Has anyone noticed JB hunt?

From the moment your authority goes active you will start to get calls from them (but you need a year active to take a brokered load from them). Not as bad a deal as you may think. You can do better independent in the areas that they go but I know several small fleets that the owner puts the truck on with them and lets them dispatch.

Guy in Ponitiac, IL I met last year has 15 trucks with them and no office staff. He works less than 10-hours a week. Biggest issue he has is finding drivers.

 

I've been getting e-mails from them--for power only.

 

Don't let your wife know this or you might be pulling JB loads in the near future

 

I get calls all the time,, just say "no thank-you at this time". I've pulled for them for a cpl months,, home time means long deadheads w/o mileage pay,, you'll average about $1.32 mile or less,, I bought my own trailer and now run the load board "mymembersedge",, I'm home when I want,, make over $2.00 mile average. least I've ever taken was $1.87 mile and that's ALL miles,,not just the ones brokers wanna pay for or I simply say "no thank-you".

 

I know a guy that has 2 trucks doing it. Him and the 2 drivers seem very happy. According to them, they ask that you stay out 2 weeks then when you're ready to go home just tell them and they find you a load dropping close to home. The owner tells me he is in no way obligated to JB. He can and has pulled his truck off for several weeks to fill in on a tanker run he has. When he was ready to go back he called JB and got a load.

 

Yeah, no kidding. But since I book my own loads no time savings for her. Plus I run for well over $2/mile so I doubt the doodles would want to get there spa time cut back on.

Plus I think it really only works with company drivers and she would rather be Kadafi'd than hire a company driver.

 

How can you run for well over $2/mile average? Do you always go to east coast and back?


Also a question for those who are reading this particular thread.

ever since the beginning of December, business has been so slow for the company I work for, I have went from averaging 2,300 miles a week and home every weekend or so, to being lucky if I get 1,200-1,500 a week.

I've sat more than I've driven, and this is being in areas where there is supposed to be a lot of freight - Ohio, Indiana, Chicago, west PA, etc.


My boss keeps saying that he can't find loads. He's got 30 something trucks, 2 people booking loads, and one other dispatcher besides.
I'm wondering if my company is just expensive to deal with, as they pay their drivers well, or if business is just that bad. I don't think it's an issue with me, I've been here 4mos and have already proven I'm willing to run, and I never call and complain about sitting, and never complain about any load they give me, I just take it.

What's going on?

If you're avg over $2 a mile, then how many my boss not match that, especially when the truck I'm in is a Ryder rental lease? I can't imagine its costing him anything over $1.60 a mile to run the truck and paying me at the same time.

I am seriously thinking about going O/O. If you can avg well over $2/mi, then I should be able to get at least $1.75-$1.80 with my lesser experience, and still make a good profit.

 

With a good reputation and a good safety rating $2 per mile and over isn't hard to get. Also Alot has to do with the brokers you deal with. There are some honest brokers out there that are willing to give an O/O a fair rate.

 

It all depends on who your boss deals with (his customers, brokers, etc) to get his loads from. I avg over 2 a mile also and have had no problem whatsoever getting freight. Why would you run cheap freight ? You need to figure out what the costs are and what you would like to take home before buying a truck and trying to go hog wild.