Named Safety Fleet of the Year in the Large Fleet Category Good work gets you noticed. Great work gets you awards. And, when you’re Smokey Point Distributing, part of the Daseke family of companies, the hardware keeps on coming, most recently from the Washington Trucking Association. Smokey Point Distributing received the WTA’s Safety Fleet of the […]
Smokey Point Distributing Selected as a 2015 Fleet of the Year Another honor was bestowed on a Daseke company. In the December edition, Smokey Point Distributing was named by Fleet Owner magazine in their annual Fleet of the Year Awards. It’s quite an honor as Fleet Owner editors considered all of the fleets in North America […]
The picture says it all. Nate Moran on the cover of the November issue of Overdrive magazine. We couldn’t be prouder. Nate has been a driver with Smokey Point Distributing and while he’s terrific behind the wheel, he is also great behind the microphone. He recently won Overdrive’s Trucker Talent award, which landed him a […]
*Written by Dorothy Cox and approved for reprint by www.thetrucker.com As a 19-year-old Dan Wirkkala sat by his dying friend’s bedside, he could see how much pain the man was in. The year was 1985 and the friend, 38- year-old Matt Berry, had been welding a fuel tank in the shop of the open […]
Daseke’s Smokey Point Distributing’s new state-of-the-art headquarters, for which the company broke ground at a special ceremony in late April, has caught the attention of The Herald Business Journal of Everett. The local business newspaper published a story on July 27 about the company’s new 50,500-square-foot head office, which is twice the size of the […]
Copyright © Penton, 2015. Used with permission. When you meet the people at Smokey Point Distributing (SPD), a part of Daseke Inc., in Arlington, WA, you can tell right away that this open-deck fleet operation is something very special. It is not just that SPD has one of the best CSA scores in the business […]
The open-deck/specialty drivers of Smokey Point Distributing (SPD) don’t just deliver cargo; They deliver it safely. That record of safety has now been recognized, for the fifth consecutive year, with the highest-level safety award presented annually by Great West Casualty Co., the South Sioux City, Neb. company that insures truckers and fleets. Great West Casualty […]
Writing and playing country music is his passion and “That’s what I’m meant to do in this world,” says Smokey Point driver Nate Moran. It’s also been something of a lifesaver. “It kept me out of trouble,” he says. “It kept me out of going down the wrong road.” Behind that passion is a lot […]
When Dan Wirkkala put his foot on the shovel and dug into the earth, he couldn’t help but think how things have changed over the past 30 years, and how his life’s work has been, in a sense, happenstance. As president of Arlington, W.A.-based Smokey Point Distributing (SPD), Wirkkala leads as the original member the […]
Robert Tyler thought his shift was about over. He was literally blocks away from Smokey Point Distributing’s headquarters when he encountered a slow down on the two-lane stretch of road. “Cars in my lane were going into oncoming traffic to maneuver around a stalled vehicle,” reflected Tyler, a 30-year truck driving veteran. “When I came […]
