Mike carnahan
Pineville,#2Author of original report
Sun, November 23, 2008
I just wanted to update everyone considering J. B. Hunt as an employer. I also wish to identify myself to give more credibility to the report. My name is Mike C, My driver number is (((ROR redacted))), and my Alpha Code is (((ROR redacted))). Now there is NO question that I am actually a current driver for J.B. Hunt. Well the situation here at J.B. Hunt has not got any better, in fact it has gotten worse. I am sitting again in Memphis, TN this time. I have been sitting for over 24 hours. The answer I get from dispatch is there is NO freight. I have 1600 miles this week and that looks like it is going to be it. Also in this past year, I have had 4 different fleet managers, that tells me something too. Please reconsider if you are thinking of coming to work for J.B. Hunt. They are no longer a good company to work for. You can not trust anything they tell you. They will lie to you in a heartbeat. I really do not understand why they do this because they certainly do not need any drivers. They cannot keep their drivers moving that they have employed already. I used to have a completely different image of this company, but they have proven to me that they are no longer a good company at all to work for. Admittedly there we are in tough economic circumstances, but all of the changes have taken place in the lower echelon of the company. You can look at the filings J.B. Hunt has filed with the Security and Exchange commision and see that Kirk Thompson and all the key employees are still making multi-million dollar salaries, and still have millions of more in stock options every year. Their salaries have not decreased at all. It is the little people at J.B. Hunt that have had the entire burden of the changes. Those executives are greedy and dishonest people and do not care one iota about their employees. They have proven that. CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.
Helene
Elgin,#3Consumer Suggestion
Sat, November 01, 2008
My cousin was truck driver after he got burned after being a security guard for years. His security guard experiences mirrored the experiences you are describing that are happening to you at J.B. Hunt. I had some similar experiences when I was a security guard myself and it sounds like to me the same yuppies that ran down our nation's economy with their crooked financial practices have infiltrated the trucking industry --the last place where independence and a hard-work ethic was valued and drivers could pretty much be their own persons, get a living wage and see a lot of the country. AGE DISCRIMINATION is the first order of business for these idiots. On one website, a yuppie CEO explained it like this: "If I can hire one 50-year old for $50,000 who can make me $100,000 or hire me two 20-years old for $12,000 each who can make me $100,000, I am going to have to go with the 20 year olds. The difference is that the 50-year old will not be as liable to make costly,financial mistakes like the 20-year olds first starting out. It was this sort of "race to the bottom" bean counter moronic logic that caused our American jobs to be outsourced to Third World slave labor sweatshops... And SKIMMING your pay and CHEATING you out of YOUR HARD-EARNED MONEY became a way of doing business as usual... The crooks in the private security business began to influence others, I guess when they have their yuppie power lunches ,etc. and network. I am sorry to hear that you are getting CHEATED and TREATED THIS WAY. Consider this whenever you vote.