Reply to TT:
Yes, I have requested my DAC report and I have a copy of it. I have also talked to many potential employers. My DAC report indicates that JB Hunt has characterized my entire (nearly 1-year) "work record" with JB Hunt was a continuous "company policy violation". I also spoke with several potential employers and when they were frank with me they indicated that they could not hire me because of this particular notation in the "work record" section of my DAC report.
JB Hunt has no written company policy document specifying their "public motorist complaint" policy for which they used as a reason to terminate my employment (quite odd for such a "large" company). Moreover, JB Hunt uses this particular company policy "disparately", in that, some are fired for violating it, some are temporarily suspended for violating it and, finally, some are never suspended or fired and are never notified or disciplined. Add these "ditties" to the fact that JB Hunt does not notify their drivers of this particular "company policy" in the company driver handbook, at company-sponsored driver orientation, or (apparently) at any time during their employment until they are on the verge of suspension or firing if they proceed to receive one more public motorist complaint. On the otherhand, JB Hunt notifies their management personnel of this particular policy during their company-sponsored training and advises them how to apply the policy by an undocumented system of "word-o-mouth".
So what this all means is that JB Hunt fires who they choose, when the choose, and that is their "company policy". The basic rub of this "company policy" is that it is designed to "blacklist or blackball" the unemployed driver by use of "coded-language" DAC "work record" phrases. Even further, when the driver cannot find work and applies for unemployment benefits JB Hunt tries to "weazel out" of paying unemployment benefits to the unemployed driver by indicating to the particular state unemployment commission that the driver was fired for violating a company policy that they previously knew about.
What a racket!
JB Hunt - Lowell, Ar.
Discussion in 'Report A BAD Trucking Company Here' started by WiseOne, Feb 26, 2004.
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DAC should be forced out of business. They're an invasion of privacy that shouldn't be tolerated, plus trucking companies can use DAC to abuse their drivers and deny them opportunities at other, "better" companies. This "forces" drivers to stay where they are (indentured servitude) or quit driving for several years. Drivers should not be victims of company games. Games whose objective is to deny competitors access to drivers.
DAC helps companies play these games.
OOIDA is one of the best friends a driver has on the road. We should all support this group of great people. I used to blow my horn when I drove by their HQ, and I've stopped in three times over the years just to say hello. That headquarters is just east of Kansas City on I-70. There is a small lot that allows for truck parking, but there is also a Pilot nearby. Unfortunately, I believe the Pilot lot is also small. Perhaps OOIDA should move its HQ to the T/A at Walcott, Iowa. There'd be plenty of parking there, and they'd get a lot more people coming in to say "hello". -
Burrows I really wish you luck on your case! YOU WERE Wronged.Did you ever think about driving Charter / Tour Busses? They make good $$$ plus tips that are in cash, NOT REPORTED to I.R.S. 8)
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Reply to Tip:
I agree with you 100 percent. The OOIDA truly is the best friend any professional driver has ever had. The OOIDA is the type of service organization that is looking out for the best interests of professional drivers. Professional drivers today are at the "mercy" of "knot-headed" Congress-persons, "employer-friendly" government regulators and "unscrupulous" transportation services business interests. However, the OOIDA is the best "big-brother" a professional driver has in this world. In all cases, OOIDA "steps up to the plate" and uses their combined knowledge and expertise to lobby Congress and government regulators to work toward better working conditions for professional drivers and "commonsense" motor carrier safety rules and regulations. Without these fine folks, no independent organization would exist to keep transportation business interests from totally and adversely dominating and cheating the professional drivers in today's world.
OOIDA membership is open to ALL independent operators AND also ALL company drivers. Membership rates are very affordable and membership brings certain highly desirable group benefits that can help any professional driver work better and smarter. I suggest that all persons who drive professionally think strongly about joining this fine association because they are the ones fighting on the driver's side in all the important regulatory and business issues.
The OOIDA also takes care of it's members by litigating against "fly-by-night" lease-to-own operations that cheat drivers and logistic and freight forwarders that do not pay as their contracts specify or wrongly withhold a driver's monies by not passing on fuel surcharge payments.
In every case, when the going gets tough for ALL drivers, the OOIDA lends the weight and strength of their membership to "do the right thing" for all professional drivers. Witness the latest OOIDA v. USIS/DAC Services class action lawsuit for workplace fairness as a prime example of this type of OOIDA "homerun-hitting" for the professional drivers.
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Reply to dowserdave:
Beyond my previous remarks, I can only further add that someone human programs the computer for any calls made by an "autodialer". An autodialer does not work by "black magic" (or in this case JB Hunt "yellow-magic"...LOL!). A human at some point programmed the phone equipment. I assume this human could also add and/or subtract prospective phone numbers from the autodialer, whenever they wanted to. Therefore, it is not surprising that JB Hunt recruiters "autodialed" CRST-owned-property driver lounges repeatedly and reprehensibly. I can just hear the potential conversation between the "head-boy" at JB Hunt operations and the autodialer computer programmer now: "Do you like your job, son? [A: Yes, Master Harper] Then put this phone number in the autodialer...and be quick about geek-boy!"
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I'd love to get a job at OOIDA. I even like the KC area, so that would be a dream job to me.
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Would it be a good idea to give a 2-week notice at JB Hunt, or would they completely screw my miles over if i tell them i have decided to quit??
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but, that's me..........so don't you do as i do.
instead, give your notice, but then say something like "my new employer may want me to start sooner than 2 weeks, and i might need to leave before the 2 weeks is up". usually (i think) you're considered as deadwood once you give your notice. heck, they can hang your ### out in middle america someplace, way beyond your 2 weeks, and your new employer may not appreciate that...........?!?!?!?! -
If you are quitting out of anger towards the company (maybe you got into a pissing match with a dispatcher I don't know and don't care to know) then when you put in your notice yea they probably will screw with your miles.
If you have been a "good Driver" never given them any fits and you are leaving on good terms with the company (again I don't care what the reason is) they probably won't mess around with you on your miles, but they probably won't send you too far from your home terminal the last week there as they will want you to bring the truck to the nearest terminal IMO. -
Why are you quitting? JB was one of the best places I worked. Give a notice.
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