CEO Of Knight Transportation Exposes Their Headquarters Facility For The First Time In History 

I am Nigerian and I want to move to the US to be a truck driver .... Are there any companies that offer visa sponsorship to someone like me in Nigeria to come to the US,get a CDL and work for them.... I need help ... Thanks mutha truckers

You need to go to Western Express in Nashville! A truck driver can't even use the gym there

Keep doing your thing brother this was amazing to see you get this opportunity

@@mosesgideon1115research you have internet and that’ll take you far . Good luck on your venture

@@nastystew6942I can vouch for this !

Could not have said it better. Was a company driver in the past and this is a perfect comment!

Exactly lmao

I’m a swift driver, and I’d say it depends on the company. If you only have a handful of terminals across the country then I could see it being kind of pointless, but we have enough terminals that I’m able to spend the night at a terminal probably one in three days. It’s nice to have it if they’re common enough you stop there on a normal basis

Well its stupid not to take advantage of free showers and laundry. And a safe place to park.

Thanks!! We have a sit down and I ask all the hard questions. I will post that video asap

@@MuthaTruckerlooking forward to that video

Do they only hire people with no experience?

@@wilE6764 yes

​@@JackieDaytona01 honestly think its a good thing , do they train newcomers?

@@iMrp1 yes!

@@JackieDaytona01 nice

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Yesss. We have a sitdown a conversation like adults. Ill post soon

Hopefully he has a good explanation why knight swift doesn’t Pay there hard working drivers good, and reason why dispatchers never want to give detention pay to drivers.

Pretty awesome until your dispatch puts you on 5 short run loads and blows up your phone asking where are you

I agree! What I want to see or even do is interview the drivers. Let’s talk to 100+ drivers from the company and see what they all have to say. Did you see his comment about the cab over? Need your ribs attached after driving it and appreciate how they improved. Sure trucks have gotten more comfortable but also less reliable. That cab over is probably their most reliable truck.

Greed they are upwards of not more a 7 billion company. They can pay the drivers more

Definitely. For whatever reason these mega carriers don't get it. They try and act like they don't know why their turnover rate is so bad but they know. It's ridiculous when the dispatchers are getting paid more than the drivers. But they don't care cause they just have students come in every week from their bs schools so they don't gotta worry about not having enough employees.

I always got layover and was averaging $1000 a week.

@@JackieDaytona01 thats piss poor though for being an OTR driver!!

Layover depends on the account, for instance, Dollar General and Dollar Tree pay it; Lowes too. I've done (I'm NER 10 months) a couple and get it every time. I don't do LO regularly. Pay detention after 2 hrs (also, rate varies dep on the account); If your load less than a 100M get compensation + miles. It's good pay. Home every weekend, from Friday to Monday 6-7am, take truck with you ... hey, you get comfortable that don't want to move 😝

I always got mine worked on at Hutchins, Bill is the best mechanic there!

@@JackieDaytona01 I was a local driver after coming off the road, when that yard was just a drop yard. They bought that land long before they built all that industrial area, even before the QuickTrip was there. But Didn’t stayed to see that terminal built.

That's unfortunate abt Texas. I've been to this shop and a few others in the N Midwest. Never an issue, which is the way it should be.

We got charged 15% added for parts hubby figured it was the one imbezzling they weren't paying our atbs jus think every driver. They got greedy and caught . Was phoenix.older drivers that been there said they used to care now we jus Lil guy.we not allowed in bowling alley comeon.

Greed they are upwards of not more a 7 billion company. They can pay the drivers more

They’re using under paid drivers who live inside the truck like bums with no family to under cut freight prices to cut out smaller carriers

Facts I would always get 1200$ one check and 800$ the next check. It just wasn't enough

When I worked there about 13 years ago, they had this gimmick where, the more you idled your truck, the lower they'd govern your top speed. Well, if it's 100 degrees outside, I'm running my A/C, ESPECIALLY when they tell me to park 100 miles from home/have no loads/won't let me simply go home for the night. They were okay, the people were great for the most part, but slow trucks and low pay: I'm gone. FWIW, I got my CDL through Swift: 6 months later, I said "That's enough of this crap!", and that was back in 2000, while I was with Knight for almost 2 years. Only real problem I had was, I was doing runs into western Canada for Ikea: their terminal manager in Tukwila, WA., tried to leave me stranded in Vancouver BC overnight with no money (due to a load not being ready), and that manager refused to give me any kind of an advance, and his reply to me was (his exact words - he was known to be a jerk, and I'm being nice) "Well, I guess you have a problem then, don't you?" (Since I was "on loan" to that terminal because I could cross the border into Canada, I had to report to him) So, I waited until management on the west coast went home for the day, and I dead-headed back to Mount Vernon, WA.! Next day I spoke with my DM and TM (and copied in the TM of Tukwila), and I told them all over the QualComm - "Don't EVER send me back to that Tukwila terminal, because I will hunt that manager down and break his face, for deserting one of his drivers!" First and only time I ever threatened a manager. The GOOD part was, the Knight family still oversaw operations back then, and some family members worked in dispatch, too. The family was VERY accessible back then. The tractor I had was a ProStar, of which the roof gasket always leaked on rainy days, and International couldn't seem to fix it. This was still in the pre-emission days, so mechanically, I never had any problems with the tractor at all, and I really don't recall them ever having any real accidents back then - but also, while they do have a driving school of sorts (called Squire), they didn't train too many nnewbies back then. I have since bought my own tractor, and I like doing my own thing. Funny tidbit: got an email from Knight a month or two ago, asking if I wanted to come back! 🤣😅😂

