Yelp for Truckers?

LOL chief Google beat you to it. If you look at the reviews on Google maps. You'll see plenty of reviews from drivers. So no it's not needed.

 

What’s a Yelp?

Kinda like Relp?

 

There's a BIG difference between restaurants and shippers. If a restaurant has issues with their food or service people will stop going and eventually they go broke. Yelp (or other review sites) just speed up the process because it's easier to learn something about a place before you go there and spend your money.

A shipper can do just fine with 0/5 stars. Even if all the O/O read the reviews and refuse to haul their freight. The job will just go to the megas and some poor schlep who will put up with anything for a year to avoid a $6,000 bill for his CDL training will get stuck with the job. Lord knows company drivers on contract to a mega have had it too good for too long and deserve the worst of the worst.

 

What we need is a job board. Sure, I can go to Indeed and search for CDL jobs and get hundreds of listings every day. Touch freight? Slip seat? Driver facing cameras? Vaccine requirements? None of the ads mention these things, but most of them have them. There's no way to screen out listings for details that matter. The only way to find out all the gory details about a job is to call their salesperson, uh, recruiter paid on commission, and interrogate them. Huge waste of time!

 

Indeed and Craigslist.

Screening/sorting could work both ways. The driver could answer a few questions and only see ads from employers who are interested in them. SAP? DUI? Felony? We see a lot of posts in the forum from people with, "driving challenges" wanting to know who would hire them. Wouldn't it be simpler to create a profile saying I have X years of experience, Y tickets, Z accidents and see who's interested?