Happy Anniversary Tyler Hall!

Congratulations to Tyler Hall as today marks his 3yr Anniversary with JBH. Tyler graduated from Bradley University with a Bachelors in Marketing and currently is enrolled in Ball Sate University’s online Masters of Business Administration program. Tyler hired on at C&S Wholesale Grocers in Yorktown, IN in September 2013 as a night operations supervisor. He then promoted to C&S Account Manager in September 2014, then promoted on to Account Manager at Champion Windows in January 2015. Tyler has accepted a promotion to Financial Analyst and will be moving to our corporate office in Lowell, AR supporting Sr. Management later this year. Happy Anniversary, Tyler!

 

Happy Anniversary Troy Smith!

Happy Anniversary Troy Smith!  Troy is currently our Logistics Coordinator for Home Depot Van Buren. He manages the daily outbound and inbound volume for a multi-million dollar account. The success in 2015 and 2016 can be attributed to many things, but one crucial key is Troy.  Troy responsibility includes planning over 100 drivers daily, securing 3PL, managing utilization and monitoring on-time service.

Troy is a graduate of The Ohio State University, a history & sports enthusiast and will destroy anybody in a FPS (If you need to ask, then he doesn’t have time for you).

Again, Thank You Troy. Home Depot Van Buren wouldn’t be where it is today without you.

Happy Anniversary Brandon Denison!

 

Congratulations to Brandon Denison, as Saturday September 25th marked his milestone 10 year Anniversary!! Brandon is a graduate of Purdue University and began his career with J.B. Hunt as an Account Manager at Quaker Oats for our Indianapolis and Cedar Rapids, IA fleets. In addition to the Quaker fleets, Brandon managed Electrolux, Merchant Metals, and MasterBrand Cabinets during his tenure at Quaker. In December 2012, Brandon took on the challenge of managing our account with Pet Supplies Plus in Seymour, IN. Brandon has done an excellent job building a great team atmosphere and leading the account to be a great success. Thank you Brandon and congrats on 10 years with JB Hunt!

Happy Anniversary Chelsi Cleveland!

Happy Anniversary to Chelsi Cleveland!  Chelsi is a freight planner at the PPG account in Pittsburgh PA.   Chelsi handles all flat glass operations, freight planning, and customer service for PPG.   Chelsi came to JB Hunt from California State University with a degree in Business Administration and Management.

In her spare time Chelsi enjoys spending time with her two children, Peyten and Colten, as well as her husband Cody.  Thanks for all your hard work Chelsi and Happy Anniversary!!

Happy Anniversary James Westerfeld!

James has been an asset to the company from day one. He started out working the window at Walmart in Johnstown, NY back in 2008. Since then, he ran our Blue Seal Feeds account in Sangerfield, NY, moved to FMS in Albany, and has been a part of the team at Family Dollar Rome for the past 5 years. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication, and congratulations on your 8-year anniversary with JB Hunt!

Driver Appreciation at Chep Indianapolis

CHEP in Indianapolis, IN celebrated driver appreciation week this week.  We kicked of the week by handing out the hats, cards and some rain coats.  We handed out a bag of tools in the middle of the week.  We finished up the week with a great cookout and handed out new flashlights.  The General Manager of our Chep Client Management Team (Jody Duffy) and Operations Manager Brian Tabor were also on-site to talk to our driving team and offer appreciation.  We have a great fleet of drivers and we had a great driver appreciation week.  Thanks Chep Indy drivers for all you do!

 

The Chep Indianapolis Team:  Account Manager: Jerry White; Operations Supervisors: Scott Dorsey & Michael Johnson; Driving Team: Ontario Anderson, Derald Callahan, James Good, Eugene Hopkins, Mark Little, Randy McIntosh, Jon Miles, Trevell Parker, David Patterson, Scott Roberts, Zakaria Sako, James Sanders, Michael Sullivan, Jerry Sweany, Ray Ullrich and Myron Washington

 

 

Happy Anniversary Raymond Colio!

