Originally Posted by TruckerTech

I can take your idea, and go one step better. Instead of annoying the recruiters, act as though you want to drive for them. Let them waste a lot of time on you, then tell them to go pound sand. I did one thing a while back to J.B.Hunt. I drove for them for 6 months back in 1989. They had me in Chicago for the whole day, telling me that there were no loads going to Philly. I spun the dispatcher's monitor around, and saw no less than 20 trailers going to Philly. I went into the terminal, and grabbed about a two foot stack on envelopes for mailing your logs in. Then I went out, and signed up to borrow the company car. When I got the car a few hours later, I put all my stuff in it, and drove it back to Philadelphia. What a blast. Then, when I was home, I started mailing them boxes of bricks, using the envelopes as shipping labels. What I did was took a medium sized box, and put one red brick inside. Then I packed a bunch of paper in, to keep the brick from moving around. Then i went to the post office, and asked if the "label" on the box was all I needed to ship the box. They said yes, but asked me what was inside. I told them it was a part from my truck that had to be returned for warrantee purposes. The envelope clearly states" addressee guarantees postage" on the envelope. It also says "penalty for non-official use is $3000 and/or jail"
J.B. representative calls about a week later. I thought the poor guy was going to blow a gasket right there on the phone. He kept screaming at me that he was going to have me charged for un-official use of their postage metering. I toold them that I was using the label for official use....I was officially mailing them a brick. Period. Now i'm not telling you to do what I did, or anything like it. All I am telling you is that I had one heck of a good time screwing with OL' J.B., and never got in any trouble for it. Don't get mad, get even. If a truck's red air line going to the trailer gets cut, and the whole line, as well as the glad hand is taken, that truck is going nowhere till they get it fixed. This costs money to fix, and makes the load late. I don't condone such acts, unless they happen to a JB hunt truck.

Originally Posted by luvmyhubby

Just about like clock work JB Hunt calls our house and wants to offer DH a job....the first zillion times I was polite and when one of the guys offered to put me thru to a different area where our number could/would be removed from their system I put up with another 10 minutes on the line getting that done.....STILL they call. I have told them DH is employed and will not drive for them....STILL they call.....They call to offer him a lease, they call to offer him otr......and when I tell them NOT to call again they just laugh and say well it's not illegal and we will call again...and they do at least 3 times a week. The last time they called, yesterday I very calmly told the man on the other end that DH was NOT interested, and that we were requesting once again they quit calling....again I was put thru to the people that are supposed to take our info off their system and not 5 minutes later.....they called again. This time I told them I was going to start recording everytime they called and turn them in for harassment....this guy just laughed and said they could call me 10 times aday if they wanted. I am at my wits end with these people...any suggestions???

luvmyhubby

Originally Posted by BigDawg

Big Dawg says that stories like this is like food poisioning.... Several people eat at a resturant and never complain. One person gets food poisioning and everyone is told to never eat there again... Remember, JB has more 3 million mile drivers than some companies have 1 million mile drives

Originally Posted by PortlandDriver

What I want to know is why a company like this has this many drivers. It has to be running a scam to keep the drivers on, also at one time JB had a 130% turn over rate.



Food poisoning? Look at this..

"Temporary Removal of Accident SEA and Overall SafeStat Score"

This turned up when I ran JB through safestat....If it was such a great company then what is the hold out?




Name a few drivers with this distiction along with phone numbers and/or e mail addreses.
I have found that even with the worst companies that I have drove for there are a a select few that think that the company is the best thing sisnce sliced bread

Originally Posted by TurboTrucker

Yes, I saw that you were on top of it. It's one thing for someone to offer a counterpoint to posts in here, and it's completely something else to pose as a driver for a company, when the fact is they are a recruiter, who is seeking payment for signing up drivers.

I hope no one gives him the time of day. I know I wouldn't. Who knows what garbage he would tell someone to get them to sign on with JB Hunt.