JB Hunt - Lowell, Ar.

This is good stuff..... :smt046

 

Those phone calls J.B. minons make must be tax deductible. That's a lot of long-distance calls for such a puny return.

The rate of success of lease-operators at J.B. JobHunt may be high, but that is only relative to the total number of drivers going that route. Obviously not too many drivers stick around long enough to actually become lease-operators. Sounds like some don't stick around long enough to even move into trucks, let alone set out on a track that ends in their ownership of those trucks.

 

Reply to basscase_2000:

I have not (at this time) initiated official legal proceedings (sued them in a court of law) against USIS (DAC Services) for any reason. I do not know where you got the idea that I had, it is not displayed in any of my posts. However, I did make a blacklisting/blackballing complaint to the USDOL regarding collusion between JB Hunt, JB Hunt's unemployment insurance carrier and USIS during February 2006. So far, I received notice from the USDOL-OSHA (whistleblower complaint investigation arm of the USDOL) that indicates that OSHA had received my complaint. As far as I know, however, OSHA is not actively investigating this allegation and has not even assigned a case number or an investigator to my blacklisting/blackballing complaint. It has been 7 months since I filed the blackballing/blacklisting complaint with the USDOL. Therefore, I do not believe that the blacklisting/blackballing complaint filed with the USDOL-OSHA would be considered "legal action", since OSHA is not actively investigating it (to my knowledge) and no proceedings are planned or findings issued.

It also seems funny that there are no inquiries into my DAC report for the period from September 2005 to February 2006. I made many driving job applications to transportation companies during that time (25+). Interestingly, this period preceeds the February 2006 blacklisting/blackballing complaint to the USDOL involving USIS, therefore, why would USIS not allow inquiry into my DAC report by potential employers during this period of time?

I am sure that I will get to the bottom of the matter very soon. I plan to contact USIS and their corporate attorney today. I will keep all posted on the results of this contact.

 

I believe that the JB Hunt lease program is definitely a "scam". I bet if you examined JB Hunt's overall record regarding this mode of business, you would find many very unhappy former "leasees". JB Hunt uses their "lease program" to "off" old or unsatisfactory rigs on unsuspecting drivers and promotes this program like a "fire-and-brimstone" preacher (long on preach, short on specifics). As with all things, JB Hunt talks a good game regarding their lease program but delivers very little. Also, since a lease-driver would be getting his/her load exclusively from JB Hunt dispatch, a driver would be at the mercy of JB Hunt regarding load type, number of miles per week and general load characteristics (example: lots of HAZMAT loads or lots of "short-haul" loads or lots of very heavy loads and/or load-routes involving much city, northeast US or mountainous travel that cause fuel economy to decline significantly). Plus, JB Hunt is "out of their beeping minds" if they believe that their near $1.00 rate per mile is "good money" for a lease program "owner-operator". All the previous reasoning says to me that JB Hunt is using their lease program detour unsuspecting driver into a contract program that mainly benefits JB Hunt corporate pockets. I say stay FAR AWAY from the JB Hunt vehicle lease program. In fact, best to stay FAR AWAY from JB Hunt in general.

 

Wow google me? Im so ***** popular! ****, I will make it easier for you. Just go to ***...or *** Ive been posting out there for a long time. I didnt want to put links to other forms in here but what the hey. What you will find on those boards is that drivers dont seem to whine as much out there. You will also find that I have recruited quite a few drivers from those boards and you will NEVER find one that came back out there and said that I lied to them....AMAZING HUH? Just like this board, I dont actively recruit on those boards. Like it happened here, drivers read the threads and contact me. By the way, the driver I hired from here is very happy so far with his job. The funny thing is that Portand, one of you own moderators, thought it would be funny to try to follow me around to the other boards and start crap with me. He was attacked by other drivers for it. Do you know why? Because of my reputation on those boards for being honest and straight forward to drivers. Amazing huh?
As a matter of fact, one of the moderators on **** Truckerssupport is his screen name. is a driver I helped get on over here. Feel free to contact him and ask him how great his job is or whether i lied to him to get that job.
I started on this board because I saw so much bad information that I felt A need to respond. I never attacked anyone, yet I was attacked. I didnt disrespect anyone, yet I was diisrespected. No big deal. Doesnt bother me. Like i said....even with you attacking me, I still hired a driver from here and made money, so once again, thanks. I was serious when I said I would pay for advertising here. My website should be up and running in a few weeks. So see ya then.

