WEST SIDE NEWS

In This Issue

New/Old Business

West Side employee be-

comes US citizen.

From the desk of C.O.O.

Ron Joseph .

Become a driver recruit-

er.

New trucks & fuel.

Family helping family.

GEM Awards

Department Updates

New additions/weddings.

The Journey to America Alisher Bozorov is no ordinary driver. He has been a man on a long

journey to become a citizen of the United States of America. He

came to the states (Illinois) at age 17 and it has taken him 14 years to

make citizenship a reality. Alisher is an unbelievably proud man who

always has a smile on his face and a kind word to share. He has

built a happy life with his wife whom he met here at Governors State

University. They have 2 children, a boy & girl ages 8 & 3. He said

it’s been a long and costly 14 years, but all worth it. Alisher says the

best thing about being a US citizen is the “opportunity to be yourself.”

You don’t have to worry about religious persecution and can speak

your mind without the fear of retribution. “This is truly the land of the

free.”

West Side Transport Newsletter OCTOBER 2014

SEPTEMBER GEM AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

Brett Hines - Saved a PepsiCo load in the middle of his own load,

then did his after that.

Justina Cepeda - On her 1st day as a solo driver rescued an aban-

doned truck that was in complete shambles.

Richard Meng – Did a welfare check on another driver, then res-

cued their load.

Frank Marcolini – Brought a truck to CR for repairs & service and

had to drive back with someone when it didn’t get fixed that day.

Ernest Howard –Rescued a hot IP load.

Each driver receives a $50.00 Walmart gift card and GEM Award

T-Shirt.

I would first like to thank everyone at West Side for

making me feel so welcome in my new role. After be-

ing on the team for a couple of months I am very im-

pressed with a great group of dedicated employees.

As we all know the trucking business is always a

challenge and it is not a career for those who don’t

enjoy the excitement of a changing work day. The

trucking business is stimulating for those of us who love this business. I truly appreciate

what you do each day to service our customers in a safe and efficient manner.

I would like to let you know about the areas that we are going to focus on over the next

year.

1. Create the best Driving Career in The Trucking Industry. To make this a reality our

company will focus on three areas for our drivers;

Respect for the job you do

Quality home time

A good steady paycheck

2. Driver Friendly customers

Collect and provide feedback on how they treat our staff

Work with our customers to improve our partnership with them

Align West Side with the best customers possible

We are also targeting January 2015 to update our compensation packages to reflect the

realities of our customer and freight network. In this process we are going to simplify the

bonus structure. This change will enable you to understand how to achieve the bonus

and receive the current month bonus on a timely basis.

As a part of the compensation change we are also in the process of attempting to pull

our shorter customer freight out of the regional and fleet driver’s network by creating a

“Bounce” Fleet. This fleet will focus on the >150 mile loads and help keep the system

drivers moving. This change will help keep you off the short loads that eat up your valua-

ble HOS. You may be approached about a bounce position if available. Thanks again

and please always be safe.

Ron Joseph

Chief Operating Officer

TAKING CARE OF FAMILY

In late August, I received a phone call from

our driver Ron Smith. He told me a very

touching story about his daughter who had

battled cancer early on in her life and was now

losing her eye sight. His family had been

fundraising for a surgery that could only be

performed out in Beverly Hills, CA that would

stop the deterioration of her eye sight. In an

effort to make it more affordable, Ron’s

daughter asked if West Side would be able to

find a load for them to take out to California,

thus eliminating the cost of flying there. Cus-

tomer Service & Pricing Director, Cory Rich-

mond then reached out to PepsiCo and they

were able to award us a load that would allow

Ron to get his daughter to California for the

surgery. On September 11, 2014 Ron picked

his daughter up in Chicago and they began

their journey. On September 12th, Ron came

into the Cedar Rapids office with his daughter,

Ronnina by his side. It was then, that many of

us who had worked on coordinating this trip,

realized the gratitude that the Smith family

had for West Side. Ronnina is doing well and

plans to keep us updated!

