My experience with Knight Refrigerated

issue #1: 600 is pounding out? thats like a leasurly drive


issue #2: thats a reefer issue, find a good van company and you wont wait very long very often, or pull a flat/tank/cars and almost never wait




American Trucker

 

The reefer side of knight sucks less than the dry side. They both suck just one sucks less. ( I am a half empty glass guy)lol

 

Keep your reefer. There is 999999999 only dry van companies and on 999999998 reefer companies. More freight. Lol

 

yeah, i guess it's each his own.. i know i'd come out better doing two 300 mile runs in one day that still equals out to 600 miles for the day, but pays at a higher rate.. but i forgot that reefer deals with grocery dc's a lot more then dry. most of my runs are paper or paper related, blue moon i get beer or grocery stuff..

 

hey smaggs, is the dash in your truck (right above your gauge cluster) smooth? or is it textured?




American Trucker

 

mitch are you company or o/o ? on an average what would a 3 week run consist of ? also when things slow down this time of year do you find yourself or do you see other drivers sitting waiting any kind of frieght? also how long you been with knight

 

Small world dude. I used to live in Holmes cty..the great big town of Noma. And I worked at knight. We are practilly related.. Lol

 

Smaggs did you get the email about your W2 yet? I got mines last night. I'm not sure how Knight is going to give them to us.. but i was snooping around on the Driver's website and found a link for a website we'd have to register to if we wanted a copy of our W2 and i registered to the website and it sent me an email last night saying my W2 was ready.. Can't wait to see what it looks like.. here's the site, hope i don't get put in time out for posting it.
https://www.paperlessemployee.com/knighttrans

I'm company, still considering o/o with my own truck but i'm still running numbers and waiting on a house..

my normal three/four weeks are never the same, back when freight was heavy, i would come off of home time, and load out of florida for 1000+ miles somewhere to the north east and then bounce around there for a week and then to the mid west or what ever you condiser Indiana for a week and then southeast and back to florida.

i always knew when they were trying to get me home cause i'd be all over the place and then magically i'd be back in the south east.. now that things are slow it's all just a toss up. they send me where they know there's going to be a load within 200mi coming back out and they load me out going into that direction. But lately i've been luckly to reload out of the same plant, or less then thirty miles down the road.

Normally when i sit it's because the truck is in the shop. I don't reject loads because of where they are going, or if i heard somewhere that there was slow or no freight in that area, i dont really care, cause they'll just dead head me out of there and i'm not payin for fuel, and i still get paid for the empty miles. I just request that my unloads in the north east are early morning, and reloads are early afternoon, so i can be sleep by the time everyone else is getting off work..

the one thing i can say is to try not and run across a holiday.. not many if any places work, and because of that there's no product to move.. i worked across Christmas, and the only way they kept me moving was by bouncing me to Pa, NJ, and back to IL, IN, OH.. for the last two or possible three weeks of December that's all i was doing.. and the strange thing was that i saw trucks from terminals i didn't even know we had. Like a truck from Washington and i was told them guys stick mainly to the Pacific North West and West Coast. But they were loading Paper in Pa.

Been with Knight since May 2010, i like them, but i dont like vans.. too much sittin on my cheeks, and not much thought goes into it.. i can slide tandems and be within 600lbs with out the cat. Only loads that require me to concentrate is the seven pieces of roll stock that weighs 43K, everything else just rides. Considering tankers but not food grade, so i need to find a company that doesn't want experience.