The Knight Life: Episode 1 | So Much More Than Just A Driver

I mean I'm gonna hop out I want a crack to landing gear I want to pull the pin I mean I want to do I want to do all the goods what's up good how are you man good to see you see it better been a while huh yeah yeah here we're going for a ride we are man we're going trucking here's the key you got a CDL right here I don't think we're gonna get to bar there you go she on there like clean windshield because I think my money is staring out that thing all day oh you know I know I don't go home every night I don't go home every week I don't go home every two weeks I call home once a month and you know it's my weekend I've been looking forward to for a month or two to spend with my girlfriend in Tahoe ya know I think we'll put the board something bigger is better I might snooze for a couple of seconds sure man lay back I'm gonna reverse roll let him have the you know a nice hotel room and I'll take the truck just a driver you havin my biggest pet peeve I've driven through tornadoes dust storms fog rain blizzard fires pretty much any kind of thing Mother Nature can throw at you and I said I'm just I'll just be out here moving America one one truckload at a time so he's probably seen it all I mean he's he's in the positions he's been in he's gotten feedback from drivers and probably every conceivable situation possible so I don't I don't know you'll see anything he hasn't seen oh wait are you doing hey are we ready to order - yeah but veggie burger veggie burger well the only thing we have close to it would be oh there's a veggie patty yeah san I love breakfast that look good come on breakfast guy every once in a while a really any breakfast oh really and I'm the weekends of stuff it's like I really like get my breakfast bill usually gives my wife with my little two and a school thing Wow beautiful and those are your kids - yeah those are let's watch that now two youngest ones beautiful family we're in your girlfriend's in Virginia Beach yeah I met her online how did you yeah that's the only way because I guess there'll be a meeting somebody with you know yeah you need a truck all the time yeah I use technology man - internet dating and what I've learned in nine years of truck driving is fostering a good relationship with the driver manager I mean that's it's it's all about relationships you know and and it's a lot of that is based on the drivers attitude you know and just just rolling with things you know some some days are highly productive highly productive days and other days or down days and and I like to take advantage of that and get some recreation in get some extra rest you know catch up with friends and you know not scream at my driver manager because I don't have a load assignment that day I just use that data to balance my life out on all right there I just discovered that truck stop toilet paper does the worst winter paper I could ever ever imagine then I tell you something you already knew or didn't know you know I think sometimes you know I grew up in a trucking family and yeah you know but I'm not out there doing it every day and I get I feel I feel like I got a pretty good sense of what you guys do what you go through but then this is even good for me just because it's like you know the daily things of showering it a truck stop or forever you know waiting line to do this and then just everything every day things that it's just ten times more difficult than you know then most people realize the thing I'm most proud about nine years is pretty much an impeccable driving record safe and I go to get my MVR my motor vehicle report every year no violations found so but I'm humbled every second because that could change in a split second so I met a guy that's in charge of he's just a driver he's in charge of Oh time out but just a driver that is like my biggest thank you my day guests pet peeve go thanks for the correction let me tell you what I do you know I teach about every month we have new non driving employees come to Phoenix from all over the country uh-huh and we talk about our drivers yeah I'm making the drivers experience great whoever touches the driver should make sure that that drivers experience is great whether your payroll or billing or if they have a driver call you you didn't make that drivers experience great right and so I tell them in there though that's why that's why it's a stopped you because I'll tell you I was like if any of you in here if I ever hear somebody say oh well he's just a driver I'm like I'm going to come unglued yeah because there's no such thing is just a driver because I how you're telling me that you're putting yourself better than one of our people who work their butts off yes after Feist their lives on the road and they're just a driver see this is where I'd have a hard time like driving like these wide-open roads yeah what I do I could have 100 miles and then I make myself some herbal tea or have a snack and I take about a half hour break and then I go between 100 and 200 miles and then I'll exercise and take my shirt off get some sunshine or and then you know if you've long as you averaged 400 miles a day for every day you're out you know you're pretty good kind of good shape you know we're almost of the 29 we cut across yeah that roads gnarly right there that is funny every damn it can look it can look it can have it can look great down here you get to the top of that sucker man and it could be a hole no I've been on that before in a car obviously but yeah could be pretty gnarly up there shoe that's a winding narrow yeah I don't mind passing that at all I was talking to Mike he said we