JB Hunt - Lowell, Ar.

well, i really didn't bother to fully read your very, very long posting, as i was falling asleep while doing so.

bottom line, is the companies i have worked for in the past, required a written letter from the person calling the company to complain about a particular driver. this was done to "eliminate" spouses or "lovers quarrels" from interfering with the job function. if the caller did not send in a written statement to "backup" the phone call, then any complaint wash simply thrown out the window.

and by the way, those companies i worked for, also required a name, address, phone number of the "caller".

wanna guess how many people followed thru on that...........??

 

JB Hunt has no written or documented company policy regarding public motorist complaints against JB Hunt drivers. JB Hunt also accepts public motorst complaints from "anonymous" sources. Therefore, any one in the world can "drop a dime" on a JB Hunt driver and JB Hunt will accept the complaint and add it to the driver's personnel file. The complaint, for example, can come from a "mad girlfriend", ex-wife, road-raged motorist, JB Hunt supervisor, other JB Hunt employee that does not like you, etc. All complaints of any kind for any reason are considered "serious" violations of JB Hunt's public motorist complaint policy. Five complaints like this in a 12-month period and you are terminated (except for the drivers JB Hunt likes and does not apply the policy to equally). There is no "due process" for JB Hunt drivers when it comes to their public motorist complaint policy.

 

yeah, that's why some companies i worked for "required" additional info from the "caller". too bad JB Hunt operates like that. lesson learned, i guess.

 

Thanks for the input, and it's sound advice, but I would rather eat a raw snail than to be nice to a telemarketer or a JB Hunt recruiter.

 

I'm not sleeping very good now. My savings is almost gone, and it's looking like I'm gonna have to take an OTR job, and be gone for a week at a time.

They promised me day hours and weekends off. Now I have to leave my family. This is becoming more and more of a nightmare. My wife is devastated by all this. She doesn't want me to drive a truck anymore....but I'm too old to flip burgers, or bartend for $300 a week.

JB Hunt, I'm gonna get even.

 

JB Hunt is famous for their lies. Their story always change. I particularly like their constant bragging of their drivers getting an average of 2500-3000 miles a week. Yeah Right! That is a load of BS. I want to warn anyone thinking of joining JB Hunt or worse yet signing up for their lease purchase program to please do yourselves a favor and DON'T! My husband made the big mistake of signing up (the only bright side is it is only for 6 months) and we are dying financially. He has only seen 2500 no more than 3 times. One pay period he got $66.00 and two weeks later his settlement was a MINUS $54.00 thats a -$54.00. The past four weeks he has gotten 250.00, 342.00 246.00 and 332.00. Now remember no taxes are taken out of these figures. Is this what JB says is great pay?! The only ones making money is JB Hunt. I have e-mailed the vice president of the Independant Contractors C.B. Mahaffey and he lies just as good as the rest of them. STAY AWAY from JB Hunt.

 

Never dealt with a Hunt recruiter...but my wife responds to telemarketers in Spanish. They usually hang up in a hurry.

 

Smart woman.

 

He's done nothing wrong. Nebraska, like my state of Georgia permits the recording of phone calls by EITHER party of the conversation.

There are only twelve states that prohibit recording of calls without all parties being notified of the fact that the conversation is being recorded.

Those states are:

California
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Illinois
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Montana
New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
Washington

 

In light of the fact that Craig Harper is running a current advertisement on America's Trucking Network that SPECIFICALLY addresses the fact that "JB Hunt has the most dedicated positions to offer drivers", I find this to be most topical, and a further illustration of the lies, deception, and the shameful tactics that JB Hunt is using to try and fill trucks.

Big Jason, if you have documentation, including those phone calls to offer an Attorney, you may well have several options open to you, and a very big case, where they can be attacked in court on several points.

The fact that you left a job after three years, based on promises of a position that was supposed to be a step up, and then to be hoodwinked demands civil action.

To explore any option you may have to go after them for what has happened to you, I'd advise you to go to the following site and perhaps contact them for a consultation:

http://www.cullenlaw.com/attorneys_pdc.asp

This is the firm that works closely with OOIDA, and they know their stuff. One of their specialties is in the area of false claims AND transportation law, and the fact that you recorded those claims legally under Federal and State law, and accepted a job in good faith that those claims were a reality, you may be able to nail that pig of a company to the wall. I for one hope you do.