Since 1935, we've been a family-run business with decades of driving expertise guiding our day-to-day operations. Our golden rule at Kreilkamp is to Go the Extra Mile for Our Customers and Employees in order to establish a family-like environment for our employees and owner-operators. Another criterion we follow is that competent drivers deserve a place to call home. Kreilkamp Trucking continues to achieve consistent growth and significant success because we embrace these ideals.
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Drivers are paid weekly via direct deposit
Our Lanes of Service run primarily the Midwest through the East coast- OTR to NE, Regional to Midwest, Local WI-NJ, Regional East.
We haul refrigerated meats, cheese, spirits, agricultural supplies, manufacturing supplies, paper goods and printed material. 95% no touch.
Rider program
CPM and Hour rates can change depending on the market and fuel prices! For more information, you can Apply, and the company will contact you to discuss details! Thank you for understanding!
Home daily
After you complete one year of full-time service you will be eligible to receive:
CPM and Hour rates can change depending on the market and fuel prices! For more information, you can Apply, and the company will contact you to discuss details! Thank you for understanding!
Be Home weekly
After you complete one year of full-time service you will be eligible to receive:
CPM and Hour rates can change depending on the market and fuel prices! For more information, you can Apply, and the company will contact you to discuss details! Thank you for understanding!
2400 to 2600 miles a week
Average home time is 1 to 1 1/2 days a week. Be Home weekly
After you complete one year of full-time service you will be eligible to receive:
$20 a drop
We have 268 Power units
Freightliners
Kreilkamp has been a family-owned company for four generations, longer than most of us have been alive. We’ve transformed into one of the most prominent trucking companies in the Northeast and Midwest. Our loyalty to excellent service requires that we give great care and attention to our clients and their growing freight and logistics needs.
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A total of 32 reviews
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Great company. Loved working here. I'll miss it.
I was in the first class and struggled with the 90°. They did not give up on me. Now I drive a flatbed and absolutely love it. Great place to work!
I'm giving 5 stars cause of Jim from Safety & rebecca from dispatch. They advocate for their drivers, they respond fast and handle business. I have watched kreilkamp make an effort to improve driver experience since I've been here and seen decent results. I think that kreilkamp has the potential to be a great fit for drivers who value home time as they have been nothing but accommodating when I've requested home time or to be routed by home. Every company has its pros and cons, but kreilkamp doesn't lie when they tell you it's like a family. If you want a welcoming and supportive starter company, this is the place. If you have experience and wanna slow down and enjoy life, it's for you. I'd love to see kreilkamp open up more opportunities to their experienced drivers such as a lease opportunity. Overall, I'm happy with my choice to begin my career at kreilkamp, and I think it will be an important building block for my future in trucking. Side notes: They have an inspection bay at the main terminal you drive thru, driver showers, truck wash/vacuums, gym, laundry facilities All trucks are freightliner cascadias (no fridge etc.) Bring extras to training, you'll stay in your truck, which is a "cookie cutter truck" Trucks are FULLY LOADED with SAFETY features Inward & outward cameras with detection Pet policy with $500 deposit (can take from pay over time) Rider polity 12+ Courtesy vehicles at both terminals
So far, I love it here! They've offered me the opportunity to improve my driving skills before hitting the road. I already knew what I need to work on, but am thankful for the opportunity to do it. Some other companies were only offering me an additional 20 hours of training. First impressions say a lot to me, and they have treated me very well so far. They've done more than what I have heard from other companies.
Dear Jonathan Thank you for your recent application for our CDL-A Driver position. We appreciate your interest in the position and the opportunity to learn more about you and your experience. After reviewing your application and qualifications carefully, we have decided to move forward with other candidates at this time. We wish you success with your job search and in your career. Thanks again for your interest in joining Kreilkamp Trucking. Best Regards, Kreilkamp Trucking Sadly, it’s hard to know what kind of driver I am when you didn’t even call, ask what I’m looking for or took interest! But I get it, we’re hiring! 😂
The review say good, and the next awful, so it seems 50-50. The only thing is, many of the '5-stars' seem to come from employees to bring the review scale up. I gave 3 just to write the review. They are asking me to come to driver for them.
Been here 4 years now and every one is friendly and helpful and polite. I stat running all the time. This is a awesome company to work for.
I'm only giving this place a one star rating so I can leave a verbal review. I bought a truck from them,was denied a test drive which I understood,there was no insurance on the truck. The night before going to look at truck I asked if it had a current dot and Doug the shop manager said no. I asked if they could do one. He said we don't do them on trucks we sale. Long story short when I arrived to look at truck I asked if I can have a local mechanic do and dot inspection to make sure it would pass,and he said I can get you a dot sticker. Never even inspected the truck. I called them the following week,after I got the truck decaled and put bout 500 miles on it,expressing some concerns with problem with the truck,and what dmv said was an illegal sale,because of that dot inspection. They refuse to call me back and now when I call the phone just becomes disconnected. We'll I will be filing a complaint.
The best place I ever worked at, would recommend to anyone
I love working for kreilkamp! They work with you to get you on the road safely as a professional driver. Even more exceptional is the fact that even the owners will stop what they are working on and speak with you personally, and they treat you like family instead of just a number on the accounts list. I have zero complaints and would recommend applying here to anyone who wants to be in this industry!!!
Not recommended for drivers. You will sit A LOT, you will have to watch your pay like a hawk, you will have to claw and fight for money that is OWED to you, the pay you do get is subpar, they will charge you for things and never reimburse. They owe us more money than we ever made.
