There’s a moment most small fleet owners reach — usually late at night, staring at parked trucks — where the thought creeps in: “Maybe I just need help finding drivers.” It sounds simple. Logical, even. But recruiting isn’t just about finding people. It’s about filtering, selling, onboarding, and retaining — all at the same time. […]
Driver recruiting specialist Tenstreet announced Monday it has acquired driver visibility and communications platform TextLocate.
Lane Williams, founder and CEO of Fusion Now, joined Leah Shaver, president and CEO at the National Transportation Institute, to talk about driver recruiting trends and highlighted authentic approaches to attract the right drivers.
Ahead of Q1 earnings reports, analysts are adjusting their earnings expectations for truckload companies as excess capacity continues to weigh down pricing and margins.
Charles Gracey of Hot Seat Services says recruitment can be difficult even in the best of circumstances, with only a tiny fraction of applicants getting an offer and successfully completing orientation.
R.E. Garrison’s executive director of safety and HR joins Taking The Hire Road to discuss the company’s driver-first mindset.
“We could make carriers’ lives easier by giving them a single tool that they can use to make sure that they are not missing any hiring steps,” said LogRock co-founder and CEO Hunter Yaw.
Federal regulators have appointed 16 members to an all-female advisory board in an effort to boost the ranks of women in trucking.
Creative and strategic solutions for recruiting in the logistics space.
NTI makes jobs more attractive through up-to-date market data.
Changing how recruiters communicate with drivers from the very beginning is one of the simplest and most effective ways to tackle driver hiring issues.
Many companies are leveraging technology to improve driver recruiting and retention.
Open dialogue is critical to retaining and engaging drivers.
Fastport helping US veterans obtain jobs in trucking.
The best way to keep your drivers satisfied is to know what they want.
Recruitment and retention through digital media efforts.
TransForce showcases digital recruiting platform, matching drivers and carriers through technology
1st-year drivers can make up to $110K, veteran drivers even more
Solving a missing piece in companies’ retention efforts.
Recruiting drivers is tough. Keeping them is tougher. That’s why we’re excited to announce the top trends in driver wants and needs from anonymous driver feedback from 2021 in order to help recruiting and retention leaders do their best work. Read this report to understand how to retain more money, time, and drivers in 2021. […]
In a time when many trucking companies struggle to retain and hire drivers, the U.S. Xpress recruiting team is achieving double-digit, quarter-over-quarter hiring growth.
Drive My Way adds a personal touch to driver recruiting with its driver-centric software.
Flatbed and over-the-road drivers to see 70 cents per mile
Driver recruiting challenges, pay and demographics trends Driver recruiting remains a key challenge heading into 2022 due to pandemic, demographic and economic trends. Pay and wages remain a central theme in both driver recruitment and retention, with carriers raising base driver pay multiple times in 2021 to keep up with demand. These pay raises are […]
Natasha Hammack of Wright Media joins the show to discuss truck driver recruiting solution HireMaster.
Immediate Past ATA Chair Sherri Garner Brumbaugh joins the show to discuss ways to introduce trucking to younger drivers, especially to more women.
Page Siplon, CEO of TeamOne Logistics, joins the show to discuss his company’s approach to driver retention.
Reliance Partners’ Brian Runnels reacts to Central Freight’s closure and shares his thoughts on the drivers’ next steps on FreightWaves’ WHAT THE TRUCK?!?.
Driver recruiting expert David McBride of Lazer Spot joins the show to share his golden rules for recruiting and retaining driver talent.
The trucking industry is in need of new talent. But don’t expect sign-on bonuses to attract drivers in it for the long haul.
Difficult application processes — including long forms and cluttered websites — tend to dissuade drivers from applying at all. In a field with more open positions than people to fill them, carriers cannot afford to lose a driver’s attention over an archaic application form.
Bob Costello, chief economist and SVP at the American Trucking Associations, joins the show to discuss the many factors compounding the driver shortage as the pandemic continues.
Recruiting, cybersecurity and human trafficking were major discussion topics at this year’s conference in Dallas.
The recruiting and retention platform takes on a new investor.
Tenstreet partnered with FreightWaves to better understand why drivers leave carriers and what they look for in new roles. Almost 4,000 drivers responded to a survey published by the pair earlier this month, revealing valuable insights about driver turnover and what drivers prioritize when applying for new roles.
Josh Mecca of American Central Transport joins the show to offer tips on recruiting.
The FMCSA touts safety efforts and driver recruitment in its latest round of grant funding.
“To satisfy the hiring needs of the companies currently on the platform, we need to find over 220,000 drivers every year for them. That’s not a small number,” says the CEO of YouCruit.
John Elliott, CEO of LoadOne, joins this week’s episode to discuss his business, his involvement in the TCA, and the opportunities he sees in the industry.
Many organizations, including the Future Leaders of Indiana, are partnering with the Next Generation in Trucking Association to attract younger people to trucking.
Right Turn is a “shot in the arm” for trucking companies, providing some of their best leads.
A third-quarter outlook from truckload carrier U.S. Xpress sees volume and rate strength lasting throughout 2021. However, driver and supply chain labor challenges present risks.
Jeremy Reymer chats with Wendy Bartz, DriverReach director of sales and services, about the challenging recruitment and retention environments.
Jeremy Reymer speaks with Dennis Cooke, president and CEO of TransForce Group, about closing the driver shortage gap.
Covenant Logistics Group beat second-quarter earnings expectations and said the second half of the year is likely to produce stronger results.
CDLLife President and Owner Travis Overton joins the podcast this week. He reflects on last month’s Turning Point summit in Birmingham as well as the future of digital recruiting.
Jeremy Reymer speaks with Priscilla Peters of the Conversion Interactive Agency about how driver recruitment has evolved over the years, as well as the results of the agency’s driver survey conducted as a joint effort with the Professional Driver Agency.
Jeremy Reymer, founder and CEO of DriverReach, speaks with Jim Ward, current chairman of the Truckload Carriers Association, about his career as president of D.M. Bowman, as well as TCA advocacy and membership benefits.
DriverReach founder and CEO Jeremy Reymer speaks with Mark Tinney, president and CEO of JOBehaviors, about the driver shortage, turnover, challenges companies are facing and how JOBehaviors is helping companies reduce the risk of ever-increasing nuclear verdicts.
On today’s episode of Taking the Hire Road, DriverReach founder and CEO Jeremy Reymer speaks with Lindsey Trent, founder of The Next Generation in Trucking Association, about her organization as well as how to improve the trucking industry’s image.
Government Agency
Seeks Long-haul Truckers
for Nuclear Materials
On today’s episode of Taking the Hire Road, Jeremy Reymer, founder and CEO of DriverReach, speaks with Jenny Abernathy, vice president of enterprise capacity development and driver recruiting at CRST International, about strategies to engage future leaders of the trucking industry.
On this episode of Taking the Hire Road, Jetco Delivery CEO Brian Fielkow discusses how a culture of safety plays a critical role in recruiting and retention strategies, as well as his new training course.
There may not be an end in sight for the driver shortage, but holistic supply chain solutions are well-positioned to help shippers and carriers alike weather the storm.
In this week’s episode of Taking the Hire Road, Jeremy Reymer, Founder & CEO of DriverReach, speaks with Chad Hendricks, President of Brand Outcomes and host of the first driver recruiting podcast, “Recruit & Retain: Trucking Edition”.
FATj and FreightWaves team up to visualize the driver shortage and what can be done to fix it.
In this week’s episode of the Taking The Hire Road podcast, Jeremy Reymer, founder and CEO of DriverReach, and Brad Vaughn, VP of recruitment for Maverick Transportation, discuss more modern and unconventional ways to successfully attract drivers.
NFI’s Lance Christensen says, “We’re given two ears and one mouth. If you’re not listening to what the driver has to say, how could you possibly describe to them what your company has?”
Driver turnover is consistently ranked as one of the biggest – and most buzzworthy – problems facing carriers. Research suggests that the solution may be threefold: more home time, higher wages and better treatment.
Jeremy Reymer, the founder and CEO of DriverReach, speaks with Hayden Cardiff, the founder and CEO of Idelic, about the importance of safety and compliance for driver retention.
Class 8 truck orders are surging signaling carriers are once again willing to invest in their fleets. Does this mean another overcorrection of capacity is in store?
With the bulk of the driver workforce approaching retirement age in the next decade, it is more important than ever to figure out how to attract younger drivers.
Management from J.B. Hunt sees the current inventory replenishment cycle sustaining a high freight demand environment through the first quarter of 2021.
Anthony and Zach talk about driver retention and recruitment issues and how they will contribute to keeping the spot market for trucking active through the rest of 2020.
Veterans who work for trucking companies and trucking companies that hire veterans discover a mutually beneficial relationship.
In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, the FreightWaves Carrier Summit began on Wednesday; a new upstart wants to dig deeper into supply chains; and FedEx sets peak season shipping charges.
To reach out to prospective younger drivers, effective branding and social media are a trucking company’s best tools.
Schneider National’s new Dallas operating center set to open as the company looks to grow its active fleet.
With predictable short-haul drayage round trips from inland California to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, battery-powered trucks could account for up to half of NFI Industries’ 4,000-truck fleet by mid-decade.
Consistently meeting expectations goes a long way toward keeping drivers on board.
AvatarFleet is in the business of simplifying the process in which transportation companies find not just drivers, but safe drivers.
Sandeep Kar has written a thought-provoking article about changes in trucks and how those changes affect truck drivers. He also writes about what the future may hold for truck drivers in the coming years.
In partnership with Reliance Partners …It’s been a wild year, and while at times it may feel more like riding a bull than being “King of the Road,” just hang on a little longer. The times are changing and they’re changing fast.
The truckload carrier is offering the Full Ride program to both recruit new drivers and retain the ones they have, paying full tuition at online Ashford.
U.S. Xpress placed an automated robocall to a driver, seeking to recruit him to join their company. The result? A lawsuit in federal court.
Using Driver iQ’s Q218 survey on driver recruitment and retention as a point of reference, Stifel Capital Markets hosted Lana Batts, Co-President of Driver iQ and Eric Fuller, President and CEO of U.S. Xpress, inc. to discuss driver recruitment and retention trends in 2018 and beyond.
If a new truck driver hire doesn’t find the job similar to what the recruiter said it was going to be, that negativity will last, and will impact retention.
