Knight Agility Test Question?

I been driving for a year with mct and mct didnt have an agility test just a reguler dot physical i was thinking about going with knight and i heard they have an agility test so has any1 recently went to knights orientation and know what there agility test consist of exactly how many pounds you gota lift and etc.Thank you

Hey Kamran, it's good to hear from you, glad to see you are still at it. If I remember correctly you told us one time that you were a small framed person, and maybe that is why you are concerned with this. I work for Knight, and they have a pretty strict physical. I think as long as you are healthy and in decent shape you should not have any problems.

I do not remember what the total weights were, but here's the best that I can remember. There was one point in the physical where they had a plastic milk crate with some weights in it and they wanted us to put it up on a shelf that was maybe just a little above shoulder high. It wasn't too hard to do, and then they added some more weight to it, and then one more time they added some more weight. I don't think it ever exceeded fifty pounds at the most, it might have even been forty, I'm just not sure. I found it easier to do by lifting it up to rest on my shoulder, then rearranging my hand position on the crate and finishing the lift with my hands underneath the crate. They also made us pick up something like fifteen or twenty pounds and walk down to the end of a short hall way with it and set it back down, then pick it up and go back and forth like that about four times. I think they are looking for how you set it down and pick it up during this particular part of the exam - I recommend that you squat and use your legs for the lifting and setting down of this portion of the test. They also had a timed situation where you would step up and down on to a step or two for so many minutes and then they would measure your heart rate. I think you are fairly young and thin, and if so you should have no problems with that, and personally I think you'll do just fine on the weights also - there was nothing that was excessively heavy.

I don't know about Knight, but I do know about Schneider and I am like you. Worrying over nothing. I think the main focus is your heart rate in these activities. They are not difficult, but your heart rate could be high. I know for my age I wasn't allowed to go over 90% of my max. My rate I had to stay under was 167. At no time did my rate go above 118. I had to Carry 30 pounds 30 feet and 60 pounds 30 feet. Squat 10 times, climb in and out of a trailer once, kneel under s trailer within a box twice for 20 seconds, pick up a crate of 20 pounds from the table to the floor and back up again twice, and the same with I think 50 or 60 pounds. Then had to lift 20 and 40 pounds shoulder height twice each, pull 80, push 100 pounds. Nothing that is s big deal, they just wanted to monitor my heart rate.

The best advice I can give would be to jog a mile at least once a week, do some push ups and sit ups, and practice squats.

I just completed Knight's agility test. First, I had to take a milk crate with 40 lbs of weights in it off a shelf, put it on the floor, and then put it back. The shelf was about four feet high. That wasn't too bad -- but remember that I am only 5'7".

Then you had to crouch down and reach out with your arm fulled extended, and lift a 20 lb kettle bell up, over, and back down again to its original position. This was to simulate sliding a fifth wheel.

Then there was a another crate with 65 lbs in it. It was on the 4 foot high shelf. You have to pick it up, set it on the ground, and then pick it up and put it on the six foot high shelf. Since I am only 5'7", that was the hardest thing for me. I lifted it straight from the floor to the top shelf -- not something I'd recommend since you are allowed to go from the floor to the 4' shelf and then up to the 6 foot shelf. But lifting that much weight over my head was the biggest challenge.

After than you step up and down on a step for a minute as fast as your can. They take your pulse before you start and then again a couple minutes after you are down to make sure your heart rate comes back down like it's supposed to. I am not sure what the cut off is on max heart rate or anything.

Then it was step up onto about a 2' step to simulate getting into and out of a tractor. Grab the hand rails, step up and down 10 times with each leg.

Then there was a crate with about 70 pounds in it. You had to pick it up, walk about 8 feet with it, and put it down. Then you picked it back up and put it back in its original spot. You did this for 5 total laps -- (pick it up, walk 8 feet, put it down) x 10 times. I was pleased to see that got some of guys younger than me were breathing heavier than I was after that.

I think that was it. Everyone in our group passed it. Some said lifting the 20# kettle bell at arms length was the hardest part.