My experience with Knight Refrigerated

I was with knight about a year ago, and they did not take you right out of school. You had to have 3 months exp. I don't know if they changed policies or not since then. Knight can be pretty scrict. You better make sure you have 100 pounds of pressure in your tires when you drive into a terminal, cause they will check if during the day. If you have wires sticking out on the tires anywhere, your gone. Pre trips should take care of that if you do them right. They had a qualcomm system that was kinda bad too, had to stop for 1 minute with the motor shut off so the logs would go to line 4 for fuel, if going under an awning. But, you can make more cpm than werner .

 

So if at all possible would trying to get on with Knight right out of the gate from IITR be a decent stepping stone? (What I mean by that is put a year in, get some experience and hunt down a different company?) Really wanting to try and find a regional route but it seems like most, if not all driver training with companies are OTR until you go solo.

 

I don't think OTR will bother me all that much, my wife actually wants to go with me once her current job is done with (about a year or so from now.)

Really what I am hoping to find is a company out this way that does regional or local hauling to get my experience in, if I can find a company that does their training and solo runs as regionals (OR/WA/ID probably being the main regional runs out my way if I were to guess) then I would be golden.

 

Thanks man! Glad to hear it's working out for you. I just gotta see if I can get through training. Decided I am going to grab a different job locally and save up (my wife's job pays all the bills plus extra right now) that way when I go through my CDL training I won't owe anyone anything.

After that I am gonna see what I can find, gonna keep doing a lot of research and discussing it with the wife. I hope to go into my training with a locked down job.

 

Well I'm finally doing orientation at Knight. It's a small group and I like it, compared to where I used to work, where they put like 70 people in orientation then 40 of them either quit or get tossed out of there. I also like the fact that the terminal is small and you get to know everyone who works there. So far so good, nice people in the Lakeland,FL terminal. Today was sort of a long day, smith system and the physical which is super long...lol... Let's see how it goes when I'm done with everything and I'm on a truck. I can't wait to be done and get back on the road!...

Hey Smaggs; what's new?

 

wow, another one from lakeland....we might end up being as big as Atlanta soon enough.

 

They said they will have around 300 trucks based out of lakeland in a couple of months. I know they've been saying for the longest time, they are building a new huge terminal on Lakeland, but I haven't seen anything.