JB Hunt and the Lease with Load Visibility

well I use to be a intermodal driver for them and I guess they are switching their efforts to it, in the northeast they are by far the biggest intermodal company, they actually own 2 rail yards, one in Elizabeth,nj and the other one somewhere in around the area of boston

 

That load board from their website used to be my secret weapon when I drove OTR in 2007-2008.

My trick to using it was my wife at home would start monitoring it 7-9 days before my home time was coming up. Now if they had me running the opposite direction of home 5 days out that was a red flag. My wife would find something inbound to NC where I live & text the load number & relevant info to me. I'd then send a Qualcomm message to my FM, always on the Qualcomm so it showed as me 'wanting the load' & he'd investigate getting me on it. Sometimes it was hit or miss as they might have to re-power a load I was currently under to get me on that one heading home. But it was always worth the effort.

After getting home & usually before I ever arrived my wife would have 2 or 3 she'd have found going out after home time was over & I'd get my FM to try & lock me in on them too. This didn't work every time but when it did I'd have guys from all over asking how I was getting an NC to Cali run when all they kept getting was small 400-500 mile 2 day runs or be sent towards Chicago every week, which was like a 2nd address for us Carolina's Region drivers. It was all in how you used the resources & tools JB Hunt has available to you & my FMs always appreciated that.

I'm not sure how any of this would apply to you driver since you have a lease contract & seem to have a pretty good grasp of the load board already. I just thought perhaps you can glean a trick from it & get yourself better set up on some hauls that the keeps wheels turning & gets you home when you need too.

Be be safe out there driver & keep it between the mustard & the mayonnaise!

 

Im thinking about going back with jb hunt lease program I just quit in december and wanting to come back but im told load vis is gone any truth to that??

 

I'm glad I read this. Now its time to cancel my orientation with JB Hunt. O/O's forced dispatched! no way Charlie! The whole point of being a O/O is the freedom of choice!!