JB Hunt - Lowell, Ar.

It's interesting to me that you are spending time on a forum defending a company with a bad rep instead of recruiting...

I can tell you from personal experience that this does not work...

 

Is that a good enough reason for me to come work for JB? No not in this life time it is not.
JB quit calling me because they assured me they could pay me what I was getting, and give me better benefits than what I have now.
When I got thru explaining who I worked for and what we did, and my pay and benefits I recieved, the recruiter appologized and I have never heard from them again.
I have a couple of friends who have worked there a couple of times, they say when the freight is there it is ok. But the freight is not alway's there, and it is bad sometimes they have told me.
I have since talked both of them into quitting JB and coming to work where I am employed and they are happier than ever.

Then you better have someone update JB's website, because the last time I was there you were NOT the number 1 carrier in this catagory according to their website.

I promise you there are more than a few people look at this website.

Where did you get that info from? Because if it is a "GOOD" company then it will not be a high turnover rate period.

 

ME_at_JB you are a typical recruiter, I think recruiters should be banned from this site. You will never understand the drivers side of this arguement only the impression you get from the other pencil_____ you work with. I am telling you right now I have been on the road for awhile and never have I met a JBH million miler. JBH is a bait and switch company, they lure you in with promises of rapid raises in pay and excellent benefits then once you get to your first pay raise boom all the sudden you are not getting any miles. I have heard this from easily 100 drivers, you know they say 1 person says something it could be crap, 2 or more people say something maybe you should pay attention. Everyone in this industry says JBH sucks get the message. Besides I am an avid OOIDA member I swore off cheap freight so I could never work for a company that rails freight at .60 a mile.:smt067 JBH

 

ME_at_JB is pushing the envolope..

 

About four years ago I got fed up with Swift and went to orientation with JB. The guy doing the class spent an hour telling us about how the top paid drivers made alot of their money recruiting other drivers. Then he handed us a paper and asked us to give JB the names and phone numbers of every driver we knew. For every driver we put down we got a $10 voucher for a resturant around the hotel we were staying at.

We were also told that about 2400 miles a week was normal there and not to expect to get much more. I stayed till the end and got my orientation money then went to a differnt company the next week. Something about that orientation just seemed kind of sleazy to me I was afraid to actually work for them.

 

Oh Boy...FUN TIME!!!

Why yes I do think it does. First of all, you don't really make the hiring decisions, now do you, and secondly, it's really hard to hire people who won't pick up the phone to call you, or will hang up the phone on you when you identify yourself and the company.

The problem with your limited view of things is simple. You absolutely do get phone calls, and I doubt that too many of them are people who read this board, and others like it. You see, our goal is that if it saves one person a week from stepping over that line to enjoy some of the misery that the company you recruit for can dish up, and has dished up so many times for so many people, then this board is effective enough, and it meets the goal. No one person, or entity can save the industry, but we all CAN save it, one person at a time.

However, I am relatively sure that it has been far more effective than you would dare give it credit for. The word is out, and the tactics that JB Hunt recruiters have taken lately are evidence of that alright. You people are ruthless and will stop nothing to obtain a driver's phone number and address.

Well, isn't that typical for a JB Hunt Recruiter? See how he gets a big kick out of dangling dreams in front of you, and then you never see them pan out?

The only thing I find funny about all of this, is the fact that you think you're going to retire from working as a driver recruiter for that company. I doubt they hang around much longer than the drivers do. So, in that light, we can expect that in the next month few months, you'll be back here with the little joke you think you have?

 

I wonder how many drivers he ‘recruits’ over the phone?

 

Not many people have expressed that sentiment. This site is full of admissions from drivers that they screw up. See...your problem is that I'll bet my left arm, you've never graced the cab of a truck. You don't have a clue what it's like out there, because you are an experienced BS artist. How quaint of you to espouse the same line already offered in here by someone "else" already. I know who you are, and I see that you're ready for a second go 'round.

That's a complete load of crap, unless that is, the bulk of the people you hire are not experienced in the dynamics of the job to begin with.

