This month we’re celebrating the second anniversary of our delivery extraordinaire Jeff! He joined the Le Bleu East Tennessee family in April of 2022 as our first delivery driver. We hope you’ll enjoy reading this month’s blog that’s all about our hydration hero, Jeff. Keep reading to see why we’re so thankful to have him working with us at Le Bleu East Tennessee!

Meet Jeff, Le Bleu East Tennessee’s own Hydration Hero!
Before joining Le Bleu East Tennessee, Jeff worked with the Knoxville News Sentinel for over 30 years! His long experience at a local paper combined with his extensive knowledge of the East Tennessee area made him the perfect first employee! He knows the roads, neighborhoods and towns around our beautiful section of Tennessee. He enjoyed his time with the paper over those decades and even brought some of his friends made through Knoxville News Sentinel to be customers of Le Bleu East Tennessee in his first year. It comes as no surprise that he’s already made friends with new Le Bleu East Tennessee customers.
Our delivery technology maps out our routes and details each customer’s specific order each day, but Jeff quickly memorized most of our routes and knows which products each customer needs each week. Even though he knows our routes and product orders better than the computer, he doesn’t hesitate to amend the route to install a cooler for a new customer that just called in that morning to start service or take the extra time needed when a customer needs to adjust their normal delivery. His quick adjustments and patient attitude are big reasons we can confidently promise better service than our competitors. We’re so thankful for how quickly Jeff picked up the system and got to know the routes to help Le Bleu East Tennessee hit the ground running and how these attributes keep our deliveries running smoothly!
Jeff enjoys supporting our businesses that order our Ultra Pure Water. He likes to grab lunch at Burger Station in Harriman, one of our early restaurant partners that serve our blue bottles of Ultra Pure Water. Speaking of blue bottles, Jeff recalls that some of his funniest delivery experiences include people that will stop him and ask if our water is actually blue! The beautiful sights on some of our delivery routes are not wasted on Jeff. He even shared a couple of them with us for this blog post.
- We are treated to some pretty spectacular views around our part of this great state!
When Knoxville was buried in multiple inches of snow in January, Jeff was our real hydration hero in the days after the snow. He was at the warehouse in East Knoxville bright and early the day after the snow stopped, ready to drive the snow-packed roads to get water out to our customers. All of our delivery vehicles were buried in snow, our loading dock was completely iced over and we couldn’t deliver that day. Working multiple 12-hour days, Jeff helped to catch up all of our missed deliveries the next week. We couldn’t have made it through that weather and those days without him.

Jeff was ready to drive even if the fleet was not after the big Knoxville snow in January ’24.
Jeff is a family man who enjoys fishing and relaxing in his backyard. We’re so thankful for his patience, knowledge and friendly attitude. We couldn’t have grown in the last two years without Jeff! If you see Jeff during your next delivery, please ask him if your delivery includes any blue water. Hah!