J.B. Hunt Flatbed Division Truck
I found this old picture from when I drove for J.B. Hunt‘s Flatbed Division. I made good money, but just about everything else about that job and this truck was bad. In this photo, I stopped at my cousin’s house just off of the interstate. I was probably looking for someone to feel sorry for me driving this cabover.
J.B. Hunt Flatbed Division Truck. Click to make bigger.
For those, not into trucking, a cab-over beats you to death, but they were much easier to get in and out of tight spots. This cab-over had a stretched out frame to make room for really long pieces on the trailer. This made the truck good for almost nothing, except occasionally hauling long stuff.
J.B. Hunt’s flatbed division has long disappeared, and rightfully so. This job ended when a driver came right out of their school with no experience and backed into the cab so hard it knocked the cab off of the frame, with me in the sleeper! Somehow the company decided his accident was my fault. They said I should have woke up and guided him in and that I should not have did some other things to him after he hit the truck and nearly killed me. Things were just never right with me and this company after that and I moved on. Ahh, the good ole’ days.
