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Ideas to Improve Truck Driver Onboarding
The first week after you hire a new truck driver is make or break. It can be the difference between drivers sticking with you for years to come or lea...
Truck Driver Recruiting & Retention Strategies for 2023
The truck driver shortage isn’t getting any easier to solve. With experienced drivers retiring and fewer young people entering the profession, truckin...
What Truck Drivers Want
The trucking industry is facing an existential crisis. Companies have freight collecting dust. They have empty seats they can’t fill. And they have ju...
Top 5 Reasons Why Truck Drivers Quit Your Company
As a carrier, your business cannot exist without truck drivers. This seems obvious, yet the industry faces an existential crisis: clogged shipping doc...
The First Step To Driver Retention: How You Recruit Drivers
If you’ve read our articles before, you’ve heard this one many times: there’s no silver bullet to solving your driver problem. You struggle to find, r...
7 Great Ideas for Truck Driver Appreciation Week
Next week is National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, so hopefully, you’ve been thinking of ways to show your gratitude to the hardworking people who ...
Make Every Week Driver Appreciation Week
When was the last time you showed your drivers how valuable they are to your company? Are you waiting for driver appreciation week?
Creating a Career Path for CDL Truck Drivers
Do you have enough quality drivers in your fleet? That’s a rhetorical question because we know the answer is no. What if you could reduce accidents, l...
High Driver Turnover Highlighted in HireRight's 2021 Benchmark Report
Looking for industry news on essential recruiting and retention trends? Look no further. HireRight® released its Global Benchmark report this summer c...
Why Your Drivers Voice is Critical to Recruiting & Retention
You have a powerful driver recruiting and retention resource sitting at your fingertips: your current drivers.
Voice of the Driver: What We Learned from the 2020 OTA Driver of the Year Nominees
7 Things Owner/Operators Should Know Before Buying Health Insurance
As an Owner/Operator, you are tasked with operating a business and driving professionally. That is two full time jobs and we know it’s just the beginn...
Advice From Ohio's Top Drivers at the 2019 OTA Driver of the Year Awards
Virtual Driver Orientation with the A-Suite's Newest Integrations
Welcome to the new age of driver training, onboarding, and orientation.
Webinar Recap: How To Manage Recruiting, Compliance, and Training in the COVID-19 World
On June 9th, AvatarFleet President Scott Rea was featured on a webinar hosted by the Ohio Trucking Association on the topic How To Manage Recruiting, ...
How to Manage Recruiting, Compliance, and Training in the COVID-19 World
Driver Retention Re-Invention
Why Does Driver Retention Matter? Before COVID-19, unemployment rates were at record lows - drivers had the leverage in the supply and demand equati...
How COVID 19 is Affecting Truck Drivers And What You Can Do
During COVID-19, we’re all counting on drivers to keep the stores stocked with the essentials. Consumers rely on them, the economy relies on them, and...
Tax Credit for CDL Training Expenses
Finally, a tax break for the trucking industry! This is big. Unlike the old joke that begins with, “Hi I’m from the government and I’m here to help yo...
Recruiting and Retention Tips From The Best
Chad Hendricks hosted "the Dr. Phil of Trucking" on his “Recruit and Retain” podcast, who had five great points worth sharing with our readers. Charle...
Recruit & Retain: New Ideas To Solve Your Driver Problem
High driver turnover often snowballs for trucking companies. You suffer from high turnover and need more drivers. However, you have a hard time findin...
Better Dispatchers Lead to Better Retention
Your dispatchers could be causing you turnover. Of course, they don’t mean to, but we hear it from drivers time and time again. Drivers often quit bas...
CDL Finishing School Achieves Prestigious PTDI Certification
MACEDONIA, OH - AvatarFleet, LLC is excited to announce its strategic partnership with the Professional Truck Driver Institute (PTDI). AvatarFleet is ...
Driver Shortage Tops ATRI, It Should Not Be an Issue for You
AvatarFleet President Scott Featured in FreightWaves Video
Retention Re-Invention: Solve Your Drivers' Problems
The OTA Annual Conference took place in Cleveland, OH September 16th and 17th. Held by the Ohio Trucking Association and the Ohio Association of Move...
