My only question is WHY ?????????

 

Any new info on Knight?

 

Anyone knows about the Discount Tire Account? I start next monday out of Dallas,Tx.

 

dunno anything about that account. all i know of the hutchins, tx yard is that it's pretty nice and the shop is damn quick.

 

Bumping up this old thread to ask just a few questions. Are there any drivers that are currently running for Knight Refrigerated division? I have an orientation date for Lakeland FL. I heard some info from a friend of a friend that ran for Knight. He only ran for them for 3 months straight out of school, and he claimed that the shops wouldn't fix the equipment when he was not at his home terminal. Is this really the way a company as large as Knight operates?

 

Knight now offers "daily pay" get paid today for what you did yesterday. Just another "coolie carrier" ploy to attract the destitute dwellers.

 

I applied online this morning. Recruiter called 30 min after I hit "submit". We went over the basic qualification criteria and she told me I was good-to-go for orientation. I expressed my concern regarding coming to orientation before they had completed all background checks. She said she would call me back after running the checks. 20min later, she's on the phone again and says I look good and would I like to start on Mon or Tues.
I said sure, that's fine and I'm supposed to hear back on Thurs or Fri with hotel info since I'm driving myself. So clearly they haven't done previous employer checks yet. I figure I should call back Friday to make sure they have checked with everyone they need to before I go. I went thur that scenario once before with a major carrier. I don't want to wind up unemployed...

 

Make sure your recruiter has completed the employment verification as well as the background before you go to orientation! It seems that they are doing that down here in Lakeland FL since all 9 attendees are still here after day 2. I got jerked around at the last minute when my recruiter called me on the Friday before my Monday orientation start date. My orientation was set up for over a month and at the last minute safety put a hold on my app and said I could not attend orientation because my application was over 30 days old, and it appeared to have an overlap between two companies. I had to scramble at the last minute to resubmit my app and was of course calling every other company I had originally applied at since I had already left my previous job and would be unemployeed on Monday. Fortunately it all worked out and I was given the green light at 1645 on Friday afternoon!

richieryan, you may want to browse my other post on this site, http://www.classadrivers.com/forum/t...-8-months.html where I have been posting updates on my current orientation! Good Luck!

 

Thanks,Bud, I will do that. I also am looking at their refrigerated side and relocating to PHX. I probably should call a rec out there. I've got quite a bit more reefer exp than anything else.

 

Knight Updates? ...

Knight was my last job (dry van side, Tulsa) left early 2010 to re-retire. Been away a while and thinking about returning to OTR. Any current Knight van drivers ...

When I had left, they had stopped paying (reimbursing) for a once-a-month truck wash (Tulsa, anyway), is this still in place?

Also, there was talk about moving to ELogs. Are they still on paper? Rumors about ELogs coming on line there?

Is their shortage of available MT's at Walmart and Target DC's and SoCal still "very problematic" or has that eased up a bit?

Are they still penalizing for high-idle in summer months (reduced speed), while not providing APU's?

At the time, it seemed Refrigerated was staying busier than dry, I assume this is still true?

Thanks

Any other issues cropped up lately with them? I was doing well with them mileage-wise on balance, but the issues I mentioned were hard to ignore.