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JAMES D MCGREW

GRAVETTE,AR

Summary

Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Logistics and Shipping Manager

Cook's Venture Poultry
Jay, OK
10.2021 - 05.2023
  • Currently the only employee in managing the logistics department
  • Moving 30+ multi stop outbound loads per week
  • Work with vendors that debone for the company, moving 15+ loads per week from their location to Jay, OK
  • Monitor loads from loading, delivery scheduling, and in route tracking
  • Keep everyone involved and updated on the progress
  • Cook’s is a non-asset based company and uses outside carriers and brokers
  • Keep up with rate fluctuations nationwide to make sure we are running at the best price
  • Manage the movements of 3 local drivers daily, 5 lease trucks and 24 lease reefers
  • Manage their maintenance and inventory
  • Driver recruiting
  • Also work as the shipping manager
  • Managing 3 shifts with 8 employees on each shift
  • Duties include
  • Feeding production their product to run all shifts
  • Inventory Control & shipment accuracy
  • Truck Scheduling
  • BOL Accuracy

Logistics Manager

R&R Solutions
Gravette, AR
05.2017 - 10.2021
  • Daily management of dispatchers, 30 trucks and 59 trailers
  • R&R is a IT project company so we coordinate with project managers to fulfill customer needs in order to get trucks to the correct location
  • Secured several regular freight customers and utilized brokers when needed
  • Grew the fleet from 15 trucks and losing revenue to 30 trucks and show substantial profits
  • Great in communication, driver retention, securing customers, real time problem solving and creating a productive environment
  • Driver recruiting.

Fleet Manager

R&R Solutions
Gravette, AR
01.2014 - 01.2017
  • Positively interacted with all personnel, including drivers, upper management, shop department, which helped improve overall communication
  • Trained drivers to manage time effectively, improving overall mileage performance
  • Suggested actionable improvements to increase efficiency and reduce expenses
  • Generated daily reports detailing suggested process improvement initiatives to inform management
  • Completed projects by effectively delegating tasks and overseeing employee performance
  • Managed every aspect of a board containing 15 trucks: from load securement, driver recruiting, customer service, load planner, dispatcher, safety, driver retention and service-maintenance
  • Driver recruiting.

Recruiter

JB Hunt
01.2012 - 01.2014
  • Received and made calls to recruit truck drivers to the company
  • Review background with the driver to ensure they were a good fit and met requirements
  • Tasked with bringing at least 2 drivers to each orientation
  • Consistently had 5 drivers per orientation and was top recruiter most months.

Fleet Manager

JB Hunt
02.2008 - 01.2012
  • Manage a fleet of 50+ trucks to ensure on time delivery
  • Managed home time, vacations, and holidays with the main focus on retention
  • Excelled at driver retention and recruiting drivers that left the company
  • Consistent coaching of drivers on safety, fuel consumption and out-of-route miles
  • Trained a lot of new drivers and guided drivers while they started a new career
  • Daily and weekly reporting with on-time delivery, mileage and asset utilization
  • Consistently one of the top 5 fleet managers company wide.

Education

High School Diploma -

Allen High School, Allen, TX
08.1988

Skills

  • Process Improvement
  • ERP Systems
  • Freight Experience
  • Web-based Logistics Information Systems
  • Shipment Reconciliation
  • Issue Resolution
  • Customer Service
  • Recruiting and Interviewing
  • Corporate Logistics
  • Logistics Data Analysis
  • Detail-Oriented
  • Shipment Tracking
  • Verbal and Written Communication
  • Equipment Inspection
  • Logistics Planning

Timeline

Logistics and Shipping Manager - Cook's Venture Poultry
10.2021 - 05.2023
Logistics Manager - R&R Solutions
05.2017 - 10.2021
Fleet Manager - R&R Solutions
01.2014 - 01.2017
Recruiter - JB Hunt
01.2012 - 01.2014
Fleet Manager - JB Hunt
02.2008 - 01.2012
Allen High School - High School Diploma,

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