Re: Knight
 

We have a few nice places here in Jersey. Take a ride on I-78, headed west. It is beautiful, especially in the fall. It's not that bad out here.

work for knight for 8 mo out of atlanta ga. the y have apprx 3700 trk 6100 trl and took out 700 by the end of july 07. it would take me at least 2hrs to find empty and payroll wasnt that great. they wouldnt pay u for searching foy a mty. they have a lot of 250-450 mi run that are regional. if u have hazmat they will pay you $20 for delv no matter if local or not. if you are a newbie they maybe ok for awhile but for a exp driver they are not good! oh yeah they will take loads from drivers not out of that reg terminal. they offered me a dedicated run from atl area to ga-fl border and back to atl same day. any driver who had a load going to fl would have to drop in atlanta. one of us would take it to valdosta and wait for a fl driver to bring load to swap and drop that load in atl. the drivers that had to drop wasnt very happy

So what is the verdict on Knight Trans? is this a good company to work for or not with 1 1/2 years experience.

That was more your fleet manager (or even the terminal manager) than central payroll. Like any company there are dispatchers that do an outstanding job of taking care of their drivers and those who do not. With the exception of detention pay, which the driver starts via a QC msg, and extra stop pay, all extra pay has to be entered manually into the computer. This includes driver unloads, hunting for a trailer, short runs that should be paid hourly, etc.

be careful with knight. they have lost a lot of business since the begining
of 08. lack of drivers and trailers. they are not the company they use to be it he late 90's early 2000's

I dont know what you are talking about?
 

Since July 1st I have run 10,000+ miles and will easily hit the 15-16,000 mark for the month. Been running the wheels off my truck. So if we have lost some business since the beginning of the year I am glad because I can't handle any more work.

my experience with knight transport
 

i just quit working for this outfit, after almost nine miserable months, i had only one week over 2500 miles and never refused a load and only requested time off a couple days a month if i didnt get by the terminal. based out of the tulare ca terminal. detention was regular and a struggle to get them to pay. every other week was an all day game of phone tag with payroll, because something always went wrong. getting reimbursed for scales and tolls also a constant battle. i have 10 years of experience and have never had to deal with more than an occasional error, but with these guys it was constant. some weeks my pay was lost in the system altogether. on top of that sitting for 3 to 4 days at a time was regular. i stayed with these guys, for nine months, thinking it would just take time to learn their system and hoping things would pick up after the winter months. which during winter i never refused a load and "threw iron regularly" in hopes of getting that extra load. in short, i went the extra mile for these guys and recieved nothing but grief. the last straw, sitting in the seattle area for 3 days after delivering and once again not getting paid for the previous 4 trips i had turned in because of a "glitch on their part" . no load and no money, i told them to stick it and headed south empty to tulare and turned in their truck. a very nice 379 pete. thats my experience, i did however run into a lot of drivers that were very happy with this company.

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i know a couple of people at the atl terminal and my former dsr who no longer works there told me about the goings on at knight. the post before this one is correct about pay roll issues. hey you will hear the same about every trucking company. one driver may be happy while the next driver hate that some outfit. i haul fuel now some im good.

This is totally unrelated,but I remember my truck being right next to there corporate terminal late last year when it almost got COMPLETLY engulfed in flames.There little pallet storage place was completly destroyed.Was total chaos.Total place was evacuated and I believe all of there dispatch went over to there Roads West headquarters.

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Update: For the month of July I ran a total of 16,466 miles.

I have to say for a solo driver this is about the maximum anyone can run in a month legally. I was lucky and it was a perfect month. Mostly all drop and hook, and when I did hit a dock it was no more than 15-20 minutes to load or unload.

I had everything from 2,300 mile runs to doing a few local 50 milers. Biggest thing was I was always pre-planned and never sat waiting for a load.

I will also say it's time to relax a bit for the month of August. "I'm tired"

You can do a schedule like this for one month but not month after month.

Re: I dont know what you are talking about?
 

