{"id":140212,"date":"2021-02-02T22:30:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T03:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=140212"},"modified":"2021-02-12T22:45:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T03:45:42","slug":"tomlinson-earns-driver-of-year-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/02\/02\/tomlinson-earns-driver-of-year-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomlinson earns &#8216;driver of year&#8217; honors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Association of Small Trucking Companies (NASTC) recently selected Jim Tomlinson, a driver for Store and Haul Inc. of Van Wert, as one of this year\u2019s team of \u201cdrivers of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs a recipient of his prestigious award, Mr. Jim Tomlinson joins a very elite group that represent the very best of our 125,000 drivers,\u201d said NATCS Executive Vice President Buster Anderson. \u201cStore and Haul Inc. is very proud of their drivers and should be very proud of themselves as well. It says a lot about a company when they can attract and keep employees of this caliber.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Tomlinson-driver-of-the-year-award-1-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-140213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Tomlinson-driver-of-the-year-award-1-2021.jpg 580w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Tomlinson-driver-of-the-year-award-1-2021-550x318.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Shown are (from the left) Store and Haul Inc. Safety Director Jeff Hobson, driver Jim Tomlinson, and company CEO David Rager. photo provided<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomlinson has driven for Store and Haul Inc. for more than 21 years and has accumulated more than 1.8 million accident-free miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of COVID-19 concerns, the awards ceremony had to be canceled, but NASTC is looking forward to honoring Tomlinson and the other drivers of the year at its next annual conference in Nashville, Tennessee, on November 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASTC represents more than 13,000 trucking companies in the U.S. and Canada that employ more than 125,000 drivers collectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information The National Association of Small Trucking Companies (NASTC) recently selected Jim Tomlinson, a driver for Store and Haul Inc. of Van Wert, as one of this year\u2019s team of \u201cdrivers of the year.\u201d \u201cAs a recipient of his prestigious award, Mr. Jim Tomlinson joins a very elite group that represent the very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 18:21:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}