Our second in our Mystery series on stories of crimes against trucking – keep reading to discover some of the biggest culprits in holding back your business and how to …
Mobile-first IntelliApp Now Optimized for Enhanced Driver Experience
Late last June, we wrote two devotional blogs to our beloved IntelliApp, the DOT-compliant, online application that over 95% of drivers (that’s over 3.3M drivers at the time this blog …
The Case of the Disgruntled Driver
We’re kicking off our Mystery series with stories of crimes against trucking. Read on to discover some of the biggest culprits in holding back your business and how to stop …
Privacy Policies: What You Need to Know
First, our favorite disclaimer here, as we’re getting ready to discuss something to do with compliance: Disclaimer: The following information on specific laws and regulations does not constitute legal advice. As …
Retention: Where to Begin
If you’re like most companies, you probably know how important retention is… but have no idea how to start improving it. It’s expensive not to care about how long your …
Free Origins Eliminates the Burden of Manually Tracking Attribution
July’s webinar unveiled our Free Origins service, a concept borne from the five-hour car ride between Dallas and Tulsa. We make this trip each year driving home from GATS, and …
The Most Expensive Recruiting Mistake You Can Make
Recruiting a new driver requires a huge investment. It takes time to create job postings and onboard new drivers. It takes energy to screen candidates and collect verifications of past …
What You Need to Know About Tenstreet’s API – A Guide for Everyone Else
Will Tenstreet integrate with our HR software? Can Tenstreet talk to our AS400? How much data is transferred, and is there a fee? As a software company, our sales, account …
Is My Company Compliant?
Disclaimer: The following information on specific laws and regulations does not constitute legal advice. As always, compliance with federal, state and local laws is ultimately your responsibility. We recommend that you …
What is a §1681m Notice and Why Is It Important to Carriers?
Legal disclaimer: The following information on specific laws and regulations does not constitute legal advice. As always, compliance with federal, state and local laws is ultimately your responsibility. We recommend …
Get Your Drivers to Orientation: Onboard Better
Finding quality drivers is a challenge for any recruiter—and after writing a compelling job post, figuring out where to put that post online, and maintaining your active posts, you’re probably …
Getting to Know the IntelliApp, Part 2: A Deeper Dive
In last week’s blog, we highlighted all of the features of the IntelliApp that make it truly exceptional. But believe it or not, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. …
Getting to Know the IntelliApp, Part 1: Under the Hood
You’re probably on cordial terms with your IntelliApp – you know the basics of how it works and give it a nod whenever you run across each other. But the …
Adding a Personal Touch to Your Recruiting Strategy
The driver-recruiter experience just got more personal! We’ve recently made several enhancements to our mobile and dashboard platforms by: giving both driver and recruiter the ability to upload a profile …
Maintaining Your Driver Job Posts
You might think that writing a great job ad and knowing where to post it online are all you need to attract great drivers, but those steps are just the …
Early-bird Registration is Now Open for Tenstreet’s 3rd Annual User Conference!
SAVE THE DATE! Thursday, April 25th and Friday, April 26th, 2019 Here we go again! We’re getting an early start this year, and are excited to announce that we’re already …
Where to Post Your Driver Jobs
With a little help from us, you’ve busted out your red pen and polished up your job posts to attract some great new drivers. But where are you supposed to …
6 Ways Tenstreet Helps You Hire Drivers
At the start of the year, Work4Labs wrote a complimentary piece called “Hiring Drivers: 6 Tips to Kick Off 2018” that gave honorable mention to Tenstreet as a workflow solution …
Writing a Compelling Driver Job Post
In a time when job-seeking drivers have so many options, how can you help your company’s job postings stand out? Every carrier offers great benefits and sign-on bonuses, so it’s …
Tenstreet to Hold Regional User Summit in Kansas City Area
UPDATE: The K.C. User Summit will be held at American Central Transport’s training facility on Thursday, August 30th from 9:00am – 1:00pm. The address is 8731 NE Parvin Rd Kansas …
Elapsed Time, QR Code, and IntelliApp Now Widgets: The Party Just Keeps Going
If you’re like us, you’re probably still throwing the confetti around from our Focus party last year, celebrating the fact that the Focus tab lets you view your business’s high-level …
Tenstreet and CVTA Enter into Partnership to Help Schools Succeed
April has been a time of exciting growth for Tenstreet. We were fortunate to see so many of our wonderful clients at our User Conference, and we just unveiled our …
5 Reasons to Go Paperless for Earth Day (That Aren’t The Environment)
It’s that time of year again for our planet’s favorite holiday: Earth Day! How are you going to celebrate on April 22nd? We hope you’ll plant a tree, recycle your …
Introducing Safety Management – Making Safety a Cinch
Still reeling from the wild momentum that drove our 2018 User Conference, we’ve returned to Tenstreet high on the fumes of amazing client conversations, delectable dinners, and enthralling entertainment that …
Do You Have the Nine Traits of High-Performing Trucking Companies?
