We are pleased to announce that Greg Sullivan has recently been promoted to Maintenance Supervisor for the company. Greg has brought great value to the company, proving time and time again that he has many capabilities from maintenance and equipment, to troubleshooting and customer service, even to communication and providing support to our Driver Managers. Joe Keller says, “Greg seems to have a knack for relationship and being a team player. He’s a great communicator that ha

We recently learned that Deb Welton is a participant in a non-profit called Land of Lincoln Honor Flight. The non-profit is aimed to provide war veterans a free, roundtrip service to Washington DC to see the memorials. We asked Deb to talk a little bit about the program to give us more details. She says, “The Land of Lincoln Honor Flight is a non-profit that offers a one day, no charge flight to veterans who are able and willing to fly to Washington DC. The trips offers them

Brad was just at his one-year mark when he notified us that he was being called back to active duty. Bradley Gathercoal is a company driver that came aboard in May 2016 as a student in our training program. Over the course of a year we have been happy to learn that Brad is a loving father and husband who exemplifies all the strong family values that this company has been rooted in since our humble beginnings in 1965. During his send-off party Brad filled us in on the details

Mobile technology has been all the rave lately. As a company we have seen quite a bit of success with mobile technologies especially in Mobile Capture. Recently, we have started using a mobile app solution called PeopleNet ConnectedDriver that has similar time-saving qualities as the Mobile Capture. This app is a mobile PeopleNet solution, and it is so efficient that it is reported to be faster than the actual PeopleNet devices. “PeopleNet ConnectedDriver provides access to c

I came aboard Marvin Keller January of 2016. I didn’t know a lot about the industry as this was the only trucking job I’ve had. It was around Thanksgiving time when I started to feel like I was sitting a lot more than I should be. It wasn’t anything personal against Tammy, my driver manager. A lot of times she would call and tell me that there wasn’t a plan, and I could tell in her voice, she was thinking, “He’s not going to like this.” I started to think that surely there wa

We wanted to commend Mark Jordan for showing exemplary thoughtfulness and team spirit. As we know, this past week we had faced quite a bit of rough weather in the mid-west. One of our drivers, Jeff Ogden was coming back late on Saturday night and ran into the bad weather. Jeff had to buckle down in his truck until the weather died down. Mark Jordan had heard about Jeff being stuck out over the road, so he gave him a call at 6PM that same night to see how he was doing. We aske