JB Hunt - Lowell, Ar.

Good Post WiseOne, Good Luck with what ever you decide to do RAZ4646 I hope you prove us all wrong.

 

I still stick to my guns, he was a JBH snake here trying to make a feable attempt to make JBH sound good. Newsflash for JBH everyone on this forum knows better.

 

I have to agree if JB promises it its as good a as a politicians campaign speech. I am at least until tomorrow a JB driver (feels like an AA admission) Im going elsewhere because they arent true to their word and drivers are toys to them. I know Ill be called several times a day for weeks begging my return Ive seen it done to several friends who moved on. But hes right on 1 point I did get a better deal not from JB though

 

If he WAS a recruiter, I'd understand why he made the post he did. He has an ulterior motive. I have no problem with it. He just needs to know that this ol' dog still isn't going into the burning theater that is J.B. Hunt.

If he IS a genuine driver, he's obviously not the sharpest tool. No sensible driver would come here, read the posts "over and over", and then go away thinking J.B. Hunt or any of the other "worst" companies are worth going to work for. It'd be no surprise he got sucked into the J.B. web after convincing himself a recruiter knows more about that company than hundreds of drivers who've "been there, done that".

My vote is he was/is a recruiter posing as a driver.

What will these worms try next? Setting up biased websites that are nothing more than advertisements for these rotten companies? They're already doing that, I'm sure.

 

"Drivers testify that they spent a long and lengthy process to get approved for hire, with promises of being put on dedicated or regional positions, and find out after withstanding several more days of orientation, that the position promised doesn't exist. They are of course, then offered positions on the national fleet, running everywhere and for weeks at a time, with little time off. There's no excuse for this type of deception.

If this was not bad enough, their "new policy that allows a driver to take his truck home", comes with a very big catch. If you decide to take more than a day off, you will be forced to give up your "assigned truck" and slip seating rears it's ugly head. Oh...they'll "bank" the time off you have coming for future use, but the bottom line is, if you ever decide to take that banked time off, you're going to give up your truck. When you return to work, the chances are rather high in many areas that you will be put on a "list", and endure a wait of what has been reported to be as high as a week at a time, before you are "assigned" another truck. You'll most likely have to spend a couple of hours cleaning up behind the previous driver and moving your stuff back into another truck. Now I ask you...who would put up with that kind of crap each and every time they desired to spend some quality time with their families? I know I wouldn't.

They offer a claim that their drivers average "more than 2500 miles per week", with no guarantees. That's not a very hard week, and because the claim is so low, I tend to think that the average is not routinely over 2,600 miles either. Okay, 2,550 miles brings you just short of a grand a week in gross pay, but take a couple of days off, and your average declines rapidly. Wait on a truck for a couple of more days, and it's reduced further. They are very non-descriptive about their benefit costs, which leads me to believe that the employee is coughing up above-average suppliments for their benefits. What does this do to a family man? He's falling swiftly into netting about half of his gross pay....real quick."



Well put for sure

All true Ive slip seated 4 times in 5 months Im never home on time and rarely do i get to 2000 once i hit 2300 miles mostly the average is 18-1900 a week theres always no freight in the area or no loads to get home. I spend more down time in truckstops than at home. I also do a lot of 250-300 miles runs that do nothing but burn hours Yea I got suckered in but Im running for the hills

 

lots of complaints really whoopee we got a 3 cpm raise the miles still suck and its not worth the time out I was out 3 weeks this run my big week was 1777 this week was 1560 and i believe the other one was 1675.
A raise is only as good as the miles it goes with my food costs from sitting outweigh the raise. Im glad I may get to tell the shove it tomorrow if the latest job offer pans out

 

Reply to truck-Duck:

If you don't mind me asking, what company are you currently working for? Is it JB Hunt? Inquiring minds want to know...

 

Reply to Mack E-6:

I do not know if now would be the time to purchase stock in any transportation company, based on the recent economic indicators. Seems truckload tonnage is down, consumer confidence is down and the general economy is starting to slow due to high fuel prices and uncontrollable federal government spending. I would suggest that those looking for financial shelter at this time put their money in bonds or other less volatile financial instruments (i.e. certificates of deposit, etc.). This would include any drivers with the majority of the 401K holdings in stocks. Just a thought here. I think the next driver poll should ask if drivers have seen a general decline in weekly mileage since the first of January 2006. What do you think?