BETWEEN THE LINES - Andrus Transportation

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APRIL 2015 NEWSLETTER
BETWEEN THE LINES
ANDRUS TRANSPORTATION NEWSLETTER
AT ANDRUS WE ARE
AMERICAN PROUD!
THANK YOU AND TRUCK ON!
W
ow! It’s April already. It’s
crazy how fast this year is
going. First I would like to say
THANK YOU to everyone for their
efforts to help Andrus Transportation
be the success that it has become. I
continue to see wonderful improvements in all facets of our business. The Sales & Customer Service
staff continue to improve our customer base, not only by trying to improve
rates but also to find Shippers & Receivers that are 1st Driver Friendly &
good partners to each other’s suc-
cess. I have been on several sales
trips this year & our Sales staff are
asking the right questions to our customers to find out if they are looking
to be a shipper or receiver of
CHOICE. We know we continue to
have some locations we p/u or deliver that are not to the standard we
would like or accept. So we have
been sharing & encouraging in every
way we know how to help them make
improvements. I know this is far
from being perfect, but for many of
you that have been here for a long
time, I am sure you would agree we
have come a long way. Please do not
hesitate to give us your suggestions
on what you see so that we can pass it
on to our Sales team and Customers. Once again I want to thank everyone for their hard work. TRUCK
ON!!!
Jimmy Andrus
President
CUSTOMER RECOGNITION
SUPER STAR AWARD
Mary Barrigan, Holly Ewell, Brenda Anderson
SERVICE STAR AWARD
Jim Stevens, Holly Ewell, Eddie Simmons, Tom Menzel, Justin Allan, Jimmy Andrus
This past month Andrus was recognized by Continental Mills and received their 2014 Service Star Western Region
award along with recognizing our Customer Service Department with their Super Star award. We would like to thank
all our drivers for their hard work and commitment to delivering on time.
Two More Reasons You’re Glad You Drive For
ANDRU$
Andrus Transportation is pleased to announce a Driver
Pay Increase as of April 1, 2015 which will be
effective on the April 13, 2015 pay date.
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All full time Over the Road drivers
will receive a penny increase to their
base pay per mile. Team drivers will
receive a half a penny per mile paid
on all miles the team runs.
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All full time drivers will be paid for SIX PAID HOLIDAYS
per year. The paid holidays are New Year’s Day, Memorial
Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
Eligible Drivers will be paid $100.00 for each holiday. In order to be eligible a driver must be full time and be employed at
Andrus for at least 90 days
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AM I A PROFESSIONAL?
Definition of Professionalism:
The skill, good judgment and polite
behavior that is expected from a person
who is trained to do a job well.
Definition of Amateurish:
Doing something poorly; a person who
is not skillful at a job or an activity.
I
have thought about the word professional quite a bit over the past few
weeks. What makes a person a professional? Is it simply because they are
paid to do a particular job or is it more
than that?
All of us use the term” professional
driver” but what does that mean? Just
because a CDL driver is paid to drive is
that person then a professional?
I think each of us have witnessed examples of would be professional drivers
showing us anything but that.
Skill is absolutely necessary to do the
work of a professional driver. An unskilled driver will quickly find themselves out of a job. An employer can
only afford to fix a certain amount of
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damage caused by an unskilled driver
before it becomes clear that they have
employed someone without the necessary skills to be a safe and professional
driver.
Good judgment and polite behavior,
well that’s another story. What constitutes good judgement? Is it not taking
unnecessary chances? Is it following
company policy and rules of the road?
Is it listening to yourself when that
voice inside says to you, “you know
you are taking a shortcut, you know it is
not safe or there is some risk involved
in what you are doing.”
Polite behavior, I have to assume that
we all know what that is. I have to include myself in this when I say. It is
not always easy dealing with people.
There are a lot of difficult people out
there in the world. You are in the position of meeting and dealing with them
daily. How do you handle a difficult
person or people? Does it ever make a
situation better when you become difficult yourself?
Which word defines your work? Is it
professionalism or amateurish? Honest
self-reflection can help us decide which
work defines our work and which
things we need to work on to put and
keep ourselves in the category that
would be considered Professional.
“As youngsters, my mother taught her
children that while we might not be the
smartest people around, we could be
courteous, polite and considerate of
others.
Zig Ziglar
By Lynn Shrum
Vice President
Safety and Human Resources
Holly Ewell
Ewell—
—Customer Service / Planner
am the proud mother of 2 handsome boys and have been married
going on 19 years. I have been in the
trucking industry my whole life, as my
dad and cousins all drive over the road.
Holly Ewell—Customer Service /
What do customers or coworkers say or
think about you when you leave. “There
goes a professional driver; they can
send that driver back anytime.” Or
what an amateur we need to call their
company and ask to have them not send
that driver back.”
