Does anybody know if I would get weekly home time??? and I also live close to their Tulare terminal...

and does anybody know how much would do they start me out on pay??? I have about a year of previous driving experience...

and on regional... do they run 7 or 11 western states???

also... how many miles a week do they average???

 

You should be able to get home for at least 36 hours each weekend if that is your wish most every weekend. You can of course choose to stay out longer if you wish, and it is not a big deal to switch things around as needed.

For the most part you choose your running area. The bigger of an area you are willing to run in the better chance for longer trips and more miles.

Every dispatcher in the company is mandated to run each truck at least 2500 miles per week. Unless you have a real lazy dispatcher you should get that or real close to that every week, if not more.

I am not real sure what the starting pay is now. I think it is somewhere around 34 or 36 cpm. There are some other posters here that can tell you for sure.

 

Thank you very much I'm am happy to hear that... I go to orientation on the 2nd. of next month...

 

I used to work for Knight out of Indianapolis. At that particular terminal, they ran you at least 2500 miles. Most weeks I pushed 2800. I was home every weekend for 48 hrs. I ran the area that I liked to run. My average haul was about 1000 miles but some were shorter. I did get paid on a sliding scale though. I really did not care for that, but it all worked out I guess. It is a company policy to run a minimum of 2500 a week. If you constantly fall under that you get written up.

 

Forgot about that sliding scale. Thanks for the reminder fireman.

What the sliding scale boils down to is the shorter the run the more per mile you are paid for it. The rate I mentioned is for runs of 500 or more miles.

Many companies pay extra for short runs. Some it is a set amount, like an extra $25 for runs under "X" amount of miles, others like Knight just up the cpm rate for those shorter runs. When I was there the really short ones, under 100 miles I think it was, paid something like 40 cpm. It is probably more as they have had a few pay increases since I left.

 

Knight starts out at .33 now at the bottom of the scale and with 3 .01 raises within the first year will put you at .36 CPM. The tulare terminal in my opinion is the best, with 3 showers, laundry, 4 sleeping rooms, full shop and nice big yard with a truckwash on site. I don't know anything about how good their DM's are, but havn't really heard anything bad.
Pay:
miles: 500+ .33 300-500 .35 200-300 .39 0-200 .42

And then standard bennies at about $24 for health and $5 for dental per week for a single driver.

$10 per hour for detension after 2 hours
$25 for hauling a hazmat load
$12 per hour for local pay
$15 per extra stop after the first one.
$30 for a pallet jack unload, not sure what the full trailer unload would be, I think they changed it to an hourly rate, which would suck.

Hope this helps alittle.

Chris