Happy Anniversary Jerry White!

 

 

Happy Anniversary to Jerry White who celebrates his 2 year anniversary today!  Jerry is our Account Manager at CHEP in Indianapolis, IN.  Prior to coming on to JB Hunt, Jerry worked for FedEx for almost 10 years.  Jerry began his JB Hunt Career with Final Mile Services, where he was the Account Manager over the Indianapolis LDC.  From there, Jerry moved to the Major Leagues and came over to DCS.  Jerry has seen the CHEP Indianapolis site nearly double in size over the last year.  In his spare time, Jerry enjoys spending time with his family and coaching Little League baseball.  Happy Anniversary Jerry!

Happy Anniversary Jess Caudill!

Happy One Year Anniversary to Jess Caudill!

We were very fortunate to hire Jess a year ago and over the last year has been a huge addition to the PSP team. From the very beginning we felt Jess would do extremely well with JBH and has not disappointed. Over the last year he has continued to improve the safety culture, driver turnover, and service at PSP. Not only has he impressed with his body of work, people look forward to stepping into that office because Jess will keep you entertained with his humor. 

The Cup is in Louisville for 2015

 

 

Congratulations once again to Team Warchol for winning the 2015 Central Region Cup.  The trophy recently got back from being engraved and now has all team members names on it.  In addition to the engraving, the trophy shop was nice enough to wipe all the fingerprints and clean out all the debris that somehow got in the cup the night of kickoff.  The trophy is currently sitting in the Louisville Office for all to admire!

Happy Anniversary Jeremy Messing!

 

 

Congratulations to Jeremy Messing on hitting his one year service anniversary with JB Hunt!  Jeremy is originally from Clarkston, MI and a graduate of Western Michigan University.  Jeremy has spent his first year with the company servicing both Home Depot Monroe and now Home Depot Van Buren.  After starting his career as a DMIT in Monroe, Jeremy was promoted into an Operations Supervisor role.  Jeremy was recently moved to Home Depot in Van Buren, OH.  Jeremy has displayed an outstanding work ethic in his short tenure with the company.  Jeremy has been willing to work any shift and has done whatever has been needed of him ever since he started.  This was on full display on a Saturday last February when Jeremy assisted in delivering pizza supplies to some Marco's franchisees in Cincinnati from his personal vehicle.  Great job Jeremy!

Driver Dilemma: In Search of Drivers

 

As a Company, Division, as well as a Region we have faced our own issues in staffing of drivers over the past year.  Attached is an excellent article on what is currently going on in our business.

 

 

http://www.truckinginfo.com/channel/fleet-management/article/story/2015/01/driver-dilemma-in-search-of-drivers.aspx

401K

 

As a company, it is important that we push our 401K program to all of our employees.  Contributing to our company 401K plan is an excellent way to reduce your taxable income and save for retirement.  In addition, studies have shown that 401K participation impacts employee retention.  Given the turnover in our industry, we need to be pushing this program on everyone of our employees that are not currently enrolled.

• How do I find out the 401K participation % for my Account?  The All Things People Website
• This will show you which drivers are enrolled, and which ones aren't
• What tools are available to discuss this program with my employees?
• Region HR Manager Megan Perez
• Your Regional Ops Manager
• Merrill Lynch Website Accessible through Workday under Benefits 

There is no reason that everyone of our employees should not be taking advantage of this program.  Let's do our best to get our participation % above 75%!



 

Congratulations Dan Tokar!

Congratulations to Dan Tokar on his retirement from JB Hunt!  Dan started with JB Hunt back in 2001 in our Truck Division.  Shortly after hiring on, Dan moved over to DCS and has been a local driver on our CHEP Account in Solon, OH.

 

Enjoy retirement Dan! 

 

Below from left, ARM Rich Schwartz, Bob Ritondaro, Dan Tokar, Adam Spanbauer, and Tracy Walker enjoy lunch for Dan's retirement!