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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
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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
Business
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
Business
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
Business
1. Driver availability (49.3%)
In early 2011, driver availability surged past freight pricing, freight volume and fuel costs to grab the top concern of fleet executives in the monthly Randall-Reilly MarketPulse survey and has remained there since. The responses from participants in the CCJ 2014 Economic Outlook survey certainly back that trend. According to the November 2013 MarketPulse survey, […]
January 13, 2014
Business
How fleets use social media to recruit, retain drivers
Social media has become an essential strategic tool for influencing a market audience’s habits. The point of using Facebook for transportation companies is to become part of the existing social habits of drivers, customers and other prospects.
December 31, 2013
Business
Performance-based pay, Part 1: the science of scoring drivers
Drivers have always earned a living by the mile rather than draw salaries and sign timesheets, but with advancement in technology, fleets are now looking at much more than the odometer to determine driver pay.
December 18, 2013
Business
WSJ examines the plight of modern truck drivers, key issues facing industry
Why does the industry have trouble recruiting new drivers and keeping current ones? According to an in-depth story on key issues facing truck drivers in the Wall Street Journal, the battle drivers face in today’s environment make them decide it’s not worth it.
November 14, 2013
Business
Hiring CDL school grads? Be careful what you ask for
With long-haul driver turnover now fully in the “uh-oh” turn in the cycle, many over-the-road carriers are turning to truck driving schools to help fill empty seats. But all CDL school grads are not created equal, as anyone who’s been around for a driver shortage or two knows all too well. What makes for a good driver-training school?
October 29, 2013
Business
ATA panel: A carrier has 90-day window for drivers to take it, leave it
With experienced truck drivers harder and harder to come by, carriers increasingly are turning to driving schools and beefing up their own finishing programs. But, as a panel of fleet executives concluded, top-of-line training and eye-popping recruiting budgets go to waste if trucking companies don’t take a little extra time to make sure drivers, experienced or not, are able to adjust and get comfortable with their new home.
October 28, 2013
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