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Business

So you want to be treated like a professional …

Defining “attitude,” and Wendy’s talk with a driver/company recruiter with a simple message for truckers: “All these drivers who want to be considered professionals should stop shooting themselves in the foot by doing things that aren’t professional.”

January 3, 2017

Business

Where the drivers are — Job application density by state, 2008-2015

These interactive driver population heat maps show the total CDL-holding driver applicants per capita, by resident state of the applicant, incoming to BestDriverJobs.com and network sites. Change in the maps between 2008-15 illustrate economic ups and downs affecting trucking over those years.

October 5, 2016

Business

Keeping the small fleet ‘family’ happy: Pay, equipment, home time

Small-fleet owners use good pay, equipment and home time to attract loyal drivers. They say those are the bedrocks of retention, the top employment issue named in a recent Overdrive survey.

October 3, 2016

Voices

POLL: Small fleet owners, where do you most-often find your driver candidates?

If you’ve been in the position of hiring a driver, what most commonly generates the successful job candidate — direct referrals of various natures, ads in local or far-flung places or something else entirely? Weigh in here.

August 22, 2016

Business

U.S. Xpress launches military hiring initiative, unveils custom-designed tractors

The U.S. Xpress fleet handed three solo drivers and three teams — all with military veterans among them — the keys to six patriotically decorated trucks at an event at Chattanooga headquarters launching a new military hiring initiative.

July 1, 2016

Channel 19

Driver before the truck in small fleet expansion

If the truck procurement/driver employment situation in small fleet expansion presents a chicken-egg type conundrum, operators would do well to focus on the driver first.

March 31, 2016

Voices

POLL: Small fleets, which comes first — the driver or the truck?

For those among readers who’ve owned more than one truck, this poll asks a question relative to views on expansion strategy: Best to buy a truck to fit a dependable driver or the converse, focus on hiring only as needed to utilize equipment?

March 10, 2016

Business

May employment report: Trucking gains 1,500 jobs, U.S. hiring surges

The for-hire trucking industry added 1,500 jobs in May on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the monthly employment report released June 6 by the Dept. of Labor. The U.S. economy as a whole added 217,000 jobs in the month.

June 6, 2014

Voices

POLL: Why do carriers have difficulty finding new drivers?

Carriers are again talking “driver shortage” in a big way — what do you think? Why do so many seem to have so much difficulty recruiting new drivers?

July 29, 2013

Business

CRST hiring 50 drivers

CRST Expedited will be hiring at least 50 drivers in its December hiring event.

December 4, 2012

Channel 19

One driver’s war: Taming CSA and the DataQs challenge process

I finally got the the opportunity to meet Boonville, Ind.-based driver Ed Webb (pictured) in person yesterday afternoon at the newly reopened downtown TA here in Nashville (speaking of which, Aaron Tippen’s performing tomorrow morning there at 10 a.m. and 12 noon if you’re headed down Tennessee way today). Webb was a source in my […]

March 3, 2011

Channel 19

Complimentary advertisement… and: PSP unlikely to be the new DAC

Driver with a lens-load of cool It’s been a few months since we checked in with on-road crooner Howard Salmon, so he checked in with us, sending along this picture he happened upon recently, with a pre-emptive answer to the obvious question. Yes indeedy, he wrote, “I am also sending this to Geico Insurance.” He […]

October 8, 2010