Originally Posted by TurboTrucker

I have found out that they pay drivers different rates, depending on where they live. I suppose it's possible that they run ads that offer different rates, depending on the market they run the ads in.

The one I quoted was offered on Friday's America's Trucking Network Show...on the AM 700 dial.

As of this week, the fuel surcharge that should be in effect is from .32 to .34 cents per mile. Some use a base of $1.10 a mile, and some use $1.20 a mile to begin calculation of the fuel surcharge.

In other words, if you are leased to a motor carrier by any description, and your compensation per mile is not touching the $1.20 a mile mark, you're working for sub-standard rates that should be paid to your truck with fuel rates where they are at the current moment.

What this tells me, is that they are taking 50% of the billed fuel surcharge straight off the top of the Lease/Purchaser's, and that is about as low as it gets in my book.

We now have a member of the Forum that has been ripped off for $3,400 in escrow funds, which is something I had hoped would not happen, but has.

If ANYONE reads these posts, and STILL leases a truck from JB Hunt, I have one sentence for you, and it's very insensitive but it has to be said;

You deserve what you are about to get....er rather what you won't.

Originally Posted by whispers65233

Just an update: It's been 40 days since the ending of hubby's lease purchase agreement with JB Hunt. Out of $5.472.00 that they have deducted since 11/05 they intend to return $3,919.00. That is a difference of $1,553.00. I am sending a letter to Mahaffey and cc to others as well as OOIDA and our attorney that by taking this money off the comdata card (yes comdata, that's where they put the money) we are not in agreement with the amount nor does it preclude us from seeking the entire amount due us. Now some may say, Hey that's better than you may have gotten from JB Hunt based on their past actions but I say, they have jerked us around and they are never there when hubby wants to talk to someone and when he did talk to one woman she was rude and acted like she was doing him a favor and didn't want to give him the time of day. Now it's the principle of the thing. Maybe just maybe if we cause them enough headaches they will think twice before trying to screw another driver. Also they do not explain how they determined the amount they came to.

Originally Posted by creeper

What i don't understand is how yall can have nothing good to say about J.B.Hunt, when there ARE drivers who have worked for them for a long time, and who ARE actually happy working for them. Yall ever think about changing the name of this website from "the truckers report" to "Lets all badmouth J.B.Hunt" .com???

Originally Posted by creeper

What i don't understand is how yall can have nothing good to say about J.B.Hunt, when there ARE drivers who have worked for them for a long time, and who ARE actually happy working for them.

Originally Posted by whispers65233

Seems to me the ratio of happy drivers vs unhappy drivers with jbh tilts in favor of the unhappy ones.