Recruiting & retention: Page 18

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October 9, 2014

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

Steve Williams (left), founder and CEO of Maverick Transportation, LLC, with Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe

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

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

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

A driver recruiting and retention panel held at the CCJ Spring Symposium May 20 included CCJ Editor Jeff Crissey, Melton Truck Lines recruiting manager Melissa Stephan, Fremont Contract Carriers COO Tim McCormick and Epes Transport VP Kevin Rickansrud.

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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

Panel: Keys to driver recruiting include ease of application, standing out, playing to strengths

A “Myth-busters” session on recruitment and retention at the at the annual TCA conference ongoing in Nashville, Tenn., revealed emerging best practices for making the application process easier for both drivers and the recruiters called on to manage an increasingly digital application process.

January 30, 2014

EBE Technologies continues rapid growth in 2014

EBE Technologies, a developer of enterprise business process management applications, posted its strongest first quarter results to date.

January 29, 2014

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Koch said their Strategic acquisition of SOS to accelerates growth, expands reach, and bolsters geographic and industry-specific offerings for Koch Logistics & Warehousing.

Koch doubles its nationwide square footage with SOS acquisition

The acquisition doubles Koch’s total nationwide square footage.

USA Truck was acquired by DB Schenker in June 2022 for approximately $435 million, and DB Schenker was subsequently acquired by DSV in April 2025. Prior to its own acquisition, DB Schenker had been shopping USA Truck, and DSV decided to divest the asset almost immediately.

'Welcome home': USA Truck acquired by former, current leadership team

Dart will retain use of its name and says that the transaction will not affect day-to-day operations.

Dart Transit acquired by private equity firm

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Venture Transport adds team drivers to dedicated business

The Postal Service moves 55,000 loads by truck every day – nearly 2 billion miles per year.

USPS to remove unvetted non-domiciled drivers from trucking fleet

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