Worked here for 10 months as a driver and can’t really complain. They hired me when I had a couple speeding tickets and got me home when I needed to be. There’s a lot of down time when you drive reefers so some weeks were better than others when it came to miles and pay
This is an absolute horrible place to work for and a horrible place to do any business with at all. I got hired on, they only paid $75 per day for training class. The next say they made me sit around for 5 hours before they talked to me at all. I got in my car and drove off. They called and I let them know exactly how bad they are and what they did wrong. I would not and will not recommend them to anyone.
Company and staff are very classy and honest. I really like the staff at wisconsin office who were sincere and warm. Driving here feels like being home everyday. I drove for years at a couple of well respected major carriers and finally landed here by coincidence and feel this company is a hidden gem. Went to drive for them on may 2017 but quit after an emergency trip out of the country that kept me out for a while. Fun atmosphere and Happy staff there. Quality modern trucks and easy money :-)
Driving can get overwhelming especially after having to sit and carriers for 3+ hrs and then drive 100s of miles right after. If you have children, you probably will be considered to be an ok driver for however long you are working here. Dispatch is OK but can be better. Company equipment are well maintained. Can't really trust colleagues or coworkers much. If help needed, just call and ask for help. Overall it's not a bad place to start your career path .
When I signed on, I made it clear that I had a family and home time was important to me. I asked for regional work that would get me miles but also have regular home time, and the company agreed. Once I finished the training, however, Kreilkamp's story changed to having me on as an over the road driver, but they would do their best to get me home weekly for resets. This, they assured me, was the best way to balance getting me enough miles to fill out the paycheck while still getting me home time. It hasn't gone well, to put it mildly. The schedule is wildly inconsistent, sometimes getting me home Friday afternoon but other times keeping me out until Saturday night. Sometimes I leave for the week on Monday afternoon, other times as early as Sunday morning. Sometimes I can run hard and get in a good week miles-wise, other times I am stuck with 1500 or less for the week and long periods of sitting in parking lots waiting to be loaded or unloaded. While long waits aren't nessesarily the company's fault, sometimes they very much are. On multiple occasions I have been stuck at a truck stop for hours on end waiting for another driver to relay with. Other times I attempt to pick up a loaded trailer from the company's lot only to find out that it will need hours of maintenance and repair before it can leave. Very rarely I can get detention pay for long waits, but more often I go unpaid after wasting my time.
Was an owner-operator things were good as far as miles until the truck was paid off. I leasted from them then my eyes went to s***Typical most trucking companiesuck as far as I'm concerned.
recruiter is the best and honest and up front , there were no surprises and everyone was friendly and helpful, trucks are clean and so is the drivers lounge
What is the best part of working at the company? They would good for the first 2 or 3 years. What is the most stressful part about working at the company? After 6 years of working for them when they were losing the contract on what we were hauling they stop fixing our equipment or giving us the proper stuff we needed. Also after five years they normally give you a very nice ring but because of loosing the contract they got us a very cheap ring that looked like it was made by a kid in metal shop l. What is the work environment and culture like at the company? Very poor and the Management Don was very rude and mean towards the drivers. What is a typical day like for you at the company? Long hours and lots of miles and driving on very rough surfaces in trucks not designed for that.
On my first run, I have no serious problems regarding the company. I would suggest since driver's has to sleep in their trucks, maybe have a portable shower and restroom close to where the trucks are park. And explain the orintation pay better. Some driver's come there and don't have enough money to last a b fore your first check or heading home.
They treat you like family always welcome you at HQ have nothing bad about the job. Went to the trucking school which was 2 months and got all the training I needed to be a Profesional driver.
What is the best part of working at the company? No pros more cons! Very deceptive untruthful about sign on bonus also other bonuses! What is the most stressful part about working at the company? Lack of hours on certain contracts! What is the work environment and culture like at the company? It was lax. A lot of back stabbing and gossip amongst management towards employees from management also employees towards employees! What is a typical day like for you at the company? Hectic at the piers! When the pick up’s are not scheduled properly by the company! Which happens a lot!
Pay rate is poor, disgusting, nasty, miserable everything bad. Working for McDonalds in NY pay better than this joke of company, which shouldn’t be like that because having a CDL is a big deal.
Company doesn't care for employees. Pay is bad and benefits are expensive. You have to work 5 years to be vested in 401(k). That's unheard of! No holidays and they work you long hours. Stay away!!
Needed retraining after being out of the truck for a while. Trainers were patient and focused with good attitudes and mentoring tactics. I drove decent miles weekly. My home time balanced out well. My money was refunded for my equipment as promised and my paycheck was always on point
It’s a good company to start with I was working for western express before and I hated it was not enough pay to live off 200 dollars a week so I came here
Low miles at times high miles the office people don’t have a clue what it takes to be a driver they never drove a CMV but think they know the ins and outs of being a driver no matter what you do the driver will always be in the wrong
Your paycheck will never be correct. You will chase after your detention and layover pay for weeks until you give up altogether. They are not honest.
They are sneaky and very deceiving they will make a contract with you for money they can't even prove went to you this company is horrible the people are even worse my opinion company is at its knees
worked there a year it was overall a good experience. It was ridiculous to me that there is no performance bonus. half the drivers do 90% of the work. the other half do very little and just milk the clock. Its really stupid instead of paying overtime having employees work 14hrs a day when the work could be done is 8hrs or less.
Family owned business. Trying to compete with the bigger companies. Lowest paying in the area. Opened a CDL driving school. Absolutely stay away from that. Will drown you in contract obligations and won't make any money.
Bad pay, dispatchers are not the best, loads sometimes are not what they say samsara is the worst tablet and they don’t work weekends only can contact maintenance department
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