Spring Chicken - Don Welch

While visiting the Memphis terminal, I had the pleasure of meeting Don Welch (WELD).  Don mentioned that he thought he was the oldest driver in the entire company.  I looked it up and sure enough, at 81 years of age, he is the oldest....and still going strong.  By comparison, the 25th oldest driver at JB Hunt is younger than Don by TEN YEARS!

Don lives in Oakdale, LA and has spent most of his JB Hunt career with OTR.  He has been running JBI regional since 2008.

Don originally joined the company in 1988.  He left for a couple of years in the late nineties to work for a small trucking company and returned in 2001.  He has had only one preventable accident at JB Hunt in all that time.

His goal is to attain his 3 million mile award before retiring.  He is currently standing at 2,800,000.

Good luck Don!

-John McKuin
VP of Intermodal Operations

Don pictured below with John Flynt, Bo Kirkland (Fleet Manager), and John Calcote (Ops Mgr).

Houston Texas Team Recognized by Home Depot

We never seem to get a chance to say thanks enough to our team members, especially when they do a great job.  Well the team in Houston has been doing a super job of late, especially with the challenges of moving ETAs on their inbound trains and customers expecting miracles when the train does come in.  Rodney, Edward and Christopher were recognized for the great job they have done by Home Depot. 

Heather Shell , Director of Sales for JB Hunt sent me the following e-mail on our Houston team:
"I just got off the weekly Home Depot service call and wanted to send over our thanks for all of your work in Houston. They said that we are the carrier that has done the best job on keeping them informed (both of issues with refusals and what is coming in each day) and catching them back up. Thank you so much for your hard work! I know it has been a huge challenge and Home Depot has recognized the great work you have done. Please thank your team as well." So our corporate offices through Stephanie Curran sent the team some pizzas.  A small token of our appreciation but an appreciation none the less.   We all need to recognize our team members from time to time for the work they do. I personally want to thank these three for their work.  Rich Doarn 

 

Edward Garza (FM), Rodney Woodruff (RM) Christopher Gregg (FM)