Jb Hunt Lease

Whats your fuel cost per week and do you have an APU on your truck. Also, how many miles does your truck have? Finally, do you have a full gauge package or is it three on each side with a tach and speedo in the middle? One other thing; please list the specs for the truck.

Hunter

 

What about his name, rank and serial number??

 

It's spec'd company fleet. As most lease trucks are. If you've seen one JB truck. You've pretty much seen them all.

 

The reason I was asking about the mileage pay is JB Hunt calls me every week wanting me to lease on. A couple of months ago I called recruiting and they will not stop calling me!!!

 

LMAO...they used to do this to me.

When you seriously get tired of it. Drag the little B**** through his whole spiel. Then ask him about pending charges, when he ask what are the charges....3 counts -- distribution of a controlled substance.

I promise you...they will NOT call again.

 

You did a very unselfish thing to put family first. Let us know what they do, but with your great attitude, you will come out fine..

 

I just hung up the phone with a recruiter and they are still leasing owner operators at 65%, even from Florida. He said the fleet average weekly mileage is "about" 2700 miles per week and the average weekly revenue to the truck is "about" $4500 If you believe that, I got some nice swamp land for sale down in the Okeefenokee! Anyone have any idea what the "real" weekly miles average and revenue might be???

 

Plus, if you leave and havent paid the truck off it is their's and you have nothing.

You lease THEIR truck to deliver THEIR freight(which at JB is nothing more than a rental of a worn out peice of junk), THEY charge you THEIR rates(which are ususally more than a bank will charge you)They give you THEIR loads, that pay THEIR price and then when you terminate the lease or ride it out til the end THEY take THEIR Truck back and YOU have nothing more than you got there with! Way to many THEYs and THEMs for me--no thank you! If I want to be a O/O, I will buy a truck and lease it on somewhere, no way would I fall for that sucker-lease at JB, not gonna happen!

The only difference in the company driver and the lease operators at JB is the lease drivers dont have to wait as long for their loads, they get the same crummy loads that the company drivers get from the same crummy places and they can turn down loads, but as a lease driver at JB, if you turn down a load--the next one they give you will not be as good. My experience as a company driver at JB and knowing quite few lease drivers while there, my wage was comparable to their's after all their expenses were taken out, they were only averaging about $.05 more a mile as a lease , than I was as a company driver. $6500 more a year on average as a lease driver and then putting up with the headache of being one, especially in tody's economy? No Thank You, I will be a company driver!

 

dunno about weekly average but they get all the long loads..get way more miles than co drivers and treated better