Company Driver Recruiting Statistics: Focus on Search
Company drivers are important to fleets. They’re the bulk of drivers on the road, and fleets have to have them. For recruiters, this means you need to know as much as possible about how to get in front of these drivers. You need to know their habits and actions both online and offline. And the […]
Recruiting Owner-Operators: What’s Your Social Media Strategy?
If your fleet needs to hire owner-operators, you have to build the right recruiting campaigns to accomplish this win. The only way you can build the right recruiting campaign is by knowing exactly how your audience is consuming media. As the third and final part of our series on recruiting owner-operators (the other posts you […]
Recruiting Owner-Operators: Word of Mouth is King
For the next few weeks, we are going to talk about recruiting owner-operators. We plan to take the most important information from the Overdrive Connectivity Report and give you 3 short, simple analysis posts here on the blog. If you want to take a look at the report, you can access that here. [hr style=”3″ […]
Part 3 of 3: Stats About Company Drivers Every Recruiter Needs to Know
The 2014 Company Driver Connectivity Study is full of helpful information for driver recruiters. Hopefully you will read the entire research piece in the near future. But for now lets just look at one statistic from this research and see how this can help your fleet find the qualified drivers it needs. [hr style=”3″ margin=”40px […]
6 Stats Every Driver Recruiter Needs to Know
Part 2 of 3: Stats About Company Drivers Every Recruiter Needs to Know
In case you missed it, part 1 of this series is a great place to start. The information in this series comes from the 2014 Company Driver Connectivity Report. If you haven’t read this research yet, you certainly should. But for now, let’s focus on just one piece of this research. Of course, just knowing […]
5 Essential Statistics for Recruiting More Owner-Operators
Surveys estimate there are a third fewer owner-operators on the road right now than there were in 2008. But of course the shortage is just the beginning of your problems. We have compiled the 5 most important statistics from the 2014 Overdrive Connectivity Study to help you recruit owner-operators. [hr style=”3″ margin=”40px 0px 40px 0px”] […]
Part 1 of 3: Stats About Company Drivers Every Recruiter Needs to Know
Hopefully you have already downloaded the 2014 Company Driver Connectivity Study and read it thoroughly. If you haven’t, go ahead and do that. Its fine. I’ll wait…. You’re back? Great! So now you have all of this knowledge about how company drivers consume content, use the internet, and look for jobs. The next step is […]
Marketing to Owner-Operators: Print Advertising Tops the List
Marketing is a science, one which requires almost continuous research, data, and experimentation to be successful. The goal of this scientific marketing research is to find the best ways to consistently connect, engage, and convert your audience. It can be difficult, but it’s also very rewarding to accomplish your specific campaign wins. If you’re trying to […]
3 Creative Ways to Recruit More Student Drivers
According to the American Trucking Association’s Benchmarking Guide for Driver Recruitment and Retention, retirement is the leading cause for drivers leaving the workforce. An estimated 37% of new drivers entering the workforce are replacing those retiring, limiting potential growth in the pool of available drivers. In response, many fleets have placed an emphasis on hiring […]