Over two-thirds of the U.S. population, or over 226 million people, now live in a jurisdiction that has signed into law the ban-the-box policy. (National Employment Law Project). This number …
Pulse MD – Drug Screening Made (Really) Easy
Ready to save time in your orientation class by having your drivers tested before they even arrive? Get your drivers on the road faster, stop spending money on drivers who …
How Job Store Gets You in Front of More Drivers.. With a Lot Less Work
Job Store Merchants In addition to purchasing IntelliApps from Pulse Match and Tenstreet Market, you can also post on a variety of job board sites through Job Store. This document …
Next Up on Extreme Makeover: The Charts Tab
Update: Thursday, September 7th, we’re body checking the charts tab onto the stage, ready or not. Please pardon any stumbling, stuttering, or other awkward behavior during this day (i.e. your …
7 Ways to Remain D&A Compliant.. and the #1 Reason Carriers Are Cited
Most everybody agrees that random testing works to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce carrier liabilities. Yet every year, thousands of motor carriers are fined and penalized during FMCSA audits …
2nd Annual Tenstreet User Conference
Save the date! We can’t wait! Tenstreet User Conference 2018 Thursday, April 5th – Friday, April 6th The Venetian Las Vegas Get ready for: deep-dives into new and unreleased …
The ELD Mandate – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
By now, you’re probably aware of the Congressional mandate regarding electronic logging devices, or ELDs. As stated by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, or FMCSA, the ELD rule “is …
Visions of Adverse Action Danced in His Head
‘Twas the night before Christmas Eve, When all through the borough, Not a creature was stirring, Except for our CEO.. In our last post on Adverse Action, (during which his …
Tenstreet: Your InteGREATion Station
When Bill Gates was asked about Microsoft’s accomplishments, he answered very matter-of-factly. “Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning”. While we mostly prefer Macs here …
Getting Started with Drip: Nurturing Driver Relationships
A successful recruiter understands that the key to recruiting new drivers is taking the time to nurture their driver relationships. However, with a busy schedule, there’s not always time to …
The Paper Elephant in the Room
Just the mere thought of going paperless can make you feel like a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. Questions start bubbling up faster than you could …
Tenstreet Job Store – Your Advertising Portal
Managing postings and job board purchases across multiple, isolated sites is a complex process. To further complicate this already labor-intensive process, attempting to measure attribution is a challenge at best. …
Seven Scores and Four Drivers We Know
In the Gettysburg Address, it’s widely believed that Lincoln refers to the year of our constitution in his famous opening line. But those who were there know that he was …
Pulse Match – Revolutionizing How You Recruit
Getting Started with Pulse Match – An Industry Need Pulse Match was born out of a clear industry need to offer a smarter way to connect carriers with the right …
Your Tenstreet Starter Kit – 3 Popular Stacks
LEGO®, arguably the most ingenious toy ever invented, has come up with a brilliant way to help businesses realize their full potential. Using Lego-building exercises to foster employee creativity and …
Reconnect Now with Newly Eligible Drivers
In an industry where qualified drivers are in constant demand, experienced recruiters and drivers both understand that a “no” most often just means “not right now”. In most cases, drivers …
Tenstreet’s 1st User Conference – A True Vegas Win
Enthusiasm was alive and the energy high as clients gathered last week at Tenstreet’s 1st User Conference to meet with their advisors, accounts managers, and other Tenstreet cohorts. For good …
Driver Pulse Now Provides Free Copies of PSP, CDLIS, MVRs, and Employment History Reports
Exciting news! Our latest addition to the Driver Pulse app allows carriers to automatically send your background reports to you through Driver Pulse for free. We at Tenstreet think it …
Automating Driver Engagement
Savvy carriers know that in order to recruit and retain quality drivers, driver engagement is a must. Here at Tenstreet, we have a lot of tools to automate engagement for …
Job Board Scrubber, A Virtual Recruiter That Never Quits
Job boards are the lifeblood of most carriers and their recruiters — reliably providing the recruiting pipeline necessary for carriers to meet their next round of drivers. With sometimes thousands …
Small Fleet Owners Take the Weight Off, Work Fewer Hours
It’s a big challenge running a small trucking company, and this wasn’t a decision you made lightly. Every decision you make has the potential to bear incredible consequences, good or …
Background Reports Can Now Be Shared with Drivers
If you’re like most recruiters, having a conversation with a prospective driver about the results of their background reports is not your idea of a good time – especially when …
Tenstreet’s Trucking School Network Eases Hiring Pains
Student drivers and trucking schools have long needed an automated mechanism to easily send applications and communicate with motor carriers. Drivers spend an excessive amount of time and effort manually …
3 Ways to Know if You Need Recruiting and Onboarding Software
Recruiting and onboarding is a $120 billion industry worldwide. As a result, software developed to streamline operations in these areas has created an industry of its own, worth $1.5 billion …
Top 4 Reasons to Adopt a Mobile Onboarding Solution
Today, the average person keeps their phone within reach 22 hours a day 79% of the time, and checks it over 150 times throughout the day. With 2 out of every …
6 Tips to Streamline Your Onboarding Process
Optimizing your onboarding process (hiring & training) to save time and create a better experience for the driver is more important than ever before. A better driver experience means spending …
