ohhhh whatta knight....
 

read your posting. i'm leaving night after giving them three months.

1. they don't have enough trailers. you are hoping you have a live unload that way you don't have to play "trailer search". they say they installed this gps tracking system. you know what? my buddy found a trailer that someone ripped the tracking device wire out so the trailer wouldn't be found.

2. missed two big family functions even with proper notice....one time with one months notice and put in writing, with reminders.

3. running out of hours to go home: three hours to drive to get home. they wanted to send me two hours in the opposite direction to do a pickup. hmmmm....don't think so.

4. they do have non forced dispatch. thank god.

5. got a newer tractor with bad steer tires....instead of fixing it in town they wanted me to drive 500 miles to the nearest terminal to replace them. no way i told them this truck is moving anywhere until the tires are fixed. d.o.t. would love to see me with steer tires with chunks of rubber missing and huge tire wear showing an alignment was needed.

6. had a tractor with nonworking brake lights. oh that's okay as long as your hooked up to a trailer...those lights work.

7. the old call me on the cell phone gag.....let's have the driver call in for info then put them on hold while we sit and talk about the sox, cubs, blah blah blah....

8. wait...did i say you'll get paid for spending 7 hours looking for an empty trailer? hahahahha....maybe next year.

9. riddle: what did the knight dispatcher say to the driver sitting in georgia? answer: i don't have anything.

10. riddle: what did the knight dispatcher say to the driver sitting in philly? answer: i don't have anything.

11. riddle: what did the knight dispatcher say to the driver sitting in tennessee? answer: i can send you to georgia otherwise i don't have anything.

i'm done. they have cooked me. now, my buddy has good luck with them and that's because he swallows everything they throw at him. so even though he gets upset...he takes it.

Knight transportation
 

They where good
 

I came back my 2nd x, 2 what i thought was a good co. and things have changed ive been with them now 5 months, they run very low miles and will bring up we need help, if your in PA. they will ask u 2 dead head 2 NJ.
And help out, that has all ways been a problem, they dont hire local drivers there, but now it seems there freight pull of local runs has expanded and affects the other term.s, there growing with these short runs and the driver is losing. They had a fincial report out out in June of buying 90 some trk.s but no driver to be seated in them. At 1 x the majority drivers where happy @ knight, now most i run into r looking 2 get away from them them, there change in runs and there planning r not driver friendly. Hopefully sales will get better runs and go back the way they where, if not they will ruin there reputation.

finding an empty
 

I hear what you are saying about finding an empty. They blow off about having this great technology where they have satellite communication to track their trailers but don't know how to use it. More than once I have spend hours and hours looking for an empty that wasn't where they said it was supposed to be. Then if you were lucky to finally find one, there was usually something wrong with it. Since leaving Knight has called me 3 times begging me to come back. I wouldn't even consider it. It just amazes me how you still hear "you are the only truck in that area" when they have thousands of trucks on the road. Sorry, I just can't take being lied to.
Moral of the story......What's the difference between a truck driver and a dispatcher? The dispatcher get paid to lie, and the driver lies to get paid!
How true...

Knight
 

Get use to it Knight is the worse I have ever seen at lies it is their nature to do this.I would show you a video of what they did me but it would be XXX. It got so bad I actually bob tailed from LA CA to Gulf-port MS after disabling the QC system.Don't have the time to go into all the lies and there are plenty they play good guy bad guy on you they use every strategy at their disposal aka lie.
It cost me plenty to do this but it was the hardest and smartest and dumbest thing I ever did but I now work for Logex and driving locally clear over $850(I use this number because I expect each Check to exceed 850) a week no kidding we work for it but it is something that can happen every week last check I cleared nearly 1k after taxes and insurance that covers my family med dental life all of it and I have the time to use it. True other companies wanted to make an issue about wrapping the QC but Logex said we Dac only for driving record so I was in and I have the pay stubs to prove it. Oh yeah KNIGHT said they were not going to DAC me big lie too They wanted to say big misunderstanding we will not DAC and did so anyway all lies walk away while you have a good record these clowns are the reason drivers get frustrated and leave the industry and never return. I am now and forever a tanker yanker all business and no BS. Logex has the right stuff they are sound management that will always produce quality results they make my job more like a hobby than a job I look forward to going to work get there early every day and challenge myself to do my best because they are doing the best I have ever seen. I use to work with JB Hunt at least they didn't lie to me they were very professional toward me and I made good money because I worked hard hustled and made the plays for that game.

Wow, I am flabbergasted! Up until now I have heard very little negative about Knight... But now it looks like a dog pile! What the heck is going on over at Knight?????

That is pretty wild to go from hardly a negative word to "holy cow" what a crappy company... I can understand having separate business divisions, that shouldn't be a problem shuffling the funny money between divisions to cover expenses so that was some sort of lame excuse on the drive tires.

The others are right I wouldn't have taken any load where I didn't have the permits. It is the drivers arse on stuff like this. Refuse the loads until they get the permits. Refuse the load if the truck is unsafe.

Well the negatives on Knight now put them on the "warning, watch for more info" list. I guess we will soon see if this turns out to be a long term trend. All of the equipment I had seen was good looking stuff. So I am not sure what to make of all of this.

:shock: I always thought Knight was a good outfit.I'm glad I read this here to prove KNIGHT IS GARBAGE! :x

remember, each terminal is like its own company. I had a bad experience in PA, northeast also, but i noticed other terminals were run much better.
its like carlisle was a drop yard and they threw someone in their and said " make this into a terminal "

Anyway, Charlotte and Kansas City were run much better. You really should evaluate each terminal separately.

I am sure someone will agree on this.

Bad ones , Pa, Atl, Fontana
Good one NC, KS, Chicago

I just left knight after being there for almost 2 years. I'm out of the SLC Terminal. I don't know what is going on at knight but something is up. At our terminal alone we have allot of guy sitting all the time now and we're at one of the busiest crossroads in the us. my old dedicated account was from SLC to LA then back twice aweek, The last few months I have had a helluva time time getting freight to go down there. Knight grew too fast at the beginning of the year and they don't have the same volume that they did last year and have been steadily losing customers"at least in SLC". There's allot of guys only getting around 2000 miles a week and It's September! What's going to happen to them in winter. I got fed up with it after they're last hard ditch recruiting effort in the local newspaper where they where flat out lying and saying the new drivers with only 4 months exp would be making .36cpm after a 6 months. I got lucky, my dedicated customer here, Excel logistic which hauls Maytag and whirlpool appliances, hired me for local work. M-F 8 to 10 hrs, Home every day,paid for everything I do and I'll make better money. I should have taken cdlpx's advise long ago when he left em'. Now I feel bad for giving him a hard time. Sorry Buddy!

IT must have that Cummins ProSpec software that will up the trucks top speed depending on idle time and MPG averages and cut it back if things go sour.