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 […]
3 Tips for Recruiters Building Mobile Landing Pages
There is no doubt commercial truck driver demographics show an aging workforce. It’s one of the biggest concerns for the industry over the next 10 to 20 years. While drivers may be aging, they are still adapting to new technologies and media habits. We’ve seen big changes in technology usage over the past few years, […]
Where Does Print Fit into Your Driver Recruiting Campaigns?
There are a lot of ways you can get your jobs in front of drivers. From email to paid search advertising to job match leads, not only can you reach drivers, but there are plenty of ways to measure the effectiveness of your efforts. The days of pushing out tons of ads and recruiting messages […]
Why Is My Cost-Per-Lead Going Up?
You’re sitting at your desk one day, looking through a stack of reports, when you see it. You stop. Your eyes widen. It’s an overview of your advertising spend, and your cost-per-lead has tripled! What happened? You have to answer the question now. Frantically you get on the phone with your different advertising and media […]
