JBHunt job info....

I did intermodal and never saw that kind of pay! Ever been on a rail yard?
Heres what I went through almost every time!

Pull in. Go in and get your load information and maybe a good location of where the container MIGHT be!
Go drive around until you find the container! Those numbers are a PITS to find. Yes when you finally learn the different colors of each different company that helps but you still have to read a ton of numbers till you find it. I found out that those Rail Road employees didn't give a crap where they stuffed a trailer they just didn't have the intelligence to mark it right or at all on the location sheet if there was one for that yard!
Then there was the POS chassis that were dropped by moron drivers that could care less about the next guy picking it up! Yep "it ain't mine so I don't give a crapola!" So you get to sit in a lane hoping that the guys in the repair bay feel like fixing a light or changing a tire and forget about a cracked drum or pad! Air leaks fixed? LOL
but you can bet your sweet arse that when you come back and they decide to do an inspection on the thing you'll get stuck with the time again and pray that those POS tires they use hold air until you get past the inbound inspection bay!

$50,000 a year doing local work and taking a lot of time in a yard looking and hooking? ROFLMAO! Heck man you can barely make that kind of money driving OTR and you think JB is going to pay you that for local? Is it by chance Union? That the ONLY way you'll get that kind of money!

I got to the point that I'd back under a chassis and let the 5th wheel touch and then hook my lines up and do a walk around before hooking to it! It was always a 50/50 chance I was hooked to a POS!

If it isn't an hourly paid job I'd run and hide!

 

I'm confused why people think 50k a year local is so hard to make. Gas haulers do it locally all the time, so do a lot of LTL local company drivers who drive around and pick up freight in the city. Non-union.

Now, JB Cvnt paying that much local money on the other hand, I doubt it.

 

Look at the company! Yes, some locals DO pay but only on the hourly side and mostly union jobs! But I do not think JB has a union any where on their properity!

 

Starting out for them I would not think 50k would be feasible or realistic, probably the guys that have been there a few years make that or more, but I do think something around 40k would not be too far off base. Not sure how or what the regional pay is but I am pretty sure up in that area the local drivers are paid by the load...So much for drop and hook, so much for live unload/load.

I have occasion to pull their units these days (no I am not working for them) and their equipment is 10x better than what it was five or six years ago. If you look at some of the other chassis and containers in the rail yards you will know the true meaning of POS.

I would talk to one of their drivers and see what they have to say. Not someone "hauling" one of their cans but an actual driver of theirs.

 

I wouldn't put much stake in what's written there. You can't trust their math. Take what ever mileage rate they give you and multiply it by the miles (wouldn't count on much more than 2000-2500) you'll get. Then take out your weekly expenses and other deductions. You'll probably find isn't worth it in the long run.

 

I'm not on the Intermodal account but pull alot of loads out of Albany NY and Jersey City NJ and have to say that once you learn each terminals process you can get in and out in 30 minutes. And I have to say I LOVE the JB Hunt frames. The tandem pins pull like butter. No lie! My kids could pull these pins.

As for pay, you will need to ask alot of questions. CPM? Drop pay? Drop and hook on both ends? With all this in mind I am sure you can make $1,000.00 a wk gross.

 

I doubt a driver will gross $1000 a week at JB. At 34cpm (I'd be shocked if it was more) a driver only stands to make $850.00, bonuses and other benefits are never a sure thing.

 

Their intermodal pay is probably not cpm if it's strictly local. Maybe if you get into the regional part of it, then it might be.
Most of the drivers that I know who are strictly JB local drivers, make between 1,000 and 1,300 per week, gross. Having said that, they have all been around for quite some time.