JB Hunt

Welcome to the TTR Forum.

If you want to experience negative weekly statements instead of paychecks, maybe. If you don't have a couple of years driving experience and/or several years of business experience you would do well to steer away from ownership. I have no personal experience with JBH, but I wouldn't do it.

Everyone seems to think being an owner/operator means more money. It can but often it may mean less. There is only one person to short if you don't have enough to go around, you guessed the owner. To make it you have to be a businessman first, an owner second and a driver third. If you don't have driving experience you will be too busy driving to take care of the real duties.

There are a few Fleece/Purchases that will offer a resonable buyout at the end. You better research long and hard! The main reason I would never do one is they all pay by the mile and at the rate I used to get in the late 80's. IMHO, the first rule of leasing is don't buy your truck where you lease. The second rule is only run a percentage lease not a per mile lease.

Since you show no experience and you are new to the forum, I'll give you my standard copy and paste advice.

You need to research and find out what the important questions are. You can make an above average living but you will make sacrifices that other jobs don't require. Read the "good companies" and "bad companies" section on this forum and get an idea of what company you want to work for and what kind of trailer you want to pull. Don't just go to school and then try to figure out where to go.

I don't know your financial situation. Don't take training from a company if you can afford it or get it with financial aid. You will be their slave for up to year. If you leave they will trash you DAC and credit record. Check out your local community colleges and employment office.

Just know that most training and trucking company recruiters will do nothing but lie to you. They will let you talk about what you want and then tell you what you want to hear. Trucking is about moving freight to make money for the company. Your home time, family, paycheck and everything else comes second.

It is not like any other job. Local is usually backbreaking delivery work 10+ hours a day, 6 days a week. Often you unload dozens of times a day or you are a salesman. In my area most dump truck jobs pay less than a good factory job. Regional is lots of loading and unloading time, fewer miles than OTR and not as hard as local but will wear on you and push your HOS limits. OTR is out 3 - 5 weeks with 3 - 4 days home, less manual labor and more miles.

You'll probably have to pay your dues before you get the gravy job. Weekends off, if you are lucky enough to get something like that starting out, may be home Thursday afternoon and leave Saturday night or home Friday night and leave Sunday afternoon. Loads deliver on Monday early and you leave in time to get them there. Often your home time will be in the middle of the week.

Regardless of your driving choice, after school you will go through company training. For OTR this can be six weeks to three months with little or no home time. The first phase is usually $400 a week and the second phase is $500-550 a week. Some pay less. One company pays 12 CPM for training.

One last thing, you don't want to wait around too long after training or you'll have trouble finding a job. If you get out before you have a year in, when you try to come back a few months later you will find they want you to start over.

 

I know someone who was o/o for them,he really didn't like it,don't know much details.He still works for them tho,he drives a day cab and does local work,home every night.That's all I know about JB Hunt.

 

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