J.B. Hunt Reviews

Current Employee – been working at J.B. Hunt full-time for more than a year

Pros – Its a job if you need one quick and dont care what you get paid

Cons – You will be treated like crap. Pay sucks sometimes you end up getting paid $24 for a run that takes you 2 1/2 hours

Advice to Senior Management – Learn to communicate amongst each other

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at J.B. Hunt full-time for less than a year

Pros – Ability to work at different sites.

Cons – Too many chiefs.
No clear direction for employees or business.
The company's business model and management strategy is outdated.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at J.B. Hunt full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Lots of work
at Least its a job

Cons – Where do I start? Work and Life balance is terrible. They avoid paying for things like breakdowns. Often miss (avoid?) paying for extras like drop and hooks, unloading times. Too much power given to store associates in paperwork that effects pay. Pay is wrong all the time, yet that problem is never fixed, it just keeps happenning. Avoidance is the standard way to take on problems. If you are a problem child, or they even think you are, you are terminated. They have a really poor culture that just keeps on getting passed through as people play the game and move up by being quiet, Health and safety concerns at this location. No sick days, threaten you with firing. Bad insurance program.
They are terrified of unionization.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop plugging in newbies in both management and driving force. The avoidance factor is unreal there. Fix problems, but more importantly start listening to your employees, otherwise you'll stay a last resort. You should really think about fixing these issues, because the driving universe has the goods on you.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at J.B. Hunt

Pros – time off when you need it

Cons – unfair promotions, and unfair distribution of work

Advice to Senior Management – all employees are here to work and make a living, no driver should be struggling financially working for jb hunt

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at J.B. Hunt

Pros – The people are nice. The pay is decent. Vacation time is fair. They value health and wellness. Everyone has been there a long time.

Cons – Sometimes it feels you are a small fish in a big pond. It also takes forever to get anything done.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at J.B. Hunt

Pros – Pay and benefits are reasonable.

Cons – Lower management employees are treated with disrespect on a daily basis in an effort to improve performance or quality of service, and initiative is not appreciated.

Advice to Senior Management – The job is stressful enough without account and office managers scolding employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at J.B. Hunt

Pros – JBH is a strong company and will probably be around for years to come. Work life balance is ok to good and a couple of the IT managers are good people with good ethics and morals.

Cons – Senior management focuses on what benefits them, not necessarily the company. This lack of leadership and ethical standards has fostered a layer of managers that would not last long in a normal workplace. Some of the sharpest technical people have left the company for the sole reason of poor management.

Advice to Senior Management – People are a company's most valuable asset. I think the CIO has lost touch with the day to day workings of the IT department and doesn't see the downturn occuring.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at J.B. Hunt

Pros – J.B. Hunt is a decent place to work if you want to get a year of experience fresh out of college. The pay is on par with most entry level jobs for college grads. The benefits package is pretty decent also.

Cons – The management structure here is atrocious. People are promoted for doing a good job, which is not a bad thing. But some of these people have no idea of what it takes to be a leader, mentor, coach, etc. The management style is based on discipline and dismiss, rather than coach and correct. Upper management seems to make a lot of decisions based off emotions rather than logic. And beware of the Arkansas connection. It seems as if 85% of the management team has some connection to that state or school. If you're not one of them, you probably don't matter.

For anyone other than a first year college grad, the pay is ridiculous.

Advice to Senior Management – Respect your management team and stop treating them like children. Promote leaders, not just folks that do-gooders that don't have a clue on how to manage.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend