Driver retention

Fallout could include difficulty seating trucks.

Truck drivers still gripe about long detention times, equipment and adapting to new technology. But they speak positively about communication from their companies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Company launches an online training platform called MyTruckerLife to help provide relationship resources for professional truck drivers and their families.

An overview of driver feedback trends found high rates of satisfaction with co-workers and staffing issues.

Consistently meeting expectations goes a long way toward keeping drivers on board.

The operating realities of long-haul, for-hire trucking translates into working conditions that require both employee and independent contractor drivers to be away from home, and alone for days and sometimes weeks at a time. This combined with transit delays (both on the road and at customer facilities), and lifestyle-related health pressures (sleep deprivation and poor eating choices) are the primary causes of both short and long-term turnover.

Database of test results seen as rate booster while unseated trucks pose risk to operations.

AvatarFleet is in the business of simplifying the process in which transportation companies find not just drivers, but safe drivers.

On this week’s FreightWaves Insiders WorkHound CEO/Co-Founder Max Farrell takes us on his journey as a hustler with a hacker to the current day where he is successfully solving the driver retention issue through data and technology!

Report asserts industry needs to hire 1.1 million new drivers over the next decade.

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.

Ease of doing business ranked high with drivers serving over 40 facilities.

Ray Martinez concedes finding enough drivers aged 18-20 with military experience could be difficult.

LTL giant claims new requirements would also add costs to its in-house driver training.

Award winner is taking on new driver partnerships as it expands into last-mile delivery.

FreightWaves Radio’s seventh national show was broadcast on Saturday, April 6 on SiriusXM’s Road Dog Channel 146.

Authors controversial study miss key factors contributing to truck driver turnover and wages.

The idea is to move from lecture-style classes to a hands-on, technology-driven approach, in an effort to set up drivers for long term success.

Companies need to keep their drivers safe; they also need to retain them and pay them. This white paper discusses how both can be done.

Retention, training, and the capacity crunch are undeniably hot button issues in 2018. In response, SmartDrive and FreightWaves collaborated to distribute a survey to uncover trends in driver incentive programs. The white paper—based on the findings of the survey, which was fielded in Q3 2018—reveals the steps that trucking companies are taking in order to hire and retain qualified drivers and create safer, more profitable organizations.