Good point!

 

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I think it had something to do with the curing of the meat or split hooves or I don't know something like that....But porkchops taste good,bacon taste good...

 

"mmmmmmm, bacon, aagghhhhh." quoted by the philosopher Homer J. Simpson.

 

:-)

 

In my humble opinion, if you have any self respect, you don't drive for JB.
Those that jump to defend it are usually JB drivers trying to
validate themselves. If you have the experience and JB is the best you can do,I feel sorry for you. But hey, pig is happy in that brown matter,
because it does not know any better. :withstupid:

 

Let me ask you this in your "humble opinion.", continental.

Over here at JB, they bring in drivers to corporate who have been here a long time (15-20) years driving for us. Most of the time we get to have lunch with them and talk to them about how they succeeded over here. Just yesterday, I had lunch with a 19 year driver over here. He has about 2.5 million in his 401K and about to retire.
In your "humble opinion"...did he make the right career choice with JB Hunt? We have more 1,2 and 3 million mile drivers than any other company. Most of those were smart enough to put money in their 401k and JB Hunt stock. Most of them will retire very wealthy. Again...Did they make the right career choice?
Also, because investing for your retirement is probably the most important factor when choosing a career and a job.....Let me ask you this. How much are you going to have to live off of when you retire from your great employer? I tend to find that many of the guys who cut down the big companies dont even care about retirement benefits. They judge a job by their weekly paycheck and dont even invest for the future.

 

If you don't make enough to pay your bills how can you put money in your roth? Sheep I'm not driving yet and I don't say that to offend just a statement..But it is hard to decide on a company when so many complain about their jobs..Yes there are two sides and I'm starting to wonder if it's the class of the drivers or the companies.I'm already finding it hard to make ends meet and to take a chance on a company that may or may not pay off is worrisome..

 

Actually, in a mega company like such, its easy to have a truck go 500 miles a week and still make great money. If its ona great paying dedicated run, making, says $2.37/mi and it only goes 1200 miles in a week, who's making money? As an o/o, I'd love to have a truck that runs 1200 mi/wk at that rate and a driver at 42cpm. Subtract the driver's wage ($400-ish) from the gross ($2500-ish) and factor in operating costs, you see theres great profit. Considering mega carriers pay prices for trucks,tires, etc than a regular o/o like me, and you'll see even more profit.

But, this could happen at any mega carrier, and not necessarily bashes JB, just a point of view. I'm sure JB doesn't charge the same rate per mile for all shipments :wink:

 

I understand what you are saying. There isnt a trucking company out there where you cant find drivers who say they are horrible. Look at it this way. The majority of drivers and any company are making it work. The reason you hear so much negative about the bigger companies is due to simple math. The larger the company the more you are going to hear complaining. I like to use the 20% rule here. In any industry 20% are going to be complainers. Because of human nature and people generally like to complain more than praise, the ones who arent happy make way more noise. So you take a company like Swift with 15,000 drivers. 20% of 15,000 is 3000 drivers. 3000 unhappy drivers can make a lot of noise on the CB or online. On the other side of the coin. You could have a small company of 100 drivers. 20% of their drivers could be unhappy too....however, 20% of 100 is only 20 drivers. You would most likely never run into one of those drivers complaining. Most people who dont think about this ASSUME that just because they never hear anything bad about that small company, it must be a good one. They couldnt be more wrong.

You are just starting out in this business. My advice to you would be this. Quit listening to all the negative things about truck driving. Human nature dictates that negative people want to bring positive people down to their level. People who fail at jobs hate hearing about people who succeed at the same jobs. If you dwell on the negative and what the negative people tell you, you are setting yourself up for failure.
Personally what works for me, when I start a job. I dont need or want to know about the people who failed at the job. I want to know about the top earner in the company. That is my goal. A great example of this is my recruiting position. Hell, I can probably find more ex recruiters that would say this job sucks than truck drivers. Who cares about them.....Im just better than them and make it work. Funny story. My father comes from a Investment banking background. He is a Havard MBA and retired executive VP for Morgan Stanley. About 7 years ago he got bored with retirement and decided he wanted to go back to work. He started here as a recruiter. He lasted 6 months and quit. Said it was the hardest job he ever did and hated it. About that time, I decided I wanted to give it a try. He warned me how hard it was, but I saw the potential to do well over here....Im still here and love it. The point being this....I didnt even listen to the negativity of my father. I set goals for myself and met those goals and Im still doing well.

 

Thank you for the response..I'm Starting to realise and should have know being from the resturant world that whiners are everywhere..People choose their station in life and if you don't like it change it.