Retention Re-Invention 2: Building a Driver-Centric Culture
On September 16th and 17th, leaders in the transportation industry will gather in Cleveland, OH for The OTA Annual Conference. Held by the Ohio Trucki...
Why Should You Care About Driver Retention? | AvatarFleet
Mark your calendars: The OTA Annual Conference, held by the Ohio Trucking Association and the Ohio Association of Movers, is taking place September 16...
Why Rehires Are Your Best Lead Source
This blog post was updated on March 26, 2021.
How to Improve Driver Retention with Mentorship Systems
Think back to the first job you ever had. Picture yourself walking through the door on your very first day. You may have been excited, but you were al...
How to Influence Your Drivers to Stay
One of our clients was telling us a story that we hear a version of all the time. This particular story was about a top performing driver named Nancy....
Retain More Drivers: Treat Them Like People
Do you know the top 5 reasons drivers quit a company? Some are obvious, like inadequate pay or not enough hometime. Others however, you might not expe...
Why Is Driver Turnover So High?
Follow the Data Last month, I read an interesting article in the NATMI monthly newsletter. It was written back in September 2018 by Stephen V. Burks a...
Creative Solutions to Driver Compensation Problems
If your driver retention numbers are as bad as the industry average, you can change that! It should be no surprise that pay is one of the most common ...
How to Hire Your Next All-Star Driver: Lessons From OTA
The Ohio Trucking Association (OTA) recently celebrated the 2019 Driver of the Year Award. Twelve professional truck drivers were recognized for their...
Truck Driver Shortage Argument R.I.P. | AvatarFleet
Well it’s finally happened. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics just published a lengthy report suggesting that there is no evidence of a driver sh...
3 Easy Ways to Improve Driver Retention
Between advertising, recruiting, on-boarding, and training, it costs you thousands of dollars to hire just one driver. So it hurts all the more to see...
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...
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...
Restaurants and Driver Retention
What if you ran your trucking company like a restaurant? What if you treated your drivers like customers? Sound like a strange comparison? Maybe, but ...
Truck Drivers Stop The Insanity! | AvatarFleet
I apologize if this title is politically incorrect. However, it comes from none other than Albert Einstein who defined insanity as “doing the same thi...
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...
How Do I Retain My Best Truck Drivers?
Trucking is a relationship business. Drivers are people and their issues are your issues. Driver retention is all about establishing clear expectation...
3 Lessons on Solving the Driver Problem | OTA Conference
5 Ways to Show Your Drivers You Care
How to Choose a Driver Training Program: Typical Challenges
This article serves as Part 3 of 3 in a series on Choosing a Driver Training Program
Help Make Trucking A Good Job To Have
Driver First, Customers Second
Why You Need Driver Finishing School
Creating a Career Path for Drivers: Why It's Important
The Truck Driving Championships: A Great Driver Retention Tool
Invest In A Driver-Centric Brand
Three Lessons from the Titans in the Trucking Industry
Bad Bosses Cause Driver Turnover
Why Structured Interviews Reduce Driver Turnover
Invest in Your Drivers to Reduce Turnover
Money can’t buy happiness or your driver’s loyalty. But you need to provide enough of a consistent salary, so they don’t have to worry about making th...
Four Best Practices To Improve Driver On-Boarding
When it comes to professional driving, the first 90 days are your critical period for retention. These first three months are pivotal for a driver dec...
Managing Organizational Change
Organizational change is usually conceived as logical, rational, orderly, and completed on a predictable time-frame. In reality, it is usually messy, ...
Use A Culture Contract to Improve Driver Retention
Driver retention depends heavily on company culture. In an article from Heavy Duty Trucking’s online magazine, Deborah Lockridge, Editor-in-Chief wrot...
What Truckers Think Will Help You Find More Drivers
You can’t understand a driver’s experience working for your company if you don’t ask them. You have drivers that come to work everyday and enjoy worki...