Its because they haul freight for $1.30 a mile

There used to be some kind of overtime pay incentive because this job is worthless for $17 an hour

Man I quit knight 1 week after I got my 1st check. Anything under $1 per mile is a scam in my eyes

@durrel Simpson I made $2000 a week on flatbed but I quit and now they won't let me back on it and I've been working for night for 3 months OTR dry Van f****** garbage

@@Greywolf559 I initially signed up for flat bed and was having a personal issue so I I quit d but then I came back after a month and I've been failing all the loads on a drive and now they won't let me back on flat bed so I think I'm going to be done here because 48 cents a mile is f****** trash They told me if I fail one more load they will fire me They want to Drive 3000 miles a week I physically eventually can't do that and that's why and that's why I haven't late to loads

Thanks I am going to check that out.

That attracts a certain type of driver, which is the minority of all drivers If that's all it took, then you'd have more successful companies.

Exactly. That's why they have schools at their facilities so that they can just keep pumping out new drivers that either don't know any better or just stay cause they have no choice. They're pieces of sht imo

Yea and equipment drivers actually want to drive none of this plastic fairing all over the truck automatic super single crap and it governed to 55-60 mph

@@johnwolf1475 Not every driver cares about just the money. Much like a dog that only cares about the biggest bone, you can't trust him to stay loyal to you if you don't provide a level of care in addition.

@@christramontana3598 I would be driving that cab over. I will bet any amount of money that is their most reliable truck and probably never worked anymore.

They do give bonuses there….. you know that if you worked there!

i work in knight and they have been giving bonuses literally like every year. and im pretty sure we would be able to have access to those areas. the drivers have the same access as the office staff with access badges. there hasnt been a time i was told i was not allowed here. the way i see it, the place feels like the home knight terminal since Arizona was the first place where knight started.

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That's my go to company right near my house Ca jb reject

😅😅😅 I'm reading all your comments and will never take them down, all I ask is you don't curse 😁 Remember, I leave all the comments up for people to read. Which is a good thing, but kids reading them too. So just be mindful Alfonso🙏

@@MuthaTrucker you got it Alex

For real pointless for 99% of employees

smoke and mirrors for the rookies who think they will have time. You have to drive your full clock at .45 cpm. and be to tired to play a game of basketball

Exactleeeeeee! Pay us drivers or just do due!!! We sacrafice, tolerate, and RISK ALOT!!! AND the weight virtually falls on us driver s, ride a week or two in the v drivers shoes!!!

I'll have that video up soon

What month in 2019

Employees great but overworked they have to do three person jobs saw nights boss having to answer phones with no day off. He was nice man too. They had a lot of people longtime hoping get better

Because it's for compare to impress there rich friends overseas

Thanks just giving a tour for people to have access and will put up my video where I ask him questions soon

I would disagree for the fact that I do not delete comments. I think alot of viewers read comments and if they feel it's bad that will save them headache, if they feel its good that will save them time. Overall, a unbiase tour is still free access to see

@@MuthaTrucker when you choose to do trucking it has to be worth it ,,,because you are far away from your family and friends, i mean you sacrifice and you do a lot of effort but this mega carrier they really don't care about that.

Alex got fooled into coming to their headquarters I believe alsx isn't trying to help them but he is definitely helping that Free publicity

@@Pirate-dz And smaller carriers and the brokers care???

@@preppertrucker5736 i worked one month for FFE (mega carrier) i got paid 800$ week as otr, now i am working for small company owned by Russian in Chicago i make 2500 to 3000 week. And i never drive more than 11 hours a day.

To my knowledge they have opened it up. Thanks

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We appreciate you

@@georgejungle2255 yeah you're exactly right I didn't think about that

Or would you want your dispatcher to get punched in the mouth for running his mouth over the phone

@@MajesticRidez yeah I already replied to George jungles comment to me I'm an older driver I'm used to face-to-face I forget how screwed up some people are nowadays

Thats a lie I literally could walk into the office in Tulsa and sit down for 2hours and talk to my dispatcher. And even get lunch with him or her thats at almost every terminal at Knight!

I'll leave up the comments!!!! 🫣

@@MuthaTrucker Lol. I’m just saying…. He doesn’t even respect the drivers. He calls them “Individuals.” Then he goes on to say “If a driver has an issue, we go to the manager of the driver (fleet manager) for the final decision on the driver. Insinuating that the driver’s issues can’t be the fault of them or the manager they are assigned to. There are just glaring issues that the company hides behind pretty facilities and little to no investment into the drivers.

😂 right

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I got to see it!!