Central Maintenance Team goes 4 Years Accident Free



On April 6, 2015, the North Central Maintenance region made it's 4th year accident free as a region. That's 4 years without an accident at 6 shop and 7 service truck locations. The team operates at iron ore mines, farms, customer yards, rails, and shops of all sizes. Everything they do involves something heavy and typically covered in grease. It's a testament to JBH's safety culture that this group works in these environments, on the multitude of equipment types in our fleet, and keeps safety on the forefront of everything they do. We're very proud of them and look forward to congratulating them on 5 years this time next year.

Attached are pics of some of the region's safety milestones from the past 4 years.

 

 

 

 

Congratulations Mike Hulsey on hitting 2 Million Safe Miles!

 

 

Congratulations to Mike Hulsey for hitting his 2 Million Safe Miles with JB Hunt.  Mike is a driver on our Toyota Fleet in Owensboro, KY.  To celebrate this tremendous accomplishment, Mike and Team Toyota celebrated with dinner at Morton's Steakhouse in Lexington.  Mike will now join a select group of drivers in October at our corporate headquarters will he will do the walk and be honored by JB Hunt.  Great job Mike!

March Driver of the Month

 

 

Congratulations to Tom Smith of Marco's Pizza Delivery Account for winning the March 2015 Central Region Driver of the Month Award!  Marco's is one of the most difficult accounts we have in the region.  Drivers like Tom make this very difficult job look easy.  Great job Tom and Congratulations on winning this award!

 

 

Below is the write-up from Marco's Management on Tom:

In the past year and a half Tom Smith has been with JB Hunt, he has shown great pride in his work. Tom is a great example of what our safety culture is all about at JBH. He hand unloads 82,500 lbs a week down a ramp safely every week. There is so much physical labor that goes in to his job and its not the only thing he focuses on.

He is dedicated to his customers and their positive experience with JB hunt. He is a true leader at our account with CVD and lives it out everyday. He takes time after every route to walk around and give good feed back to the MPD staff. Tom checks in every route to ask for feed back on what he can do better. He is the first one to step up every time we are looking for capacity help as well.

On the customer service front, here is some recent feedback we received about Tom from our customer: "I just wanted to thank you for the wonderful commitment from your team of drivers, all of your drivers have the most up respect for the job. However there is one driver that I would like to take the time to point out, Tom has done some wonderful work and for MPD keeping our customers happy and ready. He is always glad to report information not only back to the JB hunt management, but back to MPD as well. He helps keep MPD in the loop whether it’s about safety concerns with MPD & J.B. hunt equipment or the way his trailer is loaded. Tom makes our customers happy and makes a great Representative to our company as well as J.B. Hunt, keeping our customers informed on how to get credits and how to prepare for delivery’s. Tom will go out of his way to make sure the job gets done and the customer is satisfied. Joseph Williams - Customer Service/ Quality Assurance Manager."

When asked about Tom, here is how our MPD Operations Supervisor Chris Wulf describes him. "Hardworking, team orientated and safety conscious are just a few highlights of his personality. Tom never complains, and always is a team player. He always does an excellent pre-trip inspection. His laid back attitude shows in his driving, he is not in a hurry and always follows the Smith System keys. When we need someone to count on, despite the situation or why things are the way they are, Tom is always willing to do what he can to make our account, and JBH shine."

Tom also boasts some of the top fuel stats and RAIR point numbers on the MPD account.

Fuel

Short Idle 12 Week Average = 0.9%

Fuel Stop Compliance = 100%

RAIR

Missing Logs = 0

Points For Previous Month = 20

Thank you Tom for all you do. We are proud to call you our March 2015 Driver Of The Month! 

The Cup Makes it Way Around the Warchol Region

 

 

The Central Region Cup continued to make its way around the accounts of Team Warchol.  These past weeks it made stops in Southern States Park City, Vinton, and Barber.  In addition, it stopped at Ohio Valley Aluminum as well as Masterbrand Cabinets in Ferdinand, IN.  To everyone's surprise, the cup has yet to be dropped or damaged.  Hopefully this will continue until next years kickoff when we will see if another OM region can unseat Team Warchol!

Happy Birthday Andrew Ferguson!

Our Marco's Pizza account is know for a Driver Dedicated, family like environment. Management regularly holds driver roundtables where food is served. Account Manager Andrew Ferguson also does not hesitate to take out the driving team for a meal to celebrate safety milestones.

The driving team wanted to return the favor for Andrew Ferguson for his birthday. On Friday (4/3/15), Mark Stuart, Tom Smith and Chris Coppes took Andrew out for a Birthday lunch. The 4 of them ended up at Swig Restaurant in Perrysburg, OH where then enjoyed a tasty meal.   Happy Birthday Andrew!  

Congratulations Vern Cummings!

After 35 years of driving, working hard as a driver trainer, and excelling in his customer service, Vern has decided to move into safety for JB Hunt as Safety Coordinator in Louisville, KY. Although we will miss having Vern’s smiling face and positive attitude on our account, we are thrilled that he is able to work towards fulfilling his career goals for safety! There is no doubt that Vern will be an invaluable asset to the safety team contributing years of experience and knowledge to facilitate the safety culture at JB Hunt.



 

 

Vern’s latest role at JB Hunt has been as driver trainer for the MasterBrands account in Ferdinand, IN. Having Vern’s experience and care in training our 30 drivers was absolutely necessary to put together a high quality fleet for our customer. Majority of the drivers hired for this fleet are new to JB Hunt and young in their career as a professional driver. Vern took on the difficult task of training all these drivers with dedication, determination, and a positive attitude.



 

Congratulations on your promotion, Vern! We are proud of your accomplishments and wish you the very best!!!

TEAM Inspections in Morehead, KY

 

 

Recently, our Team in Morehead KY took advantage of the good weather to perform TEAM Inspections with the fleet.  Not only do these inspections allow for us to stay on top of the quality and cleanliness of our equipment, but it also allows our managers to spend quality time with our drivers.  The additional focus we have spent on our drivers has meant improved safety results as well.  The fleet is currently on a 15 day collision free and 140 days injury free streak! 

 

Great job by everyone involved on this account!