J.B. Hunt, 79, Founder of Large Trucking Firm
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Johnnie Bryan Hunt, a former truck driver who founded one of the nation’s largest trucking companies, died Thursday at 79 at an Arkansas hospital following a fall. He was 79.
A sharecropper’s son, Hunt began J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. in 1969 with five tractors and seven trailers. By 2004, when Hunt stepped down as the company’s senior chairman, the company was a billion-dollar business with more than 16,000 employees and a fleet of some 11,000 trucks.
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