Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Great Job Russellville Team!!!



Strong storms blew thru the River Valley Wednesday night of the 25th.  

This resulted in a 19 hour power outage which affected our Russellville facility.

I want to Thank all our Team Members who made the extra efforts to pull together and get us thru this difficult day.    

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!


Issues we overcame were

1, We were unable to sync any handhelds to pick up our daily schedules.  We had to sync remotely from a alternative location .

2, We were unable to open our normal bay door to get our trucks out of the building, we used a smaller emergency door and drove our trucks thru the back yard. We can now plant corn in the ruts we dug in the wet soft ground.

3, We obtained a refrigerated truck from Fort Smith to keep our perishables from spoiling. This took a lot of extra transfer work.

4, We were unable to schedule our route’s for the next day. This was done remotely from an alternative location.     

5, We were unable to sync any route handheld for the end of day or pull paper work. This was done later that night after we got power back.

6, Zone orders were hand written.

7, We were unable to pre kit or run our light speed system.

8, We drank hot soda, as our employee soda machine warmed up.

9, We had to hot shot fresh food later that night to several locations as the power came back.  We lost about 7 loads of food across the River Valley.  

10, Our Route management team worked 21 hours straight on about 2 hours sleep.

11, The following day we had nothing left, The pic of Linda some’s it up.


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