I drove for Knight Transportation in 2007 for approximately 2 months. I will start from day one. I recieved my truck at the Fontana yard where I did their inspection and filled out the proper forms. I had engine oil leaks, bald tires, one of the fairings was on the verge of falling off, the high/low selector would get stuck making it difficult to get into gears. Well, fontana at the time did not have a maintenance facility so they advised I would have to get it fixed while OTR. I was dispatched on my first load to Pheonix to meet my dispacther where I had some of the problems fixed on the truck and also discovered new issues on my way such as the truck was overheating climbing grades and the jake brake wasnt working. These were the minor problems I had with the company.
I picked up a load in Idaho headed to salt lake city upon delivery I went to the Salt Lake City operating center where I checked my truck in for service for some of the issues Pheonix did not fix. They refused to pay for a hotel room, I couldn't stay in the truck cause they were putting it in the shop. I had to rent a car and luckily I had a friend who lived in Salt Lake city that allowed me to stay with him. Knight refused to reimburse me for any of my costs (I had to rent the car cause my friend had no means of transportation). 4 days later my truck was done knight then refused to pay me any break down pay. I told them I had been on the road for 3 weeks my dispatcher advised me that the time my truck was in the shop was considered my time at home. I was then dispatched to Portland, Oregon where when I delivered I sat at the operating center for 3 days where I was refused layover pay due to me expressing I wanted to go home they told me they had loads heading to Washington, but decided since I wanted to go home there were loads available and that means I do not recieve layover pay.
On another trip I had delivered in Los Angeles and then I headed to Fontana to pick up my next load in the macro it said it was supposed to take 2 hours to load my 8 hours later I was finally released it was headed to Portland, Oregon. With my hours up in 45 minutes I headed to the OC and took my ten hour restart. Heading to portland there was an accident on the 5 freeway in southern Oregon. I contacted my dispatcher and advised him between the hold up at the shipper and the accident on the freeway I would be on my 10 hour break when the load was supposed to deliver he advised me "You will make that delivery on your break or you will be service failed". Being a new driver I made the delivery never logging it.
Another issue I had I was picking up a load of dog food headed from Los Angeles to Riverside. When I recieved the bills of lading the load weighed 57,000 lbs. I contacted my dispatcher and told him it was overweight I don't even have to scale it to tell him that. He advised that I will take that load and deliver it or I would be service failed.
Well, this is my experience with Knight Transportation it only lasted 2 months and that was enough.