Frito Lay, Dr. Pepper, Georgia Pacific,
Sysco and Kapstone Paper out of
Longview, WA.
The best part of my job is getting to
know our drivers and my customers!
I have been with Andrus for a little
There is something special when you
over 2 years now. I was hired in the
can relate on a personal level and you
CSR department and have expanded
are not just a name or number. Oh and
into Planning/Dispatching as well. I cur- let’s be honest, I love to socialize. So,
rently plan the NW, NWE and Idaho
if you happen to be stopping by the St.
areas. I am the CSR for customers
George Yard, come in and say “HI”.
that include Continental Mills, Kraft,
Planner and her son Eastyn Ewell
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A
s we all know, Andrus’ Fleet
Dispatch, Customer Service,
Safety, Sales, Accounting functions
and Maintenance Program are all
managed out of our St George Corporate Offices with some additional
Customer Service functions managed
out of Fontana.
What you may not know is the operations functions that take place out of
the Salt Lake City Terminal Offices.
The Salt Lake City Terminal Office is
made up of two specialty trucking
divisions (Dedicated Fleets and a
Flatbed Fleet) as well as a Brokerage
Company.
The Dedicated Fleets
Group includes the MillerCoors Fleet,
Mission Foods Fleet and Clearwater
Paper Fleet. The Flatbed Fleet runs
out of Northern Utah, primarily to
Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico,
Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington and Texas. The flatbed fleet
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also does local and other intra-Utah
deliveries.
The Brokerage Company is named
James Andrus Transportation Management and is a subsidiary company
of Andrus Transportation Services.
The employees that manage the Dedicated Fleets and Flatbed Fleet are:
Troy Lancaster (Director of Flatbed
Services), Edisa Skoro (Dedicated
Fleet Manager), Matt Curtis (Flatbed
Dispatch) and Austin Remick
(Dedicated and Flatbed Fleet Dispatch). The employees that manage
and work for James Andrus Transportation Management are:
Jason
Bergquist (Director), Ryan Fernelius
(Manager), Deanna Reid (Broker),
Marianne (MJ) Jeffords (Broker),
Keith Fernandes (Broker), Brandon
Lewis (Broker) and Cinnamon Davis
(Administrative Assistant).
ne of the rules we have in our house
during Christmas time is that Santa
and his creepy Elf on the Shelf are not allowed beyond a certain point, the hallway
that leads to the kid’s rooms. Don’t get me
wrong, they love Christmas time more than
any, just not the idea that Santa and his little
Shelf Elf are roaming our house at night.
Why do I share this? As a kid, the Easter
Bunny would hand deliver our baskets next
to our beds, sufficient to say this breach of
rules would have lasting effects in our house
today.
The “glue that holds the office together” is our Office Manager/
Receptionist - Linda Cloward. Linda
has many responsibilities for our
shop, dispatch group and Brokerage
Group and is always willing and happy to help any driver at the SLC Terminal with their needs.
We plan to double the size and scope
of the Salt Lake City Terminal Operations in the next five years and look
forward to the challenges and opportunities this growth will provide.
Lee Garbett
VP Dedicated and Logistics Division
working for us and wish to continue improving your quality of life here. With the
announcements in this newsletter I am eager
to see the positive effects it will have on our
business going forward. I enjoy the opportunities I get to work with each of you every
day and look forward to the moments we
can work together in creating positive
change and making a difference each day.
We have an exciting road ahead of us and
with that, opportunities to continue to improve every day.
Garrett Costley
A lot of good things are taking place here at Operations Director
Andrus. We have a great group of people
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GLADE WESTWOOD—NIGHT DRIVER MANAGER
G
lade Westwood has a lifetime of
diversified jobs which helped him
develop many skills during his career.
Glade Westwood grew up in the small
town of Circleville, Utah. Circleville
was located on HWY 89 thirty miles
north of Panguitch. He was an honor
student with a total 28 graduates in his
class. In his early years, he loved fishing
with his father and grandfather. While
growing up, he wanted to continue the
family business as a farmer and rancher.
He developed the skills of a mechanic,
electrician, plumber, heating and air conditioning, equipment operator and carpenter.
Glade began his professional career as a
driver by hauling milk, hay, and equipment. Also, he drove a school bus, a
passenger bus, a tour bus, a US mail
truck. In addition, he gained experience
with end dump, belly dump, pneumatic,
tanks, doubles, triples, oversized, over
length and lots of other combinations.
During is professional career, he worked
various jobs including professional driver, dispatcher, and safety director for 4
different companies. Glade also setup
their entire programs and has been
through a couple of DOT audits (where
they passed with flying colors). Glade
has also been involved as a shop foreman, mechanic, service technician and
janitor. Glade even owned three trucks
that were instrumental in three different
trucking companies obtain their operating authority and financing. He has always been involved in the business
world as a contractor, lock smith, commercial structural door contractor, and a
glazing contractor. He has owned several business including a convenience
store, an equine therapy business and a
couple of other ventures.
