If you want to make really crappy money and waste your time, go work for...

[madaxeman]

Knight Transportation

Gross: $5,600 for 13 weeks! I'll try not to spend it all in one place! Adios to the king of bullsh*tter companies! Don't waste your time working for this company!

[MoneyCat]

Welp I was thinking of applying to Knight @ the Richmond terminal seeing that its hard to get back into tanker yankin. Were you doing OTR for Knight?

[madaxeman]

I'd turn around and run the other way REALLY FAST! Yes...well, it was supposed to be OTR. Their drop and hooks turn into drop and wait for an empty (or chase down empties and burn up hours) while they sell off 100s of good trailers. Then, there is the famous line "deliver this local load to get an empty" while they pay you practically nothing while it takes you hours to do it....or they might just give you a crappy short load even if you have an empty. You write up problems with the trucks repeatedly and Knight just shrugs and doesn't fix the problems! Basically, between not paying you well and skimping out on fixing safety defects and D.O.T. violations, Knight has a lot of money...but you won't!

[Syncrosonix]

madaxeman is right on the money about knight. this company blows goats and i cannot wait until the economy around the phoenix area improves. when it does, i'll run far, far away from this piss poor company.

they're going to buyout western express. what do you think they'll do with all their trailers? i think they'll sell them. even the new ones. they have money to buyout a somewhat large carrier and don't have the money to increase the pay.

i made more during the final three months at swift than i have in 7 months here at knight. it's supremely pathetic.

[madaxeman]

BTW...that pay is with over 2 years experience, too. I didn't just start driving!

[Syncrosonix]

same here. i started with them 9 1/2 months ago with 3 1/2 years experience. unfortunately i had to take the job or lose my ass because of bills that needed to be paid.

[Mackman]

I dont know what to say!!! Sometimes i think i have it bad. I hope you guys can get better jobs. Best of luck to you.

[madaxeman]

Thanks, Mackman! I am taking a couple of weeks off. Then, I will start searching. I am making more money in the stock market than I was making with them.

[Mackman]

Thanks, Mackman! I am taking a couple of weeks off. Then, I will start searching. I am making more money in the stock market than I was making with them.

Best of luck to you. I just landed a good job after looking for about 3months. Take your time. Something will come.

[Syncrosonix]

the best gig that i qualify for pays a measly $11.50 an hour. the one i'd LOVE to get requires their applicants to be at least 30 years of age.

[cdswans]

. . blows goats and i cannot wait until the economy around the phoenix area improves.

Economy? Come back? Don't hold your breath. Go back to Swift if you have to.

[Syncrosonix]

Economy? Come back? Don't hold your breath. Go back to Swift if you have to.

knight is undercutting swift and taking many of their old customer base here in the west. the fact that i don't even see as many swift trucks out and about tells me something is horribly wrong at that company. seems like mr. stocking is running the company into the ground faster than cunningham ever was. chit man, i'm around the corner from their sumner yard and it's somewhat empty in there. i mean, you can actually pull into there right now (2233pst) and find a legit parking stall.

[Mackman]

Knight Transportation

Gross: $5,600 for 13 weeks! I'll try not to spend it all in one place! Adios to the king of bullsh*tter companies! Don't waste your time working for this company!

So thats 430.76 a week. What did you bring home about 3-350??

Take that 430.76 Divide that by 60/hrs a week thats 7.17/hr give or take.

Man that is bad when you look at it like that. You gotta run.

[bentstrider]

knight is undercutting swift and taking many of their old customer base here in the west. the fact that i don't even see as many swift trucks out and about tells me something is horribly wrong at that company. seems like mr. stocking is running the company into the ground faster than cunningham ever was. chit man, i'm around the corner from their sumner yard and it's somewhat empty in there. i mean, you can actually pull into there right now (2233pst) and find a legit parking stall.

Well the months are ticking down for me, so if I have to jump into that boat, I'm taking a deep breath.

Beggars can't be choosers in my case.

[scythe08]

God, I'm ashamed that I used to defend them! I mean 3.5 years ago they didn't seem that bad, but then again I had a dedicated run so it was hard for them to screw it up. Nowadays I don't even know that company anymore! I've heard them called"the Red Swift". Good luck Guys on finding better work! Can't imagine going back to OTR, just seems like you guys are getting screwed worse than ever

[Piece Of Work]

Skimping on the maintenance is the dangerous part. It reduces expenses in the short term, but does not save money. Eventually that fix it work needs to get done or else the expensive problems start increasing, such as DOT shut downs, larger problems developing putting the truck on the side of the road, then comes the late load costs.

When companies undercut, they cut their own throats.

[Syncrosonix]

knight's upper management seems to be bailing out. there might be another "arrow" fixin' to happen....

source article can be read HERE.

All stock sells from the higher ups has to be recorded on the exchanges.

Vice Chairman of Knight Transportation Inc. (KNX) L Randy Knight sells 31,165 shares of KNX on 04/27/2010 at an average price of $22.06 a share.

Knight Transportation Inc. has a market cap of $1.77 billion; its shares were traded at around $21.24 with a P/E ratio of 34.3 and P/S ratio of 2.7. The dividend yield of Knight Transportation Inc. stocks is 0.9%. Knight Transportation Inc. had an annual average earning growth of 12.8% over the past 10 years. GuruFocus rated Knight Transportation Inc. the business predictability rank of 2-star.

KNX is in the portfolios of First Pacific Advisors of First Pacific Advisors, LLC, Manning & Napier Advisors, Inc, Manning & Napier Advisors, Inc, Chuck Royce of Royce& Associates.

CEO Recent Trades:

Sell:: CEO Kevin P Knight sold 300,000 shares of KNX stock on 03/10/2010 at the average price of 20.79, the price of the stock has increased by 2.16% since.


CFO Recent Trades:

Sell:: CFO David A Jackson sold 15,788 shares of KNX stock on 02/22/2010 at the average price of 19.27, the price of the stock has increased by 10.22% since.


Directors and Officers Recent Trades:

Sell:: Vice Chairman L Randy Knight sold 69,483 shares of KNX stock on 03/12/2010 at the average price of 21.01, the price of the stock has increased by 1.09% since.

Sell:: Pres. Knight Brokerage, LLC Greg Ritter sold 2,000 shares of KNX stock on 03/10/2010 at the average price of 20.84, the price of the stock has increased by 1.92% since.

Sell:: Vice Chairman L Randy Knight sold 500,000 shares of KNX stock on 03/08/2010 at the average price of 20.08, the price of the stock has increased by 5.78% since.

Sell:: Controller Steve Collins sold 1,200 shares of KNX stock on 03/01/2010 at the average price of 20.08, the price of the stock has increased by 5.78% since.

Sell:: Pres. Knight Refrigerated, LLC Erick Kutter sold 11,814 shares of KNX stock on 02/24/2010 at the average price of 19.25, the price of the stock has increased by 10.34% since.

[Ronin]

Yeah, I'd say that Knight is pulling an Arrow. Without the RICO charges (well, for the moment at least.)

[red rider]

CSA 2010 will hurt them if they don't keep up with the maintenance.Will also kill the driver if they get caught at the scale with it