Where to find drivers?

Ugh! No freakin way! Lol

 

indeed worked better than Craigslist for me .... I only used the free side

 

Good question. I thought Craigslist to be the last hope of employer trying to scare up some help. Truck Magazines always have ads but its companies who have been hiring the past 4 decades and still cant fill all the seat.
Drivers use word or mouth IMO. How many actually go banging on doors for a job?

 

I have been recruiting at the fuel island I am not going to add a truck until after the first of the year but takes awhile to get people approved by insurance company. my biggest problem is offering benefits at a reasonable price . I pay very well and is a w2 with per diem and drivers have a choice in where they run ..... out of ohio and can make money pretty much any direction you go and plenty of home time

 

Have your tried using your current drivers to recruit for you. They're your best sales people for recruiting. Pay them $10 for every application they refer. $25 for an approval and $250 for every 30 days the new hire stays up to 90 days. Statistics show that if you have a good job, a good driver will stay, if he makes it to 90 days.

 

Literally go to upper Jersey, there is a diner up there near the gates of the port. Surrounded by a variety of tractors and containers. Grabbing a meal coming and going.

Talk to them. See if you can halp the less happy ones understand there might be something good in your outfit and they should look into it.

By the same token. You can have THOUSANDS of drivers coming to work for you. You WILL be very SELECTIVE about picking the right ones out of that pile of application forms. Choose wisely. Your business's future profit and loss rides on it.

I used to work for Port East in Baltimore a major east coast container outfit that not only did Trucking but also barging etc. And the owner there asked me one day if I was independantly wealthy and I told him no. However it is not finanically valuable to leave Baltimore at 3 AM racing for the DC bridges to Norfolk at sunrise to meet the ship with a 54 dollar paying box and then SIT and WAIT until 6 PM to be finally told to grab a piddling chassis or empty box back to Baltimore for 10 PM or so paying 25 dollars. I can do better minimum wage flipping fries. with just a 8 hour investment of my time and 16 hours to sleep and rest until tomorrow. Something not availible in his day cabs, half of which have very serious problems in the shop in the first place. (No back window? Great. Breathe leaking exhaust fumes all the way down and back all day. Big deal... /sarc)

And he wonders why I am moving on to better paying pastures. I had joined his outfit from Hahn Transport in Newmarket where I put in just as early hours to start a day delivering 5 or 6 bulk loads paying 61.00 or so per for a multi hundred dollar day.

No wonder i moved on. I don't hate port east. But they were a BIG short lesson to me in how to avoid a company that is generally involved in bigger things than just drivers. For example more interested in making a successful move of 200 boxes from one port to another. The drivers are a minor annoyance easily made to go away if necessary.