How did you average 4,116 miles per week over 4 weeks in a governed company truck? :roll:

This is exactly why we need EOBR's. This guy's gonna kill someone.

Re: I dont know what you are talking about?
 

Perhaps you missed the all important word in my post...."LEGALLY"

I did not run illegal in any part of the entire month. Being in a governed company truck has nothing to do with it.

I have guys in non-governed trucks pass me a 1/2 dozen times a day. It all has to do with keeping the left door shut and keeping moving.

If you want proof, I would gladly let you see my log book for the month.

And by the way, you might as well say I have an EOBR because Knight will not put up with running illegal.

Any time you break the 11 or 14 hour rule it automatically send a message to safety and they will shut you down.

I am not out here to put myself or anyone else in danger. I am out here to make money.

I knew I couldn't post without some a$$hole calling me either a liar or an outlaw.

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You're both.

Oh you're "legal" alright...on paper only...because like the old saying goes "paper doesn't refuse ink". Dispatch gives you the loads while other guys sit because you know how to bail out their poor planning by cooking the books and making all the lines look pretty in the comic book and magically total to 70 each week. No way you're running a legal book and averaging over 4,100 mpw for 4 straight weeks. Everyone here who knows better is laughing at you posting that BS. The rest won't say anything because they're doing the same things (speed averaging, time-compression, logging paid miles only, etc)...just not to the same extent you are.

Just wait until you're involved in an accident. When the opposing lawyers match up shipper/receiver logs, interview people on the dock, toll receipts, qualcomm records, etc we'll see how "legal" you really are.

If you want to lop 10 years off your life running ragged like that with no life whatsoever and never seeing home for a whole month than have at it. Just don't play us for fools by claiming you're "legal".

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Man, you are a real bonehead. Do you have trouble reading the English language or what? I said I would show you my log book and also said our qualcomm would send an automated message to safety to shut us down if we were illegal. All my loaded and empty calls match the times on my logs. fuel stops match. Tolls match.

Why is it that underachievers such as yourself always try to make themselves feel better by shooting down someone elses accomplishments?

hmm,with those knight trucks going 65mph,you cant log more than an average of 60mph(and you couldnt log more than 50 mph in 55mph states),thats with perfect traffic conditions.So you couldnt technically Log more than 660 miles per day 11 hours times 60mpg = 660 miles.now,if you rolled for 6 days straight and managed 660 miles per day that would put you at 3960 miles,which is even below your average per week,since thats around the 4100 mark.so with that said, you would only have 4 hours left to(and really not even that much because I didnt even factor in the time you would of had to spent on line 4 for fueling and dock time) drive on your 70 hours because 11 hours driving a day multiplied by 6 days is 66 hours,minus 70 is 4 hours to drive left?So where would you squeeze in your 34 hour restart to be able to do this again 3 more times? Im not saying you're lying,but what I do think is you added in your miles from the last week of june that rolled into july for the first trip submitted at the beginning of the month.Also,the average for the miles you said you drove 16,466 miles would mean you had to average 531 miles a day for every single day,including weekends.

http://www.classadrivers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=29873&am
 

Not to Sound,

Niaeve OR Out of touch referring to the EOBR's? But is this the Proposed BabySiTTer Cam OR Camera ? That' will BE the Day! when all your Independence as A Driver is finally Gone! :roll: :idea: PERIOD :idea:

Re: I dont know what you are talking about?
 

YOU NAILED IT ON THE HEAD! THERE IS NO WAY HE IS RUNNING LEGAL! Knight has to many live loads, live unloads, searching for empties, can't dispatch you because no freight within 50 miles (keep those deadhead miles down), etc. Knight Transportation does have hundreds of solo's running illegal (many of them brag about it in the drivers lounge). We even had a safety director tell us "If it looks like you aren't going to make the delivery because you will run out of hours and you only have a half an hour or hour to go remember customer service is most." (wink,wink) We left them several months ago and we laugh every time we get a "come back and work for us" mailing. The previous entry stating how things work is also right on! They have their favorites and those favorites are the one that run illegal and get all the miles. We actually overheard a dispatcher at the Kansas City yard say "I have this guy that drives me insane, he will only run legal and he is a pain in my a$$". Now that is a great example of how they expect you to work. I for one would love to see the feds to a full blown audit on Knight and see them squirm.

