What do you guys think of JB Hunt? Good rep?

Lately they've been hiring new cdl school graduates.
Western Express now hires cdl-a drivers with no experience and no cdl school.
A&R Logistics used to be one yr. experience, then dropped to 6 mos, and now, new cdl school grads.
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Western Express hires with no school and no experience.
Wow.
In the lead for the bottom.
Well, honestly, they've kinda been there for a while

 

I did JBH as a experiment. I lasted three weeks by choice.

My dispatcher in Fayetteville was a Lion. A Professional in the entire industry. He listens when I tell him everything. Usually QC. He has shown the ability to understand my situation and where I am going with say a pair of broken trailer doors in need of many new nuts and bolts.

Payroll is paid after withholding the moment you send in loaded and rolling macro after hooking onto any trailer with that load in it. It's your money to ship to wife or stay out and spend.

JBH Recruiter told me a little bit of BS when I hired on in. WE aint got conventional for you. Show up at Prothro Jct in Galloway NLR area off 40 and see a phalanx of 50 bobtails stored under the billboard sign at far corner of shop lot. All conventional

I refused dedicated, regional, railroad container etc. Stayed with OTR national.

In a 1983 International Eagle Cabover of all things. Which is why I was demanding conventional.

My third week I bumped a pickup in the dark above ST Louis after loading Beer. He happened to have a boxed computer in the bed where my steer hub punched a dent into it.

That accident happened two hours after a midnight deadline for a Dispatcher PLUS 150 driver safety accident free competition. We won it. But I gave away my food, place at table and drinks to anyone who got close to success like I did.

Ultimately it's back to McKesson running million dollar loads.

The worst about JBH? As of late 2001? When you are in any terminal, they assign you computer training. The time clock checking in course lasted two agonizing hours. I sat up in my chair and exploded with a yelled words "This is make work ########." half the floor heard me through two sets of double doors.

When wasting away on dispatch for a load, it's sleepy time. God help you if you are in a JBH property. No sleep for you.

 

@UturnGirl

 

From what I have seen JB Hunt is the best of the megas. They are no longer s training company, and most of their gigs are local. Pay is supposed to be good.

 

JB Hunt may be a "mega", but they're not a "mega training company" ... big difference. Plus they are really not a truckload irregular route carrier anymore. They are mostly into intermodal and contract hauling (dedicated fleets).

Probably a good place to work if they have a good fit (dedicated fleet) for you close to your home. But I could never recommend intermodal work but lots of guys seem to be okay with it for all the regular home time it typically supports.

 

Based on what I've read here, I would agree.

 

Well if they still hire student drivers then NO.

 

Many moons ago JB was the butt of jokes much like swift is today. I have somewhere in my records a letter my fathers' company sent out advising them to try to not park alongside one. For years they drove International Eagle cabovers set at 55MPH. If I remember correctly they were also the largest carrier. Then slowly through the 90s, they made some changes and today are a much better carrier. I don't think I will ever forget all those CB jokes made, "hey JB what are you doing in that hammer lane?"