JB Hunt - Lowell, Ar.

I posted my resumee on a CDL jobseekers website that boasted that they recruited for over 50 companies. Well guess what they recruit for 1 company, take a wild guess who. You got it J.B.H. I now recieve on average 3-4 calls a week from them. I have done everything shy of filing a harassment suit against them. So be aware of where you post your resumee you might end up a victim of JBH's telemarketing loop.

 

The only way I got them to stop calling me was to change my phone number.

 

Let me tell you guys why exactly J.B. won't quit pestering you. It's because their little "pestering" strategy is working. Yeah, you want J.B. to quit bothering YOU, but others obviously don't feel this way. For every 10 drivers J.B. pesters, I'm sure at least 3 ex-drivers take them up on their offer and return to J.B. That makes it worth it, guys. This HAS to be the case or J.B. wouldn't bother doing this. When your ex-J.B. brethren stop becoming "recycled" J.B. drivers, J.B.'s minions will quit calling you.

Now......how many "recycles" quit a second time? How long do they go on their second tours before they quit a second time? I'm sure it's a lot, as sooner or later J.B. would finally have a force of satisfied drivers that would be so large they wouldn't have to rely on pestering. That would have happened years ago, btw, and you wouldn't be pestered today if recycled drivers were STAYING on the second go-round.

I've posted somewhere that these companies may be treating their drivers badly during "down times" to convince them to quit. This keeps these companies from laying them off and then paying their unemployment claims. This may be true. When business picks back up, these outfits can simply call up their old drivers and ask "Hey--wanna go back to work for us?"

 

Call up your state attorney general and see if you can get any relief. I get pissed off when I read this is going on and supposedly we "common" people can't do anything about it. I bet if I called up one of those J.B. insiders and tried to convince him to do something he really didn't want to do, it wouldn't be long and I'd have the authorities knocking at my door.

If your attorney general can't help you, I guess you'll have to change your number.

 

WOW! I can't believe that someone in the higher ups in this company doesn't do some serious house cleaning. In my former company, it's estimated that it takes about $35k to hire and train a driver before they are ready to go. That's $17,500,000 a week for 500 drivers!!!!! Just think of the extra cost of advertising and recruiting, since they do this in every major city.

How hard is it to develop a system to improve driver's quality of life, pay, and benefits? If they decided to fix their internal issues and keep the drivers they have, that's over a billion dollars saved a year! I just can't believe the trucking industry as a whole-not just JBH-is so crappy.

Our driver retention company-wide hovered around 85%. In one center I worked at, we managed about 93%. Of course, this was grocery delivery, and not OTR. But our average driver made $55k a year, and some made as much as $85k. Part of my quarterly and annual bonus was based on maintaining 85% retention.

I think I need to go work for JBH as an exec and teach them a few things...

 

And don't forget all the empty cleaned-outs that eat into profits. When those trucks are sitting, their fixed costs still have to be covered, and their lost profits become opportunity costs that also have to be covered. 500 trucks sitting around each week MUST seriously erode profits.

 

As much as it makes me mad, I do have one advantage on them. Every time they call me they are wasting thier time, I have taken advantage of this a few times asking them a billion questions. I even got into a hour long debate with one over thier slow trucks. Everytime one calls me they have no prior knowledge that anyone has called me b4. I am at my wits end with them though, what started out as kinda funny has now become a serious annoyance.

 

Pertaining to Tips recycled drivers Post, I just wanted to let you know I have never worked them nor have I ever enterained the idea of working for them. I just unfortunatly got caught in one of thier many recruiting schemes.

 

Duckie, I made that conclusion. I worked for Swift once, and wouldn't wish that company on an enemy. I'm sure lots of folks feel the same about Swift and JBH. However, I would go back to Swift if they'd just clean up their act. After they finished a sort of "probationary" period (5 years) with me, I'd work for them, sure.

But I know the present "scheme" won't be changing anytime soon. You know about the scheme: companies such as JBH abuse their drivers, see those drivers quit, and then cry to the government they have a big shortage of drivers.

Something is going on here that we've not quite figured out.

 

I'd love to get one of those jokers to call me up. I'd do exactly what you're doing. I'd "tie up" the prick for hours with all sorts of questions, such as "How much does a lumper have to give the dock when I pay for his services?" and
"Why do you claim you have a shortage of drivers, yet turn around and abuse those you have?"

It'd be fun. It'd tie one of those guys up for hours, meaning he wouldn't be pestering anyone else for that span. I'd love it if he started getting "annoyed" with my questions about an hour into it all, too.

After I hung up on his *********, I'd throw back my head and cackle with insane glee!