Today marks Raymond Colio's 2nd Anniversary.  Raymond started as a DMIT at the PPG Account in Pittsburgh PA.  He is currently serving as an Operations Supervisor for the PPG Global and PPG Regional Ohio Fleet.  Ray came to JB Hunt from Duquesne University with a degree in Supply Chain Management.

In his spare time Ray spends time with his family and is the Can Jam Champion of the PPG Account.  Thanks for all your hard work Ray and Happy Anniversary!

Driver Appreciation at Quaker!

The Quaker account spent the afternoon cooking out burgers and hot dogs for drivers as they ended their shift or were just coming on duty.  Chef Leigha ran the grill, and had all the fixings.  Frito Lay’s chips, chili for chili dogs and sauté peppers for a little extra kick.  Even though her banner did not show up Leigha made her own signs to show the drivers how much they mean to her and the company.  Leigha is also planning on cooking breakfast one-day next week, which all the drivers are excited for. 

Food table

  Professional driver Michael “Moose” Miller with AM Leigha Rutan

 From left to right Mike Heron, Leigha Rutan and Jon Brennen

Professional Driver Tim McElhany

Driver Appreciation at Home Depot Van Buren!

Home Depot – Van Buren did well in celebrating Driver Appreciation Week with events everyday with cook outs all week. The weather came through for the team and they were able to get out to enjoy some BBQ. Here Sam Djung (TGM) and Casey Sullenberger (THD – Transportation Manager) are keeping Joe Zieroff (ZIEJ7) and Josh Castle (CASJ34)at one of this week’s cook outs. Seen in the background cooking up lunch is Jeremy Reinhart (THD – Trans. Sup) and Troy Smith (Logistics Coordinator) coming up from Freight Manager – Pick Up screen where he keeps the drivers happy to also enjoy some burgers.

Not only did they do a fantastic job of getting out with their drivers on the yard with the cook outs they had daily raffles. The account decided to go big on a few raffles and give three drivers iPad Mini’s. Congrats to Rob Goulet (GOUR), Muhammad Ibrahim (IBRM0), Jay Shope (SHOJ53) on being this year’s big winners of the iPads!!!

Driver Appreciation at Ellwood City Forge!

Account Manager Dana Crosby has done everything possible this month to show his fleet how appreciated they are.  2016 Driver Appreciation at Ellwood City Forge has been highlighted by sweatshirts, hats and hand written cards. In addition, drivers are getting reflective safety shirts for hitting 1 year injury free.  Great job Ellwood City team!

Ellwood City Driving Team: Scott Gilson, Tim Craig, Carl Vickinovac, Brad Milliron, Daniel Taufer and George Blazzo.  Not pictured Daniel Abersold

Driver Appreciation at MasterBrand!

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Following the kick-off to driver appreciation week, the drivers have been anxiously awaiting to make it to the office.  So much anticipation that the management team received calls hours in advance requesting their meals to be ready and prepared for them upon their arrival.

Left to Right- Jeff Sands & Adam Martindale

In addition to the meals, drivers have enjoyed challenging their managers to a game of bean bag toss and spending quality time in the office.

Left to Right- Byron Cooper, Tabom Some, Richard Doucette

It is always exciting to see our drivers engaged when the team does something special for the group.  It has also been a great joy seeing the families of the drivers and managers poor out and participate in this weeklong event. At the end of day two nothing stole the show more than Justin Baker, son of Scotty Baker (BAKS10), challenging his father and Garek to a round of “Pie Face!”. In this game players place whip cream on a mechanical lever.  As the player twist the handle, they never know when it will release and throw the whipped cream in the player’s face.  As with most games there can only be one winner……..needless to say Justin proudly came out on top.

Left to Right- Scotty Baker & Justin Baker, Justin Baker, Garek Dunham

Getting to Know - Garey Carson - Professional Driver - Cornerstone

Account Manager Sean Maines rode along with Garey Carson on September 15th, here are a few of the things he wanted to share about Garey:

• He has bee with JB Hunt since March of 2014
• He started driving career hauling steel in 1977 after struggling to find a job that fit his education
• Decided to switch to hauling milk from northern Ohio to Atlanta, GA twice a week
• Retired school teacher
• Member of a gun club and enjoys shooting practice with his kids
• Currently teaching his 15-year old son the Smith System before he gets his permit
• Had two Harley Davidsons before they were cool
• Enjoys posting that he is the #1 driver on his fleet on Facebook for family and friends to see.
  • He is on a one driver fleet

Driver Appreciation at Cenral Farm & Garden!

