Recap of TransRep National Recruiting & Retention Symposium
On April 27, 2019, TransRep hosted the first annual National Recruiting and Retention Symposium in Mississauga, Ontario, featuring various industry an...
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Use Texting to Hire More Drivers and Achieve DOT Compliance
In 2006, we lived in a world without smartphones. In 2017, it was found that American’s check their phones an average of 80 times a day. The average A...
3 Ways To Improve the Driver Candidate Experience
Improving the candidate experience for potential drivers is an important on-boarding aspect that often gets overlooked. Use these tips to enhance the ...
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How To Target the Right Drivers
If you’re like most transportation companies in North America, you have more customer demand than you have a supply of drivers. Simply put: you turn d...
Creating a Driver Career Path & Improving On-Boarding Process
Our conversation continues with Kim Richardson of KRTS to talk about the importance of creating career paths for your drivers and the role orientation...
How To Create Millenial Truck Drivers
Millennials became the largest generation in the workforce in 2016. Even so, most trucking companies fail to effectively recruit and retain millennial...
For The Love of Drivers: Establishing the Voice of the Driver
We recently sat down with our friend Kim Richardson of KRTS to talk about some of trucking's hottest topics. We came away with a few recruiting and re...
One Solution to the Driver Problem: CDL Finishing School
The New York Times published an article this past summer on the changing demographics of American truck drivers. Fleets no longer consist only of midd...
How To Be A Successful Driver Recruiter
Being a driver recruiter is no walk in the park. You hustle and dedicate yourself every day to hiring the best of the best. Even so, the big boss remi...
How to Choose Driver Recruiting Software
The Wage War Is On In Professional Driving
How to Combat the Wage War in Professional Driving Trucking companies are desperate for more drivers and are pulling out all the stops to find them. A...
6 Ways to Measure Driver Recruiting Success
How to Quickly Grow Your Semi Truck Driver Pool | AvatarFleet
On November 8th, I sat in on a driver recruitment panel at the second annual Ohio Trucking Association Technology Conference. The focus of the panel w...
ATRI Survey Explores How to Solve the Driver Problem
Positive Employer Branding Grows Your Fleet
We’re continuing our recap of the important takeaways on recruiting drivers from the second annual Technology Conference presented by the Ohio Truckin...
What's the Best Way to Recruit Truck Drivers?
Recruitment & Branding in Trucking | OTA's Tech Conference
On November 8th, the Ohio Trucking Association held its second annual Technology Conference. The conference covered topics focused on how to use techn...
How to Find Good Truck Drivers
Everyone asks us for the silver bullet when it comes to hiring good truck drivers. Where's the best place to advertise? Should I go with Craigslist or...
5 Ways to Attract (and Keep) Good Millennial Drivers
Recruiting Ideas to Hire More Drivers
Are you feeling the pain of driver shortage? Trick question - there is no driver shortage. You’re feeling the pain of the driver problem, which is a m...
3 Lessons on Solving the Driver Problem | OTA Conference
Participating in The Driver Shortage: It’s Your Choice
The American Trucking Association and many other trucking organizations continue to pump out reports that we’re currently short 63,000 drivers, and fo...
Why You Need Driver Finishing School
Creating a Career Path for Drivers: Why It's Important
The Driver Problem Requires New Thinking
Invest In A Driver-Centric Brand
Three Lessons from the Titans in the Trucking Industry
Recruit More Drivers With a Better Screening Process
This blog post was updated on March 31, 2021.
Three Driver Recruiting Metrics You Should Be Tracking
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The Driver Shortage Is For Your Competition Take the term Driver Shortage out of your vocabulary. It’s an excuse not to grow your fleet. There is a Dr...
You Don’t Have to Have a Driver Shortage
American Trucking Associations has, once again, updated its numbers and they confirm what we read and hear about nearly every day; the driver shortage...
Millennial Drivers: A How-To Guide
You’ve read everywhere about how the trucking industry needs younger drivers. Luring them into professional driving still proves to be a challenge. Th...
Recruit More Drivers with Your Purple Cow
The days of simply posting a job online and landing qualified applicants are long gone. Today, you have to “pay-to-play.” But tomorrow, you’ll have to...
An Efficient Hiring Process Removes Driver Problem
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With the holidays fast approaching, many companies have found themselves once again scrambling for extra help as shipping increases with the season. A...
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CCJ Survey Proves That Driver Shortage Doesn't Exist
The good people at Commercial Carrier Journal (CCJ) released their latest “market pulse” survey at the beginning of the month to take the temperature ...
Verified First & AvatarFleet Join Forces To Better Trucking
Verified First and AvatarFleet have partnered to streamline the hiring process through integration of background screening tools with AvatarFleet’s A-...
Recruit Truck Drivers for Retention
A trucking company always wants to keep the truck drivers they recruit. That’s pretty obvious; you always want to retain everyone you hire. Unfortunat...
Recruit Drivers By Asking The Right Questions
Recruiting is a daily challenge in trucking. It takes a lot of effort and vigilance to fill your driver needs, especially when you have to deal with d...
Recruit Young Drivers By Meeting Them At Their Level
You will try almost anything to find truck drivers. If you had a guaranteed strategy on how to find truck drivers that always worked, you wouldn’t nee...
Your Applications Could Be Costing You Hires
This blog post has been updated on January 27, 2021.
Celebrating Those Who Sacrifice
At AvatarFleet, we love safe drivers. The Ohio Trucking Association’s (OTA) Truck Driving Championships and Technician Competition in Sandusky are tou...
Help Your Managers Solve Driver Conflict
An inevitable part of trucking is conflict. Conflict can come from almost anywhere and is never pleasant. Sometimes conflict can even lead to driver t...
What Your Drivers Need To Know From Other Drivers
We told you in last week’s post that it’s critical to have your experienced drivers explain to your new ones the way things are at your company. We’re...
Recruit and Retain Drivers Better by Going to WFBCON!
By now you’ve probably come to realize that the best way to find recruiting strategies that work for you is to try different things. One of the best p...
Retain More Drivers with Clear Expectations
The New York Times published a recent piece on the life of a long-haul trucker. The article not only calls attention to some of the issues that driver...
The Top Three Qualities of Ohio’s Best Truck Drivers
The Ohio Trucking Association celebrated the top 12 professional truck drivers in the state and announced Mark Spencer, YRC Freight, as the 2016 Drive...
Why Your Driver Recruiting Needs To Be Mobile and Social
There are truck drivers looking for jobs and no one is reaching them. But you can. The world has gone mobile and lives on social media. Hey trucking: ...
Truck Driver Compliance In Real English
You know what truck driver compliance is. You and your safety team have a painfully instilled working knowledge of the DOT and their guidelines and re...
You Need Millennial Truck Drivers
In your search to find truck drivers for your fleet, there are a ton of strategies you can employ for recruiting and retaining drivers. But in spite o...
What Is Driver Turnover? And How to Avoid It | AvatarFleet
Our recent webinar with the Ohio Trucking Association discussing driver retention has had a lot of people asking us just what is driver turnover and w...
The Top Ten Reasons Why Drivers Quit and How To Fix It
The Ohio Trucking Association recently asked us to present our research findings on the Top Ten Reasons Drivers Quit and How to Fix It. Our blog forma...
Find Truckers Looking for Work, By Serving Current Drivers
The Over-The-Road trucking industry is waking up and not accepting 100% driver turnover as a cost of doing business. Everyone searches for available t...