OCTOBER WS ANNIVERSARIES

1 Year Chad Bush Levi Corey Aaron Edwards Ben Fetters Philip Gasper Timothy Haege Thomas Kolat Felita Lawrence Anna Luedtke (O) Thomas Lenertz (O) Scott Miller (O) Donald Oberg Kenneth Rexroat Steven Robertson Ian Williams Anthony Wininger 2 Years Shawne Corson Rodney Evans Bill Huston Richard Lease Phillip Napier Brandon Padgett

Thomas Ropelewski Joe Spitzley Robert Thompson 3 Years Tyler Elson NathanieL Jablonski (O) James Lovell Bill Studt (O) Soye Thomas Kim Thomas 4 Years Ed Bailey Dan Dukes Gloria Miller Craig Mitchell 5 Years William Goodrick

6 Years Corethious Bryant Keith Grimes (O) Kevin Hofecker Dana Moline (O) Matt Stoudenmire 7 Years Carol Heck (O) Kurt Schroeder 10 Years Norman Harlan 11 Years Mandy McCrary (O) 19 Years Tim Whitney 35 Years Mark Muehe (O) Retiring this month!

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Fuel Great news, we are finally done getting all of the new trucks on the road. Even better news is that they are getting excellent MPG. In fact our driver with the highest MPG for August was in a new Internation-al sleeper unit. Richard Hitchman had a MPG of 9.01---this is awesome.

Below is a listing of the drivers with the top five MPG for the month of August; in addition these drivers are the only ones with MPG over 8.0. The combined idle for the below drivers was 9.7% for the entire month.

Richard Hitchman, unit 45702-- 9.01 MPG

Tony Leap, unit 45780---8.32 MPG

Jonathon Earle, unit 45702—8.31 MPG

John Rogers, unit 45733—8.03 MPG

BJ Kost, unit 44511—8.01 MPG

A reminder as we head into the cooler weather, all of the West Side sleeper trac-tors are equipped with bunk heaters. If you haven’t already, please take a few minutes to make sure yours is working. West Side has made a significant invest-ment in the climate control units for the 2013/2014 Volvos, 2015 Freightliners and the 2015 Internationals. Properly function-ing equipment will keep you more com-fortable, earn you a higher bonus and all the while save on our company’s fuel spend.

I have ordered a DEF tank similar to the one at our Cedar Rapids terminal for the Glenwood location. With all of the new units requiring DEF we will be able to save a substantial amount of money on our DEF purchases by increasing our capacity at Glenwood. The new tank will save us approximately $.25 per gallon versus the totes that are currently in place. Please do your best to always fill your DEF at the one of the Cedar Rapids terminals or at Glenwood whenever possi-ble. For your reference our DEF costs vary greatly by purchase location; $5.00 a gallon in a jug, $2.80 at the pumps over the road, $1.63 in Glenwood, $1.30 in Glenwood when new tanks arrive and $1.08 per gallon in the Cedar Rapids yards. I am currently looking into options for the St. Paul and Indy yards as well---stay tuned.

I can also report that our ongoing internet issues at the new yard which caused a lot of failed transactions has been fixed. If any of you experience any issues going forward with errors 0 or 13 please let me know. I appreciate everyone’s patience dealing with the communication problems these past few months.

Human Resources

BENEFITS – Open enrollment will take place the week of November 17th thru November 21st. This is the one and only time a year you can make changes to your plan without a family status change. Please watch your mailbox, a flyer will be coming soon with your 2015 plan op-tions.

HALLOWEEN – We will have a costume contest and a chili cook off with the winner picked by your co workers. Do you have a secret recipe that you would like to enter????

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Every West Side truck is equipped with an Espar Bunk Heater that is de-signed to keep you warm in cold weather without idling the truck.

Cold weather will be here before you know it and it is a good idea to make sure that your bunk heater is working before you need it.

Please take some time in the month of October to run the bunk heater for 30 minutes. If your bunk heater does not run please get your truck to Ce-dar Rapids so that we can repair it before it gets cold.

It is normal to see smoke come from the bunk heaters exhaust pipe when the unit is first started.

The bunk heater should not be left on while driving the truck, this causes excessive wear and wastes fuel.

Payroll

DEADLINES

Trucking has many deadlines but I thought it might be helpful to do an article to recap some of the many DEADLINES the Payroll Dept has.

Just a refresher as you can always find this in your Driver Manual.

Deadline to be empty or T called off your load for Payroll Cut off

Midnight Friday

Deadline to Scan your trip paperwork for loads you have de-livered by Friday at midnight.

Saturday NOON

If you had an issue with missing the Noon Saturday deadline to scan, your deadline to call me about it is NOON Monday.

Maximum Deadline to have a Trip Sheet and billing paper-work in so you don’t lose pay on a load, 30 Days from the de-livery date.

Maximum Deadline to have a receipt turned in for reimburse-ment is 30 days from receipt date.