were gonna stay in Vegas and then I said cool we don't got to go over 20 you feel like stopping rest area get out stretch your legs for a minute maybe use men there's the rest area this four we dropped down the hill into st. George up on top there so and with you that's doing if you're gonna hold it I have to hold it I'm gonna stop all stop long as you hold your own we're good all right it's gonna feel good to stretch our legs a little bit though yeah yeah don't get old TJ I'm already feeling okay you have you finished with drink up toss ative or unless you gave it oh no we'll throw okay I'll talk to us just go hey sup lose nap hold me accountable for cleaning up my own mess no no I know that we must be living right there eating right living doing that we can get a chips or hair-loss cookies and some skittles that'll get us to Vegas yeah you want anything I'm good trying to quit man quit me too sometimes dye mountain dear Oh beautiful night yeah in December and like that's nasty truck let's good-looking truck so see if you like that that's oh I'm good I'm gonna snatch I just wanted to drink Roscher oh yeah now's what we need our Willie Nelson on the road again there we go I always just do a little light check you know when I will have a port of entry the Utah port of entry about 45 miles down the road here okay serpentine here make sure our side mark for the work and link of the working ship good J should warm up about 10 degrees drop down and st. George and I was there I bumped the dock and I was there for six hours and they hadn't even put the lift gate down and I called after hours and said you know what I got here about when my 14-hour was just about done you know and I've been here for six hours I you know I need somewhere I know where I get some sleep something to eat and I got I got livid I was like man I'm and I can't work for a company that wants me to after my 14 hours up then I stay at a dock for six hours and then they say I should have stayed there after I told and then you lined me up III never seen magic like this happening industry you you line me up with five or six awesome pre-planned loads all like a thousand-mile I was unbelievable you you are like I don't that was me it seems like night trains their driver managers it seems like my point of view to focus on the solution rather than the problem ending the driver we tend to focus on the problem you know and when I think it's best to focus on the solution and but see the problem is hitting you directly in the pocket and in that yeah I think it's so easy for our driver to focus on the problem yeah because it is a problem it's a good time I'm going to put food on my family's table this week right that's a big role I'm happy terminal manager the safety guy Dustin operation manager coda my driver manager Tyson top notch man could nag i I don't think you could ask for anyone that could be more qualified you know there so that makes my life I have died only got like call once a week talk to my driver manager that's about all it yeah you know you think you think you might want the bunk heater on in the morning maybe okay so you got to go you get it to the heat and then you got to press on and then you have to set it yeah you get off this light up here uh when the door shuts but okay so then I get these on like normal what you were doing earlier yeah yep that that Lydell you got this one here or you know the one I showed you there uh-huh and I'll keep my phone on for a little bit bit make sure I have your cell number my phone yeah in case you got it but hey I'll tell you turn this off or honor you want that window cracked a little bit or you want it what would yeah yeah just to live normally cracking okay yeah I just do I just do just a little like that you know all right right on thanks for lunch and dinner TJ in the room and you bet you thanks for a good company to invade your space here oh man my pleasure so the honor man hey glad we're doing so yeah cool so all right boy closest closest I'll ever get to the to the big boys the big boys shot I went I wouldn't say that ha ha ha 10:50 now our time uh-huh we're going to leave here at 7:00 a.m. our time so 6 o'clock here so I'll be up at 5:00 uh-huh so be over here about 5:45 local time perfect so it's about 15 minutes before we get our hours and yep that work sounds good 5:45 local time I'm 45 we'll see huh all right brother huh all right sleep well man thanks I'm gonna sure try huh you busy yard tonight just home you're wrong you know at night thinking about 30 30 days maybe maybe 30 to 33 days okay for services oh cool I love it so you go over there that I'm turning yellow we were intro I'm on my way up I'm on my way to McFarland California okay Panera I got a thing on my have to double check mark where I take the potatoes okay everybody's helping you out okay and getting you acclimated yeah well good hi I'm TJ CJ dress all right all right on man good to meet you have a good one all right somebody is just in here everything's good that was a chair to put our back on that's a good thing when I like to look for pick the shower my last dream wasn't the most awesome shower overtaking but I'll teach you that definitely gives you gives me personally a whole new appreciation for what our drivers do and what they go through our terminals because I realized I wasn't as prepared as I thought I was going in and have my shower bag ready it was shampoo and soap that was right there around the corner but yeah it's just a whole different experience that you know many of us I think that just aren't used to and so it's you know the thing that hit me was and there is this man I don't know that I