What Does a Randall-Reilly Recruiting Campaign Look Like?
You’re in a bind. You have empty trucks just sitting there, and money’s flying out the door. You need drivers. You need your phones ringing off the hook. You need a plan. Sound familiar? We feel you! We hear some variation of this conundrum every day from clients across the country who are desperate to […]
Getting Recruiting and Marketing In the Same Boat, On the Same Page
In terms of day to day function, recruiting and marketing might seem, at best, like distant cousins. You have your recruiters over here doing their thing, working the phones, poring over apps and trying to get drivers in the door. Meanwhile in the other silo office quadrant, your marketers are busy building brands and blasting […]
Here’s How One Company Found the Diesel Techs They Needed
I opened the last article I wrote about diesel techs with a very pensive Paula Cole reference (‘Where have all the diesel techs gone?’). I don’t think we can top that today, so let’s just dive in. After all, I don’t wanna wait, for our lives to be over. Sorry not sorry. Back to diesel […]
Understand Your Driver Leads
Managing your driver leads doesn’t have to be complicated. Understanding your driver leads is key to successful recruiting. In this webinar we will cover lead attribution and assigning value to your leads by source. Understanding these areas is paramount to managing your cost-per-hire. This webinar will cover: Assigning value to different lead types Attributing leads […]
Driver Appreciation Ideas
In an effort to get a bit more mileage out of the recent “Truck Driver Appreciation Week” — which should ideally be more of a year-round kind of thing — we wanted to devote some space to trucker gratitude. They toil under stressful, often harsh conditions, and they deserve genuine, tangible shows of appreciation. Whether […]
Are You Doing Enough to Recruit Female Drivers?
Everyone’s looking for answers to The Great Driver Shortage. There’s certainly no silver bullet to cure what ails the trucking industry, though attracting a more diverse pool of drivers seems like an excellent place to start. Women, who make up more than 50% of the U.S. population but account for just under 6% of America’s […]
5 Savvy Ways to Recruit Diesel Techs
In her 1996 hit single, Paula Cole wondered ‘where have all the cowboys gone?’ Not to diminish the importance of cowboys, or their whereabouts, but a more pertinent question today is: Where have all the diesel techs gone? There’s no denying the diesel tech shortage is a real and urgent thing. Not enough young folks […]
Want to Attract More Drivers? Get Driver-Centric
Drive past any company truck on the interstate and you’re likely to see some variation of DRIVERS WANTED. Most trucks also feature a platitude like ‘We Love Our Drivers,’ which apparently is supposed to make drivers want to do a Jason Bourne-style leap from their current rig into the truck with the reassuring language on […]
Driver Recruiting Techniques: Keeping Up with the Times
It’s truly remarkable how drastically the world of driver recruiting has changed – just in the last few years. Long gone are the relatively straightforward pre-internet days, when recruiters relied on print ads, truck stop brochures, radio spots, billboards… and to a lesser extent Burt Reynolds and all his Smokey and the Bandit, bootleg Coors […]
3 Ways Driver Recruiters Can Save Money
This article is not about the causes of the driver shortage. We all know that there simply aren’t enough drivers out there to keep every fleet satisfied. I can’t solve the driver shortage, and neither can you. All we can do is weather the storm together. Like most storms, you’ll be fine if you have […]