Back-back-back-back..... GONE!

The Memphis Intermodal team recently attended a baseball game at AutoZone park where the Memphis Redbirds hosted the Colorado Springs Sky Sox.

 

It was a cool 75 degrees throughout the mid-July night and the conditions were perfect for a baseball game. The smell of world famous Rendezvous pork BBQ nachos filled the entire stands as almost every one of the 10,000 fans in attendance were eating portions piled as high as the old Memphis Pyramid.

 

Xavier Scruggs, the 1st baseman for the Redbirds, hit a 2-run shot in the bottom of the third inning to put Memphis up 2-0. That homer was enough to keep the Redbirds on top the rest of the game. At one point in the night a foul ball was hit directly to our section of the stands. Several hands went up in the air so that one lucky person would have bragging rights within the office. After a failed attempt at a bare handed catch by DJ Jinks (Local FM), and after the dust and commotion settled, Melanie Brown (Regional FM) rose victoriously with the ball in hand.  A nice souvenir for it being her first time ever to AutoZone Park! 

 

Fireworks were provided after the game and it was a great ending to a great night.

Pictured below is an image from our seats on the third base line.

GO REDBIRDS!

 

New Additions to the Charlotte Intermodal Team

Due to significant growth in Charlotte, NC two new Fleet Managers joined the Charlotte Intermodal Team in June. Their pictures along with short autobiographies are listed below.


                                                  Colin Malcolm 

I grew up in southern Virginia in a town called Lynchburg with two older sisters, mom, dad, and two dogs.  My passions growing up were tennis, biking, snow skiing, and golf.  My claim to fame growing up was beating American professional tennis player Andy Roddick in tennis when we both were juniors.  I graduated high school and enrolled at James Madison University were I played collegiate tennis all 4 years.  After college I moved to Richmond, VA for a couple years where I met my wife and for the past few years I have lived in Northern Virginia. I started working for J.B. Hunt in March of 2013 for the DCS division in Winchester, VA.  I was an operations supervisor for the Home Depot regional fleet.  This job has taught me a lot but most importantly it has shown me first-hand the hard work that truck drivers put in, so citizens can have products in the store every day.



      
                                                      Austin Wolff

                                               


I grew up in Snellville, GA with my brother and parents. I graduated from Georgia Southern University with a degree in Logistics and Intermodal Transportation. I’ve been with JB Hunt since November of 2011. I worked with DCS for the first 2 and a half years with the company at Weyerhaeuser, Mission Foods, and Corsicana Bedding account in North Carolina and Georgia. I’ve relocated three years in a row right around Labor Day weekend.  As a kid I raced motocross and that lead to an interest in racing cars. I’ve been drifting for four years now. I’m currently competing in a Formula D Pro-Am series which holds competitions all across the southeast.