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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Driver Appreciaiton in Columbus!

Our Columbus LDC is conducting the end of quarter raffle tomorrow morning (TV) and decided they would turn it into an Easter themed event with a Giant Chocolate Bunny to be raffled as well as individual Baskets of goodies for each of our Professional Driver Teams and helpers. Instead of donuts, we have secured some Easter colored cupcakes for the guys to sugar up on as well. We will be celebrating 130 Days Collision Free and 222 Days Injury Free at the RDC. We decided to do something different and hope to surprise and let our guys at the RDC know how much their safe operation means to us.
 
Great job by this group of DIS's and IS's as well as their management team for taking the time to recognize the hard work.
 

Friday, March 13, 2015

February 2015 DOM


Charles Wooten (“Mr. Charles”) is our most tenured DIS at the Chantilly LDC.  He first started his career with JBH back in 2009 at our Hayward Final Mile account, after many years with the previous provider and later became a successful Builder Specialist.  He transferred to the South Region to the Chantilly LDC as a DIS.  His years of knowledge and expertise provide great coaching and training to everyone around him.

Charles is a trainer and has done a fantastic job on-boarding new hires.  Charles makes the work environment a pleasure for all and has played a key role in the turnover reduction at the LDC.  He takes pride in what he does but more importantly wants to see everyone around him develop and be just as good as he is. Charles is always prepared to speak at the weekly meetings and adds value to the Manager and Builder Specialists every week. Having this kind of mindset gives him a bright future and makes him a huge asset to the company.

In all layers of management, the opinion of Charles is that he is the kind of driver everyone needs.  A guy that makes decisions based on safety and standard operating procedures.   Charles is always ahead on training and compliance items.  The team looks up to him because he is patient and provides great advice on many things.  He’s extremely easy going and does whatever he needs to do in order to get the job done safely and to provide each and every customer with a positive “JB Hunt Experience” type of delivery.  Since his skills are so well rounded, he is normally assigned to the more difficult installations and if he isn’t, he is on the phone providing guidance to the assigned DIS.  We are proud and honored to nominate Charles as the February 2015 Driver of the Month for the Chantilly VA LDC. 

In his spare time, Charles enjoys spending time with his wife (Tanya) and watching all kinds of sports, and golfing whenever possible.  Charles has 2 daughter, Estasia – 28 and Nina - 26, who have both graduated college (Arkansas and Cal State, respectively).  Charles also enjoys every moment and new memory with his 2 grandchildren, Kirra – 5 and Jair - 1 yrs old.


Other outstanding nominees were;

Jeremy Wiggins--Final Mile, Baton Rouge, LA(FMS C)
Fred Robert--Final Mile, Columbus, OH (FSM N)
Arthur Yepez @ Final Mile, Perris CA (FMS W)

New addition to the JB Hunt Final Mile Family

Mark and Elizabeth Gillespie welcomed their first child, a son, in to the world late in the afternoon on Wednesday, March 11th,

While everyone is tired, both mom and baby are healthy and doing well.

Please help me congratulate Mark and his family on the arrival of their bouncing baby boy, Aiden Gray Gillespie!