J.B. Hunt

[alohawolf]

Right now I work for Werner, a company im mostly happy with, however my dispatcher is an idiot, and although im making 30 cpm, im only managing to get about 1500 miles a week. if I were to force a dispatcher change, I would need to leave this account, and my pay would go down to 24.5 cents a mile, with this in mind...

I was contacted by a nice gentleman at J.B. Hunt, and 37 cpm sounds better then 30 cpm for the same work.

So the question I have is, what do I need to know about hunt?
What should I expect?

[Sheepdancer]

Im a recruiter over here at JB so I dont know if my opinion counts. However I dont think I was the recruiter you talked to, so I dont make any money for you coming over here. Id be happy to honestly answer any questions you have.

First of all out of southern ca you have two choices for OTR work. 48 states, or the SW6. Miles are real good for the 48 states out of california. However to get those miles maximized, you need to be a little flexible with your hometime. Meaning, I wouldnt take that job if you need to be home every 14 days. Drivers who demand to be home every two weeks miles will always suffer. The flexible drivers tend to be the favorite of dispatch with any OTR company.
SW6 is another story....This is an OTR job basically just the western half of the US. Your shift would be 14 days but you would most likely get home to take your break sometime through the week because you are always closer to home. Downside: Shorter hauls mean less miles. However you would still be doing way better than you are now.
Basically it comes down to this, If you want the bigger paycheck and you dont mind staying out on the road a little longer, I would run 48 states. If you want a little more hometime, I would run the SW6. Either way, I dont think you should continue working for 30cpm and 1500 miles per week.
Also....The LA area is a great area for JB Hunt and local & dedicated runs..So once in a company like us, in the future if you wanted to run local or dedicated, you are going to be able to transfer pretty easiely.
ALSO FYI: A lot of the dedicated and local runs in southern ca require HAZMAT.....Although you dont need it for OTR, If you dont have it now, you might want to think about getting it later. It would only make it easier to move around the company later.
Hope this helps.
One more thing....if you do end up coming over here, tell your recruiter that CRAIG helped you......Maybe I can get a free lunch out of your recruiter.....lol

[alohawolf]

My preferred way to work, is 6 weeks out, 6 days home, without slipseating.

I also attend conventions several times a year. which means one to two times a year I need to be able to take a week off, sometimes at a place that is not my home terminal.

[Sheepdancer]

Then I would run 48 states.
If you doing 6 weeks out at a time, you are going to be "gold" to dispatch and your fleet manager.
As far as taking your time off in other places, I wouldnt think it would be a problem, drivers do it all the time. However thats something between you and your fleet manager.

[Piece Of Work]

I too worked a year at Werner before moving on. I also was lucky to get 1500MPW. Since hiring on at CFI, I have been completely happy and I'm still surprised that this company manages things so well. I was busy getting 2,700 miles knocked out over the New Years when many drivers are left sitting. Good Luck on whatever you choose.
Tim

[Sheepdancer]

Now.... Piece of Work.
Do you really think that a recruiter posing as a driver is going to work? What you are doing right now is an insult to the drivers intelligence. Dishonest tactics like this are exactly why recruiters are hated by many drivers and its a horrible way to recruit.
This seems to be one of the only message boards where recruiters and drivers seem to have a pretty good civil relationship. Im sure you will be welcomed out here if you keep in honest.
Now, as far has highjacking this thread with your CFI crap. I will overlook it this time, as you are still pretty new out here. Do it again, and you will start and LOSE a war like you wouldnt believe.

[glasman2]

Now.... Piece of Work.
Do you really think that a recruiter posing as a driver is going to work? What you are doing right now is an insult to the drivers intelligence. Dishonest tactics like this are exactly why recruiters are hated by many drivers and its a horrible way to recruit.
This seems to be one of the only message boards where recruiters and drivers seem to have a pretty good civil relationship. Im sure you will be welcomed out here if you keep in honest.
Now, as far has highjacking this thread with your CFI crap. I will overlook it this time, as you are still pretty new out here. Do it again, and you will start and LOSE a war like you wouldnt believe.

Thank you Sheepdancer

[allan5oh]

24.5 CPM!

That should be a crime!

[classicxl]

JB is a good company I worked for them as a company driver and O/O

[Rev.Vassago]

Now.... Piece of Work.
Do you really think that a recruiter posing as a driver is going to work? What you are doing right now is an insult to the drivers intelligence. Dishonest tactics like this are exactly why recruiters are hated by many drivers and its a horrible way to recruit.
This seems to be one of the only message boards where recruiters and drivers seem to have a pretty good civil relationship. Im sure you will be welcomed out here if you keep in honest.
Now, as far has highjacking this thread with your CFI crap. I will overlook it this time, as you are still pretty new out here. Do it again, and you will start and LOSE a war like you wouldnt believe.

Wow - threatening other users. To quote you, Sheepdancer,

Tactics like that are exactly why recruiters are hated by many drivers and its a horrible way to recruit.

I don't see "Moderator" under your name, and I don't see J.B. Hunt on the web address.

Are you going to guarantee that this potential driver will get the fantastic amount of miles that you say he will in writing?

I didn't think so.

[spaceman121]

thats what iam talkin about Rev (preach)

[jnk2001]

Are you going to guarantee that this potential driver will get the fantastic amount of miles that you say he will in writing?

yeah, that'll happen......

[Useless]

Now, as far has highjacking this thread with your CFI crap. I will overlook it this time, as you are still pretty new out here.

Uh, Sheepdancer??

I don't see you listed as a Moderator here!! Since WHEN did it become your place to "overlook" anything, or allow it, or disallow someone to post anything here??
:shock: :?
Do it again, and you will start and LOSE a war like you wouldnt believe.

