Team Drive – Page 2 – The Dispatch Now

Watco earns elite stevedoring safety award

July 3, 2017

Watco has been recognized as being one of the safest in the industry when it comes to marine cargo handling. More than 300 Team members are celebrating this news after receiving an elite stevedoring safety a...

Summer job turns into lifelong career

Blog Admin

June 9, 2017

Team Drive

When Keith LaCaze graduated from high school, he needed a summer job. He found one sweeping out boxcars for Watco in DeRidder, Louisiana. And he never left. Today, LaCaze, is senior vice president of oper...

Ann Arbor Team completes capital projects

Blog Admin

May 24, 2017

Team Drive

Last week was the perfect week for the Ann Arbor Railroad to wrap up an infrastructure project, noted Roadmaster Steven Ayala: It was national #InfrastructureWeek2017. The Team began the 2017 capital road cr...

CDL, Watco join forces for interactive course

Blog Admin

May 15, 2017

Team Drive

A longtime relationship between two Pittsburg-based companies began when Watco, still in its infancy, needed help with railroad signals. CDL Electric, a mom-and-pop, offered up that help and in doing so, provid...

Team completes Watco U 101 course

Cris Hatcher

April 28, 2017

Team Drive

Nick Weber and I, representing the Watco U Team, recently hosted a 101 Course at our operation in Asheville, N.C., designed to reinforce the learning experience through Teamwork and engagement. On the docket...

KORR Team works hard to restore service after washouts

Blog Admin

April 25, 2017

Team Drive

Five inches of rain in three hours followed by intermittent rains several days later caused numerous washouts along a 20-mile stretch of track on the KO Railroad in Central Kansas, putting a halt to 30 loaded g...

Watco interns hit the ground running

Blog Admin

March 31, 2017

Team Drive

Caleb Dellasega didn't have quite as much to worry about his senior year of college at the University of Kansas as his classmates: He already had a job lined up after graduation, thanks to a stint in Watco's in...

Watco began as a “Mom and Pop”

Blog Admin

March 29, 2017

Extra!, Team Drive

Today, on National Mom and Pop Business Day, we pause for a moment to honor the late Dick Webb and his wife, Kaye Lynne Webb, the ultimate in Mom and Pop business owners. Watco operates today in 38 states an...

Neighbor Day is every day for our Team

Blog Admin

March 23, 2017

Team Drive

DaysOfTheYear.com is billing Sunday, March 26, as "Neighbor Day." But at our Watco locations across the country, "Neighbor Day" is observed informally, without fanfare, just about every day of the year. At t...

Watco advocates for Customers, Team, track

Blog Admin

March 10, 2017

Team Drive

A dozen Watco Team members were among a record-setting number of citizen lobbyist railroaders, suppliers, and Customers who swarmed Washington, D.C., last week for the annual Railroad Day on Capitol Hill. Th...