As competition for truck drivers heats up, fleets need to take steps to improve their recruiting, hiring and onboarding processes to find candidates and get them into trucks.
The National Transportation Institute’s Leah Shaver discusses the importance of driver appreciation.
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.
MIT’s David Correll and aifleet’s Marc El Khoury join Thomas Wasson on this episode of Loaded and Rolling to talk about the much-touted driver shortage.
Used truck prices continued to rise as 2021 ended with a short supply of late-model used trucks the main culprit, but there were other reasons too.
Trucking company owner and Texas House candidate Adam Blanchard joins the show to discuss a possible solution to the driver shortage.
JK Moving Services and Kido are two very different businesses, but both SMBs can teach other companies about how to weather a global crisis.
The American Trucking Associations (ATA) predicts the industry will be a record 80,000 drivers short in the next year.
Natasha Hammack of Wright Media joins the show to discuss truck driver recruiting solution HireMaster.
Recruiting and retention management has never been faster.
After a couple of oddball years, shippers and carriers alike are anxious to see how the market rebalances — or doesn’t — after the new year.
The American Transportation Research Institute’s Rebecca Brewster shares what the industry ranked as its top issues this year.
Reliance Partners’ Brian Runnels reacts to Central Freight’s closure and shares his thoughts on the drivers’ next steps on FreightWaves’ WHAT THE TRUCK?!?.
Even Before Autonomous Trucks, Fleets Can Double Their Capacity By Tom Kroswek, Vice President, Strategy & Business Development In a previous post, I overviewed how the Autonomous Relay NetworkSM can help carriers and shippers optimize their trucking service for autonomy. Now I want to explain more about how Locomation works with trucking companies to re-engineer their operating models […]
Speeding is more than breaking the law. The consequences are far-ranging.
In an industry reeling from early retirements and halted driving school programs, an effective strategy for recruiting and retaining drivers is more important than ever.
House Transportation Committee hearing on truck driver shortages In remarks to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, MIT Professor David Correll recently outlined yearslong research conducted by the MIT Freightlab, detailing a chronic underutilization of the American truck driver. Below are some highlights and reporting from the event. Interestingly there was additional research regarding […]
Truck drivers who started in their 50s and 60s share how they got into the industry, along with their experiences on the road.
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.
F3 Virtual Experience trucking roundup Last week FreightWaves hosted the F3 Virtual Experience, which involved industry leaders discussing topics related to the future of freight, key factors impacting markets, industry trends and venture capital investments. Key topics included autonomous and electric vehicles, FreightTech and a demonstration of the new SONAR feature, the Trusted Rate Assessment […]
