Jay Johnson took the time to visit our orientation site in Concord, North Carolina. We orient our Professional Drivers at an off-site hotel site. These are known as remote sites.
Here is the training technique for logging using a Peoplenet unit.
Three Safety instructors teach the class. These folks include Willie Graham, Steve Poston, and Delano Burnell.
As you can see the class size is certainly more manageable than the larger groups in Atlanta, Georgia.
Here is an example of the ready line in Concord at our shop location. Our new tool for Tractor Utilization helps identify every one of these tractors that have been on the yard for 4+ days without a dispatch. In our specific situation Truckload has used the tool to minimize the amount of trucks over 90+ days. We have one unit in this category as of today and are using a FIFO methodology for truck assignment. The lone unit that has been identified as a 90 day no dispatch tractor is in our CCF Walmart Dedicated fleet. We will get this unit moving immediately in another CCF or Network area. It is not healthy to have a truck sit for this amount of time in the middle of winter.
The tractor shown below is one of our brand new Automated Manual Transmission tractors known as a DT12 model. We have successfully filled every one of these units with recruited driving talent that has never used a manual transmission. Just think---Freightliner owns 38% of the market for Class 8 manufacturing and 60% of the tractors they build have AMT features.
Jay is pictured below with two Professional Drivers. Mark Henry is shown on the left and Clarence Thompson is on the right. We are also looking at modernization projects at the terminal including the scan station.
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