Knight Transportation hiring practices Tulare California

You opened the door while backing and wonder why you did not get hired? Are you for real?  Hotshots like you are pathetic excuses for drivers. If you know how to properly set up a truck, it matters not where the cab, sleeper, or exhaust are. You will have the truck properly angled to use your mirrors or simply just turn your head and look back to see your approach.

If you can't see, Get Out And Look! Isn't that what all these companies have that GOAL sticker on the mirrors for? How can anyone fault you for getting out to look? You're not testing for your CDL, you're showing a safety director that you care enough about your own safety and the safety of others to climb out and get a good look before going anywhere else. Regardless of how you try and explain how safe it is to open the door, it's not. It's unsafe and unprofessional and shows your lack of backing skills.

To prove my point, I owned a '95 Freightliner Classic with a 64" hi-rise bunk made by Able Body out of Joplin, MO. It's a carbon copy of the Pete bunks. Same style. Sitting on a 270" wheelbase.  I NEVER had to open the door unless it was to get out. And the bunk is just as wide as the one you complained about, and my jumbo 8" straight pipes were right out the door too. I, sir, know how to maneuver and use my mirrors. You obviously can't. I even had 12' wide combines on my trailer, making backing even harder. You get out and look and take your time, hotshot.

It's also routine for you to fill out another hard copy of the application for them. Irritating, but true. All you had to do was ask for a copy of the one you sent them and copy from that to the new one. Your attitude in your post seems to rival the alleged attitude the recruiter and "ex-deputy" safety man. Pray tell, what relevence was the poke at his former occupation? Just your anger that a cop cost you the job? Sorry sir, it was your poor driving skills, nothing more.

Your anger about your DAC not being run makes me wonder if you've had backing accidents on your DAC that they were dismayed to find as well. Why so freaked out about your DAC and MVR not being run before you got there? If they're both clean, who cares? If you're a bad driver, they didnt' waste time and money... you did.

Consider it a blessing that you didn't get hired.  This way you only wasted the trip to and from the orientation.  Otherwise you would have wasted weeks, months, or maybe years...if you lasted that long. 

Knight has become the RED SWIFT of the trucking industry.  They operate like a joke.

As far as the Pete goes...I thought it was a requirement to open the drivers door to back up.  I have never seen anyone do it without opening the door.

They are absolutely the worst truck ever built!  You can't see anything out of the darn thing.

Their office staff is nothing but a bunch of college dropouts paid a little above minimum wage.

Take it from me...(An ex-safety director for Knight), The only people they have in the offices are dumb***** that failed at everything else in life.

So take your non-hiring in stride and move on to a better company.  Pick any..they are all better than Knight.