Job Store + Active Jobs Q&A
Blended Marketing Solutions We recently held a webinar on Job Store – a new, revolutionary way to purchase job board advertising from one digital store front. Since Active Jobs plays such …
Putting an End to Advertising Inefficiency
When we look at how advertising for drivers works in 2017, we’re reminded a lot of how verifications worked in 2007. Drivers paying $20 to fax in authorizations from truck …
Top 9 Trucking Conferences in 2017
Gaining new business and ideas, enmeshing yourself in the industry, and meeting other like-minded people who share your passion are just a few of the rewarding reasons people love to …
Dear Safety – Your Job Has Just Gotten Easier
We’re happy to announce the release of two powerful new additions to our line of truck driver safety services. Now along with our DQF module, which includes the Missing and …
Referral Codes: Measuring the Effectiveness of Your Ad Placement
What is a Referral Code? Referral codes are a unique string of letters and numbers used to identify the source of a driver’s application. Why should I use Referral Codes? Xpress …
Pulse Brings You Carrier Recommendations
You know there are thousands of carriers out there looking for quality drivers like you, but how do you find them, and how do you know if they’re right for …
Tenstreet Tours North Carolina: A Client Conference
Visiting a client face-to-face provides an invaluable opportunity that we have the pleasure of experiencing regularly. Last week, however, opened our eyes to a new experience. While initially our plan was …
Continuation IntelliApp – A New Way to Secure Busy Drivers
Drivers are just like you – busy. Many times when they’re looking for a job, they’re doing so with a full load of life on their shoulders. They start the …
Press Release: Tenstreet Receives Investment from Spectrum Equity
Tulsa, OK – Tenstreet, the leading web-based provider of driver recruiting software and workflow solutions for the trucking and transportation industry, announced today that it has received a significant investment …
Tenstreet’s 1st User Conference
Update: Thank you to everybody who made it out, and for those who didn’t, we hope to see you in 2018. Be on the lookout for information on our 2nd …
IntelliApp Statistics: A Road Map to Your IntelliApp Traffic
If you love visual metrics, then IntelliApp Statistics was made for you. Our IA Stats service provides visibility and transparency into the performance of your IntelliApp through the use of …
Origins: A Look into the Software
Origins: The Advertising Approach That Makes Sense Continued So we’ve taken a few stabs at this in the past – but the results were either too incomplete (print the reports …
Origins: The Advertising Approach That Makes Sense
Advertising can be expensive. And as with most expensive purchases, advertising costs should be held accountable. In recruiting, advertising is ideally measured by hired drivers. But you cross a line somewhere …
Driver Pulse Carrier Search is Here!
You’ve been asking about Pulse, and we’ve been listening. Now you can search over 1,000 carriers in the Pulse app, view their open jobs, and apply in just a few …
Goal Tracking – Set it and Forget it
Are you still using a whiteboard or a spreadsheet to track orientation or recruiter goals? If so, you are all too familiar with the problem this presents – mainly, that …
The Gift of Time – Greyhound Integration in Xpress
If you’re like most carriers, you use Greyhound every week to get your drivers to orientation. What you may not know is that you can order Greyhound tickets directly from …
Driver Recruiting Automation Tools & The Best Way to Use Them
At Tenstreet, we’ve helped a ton of clients realize big improvements in their operations through efficient and effective tools. We boost efficiency by doing more things with the same number …
Meet the IntelliApps
The Tenstreet IntelliApps have come in many shapes and sizes over the last ten years. We’ve learned the more customizable we make one of our services, the more difficult it can be …
A Complete Driver Referral Program that Works for You
Referral programs have historically proven to be an effective way to hire new drivers, especially for companies offering drivers incentives. However, just as historical are the complicated processes, spreadsheets, and …
Custom Report Wizard – The Answer to All Your Questions
Are you feeling like a modern-day Bob Cratchit, pouring over endless dot-matrix printouts, green bar after green bar, knowing that there has to be a better way to analyze your …
4 Keys to Better Landing Pages & More Driver Apps
You invest a lot of time and money into driving traffic to your website. Landing pages are a key aspect to converting that web traffic into hired drivers. All of …
Three Easy Steps to Survive the Tenstreet 2016 Renovation
Step One: Don’t Panic Everything is where you left it! As great as these last 10 years have been, we know many of you agree that it was high time …
Our Experience at WFBCON 2016
The inaugural Workforce Builders Conference (WFBCON) was held June 28–30, 2016, at the Westin Indianapolis. WFBCON is the first conference of its kind for the truckload industry. Throughout the conference, …
Recruiting Automation and Apple Pie
When it comes to process improvement, automation gets a lot of attention, and for good reason. Automation can really help you take your business to the next level by keeping …
When You Don’t Get the Job
So you didn’t get the job. It happens to everyone at one time or another, so don’t take it personally. The best thing you can do at a time like …
Recruiting Automation
Technology has come a long way in the recruiting business, and technology especially has improved immensely when it comes to interacting with computers. Long gone are the days of green …
Storing and Sending Your Documents via Driver Pulse
Say good-bye to the old days of trying to find access to a computer, scanner and/or fax machine to get your CDL, TWIC Card, Proof of Insurance, and other commonly …
What is an Auth Code?
