This year, as we celebrate the Christmas season, we also mourn the senseless loss of innocent lives in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. As I stand in church, grateful to be singing “O Little Town of Bethlehem” with my daughters by my side, I will be thinking of the people of the little town of Newtown. It’s impossible to comprehend such a horrific act of violence, especially at a time that is meant to be filled with merriment, hope, love, and peace. Yet, as one wise soul once said: “Christmas is not as much about
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Iconic child star Shirley Temple once said: “I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.” Whether we believe in Santa or not, one of the best parts of Christmas season is that even adults are encouraged to adopt a spirit of childlike wonder. I don’t know about you, but I would choose a new “toy” over a new tie any day. For example, I wouldn’t mind having Santa bring me this limited edition 2013 McLaren 12C
Read more →Often, my observations in our weekly Thought for the Weekend touch on some pretty heavy topics: trust, patriotism, theft, failure, gratitude and parenthood. Our company culture has made doing the right thing as routine as riding a bicycle for me and all of the members on our team. But talking about doing the right thing without sounding cliche, preachy or self-important feels like riding said bicycle on a tightrope. I hope that I succeed at this tricky balancing act more times than I fail, but since I endeavor to spend much of my time
Read more →Everyone knows the MasterCard commercial format: “Two tickets: $28. Two hot dogs, two popcorns, two sodas: $18. One autographed baseball: $45. Real conversation with 11-year-old son: Priceless. There are some things money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s MasterCard.” Indeed, the things we value most are the things money cannot buy: family, love, respect, health, happiness, integrity, trust. Matchmaker has worked with a customer on inbound freight for the past 20 years; we have built a strong relationship with our customer built on honesty, integrity, and trust. Although we were fortunate to serve our
Read more →W.C. Fields once said: “Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people“. I know better than to bet money on sports games, but occasionally I get so swept up in my passion for the Giants, I can’t help but enjoy a friendly wager where the stakes are pride and bragging rights. After this last Giants-Steelers game, I think I would have been better off losing a large sum of money… If you’re a regular reader of the Thought for the Weekend, you know that nearly five years
Read more →Everybody loves penny candy, and one of the most iconic penny candies is Tootsie Roll. A part of American culture since 1896, Tootsie Rolls were the first penny candy to be individually wrapped. As the Matchmaker team planned to send Mary and Jennifer as our representatives at this year’s Annual NASTC Conference, we wanted to find as many ways as possible to honor the stars of our industry, the Truck Drivers of the Year. Although we would have loved to hand out candies wrapped in portraits of Benjamin Franklin like the one
Read more →In recognition of our industry’s best and most hard-working truck drivers, we distributed Truck Driver Survival Kits at the recent 2012 NASTC conference. Here’s what was inside: B/C Powder: To relieve the headaches of the job Band-Aid: To help you repair broken trucks Brown Paper Bag: So you won’t hyperventilate while getting your truck unloaded Eraser: To get rid of problems on the road Gum: To get you out of sticky situations Laffy Taffy: To remind you to keep your sense of humor in traffic Lifesaver: To keep you from drowning in everyday problems
Read more →Matchmaker Logistics congratulates the following 2012 NASTC Drivers of the Year: Joe Smith, Barnes Transportation Services in Wilson, NC Kenny Barstow, Barstow Transportation in Lakeland, FL Walter McGill, J D & Billy Hines Trucking, Inc. in Prescott AR Timothy Joel Schedler, Jade Tank Lines, Inc. in Wilmington NC William King, Martin’s Bulk Milk Service in Wilton WI Craig Mattatall, Refrigerated Food Express, Inc. in Avon MA Paul Kopfmann, Stan’s Inc. in Alpena SD Donald E. Kittelson, Superb Trucking, LLC. in Menomonie WI Edward Cherry, Troublefree Transportation in Butler MO Mark Deutchman, Waletich Transportation in Kasota
Read more →Congratulations! And thanks for clicking here in response to our Thought for the Weekend offer on November 16, 2012. Your Truck Driver’s Survival Kit will be on its way to you early next week. If you’re a truck driver, enjoy the kit with our compliments; we hope the items inside will be a fun, humorous way to help you survive all of the challenges you face on the road. If you’re not a truck driver, please share the kit with a truck driver you know. It could be the driver who delivers merchandise to
Read more →As residents of “Hurricane Country”, our area usually makes the news at least once a year during a major storm. We know how the media can exaggerate a weather-related disaster. But when Hurricane Sandy hit the northeast, we quickly learned that this time, the media wasn’t exaggerating. Like you, we watched with concern and heartbreak as Hurricane Sandy took lives, started fires, flooded subways, threw roller coasters and boardwalks into the sea, and created billions of dollars of damage. In the midst of all of this trauma and upheaval, I noticed an unlikely theme:
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