Knight Transportation

[prodriver]

Does Knight run EZ-Pass, and Pre-Pass?

Thanks

[Uturn2001]

Yes

[dollarshort]

I love it!

I havent been pulled into a scale in over a month.

[fireman932003]

Big 10-4

[RostyC]

What happened at L & H Dollar?
I did go talk to Larry a while back, nice conversation actually, but they didn't have what I was looking for and vise-versa.

[RostyC]

Knights rider policy must be pretty liberal can you give some details?

[kcfalcon]

You may take one family member at a time.
Kids over the age of 10.
They say it cost like 12.00 a month, but my kids went out with me a few times this summer and they never charged me for it.
Figured it was an oversite and did not say anything.

[scooter421]

Yea i've been thinking of coming off flatbed and going back on dry van getting where tarping and untarping isen't what i like anymore and most times dont get atrp pay either.

[kcfalcon]

Well Knight is well worth a phone call.I have been with them for 2 and a half years now.
I have posted alot on here about them, many ppl disagree, but they work out great for me.

[dollarshort]

RostyC:

As far as L & H goes it's a long story, but I will try to be brief.

They were forcing us to run illegal. Both local and OTR. At first it was only a couple hours here and there but it became worse.

I sat down with the owner of L & H, Glenn, and expressed my concerns about it. I told him I refused to run illegal anymore and they should make some changes.

He said, "This is the way we run the business and we're not going to change it for you." I handed him my keys, cleaned out my truck and left.

Just a few weeks after quitting, one of their drivers crashed his truck in Rhode Island rolling on top of a car, killing the woman that was the driver.
And guess what? He was driving over hours.

The DOT and FMCSA conducted an investigation and audited L & H records finding numerous violations on both drivers and equipment maintenance. They have since levied fines of biblicle proportions, not to mention the lawsuit that the womans' family is filing.

The womans' family lawyers have contacted me on many occasions for information, of which I graciously gave them. So if this thing ever goes to trial I will be the star witness for the prosecution, but I think L & H will settle out of court. If the're smart they will. But they haven't proved to be very smart up to this point

Regardless, L & H will be paying out $$$$MILLIONS$$$. And hopefully they will go bankrupt because of it.

[Ian Williams]

RostyC:

As far as L & H goes it's a long story, but I will try to be brief.

They were forcing us to run illegal. Both local and OTR. At first it was only a couple hours here and there but it became worse.

I sat down with the owner of L & H, Glenn, and expressed my concerns about it. I told him I refused to run illegal anymore and they should make some changes.

He said, "This is the way we run the business and we're not going to change it for you." I handed him my keys, cleaned out my truck and left.

Just a few weeks after quitting, one of their drivers crashed his truck in Rhode Island rolling on top of a car, killing the woman that was the driver.
And guess what? He was driving over hours.

The DOT and FMCSA conducted an investigation and audited L & H records finding numerous violations on both drivers and equipment maintenance. They have since levied fines of biblicle proportions, not to mention the lawsuit that the womans' family is filing.

The womans' family lawyers have contacted me on many occasions for information, of which I graciously gave them. So if this thing ever goes to trial I will be the star witness for the prosecution, but I think L & H will settle out of court. If the're smart they will. But they haven't proved to be very smart up to this point

Regardless, L & H will be paying out $$$$MILLIONS$$$. And hopefully they will go bankrupt because of it.

Another company succumbs to the dark side and likely will go under.

DON'T COOK THE BOOK! The benefits are slight but the consequences are severe when something goes wrong. Even if you are a perfect driver and never get in trouble if you work for a company that lacks a culture of safety they can go belly up like Dick Simon with 1-2 bad accidents.

[Skywalker]

RostyC:

As far as L & H goes it's a long story, but I will try to be brief.

They were forcing us to run illegal. Both local and OTR. At first it was only a couple hours here and there but it became worse.

I sat down with the owner of L & H, Glenn, and expressed my concerns about it. I told him I refused to run illegal anymore and they should make some changes.

He said, "This is the way we run the business and we're not going to change it for you." I handed him my keys, cleaned out my truck and left.

Just a few weeks after quitting, one of their drivers crashed his truck in Rhode Island rolling on top of a car, killing the woman that was the driver.
And guess what? He was driving over hours.

The DOT and FMCSA conducted an investigation and audited L & H records finding numerous violations on both drivers and equipment maintenance. They have since levied fines of biblicle proportions, not to mention the lawsuit that the womans' family is filing.

The womans' family lawyers have contacted me on many occasions for information, of which I graciously gave them. So if this thing ever goes to trial I will be the star witness for the prosecution, but I think L & H will settle out of court. If the're smart they will. But they haven't proved to be very smart up to this point

Regardless, L & H will be paying out $$$$MILLIONS$$$. And hopefully they will go bankrupt because of it.

Another company succumbs to the dark side and likely will go under.

