a crowded field too.

To the OP's question... Nope.

 

Yep. I almost tripped over it.

 

I'll just leave this here, Enjoy.

 

I drive for Knight. I have been here almost 5yrs. They treat me very well and I make a pretty good check each week. They run me in the areas I like to run most of the time. Sometimes I get a load that I'm not crazy about but it can't be want I want all the time. They are not perfect but they have kept me here for this long so they are doing something right. The shops and communication are the biggest problem. I talk to my DM everyday to keep things in line as well as I can. I go home when I want. Rarely do I get home late. Sometimes it can't be avoided. I'm not a recruiter, just a driver that does his job and I don't complain unless I need to. I've been driving since 1988 and this is one of the best companies I've driven for.

 

you were giving us the day to day report on the knight lease then you went away.
drivers wondered what happened and speculated that knight was oppressing your free speech

 

Knight is very cleverly trying to attract a certain group of drivers: Young, desperate, ambitious, and prone to submission along with an erroneous belief that as an army of one you can really make a difference; all the while entertaining a strong belief that any substantial monetary gain (or any other important objective) is an elusive, yet obtainable goal that will one day pan out, provided that you're 'man enough' to acheive it.

Kinda like the military.

Why be someone else's cheap, common cannon fodder?
Stay away from both and do something that really does take some courage; think for yourself and move on.

 

I ran for Knight a few years ago, 2012-2013, and can tell you it's not high pay but it's an easy job. They run electronic logs, which like all Qualcomm setups is easy to bypass when you want to, but you need your dispatcher to cover your ### for this.(only did this twice, to make it home due to an emergency). Sliding scale pay, higher mileage pays less than shorthauls. Equipment was always very well maintained, they pay guys to detail the trucks before they are reassigned,but speed is based on mpg. You can run 65 if your mpg is decent, but once it drops to a certain point your truck will drop to 62mpg until the next cycle. They will never ask you to run illegal, and you can drop into part time whenever you want(but lose your insurance) if you want extended time off. Casual option just has to take 1 run every 30days to stay employed, but again you don't receive any benefits as part time. The daily pay option was cool- every trip turned in by 1300 was paid by 1700 the next day, and you can install the app on your phone to just take pictures of the BOL's to instantly submit them. Flexible on home time , and will normally work with you for extra time. Again, they pay less than average per mile compared to other carriers! I was a company driver, and they treated me well, but I left for a local job in Fort Worth.

 

I drive for knight now, been there about a month and a half. I'll let you be the judge if it's a good match for you based in my experience.

I'll start with the good, I like my driver manager, when I first started he ran me a lot.

The bad, they have janky ### smoked up trucks. They've given me 5 trucks and I've only been there maybe 6 weeks. You have to take them back to your terminal for work done, so I'm through Phoenix almost every week for some type of service on their 359k+ trucks. They run internationals and volvos. I was almost given an auto freight liner, but when they pinged it, it was out on local delivery. Each time, instead of waiting to have mine fixed, they throw you in another guys truck that either just quit or got fired. ####ty cleaning up after a trashed out driver every week. (Cheap labor of ya ask me).

They ran me 3400 miles my first week with them, then it slowly tapered off until I was stuck in Cali last week when they tried to say freight was slow. At that point I was routed back to the Phoenix yard for more shop work, and have been sitting at home for a week. I've always been on time, have done nothing but go out of my way to be accommodating to service requirements and changing trucks each week. I called yesterday and they finally had a truck, got inside and the check engine light was on. Some of the previous drivers crap was still inside where he left in a hurry. So I Bobtailed to shop, they sent me away cause I didn't have a trailer. Got a trailer, tried to take it to the shop, and he closed the #### door at 5 til 5. I dropped the trailer and told my DM I was leaving, call me when they had a clean, working truck. Haven't heard from him in 2 days. Tired of driving to buckeye from the house to get a messed up pos truck again.

You tell me, good company to work for?

 

They didn't, i just got depressed after 3 weeks of negative settlements. Walked away from the truck and trucking for 9 months. Now i've been driving for almost a year again......at Knight :/

Knights far better than the worst bottom feeders but not nearly the best oppertunity out there. I'm getting my ducks in a row to get a truck from Lone Mountain and go to either IDC, Mercer, or Landstarve.