Joshua Hillman

Review of TMC Transportation

I was lucky that I had some prior experience drivi...

I was lucky that I had some prior experience driving because the training program is not very good for newer drivers. Many of the instructors and trainers like to maintain an old-school military style instructing method complete with yelling and cursing. I actually can handle that except when they're wrong. In the military, it's not a big deal when a DI is wrong and is yelling at you to follow their order anyway. You just obey, even though you know the DI is wrong. When you're driving a semi-truck, you can't play the old-school military game and comply when the DI is wrong because it may cause someone to be killed or otherwise cause a wreck.

There are some bad apples there that need to be weeded out, but it seems that the malignance can be traced almost all the way to the top. Overall unhealthy work environment from top to bottom.

In conclusion, I would say that the military DI approach is a bad method for teaching someone to drive a Semi-truck, and you don't want to be stuck working for these people for any longer than necessary, unless you're fairly desperate and don't mind stooping low in a toxic work environment. Perhaps learning through a community college program would be better? I don't know.