New Business

In an effort to increase driver take home pay and produc-tivity, we have been working to add new business that increases miles and mini-mizes driver wait time. Some of the accounts that we add-ed in last quarter are:

Airens: Brillion, WI to Bata-via, IL and Smyrna, TN. Drop and hook at origin and live delivery at destination.

Liberty Paper: Becker, MN to Cedar Rapids, IA and Marshalltown, IA. Flexible schedule for live load and unload.

LXP: Romeoville, IL to Dick-son, TN. Drop and hook at origin and delivery.

Menasha Paper: Edwards-ville, IL to Louisville, KY and Chicago, IL. Live load and unload with flexible times on both ends.

Mills Fleet Farm: Savage, MN to stores in Mason City, IA and Ankeny, IA. Flexible pickup and delivery hours.

Owens Corning: Minneap-olis, MN to Menards in Des Moines, IA and Omaha, NE. Live load and unload with flexible delivery hours.

Prime Distribution: Norcross, GA to Walmart in Shelby, NC and Seymour, IN. Live load and drop at destinations.

Phoenix Brands: Lithia Springs, GA and Pataskala, OH to Walmart in Shelby, NC and Midway, TN. Live load and drop at destina-tions.

ConAgra: Atlanta, GA to Newport, TN, as well as outbound Newport, TN to Atlanta, GA and Lebanon, IN. We drop in Newport, TN and Lebanon, IN.

Dial: Asheboro, NC to St Louis, MO. Live load and drop at destination.

Spartan Foods: Spartan-burg, SC to Atlanta, GA. Live load and un-load.

Coca-Cola: Eagan, MN, Columbus, OH and Paw Paw, MI to various loca-tions. Live load until more business is award-ed and live unload.

Top Account Updates

International Paper Update

Oct 1st the Cedar Paper mill will be utilizing the Gate Pass system. This is

the same system that IP Cayuga and IP Maysville KY are on. You will no

longer be issued CR numbers. Instead, the gate pass number will be in

your BOL field. You will be handed the gate pass at the supplier. If you do

not receive one, please do not leave the supplier and call into dispatch

right away. You must have the original gate pass in order to be processed

through the mill. It is important if dropping the trailer at a yard, you leave

the gate pass with the paperwork. The gate-pass needs to be kept in good

shape so it will scan at the gate. November 1st the Henderson mill will be

on gate pass system as well. This should help eliminate confusion of when

we need one and when we do not once all the mills are on the same sys-

tem.

Please remember to inspect trailers thoroughly after unloading or when

picking up at a supplier. Call any damage in to Ron Painter at extension

158. We are working with International Paper to track damage with suppli-

ers and receivers and need your help.

Thanks for your feedback! We are continuing to work with Corporate to

help get the box plants to remove the mats after unloading. If there are

any box plants that are removing the mats now, please let dispatch know

so we can remove them off the list to work on.

Finally, most of the IP Box plants are on an appointment system now.

Many do not have room for trucks to wait in line so it is important that we

honor our appointment times and not show up more than 30 min prior to

the scheduled time. If you cannot make your scheduled time, please notify

dispatch right away and we can see if there is a different time available.

Thanks for all your hard work in servicing this account. It does not go un-

noticed and we have made a great name for ourselves at International Pa-

per corporate.

PepsiCo

As many of you know we were awarded the Midwest Carrier of the year for

PepsiCo in 2013. We have handled the dedicated business to and from

Cedar Rapids, IA for a many years now and it is a very important piece of

business for West Side Transport. Lately we have been having some is-

sues with presenting clean trailers to PepsiCo and this has had a negative

impact on our overall fleet. Rest assured the Operations Team in conjunc-

tion with our Sales Team is doing everything necessary to rectify the situa-

tion. I am asking that all of our drivers make sure they sweep out the trail-

ers very well before picking up all loads as the process can often times

prevent trailer issues and allow for West Side Transport to grow with our

customers and increase our focus to provide driver friendly opportunities to

our drivers. We will continue to do business with PepsiCo and with a little

extra effort on our trailer cleanliness we can make sure we grow with Pep-

siCo. I appreciate all of the hard work our drivers do, we certainly have the

best drivers in the industry.