With 8.75 hours per day average to never run out of hours and logging only 15 minutes daily for a pre-trip and NEVER logging fuel stops or any othe line 4 work, you would have to average 69.12 MPH every day for a week to get his 4116 mile weekly average.

I call BS. I drive for knight.

Ya know Dollarshort, all you would have to do is post up your paystubs. That might quiet some of the uproar :wink: When I drove for knight, I do have to admit the freight in your area was fantastic! Lots of drop and hooks and lots of easy miles, but I had a dedicated account over on the left coast.

Running legal was almost impossible for me even when I had my dedicated run. The huge amounts of live unload/loads where the previous driver had either quit or dropped his trl so now the load was late was simply staggering! I got to the point where I refused to run a load if it was late. I got tired of getting screamed at by customers because Knight told them I was the original driver and couldn't fathom why I was late.

And this has been the only company where most of the time you dread getting a drop and hook because there are never any mt trailers for you to use. Yes the customer may have 20(Hi Shopko :() but that doesn't mean you can use any of them. My dispatchers regularly told me to go load or unload on my 34hr restarts and to just *not log it* and then when safe calls and asked why I'm moving, they would flat out lie, knowing that that Tyler(safety) sat 2 cubicles down from them.

I liked the non-force dispatch and I tried really really hard to accept most of the loads I was given, but after a year you know most of the freight lanes and when you are asked to go into a terrible area with no preload on a weekend, it's irritating to be thought of as so stupid as to not have learned the 5 previous times they've done that, that I have no desire to go there.

I quit Knight in september of 06 so maybe things have changed. Do they pay the same rate? The local ad says they now pay for experience. What is the new rate? Do all the terminals still have to compete with each other in the typical," He's from Katy, screw em'. My SLC guy needs a load"?

They claim to be your hometown carrier, and there not lieing.. You may run in the same zip code for 3 days and then asked to do a favor.. And we all know favors dont pay. :lol: [/b][/list]

I drove for those misfits for 6 months out of the Lemont terminal. Never was preplanned, sat for hours waiting on loads after empty, stranded on the weekends having to re-call the weekend dispatcher at home. And what does the weekend dispatcher say to me? Sorry man I forgot about ya, let me find something for you. I also have to remind him that I have no empty trailer and that usually results in a wild goose chase to find one. I could never figure out how it is that a company as large as this can be so derelict when it comes to making sure an empty trailer is going to be available for a driver to pick up.

As far as the qualcomm sending a message to safety about a driver going over the 11 or 14 hour like dollarshort is saying is absolutely false. Many times I went over it because of Knights planning not mine so lets get that straight before someone gets stupid and runs their mouth. Loads were not turned down by me cause I couldn't afford to turn them down. So if the qualcomm program used by Knight sends a message to safety about a driver running illegal then why didn't it send a message to safety the day I ran 880 miles? Because its b.s.

The qualcomm does send an a message if you're over hours. I have been scolded for that before and was even shut down at a consignee 15 minutes from the damn terminal and my house for 10 hours BEFORE I could go home for the weekend. I didn't stay of course.