Such ARROGANCE!! Where do you get off to making such threats here?? Also, when you compare the reputation of JB Hunt against that of a highly respected company like CFI or Melton, it becomes downright foolish to make such an asinine threat as that!!

:P

Not to say that JB is necessarily a bad company, I don't think that it is!! (although I was unaware of the fact that your trucks have doors on the right side untill one day when I saw one parked!!) It's just that when one of their recruiters would come knocking on my door at a truck stop, I would have to explain that we had a number of ex-JB drivers leave JB Hunt to come to work for our company, but we did not have many drivers leave our company to go to work for JB Hunt!!

Wonder why that was?? :wink:

EDITED By Useless: Sheepdancer, you do bring some good things to the board, but seriously, you need to lighten up here!!

[Useless]

Now, as far has highjacking this thread with your CFI crap.

I will overlook it this time, as you are still pretty new out here.

Do it again, and you will start and LOSE a war like you wouldn't believe.

The Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz has Spoken!!

PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT
MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!!

[Cyanide]

Oh hell, this thread's about to get good!

[Sheepdancer]

I have no problem with CFI, Just like any company, I talk to drivers who hate working there and drivers who love working there. I was just pointing out that Piece of Work was a recruiter posing as a driver. I said that sort of tactic was an Insult to the drivers intelligence.
If you dont see that hes a recruiter posing as a driver, perhaps the term "insult to your intelligence" wouldnt quite fit with you.

Man...what was I thinking? Taking up for drivers on a message board! I guess I should have remembered my "recruiters oath" which states when I see another recruiter lying to drivers, I should encourage him and even help him lie". My bad....it wont happen again.

[Useless]

I have no problem with CFI, ......I was just pointing out that Piece of Work was a recruiter posing as a driver. I said that sort of tactic was an Insult to the drivers intelligence.
If you dont see that hes a recruiter posing as a driver, perhaps the term "insult to your intelligence" wouldnt quite fit with you.

So now, your implication is that if we don't believe that he is a recruiter, then we are somehow lacking in intelligence???

Just who in the Hell do you think you are??

You have not offered one single fact to support your claim. For someone who talks about someone else insulting a driver's intelligence, all you have offered are insults to the intelligence of anyone who happpens to disagree with you, meaningless threats, and empty accusations.

Man...what was I thinking? Taking up for drivers on a message board! I guess I should have remembered my "recruiters oath" which states when I see another recruiter lying to drivers, I should encourage him and even help him lie". My bad....it wont happen again.

Upon what basis have you concluded that Piece of Work is a recruiter??? You have offered nothing in the way of fact or evidence which can be substantiated or challenged to support your allegation.

Now, if he is in fact a recruiter posing as a driver, and you could have established some type of proof to that effect based upon some type of factual evidence to support your claim, then at that point, I would have agreed that his conduct was indeed unethical.

Many companies offer drivers bonuses for bringing new drivers to their company. Now, given the number of posts that he made, and the number of times that he promoted CFI, I don't think that there is too much doubt that he was trying to drum up a few referrals. That may not rest well with you, but you use this board for the same purpose, so I think that it is rather disingenuous to take him to task for wanting to gain referrals here.

You certainly had no right to issue threats by telling him that he risked "starting and LOSING a war". Your arrogant statement about how you would "let him slide" implied that you had some type of control over whether or not his postings would be tolerated. You are not a moderator; you have no such authority.

[glasman2]

To tell you the truth, I was starting to think the same thing as sheepdancer.
That's why I said thank you under his post. I'm new to all this and could be just as wrong as sheepdancer or anyone else that thinks otherwise ( ie. truck driver or recruiter ).

That being said ... if he is not a recruiter ... I'm sorry ... if he is I hold my thank you. tho the wording was a bit strong by sheepdancer I understand where he was coming from. Yes ... he's not a Mod and should have let a mod take care of it, but we all make mistakes.... Can't we all just be friends

[mikey4069]

On the index page i see a list of the moderator's names on it but i dont see sheepdancer and i don't see useless on there . So i think you all should leave it up to them. I feel like im in a truck stop with cb on with all the cb rambo's talking all their crap. I think all recruiter should identify their selfs as recruiters. just my 2 cents.

[Useless]

On the index page i see a list of the moderator's names on it but i dont see sheepdancer and i don't see useless on there . So i think you all should leave it up to them. just my 2 cents.

You have not seen me attempt to act as a moderator. You HAVE seen me take issue with Sheepdancer, and what I consider to be inappropriate behavior in making allegations which are not supported by fact or evidence. I will take issue with someone who makes an unwarranted threat as Sheepdancer did, and I will do it with no apologies to offer.

If Sheepdancer has reason to suspect that "Piece Of Work" is a poser, then he certainly has the right to say so, but with the understanding that he is rendering a personal opinion. Making a threat of "starting a war" was, in my opinion, completely wrong.

Now, I disagree with your assessment of equating this discussion with the trash talk on a CB; no vulgarity has been used, and no threats have been made by anyone, other than the threat that Sheepdancer made to P.O.W.. One purpose that this board does serve is the airing of civil discourse, and this is an example of people voicing disagreements. If you really equate this discourse with the kind of C.B. trash talk that goes on in truck stop parking lots, then you always have the option of reading other forums, or other threads, or, as in the analogy that you offered, turningb the C.B. off!!!

Now, if I made a threat against you, or attempted to imply that I would let your "crap" slide, then I would be acting improperly. BTW, referencing your remarks as "crap" was to illustrate Sheepdancer's inappropriate conduct in labeling "P.O.W.'s posting as "CFI crap". I'm not saying that your post was crap, but if I did, I think that you would have every right to express your indignation.