Congratulations to Earl Vandale for winning the Central Region Driver of the Month for July! Earl has been with JB Hunt for two and a half years and is a driver on our Masterbrand Cabinets Account in Ferdinand, IN. Earl's statistics and level of service have been impeccable since he has been with us. This includes zero collisions and zero injuries on very demanding and labor intensive account! Earl has shown the willingness to help out with whatever and whoever he can. Congratulations Earl!
Below is the write-up from the Masterbrand Management Team:
Earl has been part of the Masterbrand team since the start up in February. Before joining JB Hunt and the Masterbrand team Earl worked for over a year as a trainer for “USA Truck”, Earl has been trucking since 1989 (26 years). In his spare time Earl enjoys spending time muddin’ around in his Jeep Wrangler that he has built to “perfection for the occasion” with his three sons and wife Pamela, Earl is also a Master Mason and a Shriner.
Earl was recently featured in the June issue of “National Truckin’ Magazine”, his article was titled “Beautiful Flaws” and was a story about his trucking career, see attached picture below. Before starting his career in transportation Earl spent four years in the US Army doing Communication Switchboard Repair work. In his short time with the Masterbrand account Leroy has not only thrived to work hard and make a name for himself but also has shown an incredible will to be a Team player and help MasterBrand, the Management Team and his customers come to appreciate the value that JB Hunt can bring to the table. In the sections below we broke out why Skip is not only the driver of the month for MasterBrand but why he should be for the Central Region as well!
Safety: Since the start up Earl has delivered too many difficult locations all over the US. Earl has not once complained about the tight congested areas he delivers into and manages to keep from jeopardizing his and the surrounding public’s safety while doing so. Earl has been one of the instrumental reasons why this fleet is on the verge of reaching our longest Safety streaks to date, 60 days. Earl also has had multiple TEAM Inspections from different managers with everything being as clean as the 1st day he received his equipment. Across the board Earl has excelled in safety and will continue to keep it his number one priority.
Service: Service, undoubtedly the strictest measure to which MasterBrand holds us accountable has been one of the largest talking points. Service will make us be successful and grow for years to come or it will ruin this fleet and cause us to lose everything. Customers have repeatedly complimented on Earl:
“Very Very Good Driver!! Best driver yet!”
“Great Service! Driver was Awesome, Super Helpful!”
Fortunately the testimony does not end there, Masterbrand has a certain set of customers known as “Preferred Customers” who carry a lot of weight within Masterbrand and we can proudly say that Earl has been a consistent driving factor to our 100% on time to Planned Delivery Date (PDD) since the start. Having someone on the fleet like Earl, who has consistently met his difficult appointment times, -on time- and has serviced our customer with a great attitude, has redeemed us from a lot of early mistakes.
In addition to Earl’s great work ethic he has not ever missed a delivery to his PDD appointment due to any fault of his own. In fact, there have been times when Earl willingly forfeited his 34 hour break at home to help our fleet out knowing that freight was tight and management needed a leader to step in and help out.
Month of July Achievements Recap!
Preventable Events -- 0
Non-Preventable Events -- 0
W/C -- 0
Fuel Compliance -- 100%
MPG Average -- 7.08 MPG
Service Failures -- 0
Missing Logs -- 0
Customer Compliments -- 2
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