It all depends on wheither the safety guy does anything about it. Some will let you slide the driving time if it's within your 14 and you're not to over on your miles. Others start bitchin' 10 minutes after your limit is up.
Have 3 or 4 dispatchers yelling at him to leave the drivers alone also makes some of them a little gunshy. I remember some really good power struggles at the slc terminal between safety and the fleet manager, who would basically look him right in the eye and tell one of the drivers to go make that 900 miles trip in 24 hours and then stare at him, waiting for him to do something. It also sucked for him that our past few terminal managers sucked and wouldn't back him up. Course last time I was there, the safety guy was now the terminal manager and the fleet manager was just a dispatcher now, LOL

Dollarshort will live up to his name after the regional safety guy gets done with his ass and the PA terminal :wink:
What a dumb ass! He is probley one of those guys that would brag about going around a scale on the CB with another driver while they were doing it with DOT listening :P
Knight has its good points and its bad points just like any other company out here. Every company has its problems but the problem with Knight is not only doesnt your FM not give a shit about you, your terminal manager doesnt give a shit about you and also the Knights themselves dont give a shit about you :wink: Thats right it goes all the way to the top!

Last saturday and sunday I sat. Monday ran 450 miles. Tuesday I sat. It takes 6-7 weeks to get the chump change layover pay that I have to beg for weekly.

This week my check was short $110. Got charged $2.50 fee for a comcheck for a lumper. Had 1 load they didn't even pay me for after Transflowing it 8 days ago. And got shorted 201 miles on another load. I love knight.

Ok Mr. know-it-all
 

You are an a$$! It just so happens I was a safety director for Knight, so I happen to know how the system works. Instead of sitting around bitching all the time get off you a$$ and do some work.

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Oh wow! I didn't know you did safety Dollarshort. What made you go to driving?

I can make $10,000 more per year as a driver. And my phone stops ringing when I am trying to sleep.

Re: Ok Mr. know-it-all
 

You were a safety director? So you should know Josh angell then right?

Handled properly, this could get very interesting and informative,

GO MDCA!

Re: I dont know what you are talking about?
 

http://www.classadrivers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=29873&am
 

DollarShort,

MIKE ,E the SAFETY DIRECTOR For Carlisle Since 04' when He Does'nt want to hear about it any longer HE Just shuts HIS Phone CELL OFF PHONE & Will not answer his Residence phone, Furthermore don't anticipate A return Call Either, I Had Both Phone #'S & Experienced It 8) :!:

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That is why Mike was trying to high tail it back to Arizona in order to return to school. Last I heard he was taking a night dispatch position with Knight in Phoenix so he could finish college. I guess all the babysitting of drivers drove him in that direction.

Re: I dont know what you are talking about?
 

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Ok Mr. know-it-all
 

Sorry, I dont know Josh. I was the one who took the place of mike Evertsen when he went back to AZ.

Sounds to me that Brian Toucheck figured that you weren't going to be there long so why waste time on you. As far as getting stranded over the weekend that's your own fault. I NEVER work over the weekend unless I am pre-planned for the ENTIRE weekend before my dispatcher leaves on Friday. Otherwise forget about it.

You want to be informed? Why are you cheerleading for MDCA?

You want bullshit talk to someone else, I have ALWAYS stated true FACTS. I dare you to prove me wrong on any of my previous posts.[/b]

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I can't blame him. You are correct. The babysitting of dumbasses was rediculous. Not for me!

http://www.classadrivers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=29873&am
 

Oh DollarShorT,

So Ur Tony B. that's who toke Mikey's spot when he left Approx 2 months ago, to hear your comments U must Be the only Qualified & Experienced driver @ Carlisle 8) :?:

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I am not saying I am the ONLY one. But there aren't many that don't need babysitting. I was constantly getting calls in the middle of the night asking stupid questions that were covered in orientation. Maybe if they were paying more attention in class they would know the answer before waking me up in the middle of the night.

We do have some excellent drivers out of Carlisle.

It's a shame that Knight can't pay more for the position because it's definitely a 24-7 job. To me it was just not worth the extra time and stress and responsibility. And why should the Safety Director make $10,000 less per year than a driver does?

The new Safety Director seems to be pretty good. He has not yet really gotten into all the corporate reports and such. I hope he does well but he will also get sick of the middle-of-the-night calls too.

I would gladly go back to the position when he bails, but only for the right price. I would just have to learn NOT to pick up my phone when nobody else will either. :lol: