With Betsy Waldrop, Transport America recruiting director   Location: Eagan, Minn. Drivers: More than 2,000 Power units: 1,850     By Carolyn Mason   At GATS, Transport America’s recruiting team used hula dancers at its booth to promote a Hawaiian trip giveaway for anyone outside the company with a CDL. Betsy Waldrop, director of ...

ATRI study ranks carriers’ top concerns, and CCJ survey respondents weigh in on equipment and technology worries   BY JEFF CRISSEY     At the American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas last month, ATA president and CEO Bill Graves outlined a number of industry challenges based ...

With Curt Singleton, Bestway Express director of safety and H.R.   Location: Vincennes, Ind. Drivers: 270 Power units: 260   By Carolyn Magner Mason   Curt Singleton, Bestway Express director of safety and human resources, says the JOBehaviors compatibility assessment test helps find top-performing drivers upfront. When Curt Singleton, director of safety and ...

CVOC sessions highlight future equipment trends   By Jeff Crissey     The trucking industry has seen more changes in the last 10 years than in all the other years of trucking combined,” Mike Bromhall, FFE Transportation’s vice president of fleet maintenance and facilities, told fleet and supplier attendees at ...

With Bill Marchbank, vice president of operations, Trimac Transportation   Location: Houston Established: 1946 Company drivers: 950 Owner-operators: 400     Ride along with Trimac Transportation   By Carolyn Magner Mason     Bill Marchbank, vice president of operations for Trimac Transportation, said executives for the North American bulk trucking company don’t just talk tanking with their truckers ...

With Anderson Trucking Service Vice President of Driver Recruiting Oscar Kleman     Location: St. Cloud, Mo. Drivers: 1,200 total Power units: 2,100 Trailers: 6,130     Anderson Trucking Service goes fishing   By Carolyn Magner Mason     Oscar Kleman, vice president of driver recruiting for Anderson Trucking Service, says the St. Cloud, Minn.-based heavy-haul company has had ...

American Central Transport Liberty, Missouri Missouri carrier develops new recruiting and driver pay programs to tackle driver shortage and improve fuel economy   Escalating fuel prices and an ongoing driver shortage remain top worries for motor carriers nationwide. Even if companies are able to fill empty seats, fuel prices ...

CSA already is having a ripple effect in recruiting, driver development We’re only two months in, but the effects of Compliance Safety Accountability (CSA) – the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s new safety measurement system for rating carrier safety performance – already are being felt by ...

Shaken and stirred Industry must get ahead of the looming driver shortage “Goldfinger” recently was on television again. I love all the original James Bond films and couldn’t say how many times I’ve seen them all. Still, one scene in this film caught my attention this time ...

Hold on to what you’ve got Boyd Bros. takes driver retention to the next level If the current forecasts predicting a severe driver shortage hold true, recruiting and retention should take center stage as the industry’s top concern for next year and several years to come. While ...