JB HUNT ripoff unfair business practicing lease trucks moving Lowell Arkansas
My wife started working for JB Hunt in Oct of 2004. I ride with her but I am handicapped. After working for the company for 7 months they offered her a lease truck. They said she would average 2500 miles per week. You also have 3 wks to back out of it. Those first 3 weeks she did real good but after that they would only give her 1800 to 2000 miles per week.
To break even fuel,ins,truck payment, It's 1800 miles per week. Some weeks she didn't even break even. We don't know if it's because she's a woman lease driver or what.
Then she got sick the doctor gave her a note saying unable to drive until released by an M.D. She called her driver manager He said he needed her Medical records, her doctor said all they needed was the note she wrote. So JB Hunt Inc fired her. She asked If she found a driver could he drive the truck to lowell ark. They said no they will come and get it.
She went 4 weeks without a pay check hauling JB Hunts freight for free. Jb Hunt cost us our vehicle credit and stole 3000.00 in escrows. Since then we have talked to other drivers they said similer things have happened to them. I just hope a lawyer reads this and we can do something about JB Hunt preying on drivers to get their freight hauled for free. I am giving my name because JB Hunt doesn't scare me because every thing i have said is true, I was there.
Bob
forsyth, Missouri
U.S.A.
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Elevenbravo
Houston,Texas,
U.S.A.
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#3Consumer Comment
Sat, August 11, 2007
I'm having similar problems with another major trucking company, only worse, the truck they leased me broke down, and I will probably be faced with a repo, and then end up paying to fix their truck?
I believe these companies are making it too easy to lease used trucks when they know how expensive it is to operate. Escrow comes no where near 3 to 4 weeks income, or up to 20K in repairs for major engine work.
Kind of odd, considering they have the money to get their drivers out of financial trouble, instead of trying to profit off of their naiveness? There is a simple test to perform if a trucking company is utilizing your time effectively.
Take each load and determine how much time it took you from the time available to pick up a load, until the time you deliver. Divide that number by 168 (the amount of hours in a week) and you get your "utilization" percent. Now do a simple algebraic equation that compares that ratio of time over the miles paid against the remaining available time for the week, and you will get the maximum number of miles you will run that week at that utilization rate.
What this does is show how they manage your off time, and when all drivers start doing this, we can go to their customers and say this is how you are rewarding this company with your business.
I'm not talking about a load here or there to get you "in a good freight lane". I'm talking about using software or plain old mismanagement where trends are showing that 40 to 60 percent of the time you get loads that will net you less than 2500 miles a week.
You have to eliminate the source of income from "dumb drivers"? I think a lot of drivers do not say anything because they do not want to jeopardize their jobs. Dp office personnel with egos manipulate the system like some sort of morbid soap opera, when there are real people involved, not imaginary characters? Is this their way of entertainment to keep things from getting dull?
It could simply be mismanagement of time? They might be picking up loads from brokers off the internet with no regard of your off duty time, they only care if you make the delivery?
Do they have a pay scale where there are "short haul miles", but only if you are the "original driver" and you end up with the short end of the stick if you pick up the relay? Do you brag about drivers getting 3500 miles a week, when you know full well that involves at least 400-600 "out of route miles" and requires an average speed of 67 mph (pushing the patience of those state troopers tasked with HOS enforcement?)
We won't talk about lumpers, my head might explode (lol)?
If these companies are advertising that you will be successful, and you prove that they are incompetent of managing your time effectively, there should be plenty of lawyers willing to come to the aid of drivers and void their contracts for false advertising or is there another term for incompetence in contract performance?
Big companies don't hesitate to blame their drivers for "neglect"?
Have a great day.
Techfrmcape
Cape Girardeau,Missouri,
U.S.A.
It is true
#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Mon, July 30, 2007
The gender does not matter to J.B. Hunt, they will screw anyone..
I to went in to a contrat with them finding out that I had made a mistake going to a company that I thought was, at least half way decent. But as we all no, can find out J.B. Hunt is a very profitable trucking company. Money hungry is all I can say
I TO HOPE THAT A LAWYER GETS INVOLVED, I WILL BE ONE OF THE FIRST TO STAND UP.