 

Central Farm & Garden is known for being one of the most creative and driver dedicated accounts in the Tabor Subregion.  2016 has been more of the same!  For Driver Appreciation week they handed out JB Hunt hats on Tuesday.  On Wednesday, they presented the drivers with gift bags which was a small waste basket to fit in their trucks containing Lysol wipes, ink pens, scientific calculator, driver clipboards, air fresheners, a Subway giftcard, and our personal favorite....Big League Chew bubble gum.  On Thursday, drivers were given JB Hunt embroidered polo shirts. Finally on Friday each driver will receive a personalized plaque with their name and years of service along with a personalized Thank You card.  The CFG team will also break out the grill on Friday to cook lunch for the team.

Driver Appreciation Home Depot Monroe!

THD Monroe started off the week right as they hosted over 100 drivers and family members at ArmCo Park in Lebanon, OH. The events of the day included corn hole, whiffle ball, a bounce house for the kids but also Cincinnati’s famous BBQ – Jim Dandy’s.

 

To say that the day was a good one for Ken Luther would be an understatement, he not only won in corn hole but was also named as the Home Depot – Monroe Spring Surge Driver of the Year. Zach Oakes and Ross Holden are still getting ribbed by Ken Luther (LUTK) by the whipping he put on them at the much anticipated corn hole game.

 

Not only did the account do a great job on starting the week out well with the cook out but they maintained the momentum throughout the week. The account had numerous giveaways from account specific polo shirts to soft sided coolers and duffle bags. You will see Jeremy joking around with John Ellsworth (ELLJ5) during the account’s initiative to help all drivers hook up and perform their pre-trips on Thursday.

 

Driver Appreciation at Family Dollar Ashley!

The FD Ashley Team put together lunch for drivers as they came in on Monday and Tuesday as they picked up their loads.  Monday featured Jimmy John’s sub’s while Tuesday’s lunch was BBQ pork and smoked chicken wings.  All the drivers that came through to eat also had a chance to enter a contest to win some nice swag.  They had to write down the 5 Smith System keys to be eligible for the drawing at the end of the week.  Prizes included a 19” TV, lawn chair, two thermal mugs, and new cooler (with wheels) that will fit perfect in the truck.  Great job team FD for making this all happen. 

Driver Appreciation at Southern States Louisville!

 

Monday and Tuesday were very good days to show our appreciation to our drivers here in Louisville at Southern States.  Weather was great and the food was good.  Our drivers enjoyed the hamburgers, hot dogs, baked beans, potato salad, chips and cookies.  We presented our drivers with their storage clip boards, heated coffee mug, LED flashlight and J B Hunt hats.   The customer was very impressed with the set up and commented on how good everything turned out.    

Happy Anniversary Lisa Winters!

Please join us in congratulating Lisa Winters for 5 wonderful years with JB Hunt & Home Depot Monroe! Lisa’s warm welcome in the office, diligence in care for every driver concern, and overall attitude to help out the account and customer in any way she can is greatly respected among her peers. She has been the rock at an account that has seen a few faces come and go and has taken a few changes in stride in her schedule and responsibilities as the account has also changed from 40 trucks to nearly 90. Congrats Lisa on a great run in Monroe!

Driver Appreciation at Falcon Packaging

Falcon Packaging in Covington, OH celebrated Driver Appreciation this week by doing lunch for the drivers and giving them all tool sets.  The drivers on this fleet deliver egg cartons throughout OH and IN.  These drivers do a fantastic job servicing this customer.  Enjoy your tool sets!

 

Congratulations to the Walker Family!

Congratulations to Tracy Walker and Family on the birth of their granddaughter, Avery Maylynn Louka.  Avery was born last evening, at 7:53 pm weighing 7 pounds and 14 oz.  Everyone is doing great.  Congrats once again!