You’re likely familiar with the auto-fill feature on our IntelliApps. This is a highly valued feature for drivers across the country—in fact, we’ve even had drivers tell us they won’t …
Take Control of Your Job Search with the Driver Pulse Mobile App
So you’re looking for a job, and you’ve applied at several companies you like. But now what? Wouldn’t it be nice to know what’s happening with your applications and to …
Carrier Profile and Active Jobs in the Driver Pulse App
Drivers Can View Carrier Profiles & Active Jobs Starting on June 6, Pulse users will be able to view a carrier’s profile and all active jobs for that carrier. Until …
New Driver Pulse Features – Request Documents & Document Upload
At Tenstreet, our clients are one of the most valuable resources that we have for developing and improving the tools and services we provide. Taking the time to listen to …
New Xpress Functionality
We’ve talked pretty often here about the importance of responding quickly to drivers when they apply, as well as the importance of moving those drivers through the hiring process as …
Driver Pulse Enhancements
One of our goals at Tenstreet is to continually improve our tools, and we’re always looking for new ways to make them more valuable for drivers and carriers alike. Recently …
Introduction to Xpress
A recruiter’s job is not easy, but it’s probably one of the most important jobs at your company. Moving applicants through the hiring process quickly is essential to keeping a …
Introduction to Xchange
Managing Driver Verifications & Finding the Most Qualified Drivers Verifications might not make the world go ’round, but they do make your recruitment process move forward. When you’re running a …
What Carriers Need to Know About the Xchange Network
While it’s true that thousands of carriers use Xchange each month, we know that not all carriers are currently taking advantage of our program. Because we know first-hand the difference …
Tenstreet Index | Part 2 Taking Action
Previously, we discussed some of the trends that we have been seeing here at Tenstreet across our platforms. We took a look at our unique data and crunched the numbers …
5 Reasons Why Tracking Cost Per Hire Is (Almost) Impossible
For virtually all carriers, the cost of recruitment advertising is a huge expenditure, and like a lot of advertising costs in other industries, determining what works and what doesn’t is …
Tenstreet Index | Part 1 Driver Job Market Data
Speculation about the driver job market is never in short supply. The question of what’s happening is always an interesting one, and particularly relevant to us here at Tenstreet. We …
Sharpening the Saw – Efficient & Productive Recruiting
Two Ways Your Recruiting Tools Become Dull 1) Change As time goes by, systems, people, and businesses change, and smart carriers respond to these changes. Carriers who use the Tenstreet …
Driver Pulse Invite & the Tragedy of the Commons
Last fall, Tenstreet conducted an experiment aimed at helping our clients obtain more value from their job board leads by automatically inviting candidates to take the next step and complete …
How to Accurately Measure Speed-to-Hire & Accelerate Your Process
The Consequences of a Slow Hiring Process Most of the carriers that we work with at Tenstreet are well aware of the shortage of drivers, and all of them would …
A Modern Guide to Driver Onboarding
Increased Efficiency + Better Experience Successful carriers are always considering how they can develop different aspects of their business to lower costs and improve recruiting and employee retention. Orientation is …
Driving Better Metrics with Tagging
Effectively tracking metrics can be one of the most important things that you do for the success of your business. It enables you pinpoint what your business is doing well …
Driver Pulse Profiles + Job Postings
Steady Improvement & Integrated System One of the mainstays of our business philosophy at Tenstreet is constantly striving to improve our services for our customers, whether that means making big …
Boost Your Landing Page Results by 20%
Leads, as you and everyone in the movie Glengarry Glen Ross know, are the most important part of recruitment, and everyone needs them. Landing Page Results Drivers, however, are often …
Keys to Convert Job Board Leads into Hired Drivers
In order to fill their orientation classes and keep their trucks on the road, many carriers rely on job boards to deliver a steady stream of leads for drivers. However, …
5 Key Driver Recruiting Metrics
Tenstreet works with a wide variety of trucking companies, big and small, from all over the country. One of the characteristics we’ve noticed that the best-run carriers always seem to …
Essential Recruiting & Management Tools for Small Fleets
Small Fleets and the Driver Shortage The driver shortage has hit the smaller fleets the hardest. Because there are fewer drivers on the market, competition for candidates has become more …
Driver Profiles for the Win
Sorting a Large Number of Applicants One of the most time-consuming challenges carriers face when recruiting new drivers is simply sorting through all the applications submitted each day. Having a large …
5 Steps to Make the Most of Driver Job Boards
The concept of having one platform that brings employers and job seekers together has been around for almost 25 years. Today, the driver job board continues to serve as a …
Why Tenstreet for Your Mobile & Texting Strategy?
