Trucking’s Next Top Rookie

Nominate Trucking's Next Top Rookie

Listen to the article: [acf field=”embed_code”] This year’s Great American Trucking Show (GATS) is just around the corner. Which means it is time to nominate your pick for the 2019 edition of The Mike O’Connell Trucking’s Next Top Rookie Award. The winner will receive $10,000 as well as other prizes. In addition, nine other finalists […]

3 Ways to Build a More Efficient Driver Recruiting Budget

Build a More Efficient Recruiting Budget

Listen to the article: [acf field=”embed_code”] We often talk about ways to improve your recruiting campaigns or how to get the most out of your campaign spend. One thing that tends to get less attention is the overall spend itself. Your recruiting budget. There’s a famous saying that goes “numbers don’t lie.” Unfortunately, if you […]

Building a Driver-Centric Culture

Building a Driver-Centric Culture

When the focus of recruiting is simply to fill an empty truck, it is easy to overlook the truck driver. A driver becomes nothing more than a number to your fleet when you focus on their capability to deliver a load and ignore their well-being, future at the company, or the state of the environment […]

Technology’s Place in Your Recruiting

Using technology for driver recruiting

Listen to the article: [acf field=”embed_code”] We live in such a technology-driven world that it’s impossible to run your business without it. Think of all your processes: how you capture and manage leads, how you measure results, your ATS, etc. Technology plays a big part in your fleet. There’s also the matter of how you […]

Reducing Driver Orientation No-shows

orientation no-shows

Listen to the article: [acf field=”embed_code”] You are in the latter stages of the recruiting process. You have captivated a driver’s attention and cultivated that driver’s interest. Conversations over the phone have gone great and the full application has been filled out and submitted. The driver has agreed to attend orientation. All they have to […]

Evaluate Your Recruiting with More Than Cost

crunching numbers

Listen to the article: [acf field=”embed_code”] If I were to ask you, how is your advertising doing, what would your first instinct be? For a lot of fleets out there the first knee-jerk reaction is to take a look at cost. Far too often fleets fall into the trap of, “Well our CPL and CPH […]

Understanding Your Lead Velocity

Understand Your Driver Recruiting Lead Velocity

How efficient is your lead-to-hire process? With so many fleets vying for the opportunity to hire the same drivers you are after, it’s important to always be on the lookout for ways to improve your process and get ahead of your competitors. One way, that is not as common as it should be, is to […]

What Can You Learn from Driver Turnover?

driver turnover graphic image

Listen to the article: [acf field=”embed_code”] In the end driver recruiting is a numbers game. You need to find the right drivers to fill your empty trucks and get them on the road. The more trucks you have sitting idle, the more money you stand to lose. On the face of it, it wouldn’t seem […]

What Can LeadConnect Do for You?

Using LeadConnect with Your Driver Recruiting

Listen to the article: [acf field=”embed_code”] I recently wrote an article called Reducing the Friction in Your Recruiting. Throughout the article I discussed various ways you might try to streamline your recruiting process and run more efficiently. Within the article I mentioned a few of the methods Randall-Reilly has developed to help people just like […]

The Power of Mobile-First Recruiting

Using Mobile Devices to Recruit Truck Drivers

Smartphones are everywhere these days. Don’t believe me? Look around you. How many people are using their smartphones right now? How many have smartphones on their desks or in their pockets or purses? You may even be reading this article on a smartphone. 77% of Americans own smartphones and that is too big of a […]