Founded by Johnnie Bryan Hunt and Johnelle Hunt in 1961
With 60 years of industry experience, J.B. Hunt has grown from five trucks and seven trailers to a Fortune 500 company providing a variety of services for customers throughout the continental United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Visibility is one of the challenges in the Transportation Logistics industry. Having visibility to equipment is critical in reducing the cost and providing efficient carbon friendly transportation logistics network.
At JB Hunt, we needed to modernize how we store, surface, and react to streaming telemetry data for well over 100,000 assets, including trucks, trailers, and containers. Neo4j AuraDB enables flexibility and performance in storing information from many disparate sources and vendors into a unified data model for use in daily operations.
Moreover, it positions us to grow our graph, use cases, and capabilities as we continue our path to digital transformation. Our current architecture leverages the intake of streaming data from Kafka, writes telemetry graphs to our Neo4j instance, surfaces that data via APIs, and reacts to events with KSQL streams. We’ll present our use case, data models, and infrastructure, showing you how these technologies work in concert to provide the data and insights required to remain competitive in an ever-changing market.
$1 Trillion spent on U.S. Transportation every year and no one knows where their stuff is.
Currently, we are piloting numerous alternative fuel sources and have committed to converting 25% of our day cab and straight truck fleet to alternative fuels by 2035. This goal is just the beginning—J.B. Hunt envisions a future in which our entire fleet is powered by low-carbon alternative fuel sources.