Offered Nice Cushy Local No Touch With Knight...but I Don't Want It.

Calculated based on working 12 hours/day, 5 days/week, $250/week works out to $18/hour, with time-and-a-half paid after 40 hours. I have no experience in trucking and I wouldn't run a local route for that pay. I was earning $18/hour doing simple warehouse work for Schluter Systems here in the Dallas area before I took my international trip.

My good man, i am doing a 5 day work week with knight, 5 days a week, daily round trip reno to modesto, that means i get to destroy donner pass 2 times daily, 300 a day, flat rate

I find it interesting that companies justify the lower pay with; “yeah, but you’re home every day.” My experience is it’s MORE expensive if I’m home everyday.

My experience is it’s MORE expensive if I’m home everyday.

And probably less sleep than being on the road, too?

My good man, i am doing a 5 day work week with knight, 5 days a week, daily round trip reno to modesto, that means i get to destroy donner pass 2 times daily, 300 a day, flat rate

I would love that route. How did you get it?

I find it interesting that companies justify the lower pay with; “yeah, but you’re home every day.” My experience is it’s MORE expensive if I’m home everyday.

Everything in life comes with a trade-off. It's the reason that we have to prioritize what we want from a company. There is no perfect situation, no perfect circumstance.

Chris p. , i am not a recruiter, i am not saying you should or should not work for knight, but if you go to the reno terminal m thru f, walk in the door and ask for this job, you will get it, we are short on drivers

James,

I don't even have my CDL yet so I highly doubt they'll give me that route. :) Further, I've heard that knight won't hire people that have over a year of being unemployed in the past 3 years, so they wouldn't hire me anyway.

Perhaps it's something I will shoot for in the future. (I'm in California, by the way.)

I think the trade off is that a lot of people want to be home, not out on the road. I personally prefer to be out for a bit, though they frequently route me back through Denver weekly. I can make more money on the road, control my schedule more to my liking and make more bonus money. I just prefer it at this point. If I wanted to work a regular day job I could have easily stayed in construction at 35 to 45 an hour. I'm getting to the point where I can consistently put down 3000 to 3500 miles a week. They already have two pre plans for me for when I get back.

My experience is it’s MORE expensive if I’m home everyday.

And probably less sleep than being on the road, too?

I would think that those of you with wives/girlfriends/significant others WOULD be getting less sleep while at home 😉😁😆🤣

Laura