Open letter to any recruiters reading this:

If you're going to post on Craigslist,

Please restrain yourself from posting multiple times per day.

Asterisks, exclamation points, "at" signs and all caps doesn't make your ad stand out. It makes you look childish.

If you work for a mega, and have 30 seats to fill, please don't put 30 ads in.

Don't put a job in a specific region, say it's "local" and then tell me to apply to a national carrier hundreds of miles away.

Don't post multiple ads with different headlines and then the same copy in the actual listing.

Here's a shocker: put your name in the headline, where you need a driver ("near you!" Is not acceptable), and what kind of driver you want. (OTR, Hazmat, Flatbed, etc.)

If you can't be honest with us during a modest driver crunch, when the labor market REALLY tightens up, you're going to be spending more time posting adds than getting responses.

(Also, after perusing Craigslist for about 20 minutes, I realize I'm better off just cold calling local companies I'm familiar with or can research online. I'm tired of reading "local" ads that are actually more than 2 hours from home. On the job mileage is one thing, commuting is another, and I'm certainly not going to drive more than an hour away for a 14 hour a day day cab job.)

 

Yeah, I think I found my current company on CL too. And while I am thinking about moving on, I'd like to point out I've been here over 8 years. Which in this business is a pretty good run.

If anything, I'm amazed they finally killed the personal ads. I can't image there'd still be anyone using that for prostitution (buying OR selling) I'd assumed it was such an open secret for so long it was only vice cops trolling each other.