Knight Transportation Work Values

Daily Duties at Knight Transportation:

• Manage team members of the assessorial and equipment control department • implement new programs, systems and strategies to improve or enhance the company as a whole • Manage port assets to provide effective and strategic utilization of company equipment • Meet with corporate vendors, partners and customers to collaborate on agreements that are mutually beneficial • review and approve new contracts from steamship lines and equipment providers • Manage fleet of 8000 trailers and specialized equipment • Maintain customer equipment requirements • Conduct weekly training sessions for new operations personnel • Project manager for installation and maintenance of new tracking technology on trailers • Track down lost or stolen company equipment • Develop customer relations and increase volumes with said customers • Participate in contract negotiations and bids with customers • Managed team of up to 26 people consisting of centralized account managers, schedulers and IT development personnel • Travel to visit with customers and participate in meetings and presentations all over the country • Be the central point of contact for significant national accounts • Develop customer relations and increase volumes with said customers • Participate in contract negotiations and bids with customers • Become familiar with the ebbs and flows of the economy and seasonality of customer's freight • Assure freight in assigned regions were planned for on time pick-up and delivery • Coordinate plans with drivers, driver managers and market managers • Meet customers needs that required trailer pools, tight delivery windows and reliable communication • Be familiar with all routes, transit times and hazards within assigned region • Plan around road closures and weather delays to ensure driver safety and security of the customers goods or products • Comply with driver requirements of home time requests and miles per day and per week

What they like about Knight Transportation:

You give high priority to hiring firms with prestige. Market reputation and prestige of a firm may be determined through on-line research, and conversations with individuals working in your target industry. Note that firms "in the public eye" receive a great deal more critical publicity and attention than those operating with more anonymity. So as you assess your employment opportunities, be sure to seek out the positive aspects of the firm's reputation in addition to noting negative publicity the company may have received.

Tags

Contract Negotiations, Customer Relationship Management, EDI, Electronic Data Interchange, Financial, Financial Statements, General Ledger, IBM AS/400, Information Technology, AS/400, Operations Manager, Alteryx, Asset Management, National Accounts

Skills

Customer relations, Data Analysis, Team management, Operations management, Production, Asset Productivity, Generating reports, employee development, Contract negotiations, Equipment purchasing, Fluent in Spanish, Sales, Systems implementation

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Knight Transportation: