Not No To Jb Hunt, Hell No!!!

well i dont mind if carriers ship on railroads, as long as they take care of their drivers needs for loads first, and if they have no drivers avail to take the load then they can ship it out on rail.

 

That's right! Just about everyone and anyone is getting into the intermodal business. Swift, Yellow, UPS, & the list goes on - not to mention all the ocean containers that come in on rail from the ports. It's a smarter way of shipping ones product: less travel time, less down time, & most of all cost efficient.

As for O/O # JB or probably any big carrier - It makes sense to me that they would throw it on a company truck first to save the money vs giving it to their O/O's. I agree that if your going to get into the O/O business then you should go with a company that is all O/O so that you are not competing with company trucks.

 

As with all. If a company can ship goods faster and cheaper and maximize their profit. Why not? The only bad thing is that truckers loose out on a decent living.

Anyone remember the old days when the ice man would come over to your house and deliver ice directly to you? I'm not that old but I heard this from my grand parents. As technology gets better it leaves behind someone or something. Only those that adapt can survive.

 

I was inform that Yellow trucking carried 30% of all the freight in the US.
Truw or false?

 

Yellow/Roadway etc... would be different since they are union/LTL carriers. They have a different business model then large OTR companies, and bound somewhat by union contracts and considerations.

 

Yes, and a few corners torn open on some bags of potting soil are considered an accident.

 

I think there is more to this story than what is said here.

 

No buddy, It IS the story. Feel free to read more into that what's there. Ironically enough the bags of dirt next to that stack were full of fork lift holes that they were just gonna tape up and stick up for sale. If there's more to the story it's the manager saw an opportunity to recover some cash for the bags that were jacked up by their forklift driver, because there was way more damage to those than some torn corners. Saw the pictures for myself. Ridiculous doesn't strongly describe it. I don't give a flip if you believe me or not, I saw the pictures! They saw fit to throw him on probation over ripped bags of dirt (a $40 claim). That's after they were using him to train new drivers. You see, he didn't originally start with them. He was with another company with that account, that treated him well, paid him well, good benefits, respected him, as he did them. He worked his tail off for them for over 2 years. Unfortunately, these guys underbid the account so low that they couldn't match it. So, they took the account AND his good job. Started their new drivers quite a bit lower than he started all factual. Even more lower than what he was making at that time. When he made the switch they wasted no time having him train the newbies. That's a fact! I saw the online ad they had advertising for 22 drivers for that location (the exact amount that was already on the account) and starting pay was significantly lower. So, read into it what you want. I know what I see. I am just glad he isn't with them anymore.

 

Yeah, trucking does not work like that. Saving money comes first, fuel savings second,driver last.

 

Having worked at JB Hunt twice, once for a few days under four years, and then three months, and I am fixing to try it one more time. I believe in "the three stricks you're out" or "three times a charm". JB Hunt is a company that you love to hate or hate to love, always left a spot in me that I could'nt quite put my finger on, and in twenty four years of this stuff called trucking, there's only two that did that, the other was PTL in Murrey, Ky the company I quit to go to JB the first time.

That warm spot is the same thing as liked there was only one company that achived that, and they are gone, hats off to PST, fifteen years later its like being woke from a dream.

Does JB do what you said, probably, but they all do have their problems, and they are all different, I'm hoping JB's was Kirk Thompson.