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Business

TruckerLine drivers network opens for carrier recruiting

The TruckerLine portal for driver career management planned from the outset to offer a recruiting platform to carrier subscribers. After a long test, the Outset Partners developing company reports the service is now open to carriers.

September 7, 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

If it looks like a polished turd, it’s probably a polished turd

“Everyone has to start somewhere, even if it’s with the polished turds. It’s learning the difference and sticking with it that helps create professional drivers. Invest in your future by helping them get there.”

August 1, 2016

Voices

Driver shortage: Readers weigh in on turnover, rates, pay, working conditions and more

What’s your view? Respondents to recent polling expressed widely different views about a driver shortage. About half of readers consider it real, while the other half view it as myth or primarily a misnomer for other things, low pay chief among them.

February 8, 2016

Business

Framing the trucking labor situation: Shortage at what price?

“Labor shortage” can mean different things to different people, whether a supply/demand imbalance at “current market prices” or “at any price” — the latter often well implied in driver shortage stories that suggest a disruption to the supply chain that consumers will see and feel.

February 3, 2016

Channel 19

The first time I heard the phrase ‘driver shortage’ …

Tracking back to the origins of our February cover story questioning what might be the trucking industry’s most unquestioned assumption: the driver shortage.

February 1, 2016

Business

The driver shortage alarm

The disconnect between the money and the mantra: As trucking has trumpeted a driver shortage over most of the last 10 years driver pay hasn’t risen in a way that would reflect such a strong labor demand.

February 1, 2016

Voices

POLL: What’s your view of the ‘driver shortage’?

“Driver shortage” — myth or reality, all about trucker pay or a reflection of a younger generation’s generally unfavorable view of long-distance trucking, a by-product of a constraining regs enivronment? What’s your view?

December 15, 2015

Business

New online driver-carrier matching service

The Hickory, N.C.-based Blue Bloodhound company has introduced a new online, mobile-optimized platform to help connect carriers and drivers. Blue Bloodhound has begun offering its service in areas around Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis, Ind.; and Louisville, Ky. Drivers and motor carriers throughout the U.S. also have access to and are encouraged to sign up with the service and […]

November 23, 2015

Overdrive Radio

Audio mailbag: Minimum interstate age should be 18, insurance barriers to new owner-operators

Podcast round-up of some reader voices on minimum interstate driving age, insurance challenges for young owner-operators, hours, parking and more.

March 3, 2015

Overdrive Extra

How to engage potential drivers who are slipping away

A safe, practical graduated CDL program … could bring more qualified drivers with long-term career potential, while screening out more of those who are better suited to four wheels than 18.

March 3, 2015

Voices

Why aren’t 20-somethings interested in truck driving?

A bevy of voices in response to one twenty-something’s prescription for the industry on attracting the next generation of drivers.

February 19, 2015