In-Sink: A very good place to work

Dean Sink

By Dean Sink, Mickey President
The shortest story in this issue of The Mickey Spirit might be the most telling about the kind of company we are: ?Safety first.? Imagine a company in the heavy manufacturing industry going 410 straight days without a lost-time accident. That?s unheard of unless, of course, you?re Mickey Truck Bodies. We work here in a safety-first environment; teammate safety is our No. 1 priority and we mean it.

Safety-first has a great rippling effect throughout the company. Our teammates come to work every day and work safely and efficiently and that helps us maintain high levels of productivity. When we are productive our workmanship is excellent and that drives quality. When we have a full work force every day we can keep up with schedules and our customers get their trucks where and when they need them.

We offer a safe, clean work environment. We offer excellent benefits and pay. We take care of our teammates. And they take care of us. They stick around; some, like Jimmy Hiatt, for as long as 32 years. Some even longer. In those 32 years Jimmy helped build Mickey into a national brand in the van body marketplace, where before van bodies were a stepchild of our flagship sideload body and trailer business. David Perry has been with Mickey for all of 6 years, and he is well on his way to establishing his legacy by making us better at buying, costing and pricing.

We have very good people here at Mickey. That?s because we?re a very good place to work.

Happy reading.