so your trying to say your starting orientation next monday................

At least they are calling personally. All the rest of the comapnies are using head hunters to track drivers down.

I have been out of driving for over 3 years and still get phone calls and emails. It's definitely not just JB Hunt doing this.

Wow, you've been called constantly since 2004 or so? I'd be talking to my state's Attorney General's office. Maybe you can even file a lawsuit against these companies. There MUST be a way to stop their pestering of you.

It's really sick that a company such as JB Hunt is so hard up for help they're "forced" to cold-call people and keep pestering them the way they do. Also, they're supposedly "forced" to recruit from faraway places like Australia for drivers to come drive their 800+ Argosy trucks they (again, supposedly) have sitting around idle.

The truth is these companies are not "forced" to do anything. They CHOOSE to abuse the drivers they already have, meaning those drivers quit sooner or later, mostly sooner. When those drivers do quit, companies like JB Hunt then make themselves out to be the helpless victims. Every big (and even most medium) outfits are this way. They'll treat their drivers like dirt, see those drivers quit, then whine to the government about a driver shortage. And while they're whining, they'll start the cycle all over again with the new batch of replacements and abuse them as well. Yeap, when you see a trucking company insider with a microphone stuck under his nose whining about a driver shortage, know that at that very moment his company is abusing at least some of its drivers.

There are posts all over this website from drivers who've been abused by the likes of SwiftCo, J.B., C.R. England, and others. These companies have turnover that is well over 100%. For some, it's over 200%. These companies act like they can afford to abuse their drivers. They act like they can abuse the hands that feed them. Common sense says they can't, but maybe they can somehow. Maybe they can abuse their drivers, ##### and moan about a driver shortage, and stay in business. The way they are doing that would obviously be a way we, the common grunts, are not supposed to know about.

Personally, I think the driver turnover grinding machine is only part of a game, and all the company whining is nothing but role-playing designed to fool the government into giving them some sort of relief (welfare). Some company insiders are so good at whining to the government about their "helpless plight" they should get academy awards.

I have absolutely zero sympathy for whining insiders or their companies. May they all go out of business tomorrow. Good riddance. It's obvious these guys WANT turnover. If they didn't, there'd be none, or at the very least it'd be a lot less than the 100%, 125%, 150%, even 200% you see today. After all these companies are shaken out of the industry, drivers as a whole would be a lot better off over the long run.

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--Paved Dudley--

Yeah I drive a Swift truck
And that means one thing
It means she's slow
It's a typical company truck
It's just all show and no go

I'm gettin' passed by Yella
And even Overnite
I'm gettin' passed by ever' body in sight
46 days on the road
And I'm not gettin' home tonight

No, my hometown's nowhere in sight
And if you think I'm pissed off
You're right
46 days on the road
And I'm not gettin' home tonight


Love pissing off those trucking company insiders.

Tip your post brings up some thing I've thought about for a long time.

I'm sure these companies WANT to make money, why else would they be in business? I'm not a college educated guy, but common sense tells me that the amount of turn over, training, damage the noobs are doing to the trucks, and the lost productivity have got to cost an incredible amount of money. And why these folks cannot get it into their head that if they treated their drivers better and even paid them better it will not cost as much to the company as it does for the turn over.

The way they go about it makes no sense at all to me. Maybe its cuz my idea is too simple for the CEOs to grasp.

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It isn't JB Hunt, in my case, just head hunters out looking for truckers for several companies. Not a big deal to me though, things like this don't get me upset. I just tell them I am not interested and move on, then another will call the next week, much like any telemarketer does.

Luckily, the head hunters call in the middle of the day, not at Supper time like other people.

I must live a charmed life, no head hunters call me........ yet. But then again I've never worked for any of the large driver mill companies.

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JB use to do the same thing to me...always calling. Finally I told them that I retired (true) and I never received another call.
It's worth a shot.

Found this last night. From a couple of years ago. I was wondering the same thing. 12 million + interest seems like a good money maker to me...

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Any body you want revenge on? Give their number to JB recruiting.


just joking

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