The NEW Family Dollar - Morehead

Family Dollar Morehead has a new outlook and new people. We are all new to our positions, some of us brand new to JB Hunt. The atmosphere feels like a new Account Startup. With that being said we thought the best places to start with would be our Driver Trainers. On Sunday Jan. 31st we held a JB Hunt Driver Mentor Refresher Course. Attendees of the class:

Dustin Hatfield - Trainer

Anthony Warchol - Operations Manager

Rhonda Thacker - Account Manager

Ashley Haney - Operations Supervisor

Greg Thomas - Senior Driver Trainer

Jeff Mullins Sr. - Senior Driver Trainer

Robert Hines - Senior Driver Trainer

Family Dollar was gracious enough to let us use one of their training rooms equipped with a projector to enhance our training. Our day began around 8:30 am with donuts and drinks.

Training started at 9:00 am.  Being a refresher course for the Trainers, it was a learning experience for some of the office personnel. Dustin had spiral bound books made that will serve as a very useful tool for trainers and managers. Dustin had the agenda mapped out in the books.

The first half of our training consisted of an introduction to JB Hunt. With videos showing John and Jonelle, we learned about the dreams and reality of the birth of JB Hunt Inc. We talked about the standards for our Driver Mentors and driver trainee minimums.

From there we covered JBH policy standards and CSA. Our trainers are proud men who take pride in what they do. The offered suggestions and listened to advice from Dustin. We saw Safety Direct videos, JSA's and talked about Pre-Trip Inspections.

For lunch, Anthony picked up Subway. After a brief lunch break we were back to the grind. The 2nd half of our training consisted of Smith System, Shifting, Turns and Intersections and Close Quarter Maneuvers.

 The last sections of training we went over were HOS, Maintenance PeopleNet. We ended with an overview of JB Hunt specialized services.

In all we had a great day of training. Even though it ran from 9am to 5 PM the time was spent with questions and discussions and the time flew by. I think we all learned a few new things and look forward to more training sessions like this one.