DRIVENby teamwork.
A Day in the Life of a Jetco Driver.
By Stephen Hadley
Jetco driver Jasson Murray conducts a pre-trip inspection prior to leaving the
Jetco yard for the morning to pick up and deliver containers to clients all over
the Houston area.
It was still dark when I pulled into Jetco’s parking lot on a cold and clear December morning. Trucks, some with engines idling, were lined up as far as I could see in the yard, yellow-orange parking lights illuminating the ground in front of them and sending shadows crawling along the warehouse wall across the lot.
It was a Monday, and by 6 a.m. Jetco’s drivers were congregating in the dispatch office, sharing tales of the weekend with each other while awaiting their load assignments for the day. That’s where I met Jasson Murray, a quiet, unassuming driver quick to offer a smile to others gathered in dispatch.
I’d be riding along with Jasson for the day, learning what a driver does and trying to understand many of the challenges facing the men and women who make their profession on the nation’s roads and highways. It’s a profession that is confronting a serious shortage in its ranks following the economic downturn of the past few years and ever stricter requirements being imposed by federal regulators. In fact, the American Trucking Association estimates that the industry will need to hire more than 200,000 drivers in the coming two years to keep up with economic demand in the U.S. alone.
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Driving To Perfection more than a slogan for Jetco’s drivers, staff
Late last year, Jetco embarked on a program to further enhance the importance of safety in all of its operations.
The program, known as Driving To Perfection or D2P, was developed by Jetco’s employees as a means to stress the significance of personal responsibility for safe operations in the company and to enhance the many training and safety initiatives already underway throughout the organization.