{"id":590,"date":"2020-01-06T17:20:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T17:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/?p=590"},"modified":"2020-01-06T17:21:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T17:21:11","slug":"crane-gem-of-a-tmc-trainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/other-news\/2020\/01\/06\/crane-gem-of-a-tmc-trainer\/590\/","title":{"rendered":"Crane Gem of a TMC Trainer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Wright Media staff<br>\u00a0<br>DES MOINES, Iowa \u2013<\/strong> Bill Crane was in the jewelry business before he signed on to drive with TMC Transportation. Now, he\u2019s a gem of the company&#8217;s driver trainer program.<br>\u00a0<br>Driving a truck was never something Crane pictured himself doing, but he reached out to family members already in the industry for advice when the economy turned and they recommended TMC as a \u201cstarting point.\u201d He has been with the company since 2012.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cI\u2019m still here because it\u2019s the best,\u201d he said.<br>\u00a0<br>He was just as uncertain about becoming a driver trainer when approached with that opportunity, but he took the leap and earlier this autumn was recognized as TMC Trainer of the Month.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cI finally decided to try it and now I love it,\u201d he said.<br>\u00a0<br>Being a trainer gives him a chance pay the experience he received from the company forward. And, he says, it \u201cbreaks up the monotony\u201d of the sense of isolation that can come with life on the road.<br>\u00a0<br>Driver trainers are vital to the TMC training department and the company recognizes one each month who demonstrates the outstanding qualities it seeks in a trainer. The winner is chosen based on their safety record and the safety performance of their trainers, the number of drivers trained and the retention percentage of those drivers.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cExperience is the best teacher so I do my best to have my trainees get their hands in everything,\u201d Crane said. \u201cThe lifelong friendships are worth it. It\u2019s also great to see TMC keep growing and knowing that I had a hand in getting others ready for the job.\u201d<br><br><em>Cover photo: Bill Crane (R), TMC&#8217;s Driver Trainer of the Month for October, is congratulated by training coordinator manager Jeff Geist.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Wright Media staff\u00a0DES MOINES, Iowa \u2013 Bill Crane was in the jewelry business before he signed on to drive with TMC Transportation. Now, he\u2019s a gem of the company&#8217;s driver trainer program.\u00a0Driving a truck&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}