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Nina Williams’ record at a glance
Years as Route Driver: 12
Percentage of Company Sales
in 2008: 6.8%
Product Waste: 1.3%
Miles Per Day: 120
Driving Citations or Accidents: 0
A good route driver takes the time needed to service the location properly. An outstanding route driver takes the job personally and goes above and beyond what is expected, establishing rapport with the customer and keeping machines clean, filled and working.
Then there is the super outstanding route driver; one who lives, eats and sleeps the job. This is the type of driver the average vending manager will rarely see over the course of a lifetime. The type of route driver who arranges his or her personal life around the job.
Nina Williams of Mid-South Food Services in Aberdeen, N.C., is a super outstanding route driver. The 2008 Automatic Merchandiser Route Driver of the Year, Williams is someone that most vending managers can only wish to have on their team.
Williams is the fifth Automatic Merchandiser Route Driver of the Year and the first female to win the honor. She was nominated by Larry Pugh, general manager of Mid-South Food Service. The annual contest is sponsored by Kraft Vending & OCS.
EXCEPTIONAL COMMITMENT
When employees were stranded at a location on account of a winter storm, Williams got ahold of a tractor and plowed through 14 inches of snow to get them food.
In 1999, when she gave birth to her son, Brandon, she was on the job the day before going into labor.
It is not unusual for Williams to drive to one of her biggest accounts on Sunday afternoon after attending church to fill machines.
Williams, 40, lives and breathes every moment to make her machines sparkle, filled with products customers want. Her mission: to make herself, her manager and her company look good to every person who enters the break room.
