J. B. HUNT (University of Arkansas Press Series in Business History) [Hardcover]

MARVIN SCHWARTZ (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1557282501 | ISBN-13: 978-1557282507 | Publication Date: July 1, 1992

The story of the remarkable achievements of the Hunt corporation and its invincibly optimistic founder, Johnnie Bryan Hunt. From numerous interviews and countless documents, Schwartz has distilled the illuminating details of Hunt's corporate strategy into an entertaining and enlightening biography and business history.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In a banal tribute, Schwartz ( In Service to America ) spins an American success story: with hard work, a devoted wife and an eye on the Bible, Johnnie Bryan Hunt, a Depression-era Baptist sharecropper, has parlayed a rice-hull poultry-litter business into a 5000-unit national tractor-trailer network employing 7000 drivers (who all get home for Christmas) and grossing some $600 million per annum. Reagan-era Interstate Commerce Commission deregulation caused problems for some truckers (accidents increased 29%) but Hunt found opportunity in the new availability of routes, customer access and free-market rates. Today, as a "core carrier" for Ford Motor, Champion Paper, General Foods et al., this Forbes 400 company's 65-year-old owner/executive still preaches dress-code morality to new employees ("I want to make millionaires of 100 employees before I turn 75") and looks forward to becoming "a major provider of transportation services in a global arena."
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 204 pages
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press (July 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557282501
• ISBN-13: 978-1557282507
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #965,330 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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