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Recruiting & retention: Page 18
Business
Let them watch TV: how fleets are using new technology to recruit, retain drivers
This year, Pride Transport, a 400-truck refrigerated and flatbed carrier based in Salt Lake City, joined a growing number of fleets that are providing drivers with a premium TV service that includes all hardware for a low monthly subscription.
December 4, 2014
Business
EBE Technologies closes FY 2014 on a high note
EBE Technologies announced that year-end results for its fiscal year 2014, ending September 30th, set another record for revenue growth. EBE realized a 36 percent increase over 2013.
October 23, 2014
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CCJ POLL: Does the ATRI ranking of the Top 10 trucking issues match yours? What’s No. 1?
ATRI this week published its 10th annual survey of the top issues in trucking. Cast a vote in our poll to see what’s No. 1 among CCJ readers.
October 9, 2014
Business
Stay Metrics creates scientific board to research driver retention issues
Stay Metrics has formed a three-member Scientific Advisory Board to be led by Dr. Timothy Judge, the company’s Director of Research.
September 30, 2014
Business
Can Automatic Transmissions Attract New Driving Talent to Trucking?
The basic question here seems pretty simple: If you’re running a fleet, which is more important: Your desire (or need) to run manual transmissions, or your need for drivers?
September 26, 2014
Business
What drivers want, Part 2: Money, respect key factors in attracting and keeping drivers
What do drivers want? It’s the defining question for carriers today. CCJ sought to find an answer to that question and surveyed drivers to hear it first hand. Here’s what we found.
September 10, 2014
Business
What do drivers want? CCJ survey reveals the answers
To find out what is making it hard to attract drivers or forcing existing drivers out of the industry, Commercial Carrier Journal decided to ask drivers themselves about the frustrations, desires, dreams and nightmares of working in the trucking industry today. Here’s what they said.
September 9, 2014
Business
Con-way, U.S. Xpress raising driver pay
Con-way and US Xpress both announced increases in their driver compensation packages Aug. 11.
August 12, 2014
Business
Maverick shows off new multi-million driver training facility
With an aging workforce and a growing driver shortage, many trucking companies are lowering their standards for driver training. Steve Williams, founder and CEO of North Little Rock, Arkansas-based Maverick Transportation LLC is taking the opposite approach.
July 28, 2014
Business
Time to brag on the best and brightest: Trucking’s Top Rookie contest closes soon
The Trucking’s Top Rookie contest goes right to the heart of the “recognition = retention” premise. And it’s easy to enter: Just brag on your best and brightest new drivers. That super-sharp, enthusiastic new driver is the best recruiter out there for bringing fresh faces to trucking.
June 26, 2014
Business
Train and hire a vet
Company: E.L. Hollingsworth & Co., Flint, Mich. 2013 CCJ Top 250 rank: 183 Industry segment: General freight 2012 revenues: $96 million Revenue change vs. 2011: 27.3 percent Power units: 590 Trailers: 976 Drivers: 617 With the big drawdown of troops from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last couple of years, lots of […]
June 9, 2014
Business
CCJ Symposium panel: Driver respect, setting proper expectations key to recruiting, retention
On Tuesday, May 20, a panel of fleet executives at the CCJ Spring Symposium in Franklin, Tenn., provided attendees with a wide-ranging discussion of strategies to find and keep drivers.
May 20, 2014
Business
Putting drivers first pays off, fleet execs say
Communication and respect go a long way in engaging drivers, said successful fleet executives during a TCA panel.
March 25, 2014
Business
Fleet execs outline top challenges to industry suppliers
Hours of service, the driver shortage and challenges with adopting new technology are major hurdles facing the industry, according to a panel of fleet executives at the Heavy Duty Manufacturers Association’s 2014 Heavy Duty Dialogue conference in Nashville this week.
March 10, 2014
Business
Stay Metrics: dispatcher satisfaction a key variable in driver turnover
A study by Stay Metrics shows that dispatchers who scored the highest in dissatisfaction by drivers are nearly twice as likely to cause turnover.
February 18, 2014
Business
Breaking the bottlenecks of driver recruiting with technology
Based on industry estimates, fleets spend between $3,500 and $8,000 to hire each driver. Technology can help reduce recruiting and hiring costs, but perhaps more importantly, can improve the quality of recruits and speed response time.
February 14, 2014
Business
2013: The year driver pay changed forever?
Driver pay researcher Gordon Klemp at a recruiting and retention conference last week pointed to a series of indicators as well as more anecdotally established patterns, supported by data, that show an increasing willingness among truckload carriers to give more rein on pay to drivers.
January 31, 2014
Business
Driver retention key: Don’t treat drivers as a separate class
John Elliott, CEO of expediter Load One, and others stressed the best way to keep drivers happy was to treat them as equal participants in the company. Avoid a “two-class system,” Elliott said, that separates drivers from office staff in company culture.
January 31, 2014
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