April 2015
| Business World
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piness and well-being of its staff.
“Our corporate culture is more like a fam-
ily than a big company that has to make ev-
ery single dollar no matter the human cost,”
Rains said. “We like to have the company be
profitable at the end of the year, and we need
it to be. Thanks to our people through the
way we pull together as a team and a corpo-
rate family, it is more often than not.”
“If we’ve done well at the end of the year, our
employees get a bonus,” she continued. “If
things aren’t so great in a year, we’ve never
asked our employees to take a wage cut. We
will stop paying ourselves and work out of
our retirement fund rather than have them
not be able to do as well for their families.”
Maintaining the family dynamic at AllTrans
takes responsibility and a proactive plan to
keep operations safe and running smoothly.
Taking an unprecedented step to ensure the
safety of its employees, AllTrans set the tone
for companies in the area on the importance
of awareness and taking action.
“We were the first private company out there
that required not only all of our people to
have hard hats, safety vests, steel toed boots
and gloves in handling material,” Rains said.
“But also the people that come into our yard
have to sign off on our safety regulations,
and they’re not loaded until they have on
the proper PPE (personal protective equip-
ment). It took a while but now word has
gotten out to our customers and any inde-
pendent trucks that are sent into our yards
