Central Region Driver of the Month for April - James Sanders

Congratulations to James Sanders for being selected as the Central Region Driver of the Month for April!  James is a 21 year employee of the company, with a near flawless safety and service record.  James currently works at the CHEP Account in Indianapolis, IN.  James is also a 2 Million Mile Safe Driver who also serves as a trainer on the account.  Feel free to shoot James a message to his truck, 353547.  Congratulations James!!

 

 

Below is the write-up from his management team:

 

CHEP Indianapolis has chosen James Sanders for Driver of the Month.  James has been with JB Hunt almost 21 years now.  James has driven for several accounts over the years and has served as a driver trainer for several of those accounts. 

James worked with a driver that was having issues with critical events.  The driver was very thankful for James as he was able really help to modify his driving style to become a safer driver.  The driver said “it is obvious that James has been driving safely for many years.  James had a lot of great input on making me a safer driver and I am thankful to James for taking the time to ride with me.”  This driver has now gone over two months without an event.  James just recently worked with a driver that had a collision.  The driver was very thankful for the training he received from James during the ride along.  James has an extremely safe record in his time with JB Hunt.  He now is sitting at just over 2.24 million miles.  He has a wealth of experience and is always willing to share his experience with drivers to help to make them much safer drivers. 

James has done a great job of customer service on the CHEP account.  James has worked with difficult customers to help to make them happy.  James recently was talking to the manager at the return site at Wal-Mart in Seymour, IN.  The manager could not get the Wal-Mart spotters to locate a couple of trailers that were shown to be at the Seymour location.  The spotters were also telling this manager that there were no empty trailers.  James stepped up to do a yard check to find the two missing trailers and to provide the locations and status of the trailers on the list.  James also helped out the manager at the Target location where we pick up collection loads.  Target had just changed the way the spotters keep track of the trailers and where they park them.  The management company that takes care of loading the collection loads are not allowed in the yard, so they were unable to complete a yard check per Target’s rules.  He stepped up on a Saturday morning to search for the trailer and to search for a spotter driver to tell them about the trailer that nobody at the location was able to find.  I hear things like this about James as he is constantly going above and beyond for our customers.

James is always willing to help out at other accounts.  James has even taken on accounts where he has had to complete driver unload like Armour Eckridge.  He is willing to run for accounts that require him to stay out overnight.  This is typically not a big deal for most drivers, however, the CHEP account is a day cab local account.  He is willing to do whatever he needs to safely do to make sure the customers at other accounts are taken care of.