Sent Home From Jb Dec 6th 2007

Good post, Bubba. I have a problem with only one little bit of it, though. If I find out a company is always hiring, I drop it from consideration like a hot potato. But I see your company is doing that constantly only in the northeast region. That can be overlooked, unless the shortage there means I'd have to go to the northeast to make up for the slack.

Calling a union rep is the route I'd take today for sure. Unions are the way, absolutely. I've done the non-union thing in the past, and I wouldn't do it again.

 

Responding to the original post, I demanded that JB Hunt clear me BEFORE I EVER took the trip to California. BTW, the accomodations at the center in CA were TERRIBLE. The food wasn't so great either, and if you wanted to eat at night, there definitely were no freakin' vouchers issued to you, you paid out of pocket.
I personally think JB HUNT is either the worst or the second worst trucking company on the entire planet. What trucking company thinks their employees are going to be happy when they come along one day and just cut your pay by up to $400 PER WEEK?
When I was going through their ridiculously long, excrutiating orientation, people were being let go for all kinds of reasons. One guy was told he wasn't eligible because he had some sort of medical condition - and then the next day, they realized they had made a mistake and told the WRONG PERSON he had to go home - which he already had.
This company is a JOKE at BEST.

 

Outfits like JoBHunt just need to go ahead and start researching ways to build a Frankenstein Freightliner, or Frankenliner. With this truck, a trucking company uses a driver's corpse to "drive" it. All the outfit needs to do is rig up some sort of controlling devices, such as a joystick, cameras, and servo motors and woila!

A Frankenliner would solve many problems at trucking companies, such as determining who is qualified and who isn't, as all drivers would suddenly be equal. Say goodbye to having to bring people to orientations, as well as certain driver demands such as vacations, sick leave, and home time. Corpses don't demand time off or fringe benefits, nor do they need to take drug tests. Health exams wouldn't be necessary, and neither would be health advice for drivers. Why show health advice vids to drivers who are already dead? The companies would just have to bring the trucks in regularly for the application of odor-suppressing lime.

This is how far some companies will have to go to solve probelms they have no intention of solving nor even want to solve.

 

I just wanted to tell you about my JB Hunt experience.
I was being constantly called by "recruiters". After turning them down for months, I was in need of a job. So I decided to sign on with them. The orientation was in East Brunswick NJ. I chose to drive there insted of staying at the motel because of things I needed to get done at home. (1hr 15min commute one way)
It started on Tuesday and went for 3 days. The first day was nothing but paperwork that I already filled out. Then we had a road and backing test. The road test was a joke. A simple ride around the block and the backing test was a simple 45degree backup. Then came the Physical and urine test. The people who worked in the "clinic" were rude and were just there to get a paycheck. The doctor wasn't much better. Gave me an attitude.
The second day was all classroom with videos and the like. Also we had to call our "investigator". When he returned my call he said that everything looked good and I was ready to go.

On the last day, we got our fleet manager number and pretty much wrapped things up.
I was told to call my fleet manager about a tractor assignment. (I was planning to leave orientation with a tractor and a load) She told me that there was nothing available and I should go home and call her the following day.

I called her and still nothing available. Being it was Friday, I figured I will wait until Monday to call. I called on Monday morning and after she gave me an attitude about not calling in over the weekend still nothing available. I called all that week and was told the same thing. After the second week of this, I decided that if they wanted me to drive for them, THEY CAN CALL ME!

This has left a bad taste in my mouth about driving a truck anymore and I decided to give it up.

Did anybody else have the same expeience as I did?

 

I wish you could print that on the front cover of some big paper......When you go through orientation for any job, there should actually be a job........Is it the same as most industries where the owner is driving the new Merladies-E class or some stuff and everybody else is working 3 jobs?

 

maybe swift wasn't looking for someone to drive a truck,maybe they wanted someone who could up hold the tradition of wrecking them. The next time you talk to someone from swift,ask them for me"does the company hire people that bad at driving or do they order those trucks with damage already on them?" I'm just curious.