Abdiaziz Ali

Joesph Barry (O)

Darwin Becker

Burhan Binoka

Thomas Brickman

Corrion Brown

Ken Burr

Juan Carranza

Dale Chittick

Anthony Clark

Tim Davis

Keith Decker

Mike Diedrick

Randy Donath

Mike Doschadis (O)

Dan Dukes

Cedric Ferguson

Luis Fernandez

Kendall Ford

Rodney Foster

Lester Good (O)

Keith Grimes (O)

Robert Gursky

William Hall

Eric Hauser

David Homeyer (O)

Alamin Hunafa

Tom Ingram

Jeff Jetmore

Michelle Jones (O)

Ron Joseph (O)

Michael Judge

Deryk Klein

Alie Koroma

Stacie Lobue (O)

Jon Locher (O)

Lee Lopez

Bill Lynch

Phil McDonald

Scott Miller (O)

Dana Moline (O)

Donald Oberg

Anthony Oronce

Jason Pavelchik (O)

Kristie Pohlman (O)

Brenda Pope

Michele Roman (O)

Thomas Ropelewski

Paul Rudd

Jon Schoenhardt

Jacob Sells

Patrick Senser

Clarence Shaw

Rodney Sherren

Kurt Stauffer

Durell Swindle

David Taylor

Kim Tebbe (O)

Timothy Tellier

Jose Villanueva

Heather Waingrow

Kathryn Weatherby (O)

Ian Williams

Joaquin Williams

Kevin Worthy

Freddie Yankaway

Julie York (O)

OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS OFFICE RIDE-ALONGS HAVE BEGUN!

Driver Manager Ryan Armstrong is riding this week with

his driver Joe Spitzley.

SHOP Cont.

Seals

Hopefully everyone is aware of West Side’s policy to seal every

load. It’s important to seal every load, because in this business,

not doing so can cost us a lot of money. Every load means EVE-

RY load, even scrap loads.

Recently the Qualcomm was set up so that there’s a mandatory

field to enter the seal number when you pick up a load. That field

is not for make believe seal numbers, it’s for the seal that actual-

ly gets put on the trailer by the driver who picks the load up. If

the shipper does not provide a seal, a West Side seal needs to

be fastened to the trailer doors.

If you are picking up a load and the trailer is not sealed by the

shipper it is your job to put the seal on the trailer…not the next

guy who picks the load up. I’ve spoken with a number of drivers

about this. If you pick up a paper load for example at IP in Cedar

Rapids and drop it in the South lot or the terminal, you need to

seal the trailer. I have heard drivers say they want the next driver

to be able to look at the load to make sure it’s okay. My answer

to that is: just about everybody knows what a trailer full of six or

seven rolls looks like. Why does the next driver need to look at

it?

This week one of our city drivers that I talked to about this sent a

list of trailers at the South lot that were not sealed and the seals

were still in the bill box. There were 69 loads. That number

should be zero. Please get in the habit of sealing every load if

you aren’t already. You don’t see the cargo claims that our cus-

tomers send us but I can tell you that if everyone followed West

Side’s seal policy, we would receive fewer claims. If you have

any questions about the policy, please contact me at ext. 150

and we can discuss. Thanks for your cooperation.

DID YOU KNOW

If you drive around the earth

40 times, you have driven

about one million miles.

If you drive round-trip from

Omaha, NE to Denver, CO

895 times, you will have driv-

en about one million miles.

If 365 trucks leave Los Ange-

les, CA and drive to New

York, NY, at the end of the

trip those drivers will have

driven a total of about one

million miles.

Safe Driving Mile Awards

AS OF 08/31/14

1/4 MILLION

SCOTT TREDWELL 251,525 KATHRYN WEATHERBY

ROBERT BEAM 252,136 RYAN ARMSTRONG

MICHELLE BASSETT 255,510 EDWARD PRIME

TERRILL JOHNSON 257,529 KIMBERLY MERTA

1/2 MILLION

RICHARD UMBERGER 504,199 JASON PAVELCHIK

HERMAN BAKER 504,820 PAT GOOD

3/4 MILLION

MATT STOUDENMIRE 751,710 RYAN ARMSTRONG

DANA TRUBY 755,244 PAT MCDONNELL

ONE AND 1/4 MILLION

NORMAN HARLAN 1,251,587 PAT GOOD

AS OF 09/30/14

1/4 MILLION

ROBERT CREED 261,673 LEE GENO

MARK CIEZOBKA 257,618 BILL STUDT

JEFF BURCH 258,276 EDWARD PRIME

THOMAS BRYAN 256,146 KIMBERLY MERTA

ONE MILLION

GARY PELDO 1,008,772 PAT GOOD

INTERESTING FACTS

West Side currently has 12

drivers who have achieved

more than 1 million acci-

dent free miles.

