JB Hunt - Lowell, Ar.

Something tells me that won't be necessary.

 

Reply to CRST Trucker 06:

I have to disagree with you that fraudulent preparation and fraudulent submittal of a commercial motor vehicle truck and/or trailer annual safety inspection document to a Federal agency is not a significant case of corporate fraud. It certainly is not as costly to individual investors of the company as the Enron matter, or is it? Consider the following possible scenario.

An uninspected commercial truck/trailer loses it's "worn-out" brakes while carrying a heavy flammable load while proceeding down a steep grade. The truck driver loses control. The out-of-control truck/tractor passes over the median on a curve in the road and collides head-on with a school bus loaded with children. The school bus driver and 10 chidren die immediately upon impact, 20 other children and the truck driver die as a result of the fire created by the impact as the two vehicles burn. Two "good citizen" bystanders and a fire/rescue worker are critically injured and die as a result of burns suffered while trying to free the trapped chidren and the truck driver. The incident is filmed in it's near-entirety by another motorist with a cam-corder, including children on fire with their clothes and hair burning. The motorists that stopped to help and the fire/rescue workers will never be allowed to forget the agonizing and sorrowful cries of the chidren as the fire seared their skins to the bone and consumed their young lives prematurely.

Personally, I consider this type of vehicle document fraud extremely dangerous, reprehensible "corporate thinking" and also a "signal post" regarding how that company does "business as usual". In the Enron matter, no one died, however, if the scenario discussed above were to occur and the company was found negligent in a court of law, the "shareholders" of the company would certainly suffer "huge" losses and the company would possibly be consumed and bankrupted by the potential criminal and civil liability loss isssues.

Therefore, I consider this type of commercial motor vehicle inspection document fraud "extremely serious", since an uninspected, out-of-repair commercial motor vehicle can be as violent and deadly as any instrument of war or plague of disease. Being at the controls of a "big-rig" is a "huge" responsibility for the driver and the company, even in the best road/weather conditions and with the vehicle in superb repair. That is why I believe certain types of "corporate law breaking" are many times worse than the Enron matter.

No one lost their life because the Enron "crew" stole their invested money or retirement funds. Fraudulent avoidance by a "very profitable" corporation of commercial vehicle safety law is of upmost importance to me and should be to all "professional" drivers and the "motoring public of America". Death, destruction and loss is the result for not maintaining and inspecting commercial motor vehicles properly.

Simple fraud by a corporation like an annual inspection document fraud signals that much "deeper" and more "serious" problems exist within a company. Internal auditing of persons and company departments for regulatory compliance is therefore absolutely required to avoid "compounding" and "spreading" fraudulent business practices wider within a company.

No one at Enron will have the memory in their dreams of watching and hearing the "people" die in the most extreme and violent way. I do not see how transportation company executives can sleep at night knowing that their company conducts "business as usual" in a way that puts a "Russian Roulette" loaded gun next to the head of America's motoring public 24/7 and 365 days per year.

I consider these types of "transportation business executives" the "lowest of the low". Especially those professing that "Safety is Our #1 Goal", while at the same time directing a professional driver to drive illegally or lose his/her job. Hell holds a special place for these liars and scoundrels!

 

WOW! 13 companies in 20 years.....
I bet you are a driver in high demand, a hero in your own mind.

 

So what's the story on this guy? Is he an insider at one of these outfits we keep "griping" about?

 

Reply to WiseOne:

I have the feeling that the "company spies" inhabiting this site may be "under pressure", if you know what I mean?

 

So Is JB A good company I'm confused :}

 

Hmmm. Let me see.
J.B.'s turnover is over 100% easily.

Their terminals are overcrowded with plenty of empty, cleaned-outs sitting around waiting for their next foolish tenants to move into them.

Their orientation classes are standing-room only every week as armies of new hires take the places of last week's quitters.

Their insiders call former drivers and pester them with promises, most of which they won't keep, in a desperate bid to lure them back behind the wheel of a J.B. Hunt rig.

They encourage, even WANT, drivers at perfectly good outfits to up and quit those outfits and job-hop to J.B. Hunt.

And of course, J.B. advertises all over the place begging for drivers.

Sounds like they're run by folks who have never driven a day in their lives. Those people probably don't even have CDLs. These are people who beg and pester others to do something they themselves would NEVER do--drive trucks.

Would I consider working for J.B. Hunt knowing they are like this? How about....NO.

 

Burrows, J.B. pulled that to make you their "***************". Now they point to you as their example of what not to do at J.B. Hunt. Scare tactics work in trucking, brother.