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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

    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

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:

Just days away from the Presidential election, you might think the title of this blog post refers to politicians and their tendency to reverse their stands on important issues and policies. But, no. We’re actually referring to those comfortable backless sandals most people wear only at the beach. Most people does not included our Carrier Representative, Mary. Mary will spend Election Week on the road for Matchmaker Logistics. She’s kicking off her trip Sunday at a Giants/Steelers game. Mary, a Steelers fan since the age of 6, still hasn’t lived down the time she

The consensus here at Matchmaker Logistics is that Halloween is one of the best days of the year. No gift-giving or meal-making stress, fun costumes, and lots of candy–what could be better? Last year, Carrier Development Representative Robbie Johnson got a call from her 8-year-old niece that she couldn’t refuse. Her niece, Savannah, wanted to be Wednesday from the Addams Family for Halloween. Knowing that her Wednesday costume would look much more authentic with an entire spooky family in tow, the savvy 8-year-old recruited her parents, aunts, uncles and cousins to play Morticia, Gomez,

We’ve all had times in life when we’re behind the eight ball, but our newest team member, Carrier Sales Rep Jennifer Brown, had no idea that a game of pool would change her life and her career! Born and raised in Hueytown, Alabama, Jennifer is a small town girl with big talent. She went to school on a music scholarship, while working in the retail and hospitality sectors. After a period of personal upheaval which included caring for a sick grandparent, Jennifer needed a change. Jennifer didn’t even know how to hold a pool

Do you remember that classic Saturday Night Live skit Pumping Up featuring Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon as Hans and Franz? “I am Hans.” “Und I am Franz.” “Und ve just vant to pump… (clap) …YOU UP!” In these popular sketches which spoofed Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carvey and Nealon played a pair of muscle-bound Austrian jocks. With padding for fake muscles, drab gray sweatsuits, weight belts, and hilariously bad Austrian accents, the two SNL comedians denigrated others for not being as strong and physically “fit” as they were. They referred to non-muscle-bound men as “girlie

As I watched the Cowboys and Bears play on ESPN’s Monday Night Football, I was struck by the incongruity of big burly men wearing pink shoes and gloves in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It’s the fourth season that the Bears and the NFL have worked to “put a hurtin’ on breast cancer” by pinking up the players’ uniforms, the stadiums, and the goal posts. Did you notice that even the coin tossed at the beginning of the game was pink? I don’t know anyone who hasn’t been touched by cancer in

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print. ~Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop Motivational speaker, entrepreneur and business coach Brian Tracy says: “Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, 50 books per year, and will guarantee your success.” I don’t know about you, but with work, family, band practice, household