Thanks for letting us know J'B's perticulars, Wondering if that is the same company wide, or things differ from terminal to terminal.

anyone in pennsylvannia wanting to join jb? they are offering a $1,000.00 referral bonus

Originally Posted by bowlwinkle

The weird hours and everything could maybe be expected, but 1200 miles a week is really not what anyone would expect. Noone could make a living on 1200 miles per week.

true enough, but the only time I get a week like that is when there is some time off involved.

Originally Posted by reddogg71

I said from the beginning that since I had plenty of time on my hands and just started with jb, that I would inform those who might be interested as to how it turns out. My last post also said that it went from bad to good. Furthermore, I said Ive had other trucking jobs. To sum up what is different from my other jobs and how things are at jb is:

1. never had to use a qualcomm
2. had a whole weekend off, not 36 hours and call it a weekend.
3. never had to type a safety message every day before rolling out
4. never had a phone number on the trailer for someone to call in,
and apparently jb will take the word of the caller over yours
5. never had the knowledge that someone from the company might be
following you and assessing your overall driving habits. (which did happen to me
last week, and I know its true because they said I was driving with no headlights
on during the daytime. I passed everything else. so really not a big deal.)
6. make you call in for a briefing on certain loads. which turns out to be the same
message everytime.
7. monitor your idle time
8. notify you that you had a hard braking. (Not that I have had one of those)
9. match your logs to their gps

so once you get adjusted to all this, the miles are there and its clear sailing.

All this depends on the fleet manager you get, how long you've been there, and what account you are on. If you are dispatched out of Lowell, you can pretty much expect all the stuff in your list. The place is full of college kids that have no clue what we go through.

As for the number on the back of the trailer, I have had people call in on me for the dumbest stuff imaginable. I just take it in stride, you have to call in and listen to a kid read his prepared speech out of his "how to be an annoying jerk" manual. It's nothing personal. I had someone call in on me last week and say i had "the wrong placards" on my flammable load. How in the hell would he know what's in my trailer to say the placards were wrong? I'm still scratching my head over that one.

Some of the fleet managers demand a safety message, most don't bug you. When i get one that does, i'll just type "get out and look before backing" every morning and be done with it. I tell him don't expect me to come up with anything creative at 6 am when I haven't had my cup of coffee yet, and that they aren't paying me to be a blogger. I get the concept, they want us thinking about safety, but that doesn't make it any less of a pain in the butt.

When you are driving up 540 in north east Arkansas, better mind your p's and q's, that's for sure.

The hard breaking program, I think, is actually a good idea. You have to slam them pretty hard to get one, and the guy that's getting a bunch of them is a big red flag for a driver who tends to follow too close, and a driver you might want to get rid of before he kills someone. Occasionally they happen, they understand that.

Originally Posted by MrMustard

I don't know what you expect. If you wanted a 9-5 job, you should have been a bank teller. I don't see how this is a bad reflection of JB Hunt. What you are describing is a bunch of typical days of trucking.

Too true. This is why anyone with self respect should never admit to working non union TL freight except to state they found something else worthwhile to persue.