could do this every single day takes a take a special breed of person to do it so pretty awesome no I think we could definitely use more camaraderie between our fleets and our service centers because I do hear that every once in a while about waving another night trucks not refrigerated trucks whatever the case may be as they drive by you know sometimes they feel like they're more friendly earlier than others pretty eye-opening in your experience in the firsthand instead of just listening to it secondhand all right guess it's time to because of my hit the sack see you in the morning way back off today and 5:30 wasn't you that is our truck right next time 300 open up parking spots in a place on a guy rolls up right next to me and them company i slept but wasn't like home in my own bed that's for sure then you lay here and you think gosh man no my wife's at home my kids at home laying here on a 2x4 or whatever he's got under here and a sleeping bag and and really it makes you appreciate what you have and I'm really the sacrifice to these guys make seriously good afternoon TJ sleep all right in there oh it's still last night morning really no yeah I thought that was not that bad been nicer than therapeutic for you man tempered yet what do you have in here like a Jew he's got a piece of witnessing does he sleep on this thing this is the hardest bed I've ever seen and yeah I can't keep that 3/4 inch sheet of plywood on the bunks I do exercises stretching yoga hats off to you babe ha ha no yeah just yeah doing this day in day out this has been my husband my home for nine years ever you know saw this YouTube video that went viral this ladies that lived in Manhattan and she had a super small space and I started doing the square footage on here and I'm like well that's same you know good on fuel it Oh cheese and earlier a little bit about like these guys we came in last night there's a tons of parking spots like all the way at the end nobody will be next to us and yeah that wake up there's two guys right now yeah yeah who you walk around it's like a ton more trucks came in last night yeah yeah well they they needed a parked on their bias yeah there's a ton more trucks that came in after 11 o'clock last night when we finally yeah that's pretty crazy I roll in all time go - yup in the bathroom inside the paper also Junia so it here we got 1.5 miles before we got a jump on 515 South I think people don't feel like they're part of something bigger better contributing to the overall success of the most successful trucking company in my opinion whatever exists and really the numbers back that statement up or you know started so it's like you just always kind of related back like professional sports or something learn you know I played football for a living and for my career you know I think pride at the team I played for what I'd rather play for the world champions of some little team you know yeah you know where they're not committed to giving you the right personnel you know they don't really care about the championship they're just a business to them whereas it's like here it's like that it takes a lot to win it takes a lot to be on top but it takes even more to stay on how many teams can repeat a year a year in because it's so dolphin TRUCKING is really no different you know I try to make the best use of my time at every given moment I can comment a ship for a receiver I usually just try that step kind of an art to Jim to give you a ballpark time without stop making them without agitate them enologist subtle way kind of get a feel for how long they need unload it's going to be a couple hours then I'll try to do some exercise because I can't do that one right go down there's sin and I'll not have you done it in 20 minutes to a half-hour well then I'm going to make me lunch or breakfast dinner not enough time to really take a nap or but it's a good time to it's enough time to make himself a sandwich or something so alright it sounds good we'll talk to you soon mr. Cota yeah he's mad he's he's taking damn good care of me man he can get stuff done you know I read to you guys but I might have to be here the next hour and a half okay some ways are went fast in other ways it went slower yeah yeah I appreciate the launch and dinner and that Hampton and that's that it's spoiled man right in here my pleasure stop oh where we are hey pleasure than awesome man it really has cool i radish ate everything you do everything you're doing but seriously call me phonemic very well whatever you ever so Thank You TJ you look with a girlfriend all right awesome so they can sit below also I will absolutely so she'll be she'll be happy to hear that well good I hope she's doing well and tell her that she ever needs anything to let us know as well so okay alright I'll get it alright thanks man hope you have a nice weekend planned hey you too and of course be careful right and you know make sure that team up there takes carries mission that brother of mine okay okay you got it all right bud thank you now thanks I usually get hot so I might roll down the window a little bit well anyway I just I put a little heat on my feet is all and this you can close those heat melt a row and if you're too warm or whatever just tell me I'm I like it I like to warm this comes up with and sometimes the fresher that's exactly that I will do it I like my feet warm and fresh air to breathe that's exactly like our life we may go teeming after this whole deal lastly if you're like nope

Channel: Knight Transportation

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Length: 25min 8sec (1508 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 20 2016