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On Episode 120 of The Word on the Street powered by BETA Consulting Group, the #streetcrew and Trey talk about what a true partnership means to drivers and how to know if drivers are being treated well!  Many thanks to our sponsor, Greenscreens.ai &amp; TAFS, Inc.  To learn more and get started click HERE. The Word on the Street is a weekly podcast hosted by Trey Griggs with nine other industry professionals known as a #StreetCrew, who chop it up about supply chain issues, sports, politics, religion and whatever else comes up. 

On Episode 120 of The Word on the Street powered by BETA Consulting Group, the #streetcrew and Trey talk about what a true partnership means to drivers and how to know if drivers are being treated well!  Many thanks to our sponsor, <a href="http://Greenscreens.ai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Greenscreens.ai</a> &amp; TAFS, Inc.  To learn more and get started click <a href="https://www.tafs.com/dc-lps/amb/beta-consulting-group/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HERE</a>. The Word on the Street is a weekly podcast hosted by Trey Griggs with nine other industry professionals known as a #StreetCrew, who chop it up about supply chain issues, sports, politics, religion and whatever else comes up.

Word on the Street - Episode 120 with guest Josh Mecca 

Medical mistakes account for 250,000 deaths each year. Think surgical sponges or instruments left inside the patient, for example. Josh Mecca wants to change that. M&amp;S Biotics uses data analytics and RFID to automate certain procedures, decrease mistakes in the operating room and achieve better outcomes from surgery. Josh Mecca is Co-founder and CEO of M&amp;S Biotics. As a kidney transplant patient, Josh discovered medical mistakes that prompted him to develop solutions that decrease surgical risk.  Houston Exponential (HX): Innovation Lives Here.

Medical mistakes account for 250,000 deaths each year. Think surgical sponges or instruments left inside the patient, for example. Josh Mecca wants to change that. M&amp;S Biotics uses data analytics and RFID to automate certain procedures, decrease mistakes in the operating room and achieve better outcomes from surgery. Josh Mecca is Co-founder and CEO of M&amp;S Biotics. As a kidney transplant patient, Josh discovered medical mistakes that prompted him to develop solutions that decrease surgical risk. Houston Exponential (HX): Innovation Lives Here.

Josh Mecca - M&S Biotics

Josh Mecca is the Director of Recruiting at American Central Transport, a family-owned Central Midwest and Southeast regional carrier that operates approximately 325 hour units and more than 1,000 trailers. Josh is a proponent of continuous improvement, and his company exemplifies the importance of continuous improvement through its programs designed to ensure they have the best, happiest, most efficient truck drivers around. “We just launched a brand new driver pay package that we like to call Dr. Your Pay and when we started looking at all the pay increases and we started looking at all the sign-on bonuses and everything that everybody is offering right now. We thought we can do this but we want to do it better. And more importantly we want to reward our fleet who is -- no pun intended -- pulling us forward, the ones that are pulling us in the right direction.” - Josh Mecca  What you’ll learn about in this episode:  Why pay packages matter and why it also matters to have a third party to verify pay packages are in line with – if not better than – the current market Helping employees set themselves up for success by doing things like offering a fuel coach to help drivers make better, more efficient decisions about driving What a traction program is and how it can be beneficial by opening the hiring pool to not only veterans but new drivers, too, by partnering with the driving schools How a program that combines a veteran driver with an entry level driver helps entry level drivers learn all different kinds of driving scenarios on the road Mobilizing veteran drivers to improve programs, efficiency, and overall success of the business The importance of hiring entry level drivers and female drivers to widen the range of hiring and basing the hiring in part on location because if closer to home, their rate of success is higher The importance of offering packages that consider the driver’s whole family, lifestyle, and overall safety when it comes to recruitment and retaining good truckers  Ways to contact Josh:  Website: www.americancentral.com Telephone: 816-781-9600 Email: recruiting@americancentral.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/josh-mecca-b852829 

Josh Mecca is the Director of Recruiting at American Central Transport, a family-owned Central Midwest and Southeast regional carrier that operates approximately 325 hour units and more than 1,000 trailers. Josh is a proponent of continuous improvement, and his company exemplifies the importance of continuous improvement through its programs designed to ensure they have the best, happiest, most efficient truck drivers around. “We just launched a brand new driver pay package that we like to call Dr. Your Pay and when we started looking at all the pay increases and we started looking at all the sign-on bonuses and everything that everybody is offering right now. We thought we can do this but we want to do it better. And more importantly we want to reward our fleet who is -- no pun intended -- pulling us forward, the ones that are pulling us in the right direction.” - Josh Mecca What you’ll learn about in this episode: <ul> <li>Why pay packages matter and why it also matters to have a third party to verify pay packages are in line with – if not better than – the current market</li> <li>Helping employees set themselves up for success by doing things like offering a fuel coach to help drivers make better, more efficient decisions about driving</li> <li>What a traction program is and how it can be beneficial by opening the hiring pool to not only veterans but new drivers, too, by partnering with the driving schools</li> <li>How a program that combines a veteran driver with an entry level driver helps entry level drivers learn all different kinds of driving scenarios on the road</li> <li>Mobilizing veteran drivers to improve programs, efficiency, and overall success of the business</li> <li>The importance of hiring entry level drivers and female drivers to widen the range of hiring and basing the hiring in part on location because if closer to home, their rate of success is higher</li> <li>The importance of offering packages that consider the driver’s whole family, lifestyle, and overall safety when it comes to recruitment and retaining good truckers</li> </ul> Ways to contact Josh: <ul> <li>Website: <a href="https://www.americancentral.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">www.americancentral.com</a></li> <li>Telephone: 816-781-9600</li> <li>Email: <a href="mailto:recruiting@americancentral.com">recruiting@americancentral.com</a></li> <li>LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-mecca-b852829/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/in/josh-mecca-b852829</a></li> </ul>

Episode 33: Continuous Improvement through Innovative Programs, with Josh Mecca