He Changed Transportation in the USA

[greyhounds]

He was an Arkansas truck driver who built an empire.

J.B. Hunt has passed away.

http://fleetowner.com/news/topstory/hunt_legend_passes/

To me, he was the Jim Hill of trucking. And for the record, he was savy enough to embrace intermodal. Today the largest business unit at the company he founded is the intermodal operation. It provided 42% of the revenue and 45% of the profit in 3rd quater 2006.

I don’t think he wasted a second of his 79 years on This Earth.

R.I.P. Mr. Hunt. You made it count and did some good.

[J_Edgar]

He was an Arkansas truck driver who built an empire.

J.B. Hunt has passed away.

http://fleetowner.com/news/topstory/hunt_legend_passes/

To me, he was the Jim Hill of tucking. And for the record, he was savy enough to embrace intermodal. Today the largest business unit at the company he founded is the intermodal operation. It provided 42% of the revenue and 45% of the profit in 3rd quater 2006.

I don’t think he wasted a second of his 79 years on This Earth.

R.I.P. Mr. Hunt. You made it count and did some good.

Amen

[Anonymous]

J.B. Hunt would have made a great modern day railroad barron, if only he had been given the chance…[sigh]

[zapp]

Here’s some trivia for ya:

Does anyone know why JB painted his trucks that awful light beige with burnt orange frame rails?

[tpacel]

So the trucks looked like they belonged to Schneider National’s fleet when they flip over?

[greyhounds]

Here’s some trivia for ya:

Does anyone know why JB painted his trucks that awful light beige with burnt orange frame rails?

Please tell us.

[AntonioFP45]

I wonder what it would have been like if someone of his talents had been at CSX’'s helm years back instead of John Snow? CSX might have winded up more like the healthier NS.

But hindsight’s always 20/20.

[RABEL]

I wonder what it would have been like if someone of his talents had been at CSX’'s helm years back instead of John Snow?

Low paid ill trained non Union Employees and an infamous Locomotive lease/purchase plan.[?]

[zapp]

Answer is: Because it was the cheapest color in International Harvestors inventory at the time. Talk about pinching pennies!

[mudchicken]

(1) Not bad for a guy who started out hauling chicken feed.

(2) Assume Haverty and Krebs will be at the funeral? (esp. big Mike)

[senshi]

So the trucks looked like they belonged to Schneider National’s fleet when they flip over?

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Oh, my. As a son of a trucker this made me laugh so hard.

Any way, on topic I agree that Hunt would have been a rail barron to recon with if he were born 50-75 yrs. before he was.

[AntonioFP45]

I wonder what it would have been like if someone of his talents had been at CSX’'s helm years back instead of John Snow?

Low paid ill trained non Union Employees and an infamous Locomotive lease/purchase plan.[?]

Rabel,

I agree that he would have likely tried to it, but it don’t you think that with the current railroad unions he would have been smart enough to work with them as he would not have had much of a choice? Seems

[AntonioFP45]

I wonder what it would have been like if someone of his talents had been at CSX’'s helm years back instead of John Snow?

Low paid ill trained non Union Employees and an infamous Locomotive lease/purchase plan.[?]

Rabel,

I agree that he would have likely tried to it, but it don’t you think that with the current railroad unions he would have been smart enough to work with them as he would not have had much of a choice? Seems like he had a more realistic grasp of the inner workings of the transporation industry than Snow did.