It is a matter of fulfillment, which the younger sales crowd may not understand.
They are sales oriented and have a mentality to produce numbers, but without the ability to control the fulfillment end of it.
I mean that they book all kinds of loads and just grab them off the boards to get in their numbers for the day , and then the responsibility is passed off to the planners to arrange fulfillment and delivery.
I think it is at this point that things go wrong for Knight. I think they book too much , and then are simply unable to fulfill the promise they made to finish the deal and deliver. You can blame the driver and get away with it for awhile, but ultimately, it comes back to get you.
At least half the loads I got from them were already late when I got the assignment.

That is just my observation. I noticed with MArten TRansport, where I drive now, they do not give me any loads that do not have sufficient time to deliver. They are very responsible with their existing clients. They seem to focus alot on making sure existing clients are well served.
I did not get that from Knight.

just opinion

 

OK, we can see that Knight probably isn't a good choice---- at least for me.

 

Nobody cares who you want to work for Louie !!

 

Let me repost this for you Colonel,
Chad, you might want to try Utopia trucking out of Nirvana,Calif. They run Pete 379's and Kenworth W900L's with 175 inch sleepers that come equipped with a full wait staff,including chef,maid,a massage therapist,and butler, along with 60"plasma TV, 300 gallon aquarium, barca lounger,and whirlpool tub They pay $14/mile loaded or empty,and require that you run 60 miles a day, always between the hours of noon and 2 PM ,but pay you for 700 miles/day.You ride in the jump seat,as tractors also come equipped with a chauffer. All drop and hook,but you don't do the labor, as the company provides a laborer at the terminal.All meals are provided, and you get a 5 star hotel room each night,while your staff sleeps in the sleeper.Work schedule is 1 day out for every 25 days off,all paid of course........

 

Following is a list of things that Crete has in common with Knight.

 

OK, so

1) Does knight have all volvos or do they also have some freightklunkers?


2) could you explain the non-forced dispatch thing?
Does this mean that if there are, say, 3 loads available you can turn down two of them, but you have to take one of them?

Or does it mean you can just turn all runs down until you hear something you like?

 

Knight runs Volvo's and Pete's. They no longer are buying new F/L. They still have some in service tho', just haven't sold them yet.

Their non-force dispatch is what it sounds like. If you don't like it, don't haul it. But Don't expect to any favors from your DM if you do. I saved my," Sorry not going there, can I have a different one plz" for King sooper in denver, and any other place I absolutly hated or knew was going to be a bad load. But If My DM came through with another load, I made sure to treat him well. I didn't refuse too many loads in the year and a half I was with them. It's a nice system just don't abuse it or word will spread that you're a whiner and you'll never have anyone go to bat for you.

 

i don't like volvo, but the pete's have me salivating; this is a good thing!

So does this mean i could consecutively turn down loads until i found one i liked? 10 in a row? Theoretically 100 in a row?

This seems strange?

I'm generally not the type that would turn down a load (unless i knew another driver would soon take it). My view is that it is all money and occasionaly you get a crap load.

 

You can turn down as many as you want, but don't expect to have a job if it becomes a habit. If you're really picky about your runs then a company with dedicated opportunity's might suit you best. Most of the time with the crappy runs, unless it was king sooper, I would go ahead and run it because I knew I would be taken care of and that it would give me more leverage to get better runs in the future.

Knight says they don't have dedicated runs, they don't. But what they do have *wink*wink* is customers that haul in one specific direction all the time. I had one of these runs that went from LA to leverage twice a week with weekends off and I grossed $918.385 every week, even during winter months. I only left knight to do LT. But I still think about that run and my Volvo all the time. It ran very well and could turn on a dime, which was good cuz' I was in LA so much. Anyway I've babbled enuff'.
Enjoy your Monday!

Chris

 

Hey Chris,
What was so bad about King Soopers? I have been delivering produce there for a while now and it was always fine. 4AM appt. but in and out very quick.