Where is the best place to recruit drivers?

Hire me!

Martin

 

There is nothing wrong with Craigslist just have to know how to filter out the losers LOL Just like when looking for a job on there you have to know how to weed out the trash from the gems. And yourself a favor and actually road test the guy, you'll be able to tell right away if he knows what he's doing or not.

 

Where are the pics? You know the deal, no pics, can't be true.

I don't know if it would work for your situation, but before I grew tired of corporate non-sense, we a had an o/o who would find drivers right out of school and run team with them for 4-6 weeks and train/evaluate them the way he wanted them to run. If they were good he'd put them in one of his trucks that he would lease on with. If they were ok, he would basically send them to the fleet and would get 2 cents a mile for every mile they ran.

After about a year or probably more, he had 4 trucks leased on and about a dozen drivers he was making 2 cents off. Which was good for him, as he was getting the truck revenue of a team and they were making team rate, but you get a quick idea of the ratio. I'm not even sure how many didn't make it.

 

I can't fault craigslist. I've found several decent gigs on there myself, including my current one. I'm sure a lot of that depends on your locale though. Around here, we have a Fedex ground contractor that spams the Jobs::Transport section probably 10-15 ads per day.

 

As a Fedex Ground contractor myself, I usually post 2 ads per month on Craigslist and I get plenty of responses to keep all my trucks filled with quality drivers. But that all ended about 6 months ago. I haven't found a decent driver on CL in 6 - 8 months. I now only get calls from people who have no CDL-A or who want a job that's not even closely related to what I posted. I've been searching for new places to list job postings. I haven't found one yet. And it's crazy because I have one of my best, high mileage routes available on a well maintained, 2012 KW with weekends off every week and I'm getting ZERO responses. I'm in the Dallas area so maybe the job market is just too good down here but finding a GOOD driver is very difficult now-a-days.

 

Most Fed-Ex contractors I see advertising on CL daily are looking for team drivers and offer no benefits and also pay on a 10-99...

And they wonder why they cant fill the drivers seat?

 

If you are having an extremely difficult time finding drivers, you can always hire entry level right out of school. Train them to do things the way you want by mentoring in the truck for 30 or more days. Most trucking schools will give you decent applicants if you can or are willing to hire out of the school.

And look at the bright side, that means one less Swift driver on the roads!

 

Thats exactly what I plan on doing.

Picking up a second truck next spring.

Janary I'll take a few weeks off and snoop around some of the local trucking scools. Talk with the staff. Explain who I am and that I'm looking to hire a driver. Ask which ones have the best aptitude, meet.and greet with each one. Then if I'm satisfied, I'll take one under my wing and soon as he's done with school, bring him out on the road and train him myself.

Hopefully I get a driver with out bad habits and a good work ethic. I think thats the best we can hope for these days.

Hurst

 

When I'm fueling up or otherwise at the truckstop, I'm always impressed by the guys I see checking their tire pressure, actually doing a pre-trip etc. I would talk to one of them about your business.