Hello From JB Hunt

I understand things a lot better now. This is like a new car dealership, where if you don't make a lot of sales, you don't stay.

There are two types of salesmen who make it in car sales. The liars who will tell a person anything to make a sale, and the decent, honest man, that may not start off fast, but soon earns the respect of the customer, and has many repeat sales.

The "quota" system can push some people who are basically OK, but badly need money and a job, into doing and saying things that may not be the most honest.

 

So true, so true. As long as we KNOW this is how the world works, we shouldn't complain too much if we get burned by a liar later.

It's not as much the deseperate liar telling lies as it is the naive joker who falls for the lies after making faulty assumptions, such as the ol' classic "people are fundamentally GOOD and would never screw me." Famous last words before the deal goes sour.

 

Tip, If you and others have already established the fact that JB recruiters are all liars, then would you not deduce that he was also lying about his own income? I mean really, consider the source of the statement that you are quoting.

 

As much as I agree with everyone that companies like JB are scum in regards to their treatment of employess, I am also a realist. There is only one way to change policies of a major corporation and that, stated simply, is the ding their profits. No matter how much we hate the concept, these companies don't answer to drivers, they answer to shareholders/owners and shareholders/owners only. The drivers, and unscrupulous treatment of drivers, is as simple as the age old Machiavellian concept. They are a means to an end. The end in this case is the companies bottom line. The high cost of their enormous turnover is part of these companies business models and in their eyes, and more importantly the eyes of thier investors, the model isn't broken so why fix anything? All of the majors are making huge profits and until the day they cease to do so, things WILL remain status quo.

The idea of changing things one person at a time inside the company is a bunch of fufu P.C. crap. The only way any of these scum companies like JB will change is if they start losing money. Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Wiseone's goal when he started this forum to educate drivers so that they wouldn't fall prey to these predatory companies? That is the only approach that could concievably work because eventually the recruiting shark will have no drivers left to prey on.

If this post was a little too blunt for some people, well then...TOO #### BAD. Like I said, I'm a realist and I call 'em like I see 'em.

 

Who knows if he was lying or not, so you're right when you say he "could have been". He could have been telling the truth, and based on some information I have from recruiters I've known in the past, I'd say the likelihood of his telling the truth about his making that good scoop of green is pretty high.

Who knows. Who cares, really.

 

Come on. This post is a cupcake. No one should be insulted by it, as it's dead on right.

Trying to change a company one driver at a time would be like trying to catch raindrops in a rainstorm to keep from getting your head wet. When each new driver becomes "educated" about trucking, ten naive newbies appear to gladly take his place, and the process starts over. It's like watching a minute-long video that keeps skipping back to the beginning after 5 seconds.

 

its not just jbhunt

its corporate america and politicians, that marriage is going to ruin this country

they care nothing about people, we are only fodder for their profits and votes

 

UPDATE: Just got a 2nd call from Wal-Mart Home Office today. Interview is Monday Oct 15th!

I'm one of what seems like the very few in the Office that knows that Drivers are my income on both sides of commission and base. If I don't learn some things about the industry (you people really have helped) then I can't really do anything except sit at my desk and collect a paycheck. I wouldn't know anything about what a driver's tasks for a job MIGHT be, because the other side of HR doesn't put it all there in detail for us to tell you.

Eskimo6804: You don't believe my statement about recruiter incomes? I think it's posted on the JB Hunt Website if you don't believe me. Full Time has 2 Options:

1. 30k base plus commission
2. 13k base plus a Higher Commission.