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included interviews with Pilot founder
Jim Haslam II, CEo Jimmy Haslam,
The Top Doctors issue is a perpetual Eric Creed’s debunking of global warming
favorite among Cityview readers—and garnered the magazine national attention and then-Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam.

it remains our most requested issue and hundreds of letters from both “This is just a good country because
each year.
supporters and critics.
people care about each other, and that’s

the important thing,” the eldest Haslam
told the magazine.

Pilot

The

Game

Plan

by Hannah Slaughter
1958. Gate City, Virginia. A 10 x 15 foot, roadside building cost a
young Jim Haslam $6000. Little did anyone realize, this small
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The minute you walk into the Pilot corporate oice, and always readily available are the Pilot Values, which stress
you feel the camaraderie that exists between the responsibility each employee has to himself, to the team
everyone that works there. Far from the so- called “corporate sector” of dark suits and cold and to the customer. Acting as a coaching staf, Jim Haslam, his son, Jimmy, and their executives have made the team-centered
handshakes, this oice operates from a team
game plan eschewing the usual task lists created by a bunch environment a priority from day one. Their game plan? Recruit the best people, put them in the right positions and train
of suits holed up on the top loor of a skyscraper. Instead, the them to perform to the best of their abilities. With this simple
oices are located in a brick building just of the beaten path
in Knoxville, Tennessee and the executives seem much the strategy, Jim Haslam turned a small illing station in Gate City, Virginia into a multi-billion dollar business with operations in
same as the people you see at their travel centers; friendly and focused. Here monthly stats are listed on a “scoreboard” on one 41 states and 2 countries with a commitment to the trucking industry that is second to none.
loor, team members are trained at Pilot University on another

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