JB Hunt Georgia Pacific

It's alot of driving between Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee, if thats what you're interested in. I live in Southwest Alabama and I probably see between five to ten JB Hunt trucks on a daily basis...all of them going back and forth between the Georgia Pacific plants in this area. If you want to run the same old routes day in, day out, then its probably a GREAT account. As far as job security goes, GP accounts would be an EXCELLENT way to go since JB Hunt has kept many of those GP accounts for 10-20 years. I can personally remember JB Hunt trucks going to our local GP plant everyday since I was 5 years old until the present (I'm 31 now). Very few companies maintain 25+ year accounts, so you have to respect that sort of stability if you're a family man depending on guaranteed consistent loads.

 

Also, I'd like to mention that JB Hunt is pretty good at keeping accounts open despite industry buy-outs/mergers/etc. Our local Georgia Pacific plant has been bought out and changed ownership atleast 5 times in the past 25 years, yet JB Hunt has always maintained their account with that particular plant. Thats a huge plus for drivers looking for job stability and security.

Ill finish up by saying that I've heard both good and bad about driving for JB Hunt. I think you can assume alot of that is just from disgruntled drivers, personal problems, etc. And I'm sure some of it is simply because of a lazy driver manager, and other minor issues that can happen at ANY company. I have known several people in my town that have been driving regionally for JB Hunt for 10 years or more, and will probably retire there. JB Hunt may have some problems, and their drivers will tell you, but on the otherhand you wont find many other large companies that can keep a driver there for more than 3 years, not to mention 10 or 20 years like some of the JBHUNT drivers!

 

Wow, I knew GP had purchased alot of buy-outs in the past 15 years, but had no idea that they've got such vast operations in the Northeast. For a lonnggggggg time, they only had plants in a few southeastern locations. I knew they started buying out alot of plants in the northwest, but nothing like the scale youre describing. God knows, in this economy, you just cant keep up with who owns who, and by the time you got it figured out it changes completely again lol

 

GP has alot of plants all over now.

 

whats the radius of the account or is it OTR

 

I used to do a lot of big island for a different company we had two cabovers so we could run across 501 and load and unload the trailers and then bring them back to a local yard for the road drivers I never liked going to the place myself but the work is steady and there the biggest problem can be some of the union employees there depending on the day it would take 12 hours to unload three trailers they are buy appointment only now which has made it easier to get unloaded and if you are getting some good mileage runs it wouldn't be to bad a job .

 

I hate going to the Big Island GP!!!! that's all I got to say about it.