Without good drivers our economy stops. Without good drivers your business stops. As a day-to-day recruiter, I have an arsenal of ideas and strategies to find the right drivers and keep seats filled. In our business, driver recruitment is a perpetual motion machine. Just like the freight we move, recruiting never stops.
My job primarily consists of driver application reviews, interviews, and background checks. I also do advertising and marketing for recruiting drivers.
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In an earlier post, I mentioned that recruiting is both an art and a science. If you keep reading this post you should be able to pick up on some subtle, and not so subtle, ways that I perform my art. Today I am going to talk about the science of recruiting.
This blog comes to us from Robin Smith who is a driver recruiter from Pro Fleet in Indiana.
Next week marks the start of the 2015 National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, which will run from September 13-19th, 2015.
Started by the American Trucking Associations (ATA) back in 1988, this is a week where Americans take the time to honour the importance of the truck driver and the hard work they do.
Air, rail, sea, and road – logbooks have a long, storied history that’s as old as transportation itself.
Drivers, for once, are in the enviable position of a win-win situation.
Right now you are pretty much free to pick and choose any company you want to drive for due to the shortage of new drivers. In this climate, carriers are starting to pay more attention to the driver’s needs. They can’t afford to lose you guys and they can’t afford any shutdowns caused by hours of service violations.Read More »ELD: You (Don’t) Know You Want It
Hurry up and wait! It’s an apt old military phrase that succinctly sums up the joys of detention time.
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Owner-operators will pull just about anything if the price is right. While finding freight isn’t hard, deciding if a load is worth it takes a lot more skill.
