Mike's Book Club: JB Hunt The Long Haul to Success

Those buses would turn on a dime .

 

Lots of old Jb trucks in Mexico.

 

Used to see hunt trucks in Laredo that said " hunt de Mexico " on them .

 

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In the late 1990's They had these green international 9200's that ran out of the Georgia Pacific plant in Toledo, Or down to California. They were replaced when the Argosy's showed up.

At the Toledo GP plant I often visited with JB drivers who told me that the COE 9700's that pulled Rocky Mountain doubles north out of the plant were special units equipped with N14 Cummins set at 430hp with a 9 speed. I've never found a picture of one of these Rocky Mountain Doubles JB Hunt had on the web, and unfortunately I never snapped a picture. I wish we had camera phones back then. Anyway standard issue power for JB 9700's COE's was a Cummins M11 set in the low 300 hp range, I think 330hp if memory serves me?

 

I took this picture around 2004, I thought it was a funny combination lol. Years ago I saw this same truck somewhere in the Hanks truck picture collections, I've never been able to find again.

 

I found this picture of a early JB Hunt conventional with roof fairings. Like the flatbed tractor above its pre Pro Sleeper, the Pro Sleeper came out in 1994 if memory serves me? I seem to recall reading in a early 1990's JB Hunt drivers pamphlet that these were only issued to high seniority drivers with excellent safety records. I personally never saw one of these early JB Hunt dry van division conventionals on the road road out here on the west coast.