Flatbed carrier TMC Transportation, Des Moines, Iowa, honored owner-operator Kevin Dinsdale with the Wheel Master Award for the year 2004.
TMC Transportation Driver Kevin Dinsdale Wins Wheel Master Award
Flatbed carrier TMC Transportation, Des Moines, Iowa, honored owner-operator Kevin Dinsdale with the Wheel Master Award for the year 2004

Dinsdale.
Dinsdale recognition as Driver of the Quarter for the first quarter 2004 made him eligible for the Wheel Master Award.
Dinsdale has been with TMC since Oct. 1985. This year will be his 20th year of service with the company.
“Kevin is an exceptional driver. His professionalism, safe driving practices and dedication to our company are outstanding,” said Harrold Annett, chairman and CEO of Annett Holdings Inc., the parent company of TMC.
The Wheel Master Program recognizes TMC’s best drivers. Each quarter a driver is an award based on years of service, safe driving and overall quality performance. One quarterly winner is named the year’s Wheel Master.
TMC is a business unit of Annett Holdings, parent company of four
other divisions: KTL, based in Joplin, Mo.; Fortune Xpress, an owner-operator division also located in Des Moines; Yellowstone Trucking, based in Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho, and PFT, based in Champaign, Ill.
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