Bachman Wilson Overdrive

This past January, Crystal Bridges acquired a rare Frank Lloyd Wright house, known as the Bachman Wilson House. In order to best preserve the architecturally significant structure, which had previously been exposed to repeat flooding, it was determined that the house would have to be relocated. After careful deliberation, a location on Crystal Bridges’ grounds overlooking Crystal Spring was selected to be the future site of the Bachman Wilson House.

 

Over the past three months, a specialized contractor and his team have meticulously disassembled by the 1954 Usonian house along with all of its custom fixtures and furniture. The most recent owners, architect/designer team Lawrence and Sharon Tarantino, oversaw the packing of the building components as they were carefully dismantled and loaded into two shipping containers. Today, those containers hit the road!

 

One container holding fragile components—doors, fixtures, and furniture—will be shipped to Northwest Arkansas by truck. The other container will be traveling via intermodal transportation—a fast and secure shipping method which utilizes both trucks and trains.

J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc. has donated its services to transport the Bachman Wilson House to Bentonville.  Richard Leiner, one of our elite 2 Million Mile truckload drivers, is bringing the over the road load from Somerville, NJ to the Northwest Arkansas area.  

“We are honored to be a part of such a monumental effort to save one of America’s truly iconic structures,” said John Roberts, President and CEO of J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc. “We are pleased the house will settle within our area’s natural beauty and provide such valuable educational opportunities.”

Our 1st Quarter Truck Rally

 

 

(Pictured Above:  March Driver of the Month Shawn Whaley , Shelley Simpson, and February Driver of the Month Derrick Caddell)

 

Shelley Simpson led our Truckload Q1 Rally on April 17, 2014 and helped us honor our March Driver of the Month.  An additional bonus was having Derrick Caddell at our rally.  Derrick received the Driver of the Month honor in the month of Febuary.   For those of you who might have missed our earnings release last Monday, Shelley's role has been expanded to include the title of Chief Marketing Officer and President of ICS and Truck.  We welcome her enthusiasm and approach to restoring our Truckload brand to its proper place amongst the enterprise offerings at J.B. Hunt .

 

 

 

  

Truckload Division Driver of the Month-March 2014

Congratulations to Shawn Whaley, our Truckload Division Driver of the Month for March 2014!

Shawn resides in Snead, Alabama.  He has been a valuable member of our team for 1.8 years.  Shawn achieved our Driver of the Month for March due to the following results:

• 11,301 Miles
• 7.12 Miles Per Gallon
• 4% Variance
• No Collisions
• No Injuries
• 100% On Time Service
• #17 Ranking in our Driver Scorecard

Shawn has a gift for getting his customers to take loads early, which is part of our velocity strategy.  As the Driver of the Month, we were fortunate to be able to spend time with Shawn in Lowell, Arkansas.  We took him to lunch and learned a great deal about him and life on the road.  The maintenance team detailed his tractor.  Our CDP Advertising team interviewed Shawn and took some great pictures of him for use in our literature.   Finally, Shawn was recognized in our auditorium in front of our entire team and received the obligatory confetti shower.  Thanks Shawn for all your contributions to our Truckload team!

  

J.B. Hunt Client Review

 

 

 

On Tuesday Paul Olivieri led a meeting with our largest client in the J. B. Hunt Truckload book of business.  Paul received nice recognition that deserves to shared:

 

Georgia Pacific said we did a good job with the meeting.  Paul, thanks for all your prep work and delivery. The customer agreed it was one of our better meetings.

 

 

  

Lighining Strikes Twice!

Our drivers achieved a great feat on Tuesday. For the second time in one week the entire Truckload fleet went preventable and non-preventable collision free in a 24 hour period.  This does not happen by chance. Our philosophy of putting "safety first" has proven to be a wise investment. There is a reason the foundation of our pillar strategy is safety-it is the right thing to do for our employees and the motoring public.

Excellent job by the Truckload Team!

 

Happy Anniversary Vicki Mitchell

Today is an extremely special day.  Vicki Mitchell, our Truckload Division office employee with the most seniority, celebrates her 30th anniverary with J.B. Hunt today.  Please join us in congratulating Vicki on this amazing achievement. 

I Own This Truck!

Please join us in congratulating Edward Mayes (on right hand side) , our newest truck owner!

Edward and his wife live in McComb MS. Edward came on board with JB Hunt in March 2013. Edward said he saved all his money to pay off the lease early with support from his wife. He is now the proud owner of a 2007 Century Class Freightlliner. Edward has made the decision to continue his partnership with JB Hunt in our IC division.

Again, congratulations to Edward and his family,