Beware to those who want to join the JB Lease Purchase

To Whom It May Concern;

Beware to anyone who wants to get involved with the Lease Purchase Program offered by JB Hunt. My husband and a few of the men he kept in touch with from his orientation class for the Lease Purchase offered by JB Hunt are all being taken advantage of, and as of now turning in or already turned their trucks back in after a mere 2 months. Loads being taken from them after they accept them and given to company drivers, being told to switch to the .90 cpm loaded 36 cpm empty forced dispatch program so they will make more money., and get off the percentage. That might be so if when after they convince these guys to switch to mileage that they gave them good miles but no, instead they send them on bull crap city load runs getting 35 dollars a load, or more empty miles than loaded. Because they are forced dispatch they have to take the loads, and once they get off the percentage board they can no longer go back to it. And if they refuse a load they get dropped to the non forced dispatch of .85 cpm loaded and .36 cpm empty. And the longer they stay on percentage the less loads they get and when they do get one it pays badly, now and then you may get lucky and get one that pays an average of 1.20 a mile if you're lucky.

My husband did not switch to the mileage however; he did the math (and has run percentage to long) and by talking to other drivers knew what would happen to him if he did. Unfortunately for them they did not have the same advantage. However, we are still behind on all of our bills and told by his dispatcher that he does not believe that no paycheck for 2 weeks could cause us to have our lights to get a cut off notice….. Excuse me but if someone comes to you from another job does that not tell you the other job was not paying the bills? So if the bills were not quite up to being paid in full then YES 2 weeks without a paycheck will give you a cutoff notice from the electric company. Then he had the nerve to tell my husband “well you had a zero mile week, why is that?” He had a zero mile week because THEY KEPT HIM SITTING!!!! They keep their company drivers moving believe me, and IF there are any leftovers they dish those out to the lease operators.

One of the guys who was on percentage (before JB Hunt forced him to go to mileage by telling him he complained about the rates to much, so either go on mileage or never be happy) got one of the shippers to tell him how much the load he was picking up was paying. The shipper told him the load was paying around $2500.00. JB Hunt says that the lease purchase drivers who get percentage get 57% of the load so tell me why was this man getting paid under $700.00 for the load? 57% of $2500.00 is $1425.00. JB Hunt rips you off, BEWARE. Please do not get yourself involved with JB Hunt, save yourself and your home!

I contacted OOIDA and we were told only to get out while we can, that there are no federal mandates for lease purchase programs..... this is so wrong.

I don't want anyone else to wind up losing everything.....

 

oh almost forgot to mention that if you are within 100 miles of a terminal do you know they want you to route yourself to the terminal to fuel up at the terminal instead of at a truck stop? how stupid is that??? yet are they willing to pay the out of route miles? NO!

 

He already Turned his truck into the Atlanta yard 2 days ago. and we have already gotten ahold of OOIDA, and their advice to us was the same, "Get away from them as fast as possible", They also told us to stay away from ANY lease purchase program out there offered by ANY company because there are NO federal mandates for lease purchase programs, There is NOTHING we can do... Unless we can go through the contract and make sure there are NO loop holes at all in JB Hunts favor as far as the pay goes, there is nothing we can do at all for all they have done. Thank you all for responding. I just don't want anyone else getting burned.

Bren aka Diesel_Smurf

 

Thanks Wobbles, now just trying to find a company that can get him in soon as a company driver would be awesome, we have bills to pay....(sigh)