Recruiter (new to trucking industry) looking for driver opinions on the recruiting process. Help!

It is hard to find good drivers, it is almost impossible to find good
companies that are hiring. Good companies already have their drivers.
If you want to hire those kind of drivers you have to offer something
better.


If you want to hire drivers get rid of the college-student-secretary
recruiter. Give your drivers some basic info to hand out to prospective
drivers. If your existing drivers can't speak well of your company, why
would I sign up?

 

Yes and no.
You're going to have to ask a lot of questions and listen to the way they answer. Listen to tone, inflection, what words are repeated, what words are used and patterns.
For example, hometime might be more important to someone than money, but it's going to take detailed listening for that to be the case.
Ask lots of questions...and listen.

 

Recruiter says " You have to stop so we can talk, because you aren't allowed to drive and talk on the phone, even hands free with our company."
Click.
Recruiter says " Hello? Hello? "

 

I was delivering at a Weyerhaeuser, they have contracts with Gardner Trucking, so there are a number of local drivers based there. They had signs on the wall near where their timecard machine was reminding drivers that they were not allowed to have their phone turned on in the truck, nor have bluetooth devices or GPS devices in the truck at any time as it was too great a distraction.

Good way to let me know that I'm never applying there.

 

No GPS ? How will their driver ever get there?

 

To be fair, this was local drivers who were probably mostly delivering to places they were already familiar with.

But honestly, I imagine that a GPS is much less distracting than trying to deal with a map while driving.

In fact, having done both, I know it is.

 

The paperwork problem can be solved by a chip attached to the CDL that is "Stamped" by all employers with that class of vehicles for hire or not. They can install information top to bottom on that chip.

Transferring your employment record to another prospect employer would be no longer than a ordinary chip credit card transaction.

If the states wont do it then maybe DAC or similar will. Industry wide.

 

Or they could just implant the chip directly into our foreheads and and have total access to employment history, credit report, health records, GPS tracking, and DAC report by scanning it with the cell phone app that also gives them access to internet searches, call logs, and address books. They could even beam Kevin Rutherford, via interstellar satellite, directly into our medulla oblongatas. Wouldn't life be grand!!!

 

Not necessarily. Without going into religion, I prefer not to be marked.

The paper work required of new hires in trucking is tremendous. That has to be cut down somehow.

It was an idea, nothing more.

 

Agreed. I am in favor of GPS in trucks. What is the alternative?
Drivers blocking traffic, trying to figure out which road to turn on.
Drivers parked on the shoulder, trying to figure out where they
need to go, pulling out from the shoulder and blocking traffic
again........drivers trying to get turned around because they missed
the turn......


While GPS isn't perfect, it is a very effective tool for drivers to have.
Why would a company try to outlaw them? I can see if drivers are
trying to hold up their smart phones and follow that GPS, that
might be a safety issue..........if it is dash mounted in front of the driver
so he can keep both hands on the wheel??????? I realize anything
can be a distraction but seems the alternative is even worse.....