DON'T COOK THE BOOK! The benefits are slight but the consequences are severe when something goes wrong. Even if you are a perfect driver and never get in trouble if you work for a company that lacks a culture of safety they can go belly up like Dick Simon with 1-2 bad accidents.

There have been a number of companies that have gone belly up after a couple of bad accidents.....and if the driver is out of hours or over on his 11 or 14, its AUTOMATIC GUILT!! There is absolutely no defense for that.

For you new people... If a company gets audited....for HOS Compliance, you need to be aware that if your logs up to 180 days back are subject to that audit. If you are found out of compliance, you as well as the company are in the grinder...facing fines and in the event that they are "egregious"....you could even possibly face jail time and loss of your CDL forever!!

IF YOU CAN'T RUN LEGAL BY THE RULES, JUST DON'T DO IT!! ITS NOT WORTH IT!!

Yes, you an cook your book or squeeze blood out of it....but just make one mistake, or have some other bonehead in your fleet do it, and everything you have and have worked for past, present, and future are gone forever.

Anybody remember "Gunther Transport"? I think the guy that owned that company is still in prison....and a lot of their drivers are working bagging groceries now. And it was all about HOS and compliance..... dollarshort, maybe you can find an article about the guy that owned Gunther and print it out and send it to your old employer.....it will probably give him a good look at his future....

[Uturn2001]

If I recall correctly, log book falsification can have fines up to $10,000 per instance.

Now before anyone goes into a major panic, the DOT is not going to bust you for the occasional error. It is the constant pattern of log falsification that will get you busted, and the bigger the pattern the bigger the fines are going to be.

Now before anyone comes back and says that there is no way for you to get busted because you make sure anything time stamped matches your logs, there is still one way for you to get nailed. Your paycheck. How? Well imagine getting paid for 4,000 miles and only logging 3,000.

[RostyC]

Where did this happen in Rhode Island Dollar?, I'll see if I can find it the local paper to get more info.

It doesn't surprise me at all though, when I drove for them in, I think 99', as soon as I was released from my trainer my log book was never right, not even close. I remember the local guys complaining as well about the amount hours, some of them unpaid.

I can believe that attitude from Glenn also, when I quit he was in Tom's office at the time, I told him there wasn't any money in his trucks and his reply was "Well for some one with only a high school education this is good money" I told him I had the ability to count and he could shove it! I then cleaned my truck out I was a little stressed out that day, probably shouldn't have said that but oh well, they left me hang out to dry that day with freight on the trailer that the customer wouldn't take off and then expected me to run to Conn that night. Nope!

I do hope things work out for at Knight Dollar, Good luck!

[dollarshort]

RostyC:

I am not sure of the exact date but it was last winter sometime.

I dont know if you remember him, but the driver was Ray Green.

It's a shame because he is such a nice guy. But now he is probably facing some prison time because he gave in to running illegal.

I know now I did the right thing because it could have easily been me in his position if I didn't quit.

At Knight they expect us to run legal. And I have no problem doing it because I don't set around wasting time and then having to run illegal to make up for it.

[dipstick]

What trannies does Knight run, 10 or thirteen speeds? Do all the trucks have aux heaters, and how good are they? Are fuel stops given at dispatch, and how about routing.

[crankyazz]

they run 10 speeds, yes they all have aux heaters , however u prolly don't need them now.... if its broken they will fix it.... fuel stops.... u are given a list of authorized fuel stops..... routing... you pick your own way.... overall good company... never had anything to complain about xcept maybe slow trucks and finding an mt sometimes....

[Uturn2001]

I am not with Knight anymore. In fact I am not driving right now at all. I had to come off the road to play Mr Mom and then my health took a nose dive for a while also, so even if I wanted to go back OTR I couldn't right now.

[Orangetxguy]

I am not with Knight anymore. In fact I am not driving right now at all. I had to come off the road to play Mr Mom and then my health took a nose dive for a while also, so even if I wanted to go back OTR I couldn't right now.

Sorry to hear about your health problems. A little Japanese internal medicine doc I had back in 97 through 02, told me I was a Horse. With the things I had wrong with me when I first walked into his office in October of 97, he told just before I went back to work in early 99 that I should have died before I ever walked into his office. It took 7 surgeries and a few trips into the CCU, before I was healthy again.

[dollarshort]

What trannies does Knight run, 10 or thirteen speeds? Do all the trucks have aux heaters, and how good are they? Are fuel stops given at dispatch, and how about routing.

10 speeds....The aux heaters are great!!! I had 1% idle time all of last winter. They throw out alot of heat. I usually only set the thermostat at a very low setting and it keeps me plenty warm.

Last winter I actually warmed up a can of soup by putting it in front of the air outlet. :shock:

You have to be careful not to have anything that could burn in front of the vent.

As far as routing, I using Microsoft streets and trips, but as long as you dont go too far out of route you can go however you please.

Knight wants you to either fuel at terminals or at Pilots.