Central Region Promotion Announcement - Naomi Eaton

 

 

Please join us in congratulating Naomi Eaton on her promotion to Account Manager for the new Louisville, KY DCS Toyota site. In this new role, she will lead a team of 30 drivers and one operations supervisor for a specialized flat bed fleet that will act as a sister support fleet to the existing Toyota Owensboro, KY moffett account. This new fleet is set to kickoff in the middle of June.

 

 

Naomi joined the J.B. Hunt team in January of 2013 as an Operations Supervisor for the Toyota account in Owensboro, KY. After four months of stellar performance, she accepted the role of Logistics Coordinator where she was regularly received nods from Toyota. In June 2013, Naomi was formally recognized by Toyota as an integral part of the winning JB Hunt DCS Kaizen Challenge team and eventually took over all duties related to this Kaizen. The “Obvious Oversized Oversight” project resulted in lower cost, shorter lead-time, and improved customer service in transporting service frames to Toyota dealerships.

 

In December 2013, Naomi was promoted to the account manager role over the Toyota Hebron, KY location. In this role, she acted as a customer liaison between Toyota and the JBI/JBT divisions monitoring over 800 loads monthly in addition to managing the 7 Driver DCS Milk Run Fleet. Again, her performance was topnotch. Throughout her tenure, there were outstanding improvements in all key metrics. Notable categories include, but were not limited to: Safety, Customer Service, and overall Profits. Naomi and the Hebron, KY driver team received 2014 Risk Management Account of the Year honors at this year's regional kickoff meeting.

 

Naomi arrived at J.B. Hunt with 8 years of prior experience in logistics. She began her career in transportation with Watkins Motor Lines taking advantage of their tuition reimbursement program where she performed various duties related to dispatch, OS&D, billing, and contractor payroll. After FedEx purchased Watkins, Naomi then accepted a position with Averitt Express and spent the next five years in various support roles while she completed her Masters degree in Human Resources.

 

Since being part of the JB Hunt team, Naomi has also completed Toyota Kaizen carrier training and the Leaders 201 program.

Let's all congratulate Naomi on her promotion and wish her continued success.

 

 

Welcome Daniel Tebbutt

 

 

It is our pleasure to introduce our newest DCS Central Region DMIT, Dan Tebbutt. Dan is from Hudson, Ohio and just graduated from the University of Toledo.  While at UT, Dan studied Human Resource Management and General Business Management.

Dan describes himself as a family oriented guy.   He's part of a large family with four older siblings and 11 nephews / nieces.  In his free time Dan enjoys playing soccer.   He played four years of soccer for Hudson High School as well as four years for the University of Toledo.  In high school, he was part of club teams that won three state cup championships!  He also enjoys golfing, watching his favorite NBA team (the Cleveland Cavaliers) and collecting vinyl records.

Welcome to JB Hunt Dan!

 



Flatbed Training at CHEP Solon

On May 11, 2015 CHEP Solon, OH held a flatbed certification training for Keith Lewis (LEWK) and Richard Lambert (LAMR34) by Bob Ritondaro (RITR3).  ARM Tracy Walker joined to train Rich Schwartz (ARM) on giving the class so next time he will be able to certify drivers on his own.

This training course was given to Keith and Richard because they were the two drivers left on the fleet needing certification.  Now, every driver on the fleet is certified to secure and run flatbed loads!





Soft-Lite Windows Driver Appreciation Cookout

On Friday May 8th 2015, JB Hunt held a cookout to thank all the drivers for their hard work so far this year at the Soft-Lite Windows Account.  We also invited all drivers to bring their families so that their children and grandchildren could see where dad/granddad worked.

We had cornhole set up, a chili cook off among the drivers and prizes & contests for the kids.   This included a guess of how many pieces of candy were in a jar and who ever guessed the closest won. The drivers all enjoyed being able to talk to each other and hang out.   At this account, it is very difficult for the drivers to meet all there co-workers as everyone leaves at different times and can be gone all week.  It was fun seeing drivers meeting everyone and being able to swap stories about different places they deliver and having a fun time.   We would also like to thank our ARM Rich Schwartz for judging the chili cook off.

Finally, we took the time to thank Robert "Shoe" Scheitrumpf who has been with JB hunt since May of 2012. He will be retiring from our company on May 16th 2015.   We gave him a cake, a sweatshirt and a card signed by everyone at the account!



Happy Anniversary Zach Oakes!

 

 

Happy Anniversary to Zach Oakes as today marks his one year anniversary with JB Hunt!  Zach has been and Intern residing out of Indianapolis for the past year.  Zach is currently pursuing his degree from Indiana University Purdue University of Indianapolis and is set to graduate in August.  This week, Zach begins his tenure as a DMIT in the Tully Region.  Happy Anniversary Zach!

Happy Anniversary Sean Maines!

 

 

Happy Anniversary to Sean Maines as today marks his one year anniversary with JB Hunt!  Sean is a graduate of Northern Kentucky University with a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration.  Sean currently serves as the Logistics Coordinator at Home Depot in Monroe, OH.  Happy Anniversary Sean! 

 

Above, Sean, left, gets in some quality time with Andy Ryan.

Happy Anniversary Tierra Isaac!

 

 

Happy Anniversary to Tierra Isaac as today marks her 1 year anniversary with JB Hunt!  Tierra is a graduate of Wright State University where she obtained her Bachelors Degree in Spanish.  Tierra is currently and Operations Supervisor at the Limited Account in Columbus, OH.  Happy Anniversary Tierra!