Two drivers have achieved

over 2 million accident free

miles.

One driver has achieved

over 4 million accident free

miles.

SAFETY Aggressive Driving

Aggressive Driving Definition: “The operation of a motor vehicle in such a manner that endangers or is likely to endanger persons or property” Aggressive driving poses a serious traffic safety threat. One aggressive driving act by one driver can trigger a disproportionate response, sometimes even escalating to the level of “Road Rage.” Aggressive driving happens when a driver allows their anger, frustration, or other emotions control how they drive. There are many causes of aggressive driving such as: Being behind schedule, stuck in traffic, stressed or fatigued, just to name a few. These factors may push your driving habits to the extreme but a PROFESSIONAL driver has a responsibility to guard against “letting emotions do the driving.” Are you an aggressive driver? Take the driver quiz. Do you:

1. Get angry at drivers? 2. Get angry at fast drivers? 3. Get angry at slow drivers? 4. Get angry when cut off? 5. Get angry at malfunctioning stoplights? 6. Get angry at traffic jams? 7. Spouse or friends tell you to calm down?

8. Get angry at tailgaters? 9. Get angry at your passengers? 10. Get angry when a multilane highway narrows?

If you answered yes to any one of the questions then you fall into the “aggressive driver” category. The “Do as I say not as I do” attitude is very common in aggressive driving. West Side Transport utilizes the Qualcomm stability control and hard breaking programs to examine ag-gressive driving habits and create a corrective plan of action for drivers when necessary. If you had the option to monitor people who were driving your personal vehicle, it would be nice to get a report as to know if they respected your vehicle as you do. The Qualcomm report gives West Side Transport this type of in-formation. All drivers need to examine, and when needed, correct their own unsafe driving habits, which are likely to endanger, antagonize or provoke other motorists. You can avoid driving aggressively if you focus on the road ahead, keep calm when your situation gets stressful, allow plenty of time for your route, expect traffic and construction delays as they are a part of life on the road. You need to assume that the actions of other drivers are not “personal.” They are not trying to irritate or delay you; they just make simple mistakes and remember, “There is NO load worth your life or anyone else’s life. Always practice the Smith System defensive driving and have a 6 second space distance in front of you on clean, dry pavement. If the roads are not clean and dry, double the space distance to at least 12 seconds. Remember it will take the length of 2 football fields for a tractor and trailer to come to a complete stop if you are traveling at a rate of 55 MPH. You don’t need to travel with the flow of traffic as it only takes one per-son to slam on their brakes and create a multi vehicle pile-up. The pebble in the stream concept works the best. Allow traffic to flow around you. Stay in the lane of least resistance which is the center lane or the right lane if there are only two lanes available. With winter around the corner we need to expect delays and be a professional defensive driver. Make your safety your number one priority.

MARRIAGES

Driver Joe Spitzley was mar-

ried to Melissa on August

23th. Congratulations to both

of you!

Recruiting

Make an Extra $20,000! How?

Referral bonus that’s how! Pam Jordan an experienced driver for West Side Transport made an extra $23,000 in referral bonuses in one

year! Pam took every opportunity she could to speak to other drivers out on the road talking about working for West Side and how we treat

our hard working, dedicated drivers. The payout for the referral bonus is in 3 separate payments. First payment is made once the driver you

referred delivers their first load, then the 2nd payment is made when they hit their 2 month anniversary date with West Side, and 3rd and final

payment is made after that drivers has been with us for 6 months! We do all the work and all you have to do is talk about West Side and

how great it is to work here! Stop in the Recruiting Office in Cedar Rapids, IA and ask for Justin or stop in the Orientation Building in Glen-

wood and ask for Stacie so we can put together your business cards! Example of a business card below. Treat the referral bonus as your

own business. Go out and sell it, own it, give examples of when things went right and wrong, check on your recruits status with recruiting

and most important make sure you get PAID!!

Call Justin at 319-390-4466 ext. 201 if you want me to make you some business cards in advance so you can just grab them when you are

in Cedar Rapids, IA or Glenwood, IL.

Referral Bonus Contest

Now that I explained how the referral bonus works I want to challenge every single one of West Side Transport’s drivers to hit the pavement

and start talking to other drivers about West Side Transport. The top 3 drivers that refer the most drivers will receive a prize.

Start Date: 10/01/2014

End Date: 12/15/2014. Just in time for Christmas and all of those Christmas gifts!

