Knight Transportation Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Knight Transportation full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Knight promotes from within, so if you have a desire to work your way up, there are endless possibilities. There are also a lot of honest people in company leadership.

Cons – The benefits are generally not competitive with other major companies. Additionally, they make people salaried employees once someone is going to be making more than $32,000 per year in order to avoid paying overtime. Long hours, lousy pay.

Advice to Senior Management – There may be a need to hire on an outsider or two to help give a fresh perspective.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Knight Transportation full-time

Pros – -good experience
-if looking to stay in teh transportation industry, ways to move up
- really get a feel and a way into the industry, best position to have at knight transportation
-really get a feel for a competitive environment

Cons – -long hours, 7-5pm and weekends
-dont treat employees the best, employees who have been there a long time dont get treated how they should. A lot of appreciation and focus on drivers, not that much for office employees.
-little pay for how much you work, no benefits for working a weekend, vacation/benefits are not very good.
-if you are not looking to get stay in the transportation industry, start as a recruiter, gain experience and get out.
-job can be extremely stressfu

Advice to Senior Management – show some love for the new office employees, try and negotiate having a half day or week day off inexchange for working the weekend.

Former Employee – worked at Knight Transportation full-time for less than a year

Pros – They start you at a decent salary, and let you gain some great experience in the "working world". Most terminals have good management, and coworkers.

Cons – You do not get a raise until you've been there for a year. You don't ANY vacation/PTO until you've worked there for a year, as well. Good luck taking any unpaid days off, because it won't happen. You will have to work 10 hour days, plus extra weekends for free. I had to work 50 hour weeks, plus one weekend a month (16 extra hours). So once a month, I worked 12 days in a row without a day off. You will also have to work some holidays, as well. Once you hit your one year mark, you will only get 5 days of vacation time. You will most likely get burnt out in the first 6 months, hence why the office turnover rate is so high. It was.. an experience.. to say the least. I'm glad I quit Knight and found a company that treats their employees like, well, humans. Not like work horses.

Advice to Senior Management – Give your employees good vacation! They work an average of 54 hour weeks (usually 60+), plus holidays and weekends. They will just quit, forcing you to have to hire and train new employees, then repeat. How is this efficient?

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Knight Transportation full-time for less than a year

Pros – Pay is on time and that is about it

Cons – Always stranded in places other than home. Lots of downtime with nothing to do. Awful driver management and planner personnel. Office personnel have no sense of what real drive time is like and what can be expected and don't care about drivers. Starting here was a big mistake.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire better driver managers and planners, Use better organization techniques, buy more trailers, listen to your drivers.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Knight Transportation as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Home time and no forced dispatch but........

Cons – You get stuck in a truck stop or terminal. They hire tooooo many drivers and not enough loads the market manager/planner have no idea how is on the road and sometimes don't have enough time to get there or you waste 2 days Also most of the time the miles they show for the trip are less than driving miles average of 200 /week on a 2000 miles week and spend lot of time looking for empty trailer and the management DON'T CARE

Advice to Senior Management – Hire less drivers so you can give more miles to drivers and buy more trailers. Teach your managers how to book loads ( they spend a lot of time on the computer playing ) and revise your maps

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Knight Transportation full-time for less than a year

Pros – There are none at Knight.

Cons – There is no opportunity at Knight.

Advice to Senior Management – My advice to management is to not hire more drivers than you have loads to cover. Nothing worse than having been told you are needed immediately then sit around because there is no work. Too much time sitting around waiting for trucks to be serviced and sit around some more waiting to get loaded. You are wanting to be a big company as fast as you can at the expense of the drivers. A driver wants his/her off time to be at home not at a truck stop or a company terminal.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Knight Transportation full-time for less than a year

Pros – Dry van is easy as hell compared to the flatbeds I was used to. Hometime for lease guys can be pretty good.

Cons – When I signed on with Knight Port Services as a lease driver, they claimed I'd be making $1200 to $1500 per week when all was said and done. After working my ass off for several months, doing everything right, I was actually taking home between 0 and $400 a week, despite getting excellent mileage. Dispatch was incredibly unreliable, it was nearly impossible to get in touch with my driver manager, and they often gave me wrong information. The company is unbelievably bad to work for. It's hard to believe, but Knight is actually worse than Swift, in everything aside from hometime.

Advice to Senior Management – Quit scamming your drivers and making promises you can't keep.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Knight Transportation full-time for less than a year

Pros – Plenty of freight but alot of down time.

Cons – Poor management.Gave him a train ticket,not enough time to clean his truck so missed the train.Supposedly made arrangement with taxi service.NOT.Got me 70 miles from home and said you're on your own.Had to pay taxi and a portion of the train ticket.Would not answer calls.

Advice to Senior Management – We are working hard for you.Appreciate your drivers more and treat them better,Don't tell a driver he has a perfect record then terminate him.Think about their hardships when you do!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Knight Transportation full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – homeless might be better. food stamp qualified

Cons – graduate from stevens, swift, or cr england school , drive for knight, then get a real job

Advice to Senior Management – drivers are your salary, you work for them. if they fail, yu fail

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Knight Transportation full-time for less than a year

Pros – No forced dispatch and drop and hook.

Cons – They offer big but doin't deliver! Told me I would have a specific schedule but it was a lie.

Advice to Senior Management – Deliver what you offer and put it in writing.