{"id":214,"date":"2015-02-03T19:05:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T19:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/?p=214"},"modified":"2016-12-29T00:22:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T00:22:58","slug":"valley-freightliner-receives-elite-support-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/valley-freightliner-receives-elite-support-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley Freightliner receives Elite Support Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"email\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"FreightlinerNW\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Valley%20Freightliner%20receives%20Elite%20Support%20Awards\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Valley Freightliner, Incorporated was recently recognized as one of the nation\u2019s premier Elite Support dealerships<!--more--> at an annual summit in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.\u00a0 This annual summit is a collection of all of Daimler Trucks North America\u2019s Elite Support Continuous Improvement Coordinators (CIC\u2019s) from across both the US and Canada.\u00a0 With more than 160 CIC\u2019s in attendance, Valley Freightliner received two awards for excellence in continuous improvement events.\u00a0 The first award was awarded to Aaron Porter, Continuous Improvement Coordinator at VFI\u2019s Olympia location, for efforts on a project designed to eliminate wasteful steps and processing fees in the dealerships credit card handling process.\u00a0 The second award also went to Valley Freightliner\u2019s Olympia location for excellence in Change Management.\u00a0 All three of Valley Freightliner\u2019s locations have formalized Change Management meetings designed specifically to identify areas where waste is detected and improvement is needed.\u00a0 These meetings focus on continuous improvement ideas that often result in increased customer satisfaction, improved employee morale, increased profitability and the elimination of waste.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cValley Freightliner, Incorporated is committed to being a world class dealership, as validated by our customers.\u201d says Jerrad Avery, Olympia\u2019s Branch Manager.\u00a0 \u201cWe support and encourage a culture of continuous improvement, idea sharing, and waste elimination with the hopes that we are providing our customers and our employees with the very best experience each and every day. We are proud to be recognized amongst the more than 150 Elite Support certified dealers across North America and also proud of the improvements we\u2019ve made in our dealerships.\u201d\u00a0 Valley Freightliner, Inc. continues to make continuous improvement a part of their identity and everyday life.\u00a0 This is the third year in a row that Valley Freightliner, Incorporated has been recognized nationally for their efforts in continuous improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley Freightliner, Incorporated was recently recognized as one of the nation\u2019s premier Elite Support dealerships<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elite-support","category-news"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}