Exemplifying Excellence:
2025 DVP Sales Excellence Award Winners
Contributed by: Gerrit Foster, Sales Process Manager
The David Vander Pol Sales Excellence Award represents the highest standard of sales performance at Oak Harbor Freight Lines. Named in honor of DVP, whose passion for sales and customer relationships left a lasting mark on our company, this award recognizes individuals who consistently deliver results through discipline, persistence, and a commitment to growth.
The 2025 competition was highly competitive across all regions, with strong performances throughout the year. Ultimately, five individual contributors rose to the top, with the top two clearly separating themselves through sustained execution and exceptional new business results.
These winners exemplify what this award stands for: Driving new business, expanding existing relationships, staying ahead of renewals, and capitalizing on lead opportunities that put more freight on our trucks.
While this is a sales award, sales success at Oak Harbor is never achieved alone. Every on-time delivery, accurate invoice, safe operation, and positive customer interaction strengthens our ability to grow. Our drivers, dock teams, operations, and support staff are critical to our ongoing ability to get sales wins.
That belief is shaping the future of this award.
Final 2025 Scores
Terminal
YTD Score
STK
Tim Baird
773
FON
Mike Maltas
645
AUB
Chrissy Bates
428
CNO
Elsa Lennon
400
EUG
Mark Hood
400
Looking Ahead to 2026
Beginning in 2026, the DVP Sales Excellence Award will evolve to reflect a more holistic view of sales excellence. In addition to new business growth, the program will place greater emphasis on account management, profitability, and long-term success, all in alignment with our company’s goal to improve profitability without sacrificing service or safety.
We are also expanding how opportunities are identified, including a new tool that allow drivers to quickly share sales leads through their handheld devices. This reinforces our belief that “the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack!”
To our 2025 award winners, congratulations on an outstanding achievement. You have set the bar high for the year ahead. Please join us in congratulating these top performers as we move forward together, focused, aligned, and ready to win!
Quarter 4 & YTD Results
Sorted Alphabetically by First Name
| Title | Name | LOC | YTD | OCT | NOV | DEC | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TM | Anthony Juette | PAS | 370 | 10 | 28 | 17 | |
| AM | Bay Torres | LVS | 320 | -5 | 9 | 10 | |
| TM | Brad Barrows | WVL | 171 | 10 | 41 | -10 | |
| TM | Branon Smith | SPO | 142 | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
| AM | Brent Browning | SLC | 298 | -5 | 10 | 10 | |
| AM | Candace Wheeler | OLY | 188 | 33 | 15 | 10 | |
| TM | Chris Gosnell | BOI | 216 | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
AM | Chrissy Bates | AUB | 428 | 13 | 105 | 56 | |
| TM | Cody Moore | SAC | 395 | 10 | 65 | 14 | |
| AM | Craig Codrington | PHO | 378 | 11 | 29 | 32 | |
| TM | Daniel Orr | MED | 127 | 0 | 5 | -20 | |
| AM | David Fitterer | POR | 203 | 15 | 43 | 18 | |
| AM | Doreen Cook | AUB | 280 | 52 | 19 | 10 | |
AM | Elsa Lennon | CNO | 400 | 182 | 10 | 56 | |
| TM | Gilbert Pena | FRE | 156 | 101 | 10 | 10 | |
| AM | Jennifer Moreno | LAX | 317 | 10 | 35 | 51 | |
| AM | John Steinke | POR | 359 | 14 | 43 | 22 | |
| AM | Karen Risberg | POR | 139 | 16 | 10 | 12 | |
| AM | Mark Bacon | REN | 544 | 54 | 96 | -2 | |
AM | Mark Hood | EUG | 400 | 14 | 56 | 11 | |
| AM | Mark Weber | POR | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| AM | Martin Esparza | SBY | 372 | 16 | 36 | 10 | |
| AM | Mike Apodaca | SPO | 237 | 43 | 19 | 10 | |
| AM | Mike Campos | WVL | 108 | 25 | 10 | -5 | |
AM | Mike Maltas | FON | 645 | 49 | 19 | 22 | |
| AM | Sean Baird | SAC | 148 | 10 | 10 | 19 | |
AM | Tim Baird | STK | 773 | 52 | 158 | 16 | |
| AM | Tom Baeten | PAT | 263 | 10 | 57 | 10 |
