Our Dispatch

Mechaela has worked as a dispatcher for her entire career and started at M&C in 2018. 

"We look at every driver as a person, not just as a resource or number."

Anna has been at M&C most of her life, but full time since 2015. Some of her fondest memories are riding along to haul blacktop! 

I started at M&C in the spring of 1978 as a part time mechanic, working on the weekends when the trucks were in for the week. There were six tractors and trailers, two tandem dumps and one triaxle dump. Later a triaxle flatbed was added that I was trained to drive, hauling firebrick between the Swank Refractory plants and sometimes into the steel mills.

After a few years I was offered a chance to drive trailer. John spent about a week riding with me, his brother Bill spent a few days with me also. I was told to practice by myself, hauling a couple of loads locally. One Saturday it was decided that I should take my test. A trooper rode with me for about a mile, he asked me to find a place to turn around and return to the DMV. There was no lengthy pre trip inspection, no backing skills test. He stamped my license “passed”. Things were very different then.

Our insurance company provided training for driver trainers and safety directors that I was able to take advantage of. Most notable was spending a week at their research center in Boston. Driving progressively larger vehicles in emergency steering and braking drills on simulated black ice. 

I spent a number of years as an over the road driver, working with new hires.  I came off the road to drive regionally. Day trips worked well to train applicants with no CDL, in the scope of training they learned how to safely operate a flatbed. The training was intense at times, but helping people who had only known dead end jobs become licensed and start a career with a future was always rewarding.

Still driving regionally, helping the new drivers with their questions. Doing coaching with experienced drivers.