Experienced drivers know the score, and there's nothing at all that any experienced driver would encounter on the job with JB Hunt, than they would anywhere else. Experienced drivers are not going to put up with things like inadequate mileage, and sitting all the time. Experienced drivers are not going to put up with things like not getting them home when they are promised. Experienced drivers are not going to put up with mealy mouthed dispatchers that treat grown men like children, when the fact is, they might be children themselves. Now these are only three of the top reasons drivers complain about that company. There's much more....

You prefaced your challenge with the word, "any". That's a pitifully weak point that you've attempted to make.

One point I continuously drive into the ground, is that you can easily overlook a FEW negative comments. It's a little harder to ignore hundreds, or thousands of comments of a negative nature.

So now that we have THAT clarified, let's do some comparisons that mean something. You want names of some of the more widely known and larger companies that do not receive anywhere near the bad karma that JB Hunt does?

Let's start with Roehl, Millis Transfer, Watkins Motor Lines, KLLM, CFI, Maverick, Averitt, US Xpress, Marten, Jevic...How many more do you want?

Really? I guess your theory on that, is based on...what...that people who work for smaller companies have computer access is lesser numbers, than those drivers who work for the biggies? Look over the boards. We have lot's of posts about small companies that didn't live up to the driver's expectations.

That's hilarious. I had no idea that when drivers get bored, and when they are so happy with the company that they are with, that they find the need to call up the newest installation in the JB Hunt recruiting center, just to inform him of the fact that they are happy, and wouldn't go anywhere else. You get calls when people are clearly looking for something better, and what a shame it is that their call will likely result in another disappointment.

What a clever, yet deceptive comment. What you are leaving out of that, is percentages, or figures, that mean something. The reason you have "low" turnover for the drivers that make it past the one year mark are simple. Very few make it to that one year mark.

Looking over the past three years, in terms of stock performance, I would say that JB Hunt is holding their own, but is not racking up any records. They've went up a little, down a little, and stayed pretty much around $20 a share. That's an average performance. There are a few others out here that are doing much better, and some much worse.

Tumors grow as well, and that's not necessarily a good thing either.

Of course...anyone who offers a negative view of something, is "ranting for life". See..you're not villifying driver's here. All you are doing is reinforcing and confirming to those who will read this, the way that drivers are viewed by many of the office slugs that can be found in similar positions to that which you claim to hold.

Which is meaningless without the steady and constant workload that makes that wonderful mileage pay, pan out to a decent check each and every week. Insufficient mileage is the numero uno complaint that drivers offer about JB Hunt.

But of course...it's ALWAYS the fault of the driver, and when people charged with the oversight and monitoring of that driver, fail to perform the duties of THEIR job, it is again the driver's fault, and of course, he is the one who has to fix it every time. Tell me Mr. Sunshine, because you have demonstrated to me just how bright you are....do you have any idea how many times drivers will try to work out problems like this before they quit? Six or more.

Oh yeah....a driver was telling me just last week...."I love changing jobs. Last week I was hired on with JB Hunt, and my first week out, they shorted me on miles, so I quit and told them to shove it."

Whether or not you realize it, and it appears that you do not, it's a very cumbersome process to hire on to a trucking company these days. I've never met a driver that LOVED changing jobs. They in fact, hate the process of having to go elsewhere. When drivers quit, it will be due to the fact that things are not going to apparently be worked out, or due to the fact that they've encountered one of you bright people....who have totally misrepresented the facts and conditions.

Well, that's fair. I'm certainly entertained by you.

And I hate to remind you, but...you're a recruiter, and you don't "hire" anyone. You recruit...remember? I don't want to burst your bubble head, but you're not really as valuable to the company as you would care to think you are. I guess you're hoping for that big chance in the CEO's chair someday, where you will REALLY be able to look down your nose at people.

Yeah...you too....:thebirdman:

 

ME_at_JB? With that attitude he shoots himself in the foot more then signing anybody on. I can picture somebody like that trolling the missions and low rent areas for candidates...

 

No he is one of them JB recuiter's you see at the truckstops aggrivating the ************ out of everybody.
He is a bottom feeder for sure, and probably recruites about the same quality of driver's because the rest of the driver's are smart enough to turn heel and run!