I'm mildly considering JB Hunt

[truckinusa]

I got a call from a JB Hunt recruiter today. He tells me that they have a new produce run for Wal Mart where I have to run teams, but it is in the whole east of the Mississippi area. Sounds like a glorified regional driver to me? Does anyone know any more?

Another thing he told me is that they have dedicated stuff for Whirlpool and a few other, but you can't sign on to those until you have 90 days. I bet once you are a team driver they won't let you go or these jobs will have dried up. Is my thinking correct? I've never worked for JB Hunt. All I've heard is bad things. It sounds good though.

[ranger309]

Originally Posted by truckinusa

I got a call from a JB Hunt recruiter today. He tells me that they have a new produce run for Wal Mart where I have to run teams, but it is in the whole east of the Mississippi area. Sounds like a glorified regional driver to me? Does anyone know any more?

Another thing he told me is that they have dedicated stuff for Whirlpool and a few other, but you can't sign on to those until you have 90 days. I bet once you are a team driver they won't let you go or these jobs will have dried up. Is my thinking correct? I've never worked for JB Hunt. All I've heard is bad things. It sounds good though.

I dont know muh about JB Hunt other then what you have heard, but I dont trust recruiters too much.

I'd dig in for some more details about this gig myself.

I cant say how its done out there, but Whirlpool out here uses a logistics company using solo day cabs, not teams. I'll bet those jobs would be hard to get on to right about now, unless they are switching over to JB Hunts' logistics division and need some more drivers.

[truckinusa]

Originally Posted by ranger309

I dont know muh about JB Hunt other then what you have heard, but I dont trust recruiters too much.

I'd dig in for some more details about this gig myself.

I cant say how its done out there, but Whirlpool out here uses a logistics company using solo day cabs, not teams. I'll bet those jobs would be hard to get on to right about now, unless they are switching over to JB Hunts' logistics division and need some more drivers.

I'm just extremely worried to go from a $600 a week job where I am now to a no $$ a week job at JB Hunt and be gone all the time.

[pro1driver]

Originally Posted by truckinusa

I got a call from a JB Hunt recruiter today. He tells me that they have a new produce run for Wal Mart where I have to run teams, but it is in the whole east of the Mississippi area. Sounds like a glorified regional driver to me? Does anyone know any more?

Another thing he told me is that they have dedicated stuff for Whirlpool and a few other, but you can't sign on to those until you have 90 days. I bet once you are a team driver they won't let you go or these jobs will have dried up. Is my thinking correct? I've never worked for JB Hunt. All I've heard is bad things. It sounds good though.

i worked 'dedicated runs" for a couple of companies..........sometimes though, it s-u-c-k-s.............reasons being, its "dedicated" meaning its a contract job. and when the customers contract comes up, sometimes the sign on the dotted line again, sometimes they don't. there will be NO precise way for you to know right now, how long the current contract is for. no one will tell you, till the day comes and they say, "well, thanks for your work, hope you find something else, or, you can ALWAYS go OTR for us"........!!!

and YES..those "dedicated runs" go to senority drivers first, and yeah, there is ALWAYS a waiting list as well..........so that "90 days" can turn into a year or two, getting closer to the end of the contract.

jb hunt, isn't supposed to be as bad as they were many, many years ago. you'd be better off going OTR with them, get yourself on a waiting list then decide from then whether or not dedicated is for you. i like dedicated, but i hate the unknown of the contract lenght.

your best bet, would be to try and get on with a company like Ryder, or "some other" driver leasing company. they send you to different accounts, sometimes for only a day, sometimes for several months. AND if you don't like the acount you're on, you can get off it. this i have done also.

[Cerberus_Kelpie]

Be very careful when dealing with BJ hunt because while they claim they have a 48 hour turn for payment to the Driver (in the Owner Operator program NOT when leased to them), they have been widely known to take up to a week or more for payment to finally arrive and usually not the full payment as originally agreed.
ALL their claims of available Freight Lanes are basically BOGUS as MANY have discovered AND as MANY have discovered over many years, recruiters are told what to say regardless of validity in TRUTH.

Their claim of having the safest and best maintained equipment on the roads is a sham as well.

Do you and yours a favor and avoid bj hunt unless you like sitting still or pulling short haul freight with a lot of open time on both ends.

[vwaggs]

Also if you value your DAC I wouldn't go there. They always seem to find a reason to have fired you or you did something like quit under load, when you leave. This is what I have been told.

Don't think letting them know you are quitting and then delivering a last load before returning the truck solves this. Companies that do those things will dispatch you anyway and as soon as you fail to deliver and return the truck, you've quit under load.