JB Hunt - Lowell, Ar.

gotcha. my bad then. didn't mean to offend anybody. it was just my opinion. but on a side note if this was so offending to him where is he at to defend himself ? ok i'll drop it now.

 

oh we are being nice. no probs here or there. it's just a discussion.

 

He might be at orientation at Swift or Prime. Then again he may be offended and may never come back. Either way, I am at fault here on this one. I should have spotted JB's stooge and missed it until it was too late.

 

Maybe he is still in bed Not every one get up early

 

that i agree with. you and i have been i this business for a few sunsets and we've heard alot and seen alot. it's just tiring and played out on his kind of attitude.

 

haven't you heard "the early worm gets eaten by the bird"......lol

 

he just needs his ooo and xxx and a fresh cup of coffee

 

This an unfortunate thing that happens routinely to people that begin the process of signing on with JB Hunt, and there really isn't any excuse for it. It is perfectly legal for a company to pull an MVR and their DAC report with minimal permission provisions in place, and basing an offer of potential hire based on that information. They can preclude an offer based on the same criteria.

I honestly do not understand why this happens. You did everything you were supposed to, if indeed you were up-front about your record. The lesson in all of this is simple.

Don't expect that a company has pre-approved you just because they haul you into orientation. Most companies will not do the background checks on a driver until he is on the premises and has signed a consent form to do so, in front of a company representative.

JB Hunt is notorious for pulling in people that do not meet their criteria, and cutting them mid-orientation, and the down side to this, is that it oftens adds another negative to an already damaged record. They insert a "Discharged during orientation" entry on the driver's DAC report. That is interpreted by many, as a charge of the driver having been dishonest on his application, whether he was or was not.

My advice, aside from avoiding the company altogether on general principle, is if a driver DOES have any issues that may preclude them from meeting their hiring criteria, is to avoid them for that reason as well. The risk of them cutting you mid-orientation is an almost certain.

To the original poster in this thread, the following is not a judgment on your circumstance. The issue of traffic tickets, and the fact that drivers try to hide them is an issue that needs to be discussed, and I want to elaborate on it. It's important.

Drivers will assume that because a ticket may not be on their MVR when they check it on their own, or a ticket is not reported on a DAC report, means that they can leave it off of an application, and that's a very risky thing to do. Why? Because there are other records of it, and this is something that nails drivers so many times, when they try to hide them.

First of all, every driver is required by Federal law to report all convictions of any traffic citation to their company, within thirty days upon that conviction. Failure to do so, is a fireable offense by most companies, if it is found.

Then, once per year, a driver is required to fill out the form for the company, where you are to report all of the traffic citation convictions you have received during the previous 12 months. This becomes a permanent part of your employment record, and again, it's a Federally mandated requirement to disclose this to the company. So, if you do report them to a company while you are working for them, they pass this on to prospective employers as part of your record, despite the fact that it may not have hit the MVR from your home state.

Some of you may be sitting there, saying, "Well, I don't report the tickets to the company anyway". That's great. You may be thinking that because you haven't, and because it never hit your MVR, that you're free and clear. You're not.

Insurance companies that cover trucking companies routinely pull database checks of traffic tickets on all 50 states, as often as four times a year, and they cross reference them by name to those that are in their own databases and listed as drivers that they are insuring. They will do this cross check on applicants to a company they insure as well, and THAT'S how drivers are nailed often on unreported tickets.

You see? Even the tickets that you receive in one state that are not reported to your own state CAN and will LIKELY be found. To the insurance companies, it's a small investment to pay for this information. And they will use it to exclude a risky driver from coverage. They know that the MVR kept by many states, are not current, are not correct in many cases, and they know where to find what these states are not keeping current and correct.

You can't hide these things. They will bite you on the butt.

Rule #1 - Don't get traffic tickets that will limit your ability to hold a driving job.

Rule #2 - When you get one, keep a record of it for at least five years, and disclose the details asked for, when asked for.

And back to the original issue here for one final point...

JB Hunt recruiters are not to be trusted at all. They don't care one bit how a potential driver is incovenienced or hurt, if they are discharged during orientation. They are charged with filling those class seats, and if they fail to produce candidates, they don't have a job. I truly think that each and every one of those people change their middle name to "dishonest" as a condition of working for JB Hunt.

I'm telling you people....just say no. When they call you, hang up the frigging phone. When you see an ad that even begins to look good, slap yourself upside your head, and turn the dang page.

Their latest trade rag ad says that they are the "best thing since sliced bread", and I'm here to tell you, that they are the knife that slices that bread....

 

why are "we" still talking about this? where is he, (rayray i mean). he got busted in his story and left. this thread should just fade away. like him.