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The New World Culture Committee, also known as the NWCC, assembled 26 donation bags for the residents of Deborah’s Place.  Deborah’s Place is a women’s shelter that is open to homeless women in Chicago since 1985. They support housing and services that help women achieve their goals and move on from experiencing homelessness.

The bags contained necessary personal items including, toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, lotion, feminine products, deodorant, and Kleenex.  Along with the individual bags, NWCC gathered additional requested items from the shelter. This included laundry detergent, all-purpose cleaner, dish soap, denture cream, and toothpaste.  These items will be used in the communal areas for residents to use.

The NWCC is a group of employees that gather to work to improve employee morale within the company by fostering opportunities for professional and personal growth and developing inter-departmental camaraderie to improve our New World Experience.  New World Van Lines and New World International support an active corporate citizenship and charitable works initiative. Called “ACT” (Actively Caring Together), it allows us to take action collectively and individually to make a positive impact on the communities we operate in.

New World Van Lines has been ranked 3^rd in TalentDesk’s list of Best Trucking Companies to Work For!  This ranking is calculated based on employee satisfaction, safety score, and employee-reported pay. Talentdesk uses information from Glassdoor and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

If you are interested in joining our team, we would love to talk! You can reach out to us on our contact page or view and apply for open positions on our job board.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Award Recipients are Top Environmental Performers and Leaders for Freight Supply Chain Efficiency

New World Van Lines was honored with a SmartWay^® Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a true industry leader in freight supply chain environmental performance and energy efficiency. 

New World Van Lines was one of 40 truck carriers to receive this distinction, representing the best environmental performers of SmartWay’s 3700 Partners.  The Excellence Awardees were honored at the 2018 American Trucking Associations Annual Management Conference & Exhibition in Austin, Texas on October 29, 2018.

“Today, EPA is honoring top-performing SmartWay Carrier Partners with this year’s 2018 SmartWay Excellence Award, for their leadership in moving more goods with less fuel,” said EPA’s Assistant Administrator of the Office of Air and Radiation, Bill Wehrum. “These companies inspire others in the freight sector to invest in innovative technologies and business practices that save fuel, while reducing costs and protecting the environment.”  

About SmartWay

EPA’s SmartWay Transport Partnership is a market-driven initiative that empowers businesses to move goods in the cleanest, most energy-efficient way possible, while protecting public health and reducing air pollution. Demonstrating a commitment to corporate sustainability and social responsibility through SmartWay provides for a more competitive and sustainable business environment. Since 2004, SmartWay Partners have avoided emitting more than 103 million tons of air pollutants (NOx, PM, and CO2) contributing to cleaner air and healthier citizens, while saving more than 215.4 million barrels of oil and $29.7 billion in fuel costs – equivalent to eliminating the annual energy use of over 14 million homes.

More information on SmartWay in general: www.epa.gov/smartway/  

SmartWay Excellence Award: https://www.epa.gov/smartway/smartway-excellence-awardees     

On Wednesday, October 31^st, New World employees showed up in their best Halloween costumes to show their Halloween spirit! In the afternoon, the annual Halloween party and Halloween costume contest was held. Employees gathered for drinks and snacks including juice, lemonade, caramel apples, chips, and donuts.

Our third place winner was a team costume where two of our customer service employees, Estolia and Evelyn, dressed up as Lilo and Stitch. Second place when to one of our newest customer service employees, Chris, and he was dressed up as an Imperial Gunner from Star Wars. Our 1^st place prize went to Erin, a member of our customer service team, who dressed up as Rosie the Riveter.  Each winner received a target gift card.  We also gave a prize to our billing department. Denise, the director of billing, dressed up as Mrs. Packman and the rest of her team dressed up as her ghosts! They will receive a team lunch!

New World Van Lines attended the two day 2018 Cartus Award Ceremony in Danbury Connecticut.

We took home the Silver award for customer service, and were honored to win the Platinum Innovation award for our Mover Mentor Mentor Program and our results of improved customer service, lower claims, fewer vehicle accidents, reduced workman’s compensation claims and higher retention of drivers and movers.

Cartus Global Network Conference 2018 Award Winner, New World Van Lines. Photo by Alabastro Photography.

Over the course of five months, our mentors worked with more than 150 different crews on nearly 300 relocations, offering personalized guidance and training to each driver and mover with whom they interacted. Beyond the obvious emphasis on offering insights to packing and loading quality, the mentors promoted their personal approaches to helping transferees feel more at ease with the moving process, mitigating difficult situations, educating employees on the electronic logging device (ELD) mandate, and offering training on the usage of web-based tools, such as New World’s proprietary DRIVE portal.

For every job attended by a mentor, the Master Movers submitted a crew feedback form, collecting more than 50 individual points of data, encompassing crew preparation before the job begins, the success of interactions with the customer, to the proper completion of the job, after the truck “pulls away”. This data provided New World with valuable direction for how the company can continue to offer targeted training beyond the program’s completion.

What is the future of tech? “Powered by humanity – shaped by women” stated John Higginson, CTO of Enova, in his opening remarks.

Being a woman owned business New World has a great ratio of women in the technology departments. Last week, three of us had the pleasure of attending CHIWITCON – the Chicago Women In Tech Conference – Yesha in IT, Nicole and Sasha in the Innovation Station. But that was nothing compared to seeing an entire room of 200+ women who all spoke the same language.

With its third year running, the CHIWITCON seeks to create a community to “support and advance women in technology” by bringing women in tech together to celebrate their achievements, goals, professional and career interests. Throughout the day we were able to enjoy 6 talks and a panel by the ARA.

From all the great talks, we felt that there were a few main takeaways that we aspire to take on as rules to follow.

• If you don’t know how to do it, learn it after you accept.
  • According to Veronica Buitron from Tango Code – “If someone offers you an opportunity – say yes! And learn it later!”
• Keep Poetical Science in mind.
  • Good technical skills benefit from learning artistic skills and applying them to your work.
• Challenge yourself.
  • Women often only apply for a job that they are 100% qualified for. As Fred Devito said, “If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.”
• Don’t be afraid to ask for help, and offer it in return.
  • Joe Decosmo from Enova learned a lot from his mother growing up – such as humility is knowing you wouldn’t be where you are without the people around you.
• Diversity helps your team grow stronger.
  • 35% ethnically diverse companies perform better. Bringing together employees with different backgrounds and views can lead to open mindedness in business and strategy.

These lessons inspire us not only to cultivate a more open and diverse environment at work, but to help encourage the younger generation. Take some time to talk to your children, family and friends about what excites you about your job and the future of technology.

CHIWITCON grows bigger and bigger each year – maybe we’ll see you there next year.

Want to keep the conversation going? Connect with Yesha Savaliya and Sasha Goldina on LinkedIn.