Lead-to-Hire, Lead-to-Fail, Driver Recruiting Holy Grail
There’s no denying it: Failure feels bad. Losing hurts. Missing the mark is always unpleasant. But all the motivational quotes about failure, learning from mistakes, and using misfires as an impetus for pivoting toward success — they’re all true. Failure gives you tangible, tested proof of what doesn’t work — which is step one toward […]
Four Common Recruiting Mistakes We See
We work with a broad array of clients to help them generate more driver leads. We helped drive more than 1 million leads last year, in fact. Working with so many clients gives us unique insight into the world of truck driver recruiting. We see it all! We see what strategies work, and we […]
Six Ways to Make the Most of Recruiting Phone Calls
Benjamin Franklin once said “Time is money.” He would’ve made a great driver recruiter with that mindset (if all that being a scientist, statesman, printer, politician, postmaster, author, inventor, and diplomat stuff didn’t work out.) Much of recruiting is about efficiency, and time. As in, how do you make the most of it? How do […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