 

Driver Appreciation at Family Dollar Morehead!

Tuesday was a nice day at Family Dollar Morehead where we were able to work outside in beautiful weather and spend time with our drivers. Our theme for the account is that we care about our drivers and we do. We spent the afternoon talking and laughing and having a good time. We didn't talk business, we just talked about the weather, kids, grandkids, motorcycles, fishing, things they like to do to unwind or have a good time. We ordered Domino's Pizza along with pop, candy and cakes. We purchased some cooling towels for them previously and wrapped them up in a pretty bags and bows to give to the drivers. We have several items on order for our drivers for their Driver appreciation goody bags which should be here by the end of this week. We plan on having dinner with them again next week to enjoy more of their company. Pictures below include: Larry Hughes, Tim Higgenbotham, Wesley Pennington, Greg Davis, Johnny Graybeal, Keith Aldridge and Dean Pratt. Not captured in print (yet) were Jimmy Burns, Kevin Zhek, Tom Weaver and Jeff Mullins. Thank you to our team!

American Heart Association - Heart Walk in Akron

On Saturday September 10^th, Soft Lite and Central Farm & Garden associates had the pleasure to participate in the American Heart Association - Heart Walk in Akron. This walk was organized by Soft-Lite Operations Supervisor who is a huge supporter for the American Heart Association.

 

With 21 total walkers we were able to raise $500.00 for this great organization. Everyone had a great time enjoying some outdoor activities and educating themselves on ways to live a healthier life style!

 

The entire JB Hunt crew and their families. Organizer Sue Mateo pictured on bottom left

 

Central Farm & Garden drivers Ed Yarber and Brett Hershey

 

Sue Mateo walking with Soft-Lite drivers Rob Starkey and Aaron Goodell

 

The entire crew was out in full force to support a great cause!

 

 

Happy Anniversary Michael Maier!

Mike is a graduate of The College at Brockport where he majored in Management with a focus in Supply Chain. He played professional hockey from 2009 – 2010 for CHH Txuri Urdin, competing in Spain's top league. Mike joined the JB Hunt team as a DMIT in 2014, moving to Arizona where he trained at the Amazon account. He soon became an Operations Supervisor for the Corsicana Bedding account. Mike recently returned home, taking a promotion to Account Manager in Rochester, NY, where he manages a team of 16 drivers for Jamestown Container Companies. Today marks his 2nd Anniversary with J.B. Hunt!

 

Happy Anniversary and Welcome to the Central region, Mike!

Congratulations Kerry Crockett on his Retirement!

(Dan Schoonover, Kerry, Ed Butler)

Wednesday September 14, 2016 will be Kerry Crockett’s last day at JB Hunt after 30 years, 1 month and six days. As a Safety Coordinator, Kerry has seen and heard it all. Kerry reminisced on how he has been working since he was 12 years old and not a day went by that he did not work. Here at JB Hunt, he has been able to travel different places he has met some very nice people and enjoyed his time here with the company. April 2017, Kerry and his wife will be celebrating 47 years of marriage. Someone asked, “How have you managed to stay married so long?” Kerry replied, “I’m always gone.” His plans after retirement include staying busy through the winter by moving vehicles to dealerships. However, when the weather warms up he plans to keep gardening and looks forward to traveling the country with his wife. Everyone here at the Louisville terminal and everyone else who has met you through JB Hunt, sure will miss you. Congratulations on your Retirement.

(Safety Manger Annette Coy with Kerry)

 

Driver Appreciation at Toyota

Who doesn’t love coming to work on Monday morning with eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits, gravy, muffins, roasted potatoes and hash brown casserole? Team Toyota catered the “Zak I am Fried Eggs and...” meal from Wild Eggs on Monday, Day 1 of Driver Appreciation Week. Nothing better than a hot meal, breakfast at that, to kick start Team Toyotas celebration on driver appreciation week. Day 1, Team Toyota’s drivers took off with full bellies, a new hat and some goods to hit the road! Stay tuned to more food and gifts from Team Toyota.

(Left to Right: Tom Riggi, Brian Sayles) Enjoying their Monday Breakfast!

Josh Mcmanaway filling up!