My experience with Knight Refrigerated

Knight is the reason you're quitting. They take cheap cheap cheap loads and that's the kind of treatment drivers get. Cheap cheap cheap. Knight makes money off quantity not quality.

 

Best of luck smaggs. I've had 2 instances of quitting the industry for the same reasons. Bit after a while I found myself wanting back.


To the guy blaming the company. Theories and rants like that are what makes me hate this industry, along with what smaggs said about the trucker BS talk. You can't have a decent conversation with anybody without hearing the following.

Cheap freight
Bottom feeders
"I fired my DM"
"I threatened my DM"
And so on....

God speed smaggs

 

I hear ya Smaggs. It's the same reason I ditched OTR two months ago. Granted I was home more often then you were, but my miles (and money) did not justify even being out for just 6 days per week.

 

let us remember the guys making money and are busy aren't on here complaining. that said if i had a family at home i might wanna be there. I have always lived away whether at this on on the fishing boats all 3 of my wives liked it that way

 

Smaggs if there is a LTL company around where you live you might give that a try if you want to stay in trucking and be home.

 

If you complain about the crap pay and conditions, you are considered a whiner.

Never has there been an industry where so many people are willing to work so much for such little amount of money.

What a pathetic industry.

 

I almost quit driving dump awhile back. Not because I hated driving, but because the boss made my job hell. Everything my fault, no money to fix truck, long hours, shafted me out of state wages, etc. Turned out I still loved driving, just not for him...I quit his company and found another one that i could fall back in love with what I did for a living. Sometimes that's all it takes.
Best of luck, Smaggs, Thanks for the peek into your experience.

 

Smaggs, thanks for keeping up with this thread, I haven’t been entertained this much since Pharm Phail (sp?) and I mean that as a tribute to both him and you, in a good way. Reading your thread has been like watching my favorite horror movie, I know how it’s going to end but I still can’t help screaming “get out” at the screen every time you hit a bump in the road.

For you to extrapolate your experience at Knight to the industry as a whole and to use that as a justification to quit trucking completely is doing yourself a great injustice. We need more guys like you and less people like the type you describe hanging around with. Why you continue to work for Knight is a complete mystery to me. Knight sucks; they are one of the worst companies to work for. The fact that you’ve lasted this long is a testament to your perseverance and inexperience. You need to take care of yourself and your needs and quit worrying about your DAC, getting one year in, and the fact that so many experienced guys work at Knight, and all the other reasons to “hang in there”.

As a newbie, it behooves you to get a variety of experience so that you learn what you like and what you don’t. You can find a job in this industry that you love but you’ve got to go out and get it. I’ve been working for about 2 years as a Commercial Driver, the first year I had 4 different jobs including Knight (I lasted 2 weeks before I quit). I am working for a unionized, LTL carrier now and I could not be happier.

Hang in there bro, embrace change, and please, whatever else you do, don’t just disappear on us. I am looking forward to the day I see you in a truck stop and yell SMAGGS, just to see the quizzical look on your face.