Central Region Driver of the Month for May 2016 - John Simmons

Congratulations to John Simmons for winning Central Region Driver of the Month for May.  John has been with JB Hunt 2 years, and is one of the original drivers that assisted in starting up the Armour Eckrich Account in Indianapolis.  Armour Eckrich is one of the more difficult accounts in the region.  Our drivers take a linehaul of refrigerated product out to a meeting point where they do a transload onto an Armour refrigerated box truck.  This takes a tremendous amount of coordination as well as relationship between both drivers making this switch.  This switch is subject to what is going on with the elements, thus these have been done in rain, sleet, and snow.  John Simmons has done a fantastic job at servicing this customer and going the extra mile in doing whatever is asked of him.  Congratulations John!

 

 

 

Below is the write-up from Account Manager John Morgan:

 

John has a fantastic relationship with his customers in the Pennsylvania and Ohio markets. John has received multiple compliments from Carmen Campbell, Route Supervisor and Brad Pruden, Route Supervisor. Both of these customer contacts have repeatedly said that our delivery business would not be the same without John.

This is a driver who has gone out of his way on numerous occasions to help the customer - most recently delivering a single pallet of frozen food to Tripi Foods in Buffalo, NY. This saved our customer a substantial amount of money and improved their own service with their customers.

 

John is the last remaining driver from startup and has been a loyal JB Hunt employee since he was hired in 2014. John is also currently serving as the account's driver trainer and has taught many of our new hires the process in which we perform the difficult truck to truck deliveries.

John has excellent MPG performance and almost never has any log issues. We can always count on John to log properly. When doing a TEAM inspection, my Operations Supervisor Will Johnson found nothing short of a neat and tidy truck.

We would additionally like to thank John for his 20+ years service in the military and look forward to many more years with him on the fleet!