current jbhunt dedicated driver

[Watcher]

bigdad7,

I'm supposed to start orientation with JB Hunt tomorrow, an "Ronnie" has me signed up with the PPG account. It sounds like the bennies are good, and on this account I'll be out 11 days and home 3 days. Have you heard of this account? I've read others post on this account, however, I was still wondering about this company. I've read just about as many pros as cons.

I'm know there's a lot of drivers that had a bad experience with many of the companies out here, it's just the "negative Nelly's" out here and their comments seem to hang out in the back of my mind. It gets pretty frustrating.

Any advice would be great!

-Watcher

[jrhbull]

Jb Hunt is checking my background and liscense etc. for a southeast regional run and like you say there is so much trash talk on them its kind of hard to deceide which way to go.It all sounds good but thats a recruiters job right??

[Cluggy619]

bigdad7,

I'm supposed to start orientation with JB Hunt tomorrow, an "Ronnie" has me signed up with the PPG account. It sounds like the bennies are good, and on this account I'll be out 11 days and home 3 days. Have you heard of this account? I've read others post on this account, however, I was still wondering about this company. I've read just about as many pros as cons.

I'm know there's a lot of drivers that had a bad experience with many of the companies out here, it's just the "negative Nelly's" out here and their comments seem to hang out in the back of my mind. It gets pretty frustrating.

Any advice would be great!

-Watcher

Jb Hunt is checking my background and liscense etc. for a southeast regional run and like you say there is so much trash talk on them its kind of hard to deceide which way to go.It all sounds good but thats a recruiters job right??

Neither one of you listened when people warned you, and both of you are being checked out by JB before orientation. You both don't want to hear it when it's bad.

You only want to hear the positive to be able to justify your decision.

Otherwise, you would have gone somewhere else.

Good luck with your decisions. Come back and let us know how things go.

[jrhbull]

I dont have any other option.Ive applied alot of places and Jb Hunt is the only one fiving me any feed back.I have no job what else should i do??

[Watcher]

I'm not actually sure I should sign up, wife wants me to find something local, says she and the kids won't be able to handle me coming home every other weekend again. She's afraid I'll get screwed like I did with Averitt, and my truck downtime will endup counting as my restart.

Personally I was gullable at that time because I was green, now I know better and there are better companies out there that will treat their drivers better. I received a letter from JB Hunt yesterday afternoon reminding me that my orientation was scheduled on the 29th! Heeeelllloooo? I know we had everything scheduled for this morning. And now after chatting with my wife about it, she's wanting to go back to work 3 days a week in stead of me being gone so long all the time. *(what a headache this has turned out to be)

jrbull

It sounds like you're settling for the 1st job out there. Belileve me there are a ton of jobs out there, you just need to do your work in researching them. I just wanted to check out JB Hunt because the opportunities they have for going local in my area... now I know there are others in my area, but I need the bennies asap, due to Rx costs and I've got little kids that need to be covered because they get sick at the most inopportune times (luckily wife is an RN).

Sure I can look somewhere else, infact...I may have to just due to my families immediate needs at this time.

Don't sell yourself short, keep looking if you're having second thoughts, if at the end you actually can't find anything that fits your needs at the moment... JB Hunt will always be there. There not leaving anytime soon.
(besides, if you end up deciding on JB Hunt in the future, you can tell them it was because of Craig (AKA "Sheepdancer").

Anyway, Best of Luck to you...I've got to get going.

-Watcher

[BigWheels]

I'm not actually sure I should sign up, wife wants me to find something local, says she and the kids won't be able to handle me coming home every other weekend again....And now after chatting with my wife about it, she's wanting to go back to work 3 days a week in stead of me being gone so long all the time. *(what a headache this has turned out to be)

Watcher, sounds like OTR--even dedicated--may not be the right thing to do right now. Keep your head up and keep looking--you never know where a local driving job or even a dedicated account that brings you through the home every couple-of-days might pop up.

[jrhbull]

I have found a local job within about 40 minutes drive from home.12 hr shifts home everyday 2 days off one week then 3 days off next week and 1 week end a month.Full benefits so im going there todau well see what happens.But The pickins are slim considering i have no job.But i see what your saying Watcher about JB Hunt

[bigdad7]

so far so good ....no computer on truck and no babysitting for the time being ...only had a partial ld to deliver is south corolina almost 1200 miles ...was first one at const site took bout 1.5 hours to tailgate ...nice workout had to wait bout 5 hrs for backhaul everything fungled from holiday which i was paid for ....back haul was almost 1300 miles with dh and then an 80 mile dh back to parsons and home ....chek for 5 days out almost 1200 dollars only bad thing is ac went out but i didnt report it til i got home....don't particularly enjoy downtime away from home when not neccessary....kinda nice no hand holding i make my own apt with cosignees in fact on back haul all i got from my dispatcher was a ld number and phone number to the broker with ins call us when u r ld and unlded.....is good practice to become an o/o once i save up enough money to purchase a truck outrite....so far all has been peachy on the dedicated side....pm me if you have any ? but i am only on the computer 2 days a week to answer