Do not work for knight transportation!!!

While I was there, yes I refused many loads. And no, none of that is on my DAC. I.was late in a few loads (that's a service failure), none of that is on my DAC.

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Ashton v. Knight Transportation, Inc.

This is all anyone has to know about this company. Individuals come and go, but corporate culture endures. It's a bit of a read and it had some profanity in it (testimony from one of the victims regarding the accident aftermath) but you will see why Knight wasn't allowed to bring forth a defense for this. They were sanctioned into silence in their own behalf for their own wrong doing.
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCOURTS-txnd-3_09-cv-00759/pdf/USCOURTS-txnd-3_09-cv-00759-7.pdf

 

I refused to haul a load of garbage from a municipal dump that was headed to a landfill in the mid west. I was stuck for the weekend because of it. I am not a trash hauler. I have never been trained to haul trash on a flat bed trl. I don't want to be pierced by any sharp objects that maybe contaminated with any virus's , diseases or infectious elements it's that simple. These companies would learn something if every driver stuck together and wouldn't allow themselves to be exploited . Instructions on how to be goid slaves is idiotic. Until examples are made nothing will change. I know we all have responsibilities to our families and our livity but when do we stop belly aching and grab the bull by the horns ? How long will we continue to allow ourselves the privilege of being treated like the expenditures we are ?

 

I've given up on knight trans and OTR alltogether. I left the company last month and never applied at another OTR co since. The life is too hard gor me and just can't seem to justify the pay vs the job itself. 4 years on the road, and when my wife said "child support" I was gone.

I drive local now. Same amount of $$.

 

If a prospective company thinks that a service failure on HireRight (DAC) is a big deal, then they aren't worth applying for. I never heard or seen a service failure on a DAC before. Anyhow, all you have to do is write HireRight (formerly DAC) a letter and have it taken off. If they refuse then get a lawyer to write a letter for you underlining the circumstances and have it removed. BTW, HireRight (DAC), is just a private company that makes money selling driver info to the next trucking company. They have no affiliation with the government. Companies have to pay them a yearly fee to belong to them and access driver info. They only file the info given them by former employers and none of it is verified when it goes on DAC. If your former company said you had an accident, (even when you didn't) it goes on there until refuted. An accident report from a police department may state you were involved in an accident, and then the report is sent on by your trucking company to DAC. However, it may not mention the fact that you were not cited and not a fault, but they just list it as an accident on your DAC report. HireRight does no authentication or verification of the information they receive. Thus, much of the misinformation on DACs holds back many drivers. If you are extremely concerned about it HireRight will send you a free DAC if you write and request one. HireRight is one of our worst enemies in the trucking industry-caring only about making money and not how or how legitimately they do it.

 

Oh. Why write a 10 page essay about the company which ranks #1 from the bottom..or close..on safety? Look them up online or better yet see them pulled onto scales every single time. That's a great way to destroy your record and become unhirable. Another sign would be folks Knight hires. You can tell how good a company is by just looking at its drivers. Knight would take anyone on board seems like. But so are a bunch of other larger companies.
If that was up to me, I'd just have the whole list of Knight, Werner, CR England ...everyone knows the rest of the list..permanently pinned on the board in their own categories and let people just to add particularly odd or juicy stories. I don't know..like "*** trainer raped a horse before his student right after stealing students lunch" or "*** driver parked in the airport and coupled to a plane in the morning" or "10 *** drivers are dancing around scale house in Montana. They demand last years wages paid to them at last". I'd read that. Ugly conditions and low pay are no news, hasn't been for long time

 

I'll say this: Knight threads are good for a read if nothing else (especially "not to Knight honey, I have a headache!"), they remind me of how far down the the barrel goes to get to the bottom of it!

 

What is the average take home pay per week for someone starting out there driving refer trucks?

 

I would say that depends on the company, type freight, and so on. And its reefer, not refer, unless you are abbreviating the word refridgeration. I would venture to say its not much different than dry van from offers that I have received and past experience. Some reefer companies even pay less than dry van. Trans American Express out of Florida hired a dry van guy with 6 months experience and paid him 45 cents for all miles, or 22 1/2 team split. So, depends.

Have you ever pulled a reefer? Not much to pulling one, but its a bit of a different world than dry van. All your pick-ups and deliveries will be at food warehouses (your company may book some dry freight sometimes) which can be extremely frustrating at times, and thus you need lots and lots of patience. You are almost always bound by appointment times, unlike many dry van loads that will take you when you get there. Not saying reefer loads aren't taken early, but most of the time they are behind schedule. Sometimes you have 20 reefers trying to get into the docks at one time when food warehouses open. I know some other drivers who pull reefers here would tell you the same. I have waited 14 hours in the dock at Sanderson Farms, and 10 hours past my appointment at Performance Foods in Elizabeth NJ to load and unload. Additionally, you have to keep watch on the unit and fuel it, listen to it run at night, and have washouts vs just sweeping it out. I never had a reefer load refused, but others in our company have because the temp was run under or over the prescribed temp. Just to let you know some things you will encounter if you pull reefer for Knight or anyone else.

One good point of reefers are that you usually have freight all year around as people have to eat and you can pull either dry of reefer and not bound to just to dry. I personally got tired of dealing with nasty shippers and receivers and the long waits to load/unload. If you decide to pull a reefer, you need to have detention time, that is why Marten and some have upgraded detetion pay.

When I was with Davis Transportation out of Seminary MS., my average gross was around $1300 a week using paper logs. If you have one year and run hard, you could make the same.

 

Thanks for the information. That was really great. I am new to refers and will give it a shot for a while. Again, Thank you