JB HUNT ,started 07/26/10

Thanks for letting us know J'B's perticulars, Wondering if that is the same company wide, or things differ from terminal to terminal.

 

8/13 ogden utah to redlands ca. and told to not assume time off for the weekend. was told i could be worked until midnight on fridays if needed. but was told when i get to redlands est time of 6:00 pm to take time off until 10am sunday.



Does JB "TELL" the driver what time he's supposed to be available? Or is it up to you to be back on time to pickup/deliver? I would think it would be up to the driver, but it doesn't look that way judging by the quote.

No, I'm not trying to slam JB, you get it enough.

 

The weird hours and everything could maybe be expected, but 1200 miles a week is really not what anyone would expect. Noone could make a living on 1200 miles per week.

 

true enough, but the only time I get a week like that is when there is some time off involved.

 

All this depends on the fleet manager you get, how long you've been there, and what account you are on. If you are dispatched out of Lowell, you can pretty much expect all the stuff in your list. The place is full of college kids that have no clue what we go through.

As for the number on the back of the trailer, I have had people call in on me for the dumbest stuff imaginable. I just take it in stride, you have to call in and listen to a kid read his prepared speech out of his "how to be an annoying jerk" manual. It's nothing personal. I had someone call in on me last week and say i had "the wrong placards" on my flammable load. How in the hell would he know what's in my trailer to say the placards were wrong? I'm still scratching my head over that one.

Some of the fleet managers demand a safety message, most don't bug you. When i get one that does, i'll just type "get out and look before backing" every morning and be done with it. I tell him don't expect me to come up with anything creative at 6 am when I haven't had my cup of coffee yet, and that they aren't paying me to be a blogger. I get the concept, they want us thinking about safety, but that doesn't make it any less of a pain in the butt.

When you are driving up 540 in north east Arkansas, better mind your p's and q's, that's for sure.

The hard breaking program, I think, is actually a good idea. You have to slam them pretty hard to get one, and the guy that's getting a bunch of them is a big red flag for a driver who tends to follow too close, and a driver you might want to get rid of before he kills someone. Occasionally they happen, they understand that.

 

Too true. This is why anyone with self respect should never admit to working non union TL freight except to state they found something else worthwhile to persue.

 

just what everybody needs another hand in their pocket pulling out money for nothing
i have been in 3 different unions---all i got was steadily declining wage --and a crappy newsletter every few months

 

We have the hard breaking notification with the company I pull for. How I found out it was "recording" an incident of hard breaking, I was pulling a slight grade with the cruise control on and it somehow deemed I was "hard breaking."