Glade enjoys camping, hunting, fishing,
water skiing and meeting new people.
He enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife. His wife often reminds him
that he needs to take time to “play” (as
that is always on the back burner with
him. Glade’s goal is to retire someday
and travel the world.
THANK YOU FOR ALL
YOU DO AT ANDRUS!
Glade Westwood
Fighting Hunger Statewide
Dear Jimmy,
Thank you for your recent gift. By donating to Utah Food Bank, you’ve joined other dedicated people throughout
our state who believe that no one should have to face the pain and anxiety of hunger alone. With your donation of
$2,800 you’re transporting food (last year it was 37,524,669 pounds) to 134 food pantries throughout Utah.
You’re providing mobile pantries to rural and underserved area. You’re giving healthy evening meals and weekend backpacks of kid-friendly food to children whose struggling families just can’t afford the high cost of housing,
transportation, and food on their limited budgets.
Please know that we take the responsibility of your donation very seriously. Last year, only 4.5% of our budget
was used for administrative and fundraising costs. We rely heavily on volunteers to accomplish all that we do (last
year, volunteers did the work of 47 full-time employees). If you have any questions about how we steward donations or the work we do together Fighting Hunger Statewide, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
With appreciation,
Ginette Bott
Chief Development Officer
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W E L C O M E A B O A R D N E W D R I V E R S A N D S TA F F
DRIVERS:
JOHN NOBLE—MILLER
STAFF:
MICHAEL WALLER—11 WESTERN
MICHAEL POUNDS — CONTAINER
BRUCE JOHNSON—MILK
MARTIN CARASSCO-MARIN — CLEARWATER
MATT CURTIS —SLC OFFICE DEDICATED
FLEET
JESSE GONZALES—11 WESTERN
KEVIN WELSH — 11 WESTERN
MARK LESTER — 11 WESTERN
TAUALO TILI — CLEARWATER
ROBERT MARCOTT — HOME DEPOT
AARON CRAWFORD — 11 WESTERN
ROBERT LAUDERMANN — 11 WESTERN
ANDREW LAWLER — 11 WESTERN
JOSE MOLINA — CLEARWATER
THOMAS GODWIN —11 WESTERN
DEWAYNE DAVIS —DEWAYNE DAVIS
JOSEPH PEINE —11 WESTERN
RICHARD WHITE — MILLER
STELLA CABEBE — CLEARWATER
KENT DIXON — LOCAL FLATBED
PHILLIP PADILLA—WATER
RODNEY MARTINSEN — 11 WESTERN
JIM FIXL— 11 WESTERN
Y
ou must put your Load
Information in. Just as
you must put your load information on a paper log, it
is the same with elogs. Every new load that you pick
up you must add that information to your log. This is
required. If you do not have
this information on your
electronic log, DOT can
give you 3 points for every
load that you have hauled
without putting this information in. If you do not
know how… please refer to
the picture. If you have any
questions regarding this,
please contact Cheri Slater
in the safety department.
DID YOU KNOW?
Approximately 15.7 million trucks are currently in use in the U.S. If you lined up every truck end to end, they
would reach the moon!
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Old TV Shows
Find and circle all of the old TV shows that are hidden in the grid.
The remaining letters spell the name of an additional old TV show.
ALICE
BEN CASEY
BEVERLY HILLBILLIES
CHIPS
CANNON
CAPTAIN KANGAROO
DOBIE GILLIS
DONNA REED
DR. KILDARE
EMERGENCY
FLIPPER
FLYING NUN
FUGITIVE
GOMER PYLE
GOOD TIMES
GREEN ACRES
GREEN HORNET
HOWDY DOODY
I SPY
IRONSIDE
JETSONS
KOJAK
L.A. LAW
LASSIE
LOVE BOAT
MAD ABOUT YOU
MAUDE
MEDICAL CENTER
MIAMA VICE
MOD SQUAD
MOONLIGHTING
MURPHY BROWN
ODD COUPLE
PEYTON PLACE
RAWHIDE
RIFLEMAN
RIN TIN TIN
SOAP
ST. ELSEWHERE
TAXI
THREE’S COMPANY
WALTONS
THINGS OVERHEARD IN THE 50’S
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“Have you seen the new cars coming out next
year? It won’t be long when $5000 will only buy
a used car.”
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“Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail hair
cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next
thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as
long as girls.”
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“Marilyn Monroe is now showing her bra & panties, so apparently there are no standards anymore.”
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“Anymore, no one can afford to be sick. Thirtyfive dollars a day in the hospital is too rich for my
blood.”
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