 

Im glad you guys banned that scumbag.....:smt023

 

Well...we have discussed their leasing program in detail in another thread in this section. In addition to this, I do have some actual settlements of a driver that detail EXACTLY how bad it is.

I am going to post a digest of this driver's financial experience at some point in the future, when I can get time to run all the numbers. I will state now, that it was a pitiful experience, and the driver received slave wages, in spite of running some very average miles.

 

At least for three years anyway.

You still didn't. Google finds them just fine.

Well of course, you'd see it that way. What you consider "whining" collectively as a group here goes a little deeper than I'm sure you care for. I've made it a point to justify much of this "whining" with some very verifiable facts. And of course, it's interesting to note that you have yet to address one of them.

Rather than to address that one myself, I'll let those that are interested see if they can figure out why you may not receive "bad press" on at least the one sight you are most active in. It's like a blinding light. I spotted it in a few posts from the moderator of the site, and let's not forget the fact that the site itself is a venue for JB Hunt's recruiting efforts, and that of other companies as well.

As another poster suggested in this thread, for every one driver you can cite that is blissfully happy working for JB Hunt, I'll direct your attention to 100 that are not or were not.

When that driver has been there for a year, then you might have something to discuss. JB Hunt has a fine record of things falling apart after the six month mark for most people. By the time he has weathered a year with the company, your recruiting department will have played around with the lives of some 16,500 drivers who will have left that company in disgust.

I didn't take time to read everything, but it wasn't quite as cut and dried as you state. But you stick to your story if that makes you feel any better. It's really about all you have at this point.

All one has to do to put this all into perspective is to simply understand why that would be the case on that particular site, and why you wouldn't receive the same reception over here. It's apples and oranges.

BINGO!!!! And of course, in order to bolster your image and further your causes, you wouldn't dare have screwed that one up, now would you?

Why would I? I'm not really interested in your "reputation" with a few folks. I'm truly not concerned with YOU at all. The company is the core issue at hand, and their above average turnover statistics illustrate that the company has problems in keeping people on staff.

My concern, and this transcends to that issue, is what the AVERAGE person will experience if they hire on with that company, and my own investigations of the company precludes me from recommending them to a soul.

You're PAID to counter my opinions and to paint a picture of complete utopia for those who decide to eventually climb in one of those trucks. It's easy to see where your bias is born, and what your motivation is. I receive NOTHING for my time, and my biased opinion is based on the digestion of information that I have taken the time to seek.

I am concerned with statistics, facts, and averages. You come in here and cite two drivers. Pardon me if I don't quiver in my tennis shoes. What about the 150% that leave that company each year. How many of those people would say the same thing? I guess you had no hand in recruiting those people...eh?

You haven't been attacked. You have been refuted.

Gee...and you call "us" whiners? What did you expect? The site doesn't take advertising dollars from JB Hunt or any of it's representatives. No one can call us biased in any sense of the word. But to illustrate how baseless your assertions are, take a look around these boards. There are several companies that are given the thumbs up on this site by not only myself, but many others as well.

You've made it abundantly clear how much it doesn't "bother you".

"Thou protesteth too much"

Receiving any advertisement from either you or the company you claim to represent would fly in the face of everything this site stands for, and would be a direct conflict of interest.

To define how strongly I would be opposed to this, not that I think it would be received to begin with, I'd be willing to write a check for three times the amount of any advertisement revenue that you might be willing to offer, just to head off any chance that it would be considered for a second. I'll also be the first to volunteer to pay for my access to this site, rather than to take one dollar directly from you or that company.

I'm short of words with that revelation. I can only select some emoticons to express my sentiment....:smt046

 

Turbo, you are the best .

 

Thank 'ya....