JBS Beef Plant — Local services in Hyrum

Important Info to Help Your Trip Go Smoother ⸻

Arrival at the Gate • Pull up to the gate and provide your 7-digit load number (Usually starts with a 6). • You may receive additional instructions—please follow them carefully. • If you’re hoping for a better interaction, try arriving between 4:00 PM and 12:00 AM, when guards tend to be more easygoing. (Swing-shift)

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Dropping Your Trailer • Before entry, slide tandems all the way to the rear. • Set your reefer temperature to 25°F or 28°F, depending on the season. • Drop your trailer as instructed.

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If Your Bills Aren’t Ready (Security will let you know) • You can wait in the bobtail lot or head to the Maverik gas station down the road. • The wait typically isn’t long, depending on your “out-by” time. • Security will add you to the courtesy call list then call you when your bills are ready. • You can ask for their number, and they should provide it to you.

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Picking Up Your Bills • Go to the security office. • Present your driver’s license. • Sign your bills of lading. • Only after signing should you pick up your trailer.

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Scale Instructions • Once hooked up, stop before the scale—not on it. • Check in with security again before pulling onto the scale, if you’re weighing out. • The scale is free to use and is recalibrated roughly every 6 months, so it’s usually accurate.

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Weight Issues & Reworks • If your load is too heavy in the front, move your tandems all the way forward. Slide back if heavy on the rear. • If the weight still isn’t right, a dock door can be assigned for rework. • Reworks are free.

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Special Note – Reefer Set to -10°F • If your trailer is set to -10°F, another facility handles that. • A driver will retrieve the trailer from there and bring it back here— JBS does not have the equipment to maintain -10°F on-site.

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Just a Reminder • JBS = “Just Blame Security” 😄 Security doesn’t control everything—they’re just the middleman. They often need to go through multiple departments (shipping, billing) before they get to you.

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Final Tips • Listen carefully to instructions—they’re trying to help, even if some seem frustrated. • Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Most guards will do their best to assist.

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Drive Safe Out There!

Thanks for your patience and professionalism. Your day will go smoother when everyone works...

I won't even start on the horrendous smell around this place, let me just tell you this much: it is unbelievable, made me reconsider my omnyvority, vegan diet sounds very appealing to me now.

Came in at 11am, checked in with the guard, per instructions, dropped the trailer inside the facility and bob tailed to the shipping office. Over there was told that they "haven't received the Bill of Lading for that load number", instructed to park the bob tail at the gates and "come back and check in an hour".

At noon walked the thousand feet to the office and was told that the BOL hasn't come in yet, "come back and check in an hour".

At 1pm walked back to them, was told the same thing at which I asked if it's possible that they call me whenever the load is ready. They told me that " no, we don't call drivers, but they're more than welcome to come inside and check their load status every hour or so". Gotta love the corporate language " more than welcome".

Went back at 1:40pm, load not ready.

At 2:20pm I started to wonder if that was some kind of prank, or evil torture or something just as weird because there were more people just like me that I could see jumping out their bob tails every thirty minutes and then coming back empty handed.

I went to the shipping office thirteen times. No load.

Before I went back to the shipping office the last time at 11:45pm I was praying they close shop till morning because I realized couldn't endure a whole night of this torture without snapping some necks.

Thank God, they said "no, we don't have that BOL and there will be no more BOLs until morning" so I could go to sleep like a normal person.

In the morning I went back a few more times, still no load. My boss told me to go somewhere else because he had found another load. Guess what: they would not let me take my trailer out of there because the BOL had actually came in. It was 11am, I had been sitting there for 24 hours.

I ended up lying to them that there was another driver from our company coming in to take the load because I had mechanical problems with my truck so they let me go. Hope I never have to pick up a load...

They get high quality beef, they take care of the animals and slaughter them in a humane way, USDA inspects everything! Warning: the scale is narrow, people have smash tractors or trailers on the scale. The scale is a certified scale, if you don't like it Maverik has a CAT scale that you can use. JBS has lots trailers coming in and out, of course it takes a while to get trailers loaded. Security is on charge of making sure that the loads go to the right people and that the people know what to do. You have to check in and go in the security office by the scales, they tell you what trailer you are picking up and even if you know your trailer they have to make sure, there is expensive beef in those trailers they can't risk those getting stolen. They ask you to hook up to your trailer, break the seal and grab the paperwork in the back, adjust your tandems and pull up to the scales, come in and tell them what the reefer is set to and running at and you give them the broken seal and the paperwork that was in the back, then they write down your driver's license info and write down some on the things on your BOL. That's why you can't pick up your trailer if you know, they have to verify that is your load and they need to give you these exact instructions. Yes it's a tedious task, but it helps things run smoothly. I am glad knowing that a facility has security that...