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    Quote Originally Posted by KA5PIU View Post
    Hello.

    I have had to back a truck up nearly a mile. ;)
    Sorry people but it comes with the job.
    Cowthief, that means you did pass J.B. Hunt's backing-up class.
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    Quote Originally Posted by W7XF View Post
    Cowthief, that means you did pass J.B. Hunt's backing-up class.
    Ha ha ha eeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww!

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    Quote Originally Posted by W7XF View Post
    Cowthief, that means you did pass J.B. Hunt's backing-up class.
    I'm trying to figure out where the part about the blackhawk helicopter gets inserted into the equation by Rudy .....

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    Quote Originally Posted by VE7DCW View Post
    I'm trying to figure out where the part about the blackhawk helicopter gets inserted into the equation by Rudy .....
    Rudy's given up on the Blackhawk and gone over to a Bell Model 47.

    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by W7XF View Post
    Cowthief, that means you did pass J.B. Hunt's backing-up class.
    Is JB Hunt like the scourge of the trucking industry or something? There's a truck stop not far from me that I used to buy gas from because it was cheap. They always had a sign on the door telling JB Hunt drivers they were not welcome.

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    Quote Originally Posted by N2KKM View Post
    Is JB Hunt like the scourge of the trucking industry or something? There's a truck stop not far from me that I used to buy gas from because it was cheap. They always had a sign on the door telling JB Hunt drivers they were not welcome.
    Hunt has the highest driver turnover in the industry because they have a reputation for treating their drivers like shit. As a result, they'll hire anyone and end up with the dregs of the driver pool, the drivers who can't get a job anywhere else. Think about what your average truck driver is like, then think about what the dregs of that...community must be like and you'll get an idea of who drives for Hunt.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    Hunt has the highest driver turnover in the industry because they have a reputation for treating their drivers like shit. As a result, they'll hire anyone and end up with the dregs of the driver pool, the drivers who can't get a job anywhere else. Think about what your average truck driver is like, then think about what the dregs of that...community must be like and you'll get an idea of who drives for Hunt.
    Wow. Sincerely, I never would have expected to hear that about J.B. Hunt. When I'm on the highway, it's those trucks that always seem to be the most courteous and safest drivers. They never try to pass another truck on an upgrade (meaning that they won't pass and will block the road), they never seem to be in an inordinately long convoy, they always signal appropriately, and don't even seem to tailgate inappropriately. I've also heard this from at least one other source. Again....WOW...THAT's who those guys are? Well, maybe, but still...I'd much rather be on a highway filled with J.B. Hunt trucks that any other.
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    Quote Originally Posted by N2KKM View Post
    Is JB Hunt like the scourge of the trucking industry or something? There's a truck stop not far from me that I used to buy gas from because it was cheap. They always had a sign on the door telling JB Hunt drivers they were not welcome.
    Kelli... you're talking about Jim's there in Buffalo. JB Hunt WAS banned there years ago due to a spat between management and JB Hunt's fuel department. NY State Police started to end that ban that winter when they forced Jim's to allow JB drivers to park there while the Thruway was closed due to snow. But, the policy ended when NY refused to renew their fuel sales licences until they rescinded the no JB policy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by W7XF View Post
    Kelli... you're talking about Jim's there in Buffalo. JB Hunt WAS banned there years ago due to a spat between management and JB Hunt's fuel department. NY State Police started to end that ban that winter when they forced Jim's to allow JB drivers to park there while the Thruway was closed due to snow. But, the policy ended when NY refused to renew their fuel sales licences until they rescinded the no JB policy.
    Yep, that would be the place. I always wondered what that was about. It seemed like a pretty harsh thing to post on your door.

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    Quote Originally Posted by N2KKM View Post
    Is JB Hunt like the scourge of the trucking industry or something? There's a truck stop not far from me that I used to buy gas from because it was cheap. They always had a sign on the door telling JB Hunt drivers they were not welcome.
    Well, I did hear from a driver from a competing firm that J.B. Hunt was an acronym, which stands for JOHN BOY HAS US N---ERS TRUCKING.
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