jb hunt watch your self when or if you work for them

I wish they had routed me to my home terminal, especially for that conference call. I found myself biting my tounge, because I knew if i said the wrong thing, they were going to fire me. Getting fired doesn't bother me, we all know I can be in orientation at another company the next monday, but getting fired because they routed me to a terminal 600 miles from my home did. I have far too much gear, and half of it would have wound up in the dumpster because there's no way I can drag it all home on a plane ride.
The conference call was basically a tribunal, my guilt was all ready determined. Scripted questions, they were reading them off a paper. "when you change lanes, what is the first thing you do?" then a woman read to me how to lean forward in the seat to look out the port window. NONE OF THIS HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE COMPLAINT CALL. It was then I realized of all of the half a dozen or so people on this conference call, I was probably the only person on the line that even has a CDL! Which is JBHunt's main problem, the main office is full of college kids in their twentys. Hell, six months ago my new fleet manager was introduced to me by my old one by saying, "He knows what it's like out there, he is THE SON OF A TRUCK DRIVER." Hey I got kids too. That don't mean they know squat about trucking. They don't.
I can't deal with these people putting things on my permanant record. I don't know how much a weight a DAC report holds, I've basically only had one trucking job, the one I have now.

 

Far as I care the DAC is a joke, and I will tell anyone that, including some recuriter looking to hire me.....if it's not on my driving record then F*** it. Maybe I have been driving to long or maybe because I am set pretty with my gig in Alaska, but as far as I care that DAC is nothing but a tool used by the "big boy's" to try and weed out the wackos, they figure that it will keep them out of hot water if a driver gets into a wreck, they haven't seen what will happen when a driver with a little time and money can do when he is refused a job because of his DAC report.....I would bet money that the driver would win, simply because as you and I well know....that number on the back of the trailer is nothing but a tool for some pissed off 4-wheeler to call in on you for no reason other than you would not move so he could pass.

My advice, spray paint......look at the back of the trailers and you will see that someone other than you and I have noticed the same thing about the fairness of that number to us drivers.....


For the record it is my firm belief that the FM is what makes your life easy, no matter who you are with....I happend to get lucky with mine, if everyone was like her we all would be making money and having an easy time......

 

Must be the pain meds

 

i have heard that they do that to people who have gotten hurt, I did not get hurt on the job with them I do not like there policies, sure i got a nice truck the first mont was great, I am a solo otr driver all 48 states soon all my loads were in the ne region, fine okay at first soon i started asking hey what happened to otr, i did not sign up for ne regional, the response was well that is were all the freight was,, excuse me, sure alot is but comeon, if they would not have 60% of all frieght on raillcarts an otr driver might get miles, and oh my god the railcarts, suck, going down the road and all of a sudden your hoses pop off both of them and then your brakes lock up on the trailer and you come to a sudden stop smoke going every where, I had to use plastic seals to hold my hoses on and god forbid dot would have pulled me over i would have been in violation,, and the recruiters promise the world a gravy job to get you in and once you start orientation they say sorry all positions have been filled but we have this,,, yayayayayya

 

I had two calls in the first 4 months there, I'm coming up on my 6th month now. 1st call, some idiot tried to pass me in my own lane as I was taking it to the junction to the right not technically even a lane change (I think maybe it was even another truck and he caught up to me and thought it was me...didn't matter I took the blame because I was in the area).
Second, Memorial Day traffic, stuck behind a van going 50/55 in 70 zone. I passed and the cars in the left lane didn't like waiting 10 seconds and called. A preventable incident for holding up traffic for 10 frickin seconds! Thanks for sticking up for me JB Hunt, you ignorant buttholes.
The way they handle these calls, and the way my FM was about it (she said "I would've been mad too" showing total ignorance and same attitude as the other drivers who probably were just tired of the traffic in general and finally could vent through the convenient channel of the 1800 #)
I've talked to other drivers who say go with a smaller company. Now just which one pays as good without treating drivers like crap is the question. Good equipment, toll cards, weekly pay, and the ability to reschedule loads if there is bad weather or problems with customers taking too long is keeping me there. But I've been distracted too much by thinking I might get another call and don't feel safe anymore and you can't always have a trailer with the number spray painted over so there's always a chance you can't make a lane change when you need to and get trapped off route somewhere.

 

One day a dispatcher called at the house while my husband was driving for JB, he had just gotten home and was sleeping (3 weeks out), so I asked if I could take a message. She started telling me he needed to go right away to a local terminal and pick up a load - I told her he had just gotten home 3 hours prior after 3 weeks out, wasn't "scheduled" to leave for 34 hours. She said to just give him the message - I told her I would in 31 hours - she told me that I Obviously didn't understand trucking and she'd call back - I asked her how long she had driven before she went into dispatch - she hung up on me!! My question is - do these people actually have any driving experience or are they just run of the mill people off the street? I've never driven a semi, so I don't feel like I'd beable to tell a driver what to do or how to do it. Am I wrong?

 

My friend says he get a lot of calls at home for hot loads, maybe it's the same dispatcher. He also gets a lot of preplans on the way home going off somewhere. I thought it was because he was single with no kids or something. I haven't ran across this problem. I've been told to hang on maybe there's something I can pickup on the way home but then usually nothing works out and I go home an hour after that. She keeps "accidentally" changing my home time to 2 days when I should get 3 though. If I get told I have to go out after 3 weeks and just a day or two off, that's when I'm cleaning my truck out and going somewhere else, even less money because what good is it if you can't spend time with your wife and kids?

 

LOLOL...That's the good thing about pulling a flatbed.....We don't have to worry about somebody calling the number on the back of the trailer...LOL...Sorry, I couldn't resist....

 

Actually....I've noticed a lot more JB Hunt trailers recently with the number spray-painted out in black paint.......Plus, living in Seligman Missouri (about 25 miles from THE Corporate offices AND Home Terminal of JB Hunt, very nice facilities btw) I have seen trailers leave the yard with a fresh coat of black on that number. You don't suppose that they are starting to ditch this idea, or that the service techs are gonna start helping the drivers, do you?

I know, for them it sounds farfetched, but you never know.

 

I heard good and bad about this guys.Do they give good miles and do they get you hiome on time???