A Streamlined Process When it comes to finding qualified candidates, it’s important to stay on top of new technologies and texting is a recruitment strategy that’s on the rise with …
5 Reasons You Should Add Texting to Your Recruitment Strategy
Few carriers these days take advantage of text messages in their recruitment strategy. Smartphones and text messaging go hand in hand, and developing a strategy incorporating both is crucial to …
A Better Way to Reach Prospective Drivers – Drip Marketing
Modern Tools Finding qualified drivers is essential to the success of carriers today, but it can be an expensive and time-consuming process. Recruiting departments sink a large amount of money …
How to Become a Tenstreet Network Provider
By now you should be familiar with how Tenstreet’s Xchange network is making driver candidate verification easier for the trucking industry. With a database of over 11,000 carriers, Xchange makes …
Fair Credit Reporting Act – What You Need to Know
Carriers typically use a wide variety of background checks in screening drivers. Our clients use everything from MVR’s to the DAC employment history to criminal background checks and PSP’s. While …
Hire Better Drivers Using PSP’s
Hiring Safe, Reliable Drivers In the trucking industry, hiring safe, reliable drivers is always a number one priority. Drivers with histories of crashes and incidents that take drivers out of …
8 Steps to A Full Driver Orientation Class
A lot of time and money has been invested in getting your recruits to this point—ads, landing pages, applications, emails, phone conversations, etc. Take these steps to ensure a full …
What’s Free and Better than 11,000+ Trucking Carrier Fax Numbers?
To hire a driver, a carrier has to inquire of all the other carriers a driver has worked for in the past three years. We would love for all those …
New Feature for Xpress Users
We are proud to announce a new tool for Xpress users: Dashboard Alerts. If you need to quickly communicate a message across your user base, this tool allows you to …
7 Habits of Highly Effective Driver Recruiters
We work with truck driver recruiters, recruiting managers, and support teams every day. Our years of experience have led us to notice seven key habits that set successful recruiters apart. …
Bridging the Gap Between Paper and Digital DQF
Every day we talk with carriers who know their driver record-keeping system needs an overhaul, but they are reluctant to convert to a paperless solution. They know digital record-keeping will …
A Driver Referral Program You Can Trust
Referrals from existing drivers are a great way to find new drivers. But most driver referral programs are difficult to manage and frustrating for drivers. We see carriers try all …
The New Driver Pulse App by Tenstreet
In light of the driver shortage, carriers need to stay connected with candidates more than ever. 75% of candidates apply to more than one carrier. The drivers need to keep …
The (Confusing) Driver Recruiting Experience
Most carriers would agree that sales and marketing is a key part of the driver recruiting process. But too often that strategy is limited to trying to find a better …
Managing Driver Application Errors
A lot of work goes into validating applications—especially because over 90% of them contain discrepancies. These may surface during a conversation with a driver, a background check, or during employment verification. …
Paperless Recruiting & Less Paper Recruiting
Less Paper Everyone agrees paper is on the way out. But for most companies, it’s not gone yet. Getting to a place where all internal processes are electronic involves overcoming …
Drip Marketing & Driver Recruiting
“Re-Applies” & Wasted Advertising If a driver applies to three places, there are two carriers that are not going to hire that driver. Statistically, many of the same applicants that …
Hire More Drivers without Increasing Ad Spend
It’s generally accepted that drivers, especially good ones, have their pick of opportunities. The implication for carriers is that they are constantly competing to get drivers to choose them. Depending …
A Simple Solution to Reduce Time-to-Hire
How much time are you recruiters spending now, and how are they spending that time? How many active candidates are in the system, and how long does it take to …
How Important is Mobile to Your Recruiting Success?
We confess: Years ago, our signature software barely worked on mobile, but we learned how important mobile access is to drivers and we upgraded our platform to be mobile-friendly. From the …
How to See a 475% Rate of Increase in Completed Driver Apps
The Problem Only 13% of all driver application sessions result in a completed app. Applications are abandoned for many reasons. The driver may have started the app on his or …
4 Losses to Avoid in Your Recruiting Department
Let’s face it: when drivers are looking for jobs, they often submit applications through a number of sources, and you then must deal with the reality that five leads …