How I would do it: I would hand your business card to any driver that is seriously thinking about coming on board with West Side Transport.

Get as much information from that driver as you can such as, name, home base and phone number. Then call recruiting (800-677-5627)

and give the information to one of the recruiters so we can reach out and contact the driver. Make sure that we get your name so we can fill

out your driver referral sheet.

1st Place Prize: $1000 Visa Gift Card

2nd Place Prize: $500 Visa Gift Card

3rd Place Prize: $250 Visa Gift Card

Justin (manager of recruiting) will track referrals and send out a QUALCOMM message to the winners of the referral contest in January. He

will hand out the prizes in January and take a picture with our 3 top finishers to put on our website and Facebook page.

New Additions to Recruiting

Welcome Tyler Garcia to the West Side Transport Recruiting Team! Tyler is based out of our St. Paul, MN terminal. Tyler started with West

Side Transport on night dispatch and decided he wanted a change of scenery and moved to Minnesota. West Side is happy to have a full

time recruiter based in St. Paul, MN.

Welcome Stacie LoBue as well to the West Side Transport Recruiting Team! Stacie is based out of our Glenwood, IL terminal. Stacie came

over to recruiting from being our Safety Coordinator in Glenwood. We are happy to have her in recruiting out of our Glenwood terminal!

Michelle is a brand new edition to our Recruiting Team as well. She moved to recruiting from logistics and will be our recruiter processor

and orientation processing liaison. She will be based in Cedar Rapids, IA working in the Recruiting Department.

ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE Helpful reminders to make sure your pay is processed and customers can be invoiced. If you deliver into a facility we drop loads at, make sure some-one signs for the load. If nobody is available, make sure YOU write on the Bills of Lading “dropped, seal intact” and date it. When delivering into these International Paper facilities, make sure you obtain a “Drop Load Ticket” commonly referred to as the waste tally. This is IP’s form of proof of delivery. Maysville, KY Cayuga, IN Prattville, AL Pine Hill, AL Cedar Rapids, IA (starting 10/1/14) When scanning your bills of lading, make sure you have scanned the bills reflecting all stops, and for all product oved on the shipment. A summary page of the BOL is often not ac-ceptable for customers to issue payment. Make sure you write the correct trip # on your trip sheet. NEVER leave all the bills with a dropped shipment, you need to retain a copy of them showing you dropped the load at their facility. Make sure your images are legible when you scan them in, if

you can’t read them others probably can’t either.

WELLNESS TIPS FOR THE PROFESSIONAL DRIVER

Eat healthy food every 3 hours to keep your body and brain in high gear. Try running a truck on empty! Your body uses food (the body’s fuel) in about 3 hours. If you don’t refuel your body it increases your fat stor-age to help you last longer. Eating a fist size of healthy food every 3 hours steadily fuels your body, keeps you focused, sheds your fat storage and gives you high energy. Drink water when you get the crav-ing for unhealthy foods. Hy-drate your body first! Energy Foods: Protein – Chicken/turkey slices, cheese, eggs, nuts, beef jerky, shakes, and bars. Vegetables – eat a variety! Re-member corn and potatoes don’t count as vegetables. Fruit – eat a variety. Whole grain/Wheat – made with 100% whole grain/wheat flour. Tastes like a treat, but is healthy – low sugar/carb protein bars, cocoa covered almonds, sunflower seeds, flavored pro-tein shakes, Greek Yogurt, choose diet or zero products.

SHOP CONT.

Auto Start/Stop and Optimized Idle

Our new 2015 tractors also have a feature that will monitor your battery voltage and your oil temperature. These trucks are designed to start the truck automatically if the battery voltage or oil temperatures drop too low. To enable this feature on the Freightliners you simply have to cycle the cruise control off and back on with the brakes set and the engine idling. A light on the dash will come on that say Idle Optimizer and will flash for 5 minutes, after 5 minutes the truck will engine will shut down and the sys-tem is armed. If the battery voltage or oil temperature drop below the set point then the engine will restart on its own to charge or warm the engine. The key must be left in the ignition and in the run position for Opt Idle to function. To enable this feature on the Navistar you must push the Auto Start/Stop button located on the dash within 30 seconds of shutting off the truck. The key should be in the off position or in your pocket for Auto Start/Stop to work.

NEW ADDITIONS

Andrew James Witten

was born August 28,

2014 and weighed in at

7 lbs. 14 oz. and was

21” long. He is the

Grandson of driver Ed

& Angela Bailey.