Does this make sense?

[IRISHGYPSY]

I have been told that owner operators are desperately looking for drivers to team with because they cannot make ends meet running only 11 hours per day, so a recently graduated inexperienced driver [like me] who went to a truck stop and bought a few owner operators coffee and chatted them up would be inundated with job offers. This from a J.B. HUNT recruiter. Then after 91 days I could quit and get a great job with his great company.

Is this not making sense to me because I am brighter than the guy who told me, or because I am being stupid, looking at it from the wrong point of view and not seeing important facts?

It seems to me that the cost of paying me, even at a minimal rate, plus the increased insurance cost would negate some increase in income, and there might not be any increase because even if they would LIKE to run more hours/miles there doesn't seem to be that much work/freight out there currently, which is why the training companies are saying no more new trainee orientations until MAY at the earliest.

While J.B. HUNT [and everyone else] looks good now because I'm having no luck finding a job at all, to QUIT a decent job for the privilge of working for J.B. HUNT? Somehow, I doubt it.

[Cerberus_Kelpie]

DO NOT put faith in anything a jb recruiter tells you since their ONLY JOB is to subscribe people to that company by telling you what you want to hear.

That's too bad for the Owner Ops but teaming with one isn't going to help either of the Team.

There are very few trucking companies doing anything with Newbies just now as you know and that part you wrote stating "Then after 91 days I could quit and get a great job with his great company.", sounds a lot like more of the same hoopla generated by recruiters.

To answer your question---NO!!

[IRISHGYPSY]

Given that it made no sense to me, and the source is far from trustworthy [a recruiter], I thought I'd better run it by people who might know the facts and have nothing to gain by lying to me.

[ls57racer]

Originally Posted by Cerberus_Kelpie

DO NOT put faith in anything a jb recruiter tells you since their ONLY JOB is to subscribe people to that company by telling you what you want to hear.

That's too bad for the Owner Ops but teaming with one isn't going to help either of the Team.

There are very few trucking companies doing anything with Newbies just now as you know and that part you wrote stating "Then after 91 days I could quit and get a great job with his great company.", sounds a lot like more of the same hoopla generated by recruiters.

To answer your question---NO!!

I totally agree.

[NORTHERNHAULER]

im an o/o and i dont have another driver with me.so the answer in my case is no.
the recruiter was just trying to get you to bite.its called fishing once he hooks you all he has to do is real you in.he knows once your in you will be with them for a while.

[dirttracker]

jb hunt is always looking for the next sucker to haul their freight for free, dont be that sucker, let the next idiot do it.