The TCA Profitability Program’s Chris Henry knows a lot about what makes trucking companies great. He’s observed more than 100 North American companies, worked closely with members of the TCA’s …
Tenstreet Helps Carriers Spring Clean Business
The new year’s busy first quarter has passed, and spring has sprung once again. After a long day’s work, you notice a ray of sun stretched across your desk, revealing …
A Driver’s Story
You’re a driver. The road is your home. When you leave, you’re not sure when you’ll be back again. Your dispatcher is one of your only points of contact while …
A Big Welcome to Our Newest Tenstreet Partner – ADP
We’ve talked about the importance of partnerships before. For a company growing as quickly as we are, forming new strategic partnerships and adding convenient integrations for our clients has never …
We All Need a Little R&R!
We all need a little R&R to refresh and re-energize our minds. This month was no exception. Two weeks ago, Carlo Solorzano and I were thrilled to attend the 2018 …
Tenstreet, From A to Z
We’ve been in the trucking industry long enough to know that every business has its own problems. Company A might need help finding qualified drivers, while Company B wants a …
Tenstreet Pulse Match: A Love Story
You and I are no strangers to the truism “love comes from the most unexpected places.” For Dana Rodriguez of Nationwide Express, based out of Shelbyville, TN, she felt it …
The “Aha Services” of Tenstreet
Reading over any company’s list of services can sometimes feel like information overload. We know we have a lot of different services here at Tenstreet, and that it can be …
Staying Compliant with Tenstreet’s DQF
Managing paper files is a grueling task. And as your fleet grows, any form of a paper-based filing system quickly starts to border impossible. The process will only become increasingly …
Top 12 Trucking Conferences of 2018
Our Top 9 Trucking Conferences of 2017 blog gained a lot of attention last year, becoming one of our most-read blogs of the year. We hope this means that it …
How American Central Transport Uses Tenstreet Origins
There are a ton of application sources out there to choose from when you’re looking to hire drivers. With all these choices, it’s nearly impossible to determine which ones work …
How Tenstreet Helps You Stay Compliant with the Latest Fair-Chance and Ban the Box Laws
Required Legal Disclaimer: The following information on specific laws and regulations is offered as educational information and does not constitute legal advice. We recommend that you consult with qualified legal counsel …
Why You Should Attend Tenstreet’s 2018 User Conference
As you know, Tenstreet’s 2018 User Conference 2018 is Thursday, April 5th – Friday, April 6th, at The Venetian in Las Vegas, NV. What you might not know, is why you should …
New Pay-as-you-go Solution for Smaller Fleets
Not all companies are created equal – and that’s a glorious thing in any industry. In the trucking industry, every carrier operates a little (or a lot) differently, and things …
How to Prepare for the NYE Application Explosion
Over the last couple of months of 2017, you have probably noticed your application volume decrease from what it was the month prior. As we’ve assured you in previous communications, …
Xchange 2.0 – Faster, Easier Verifications
An impressive forty percent of the trucking industry’s Verifications of Employment are processed over Tenstreet’s Xchange network. In that statement alone, it’s easy to see how truly powerful Tenstreet’s Xchange …
How to Get Free Driver Applications (And More Big, Beautiful Christmas Presents)
Everybody in America is already getting at least one big, beautiful Christmas present, thanks to Trump’s new tax reform plan. But why stop there? You can actually get even more …
Top 3 Reasons People Say No to a Tenstreet Demo, Debunked
Over on the Business Development team here at Tenstreet, our primary focus is to introduce our software solutions to people who aren’t currently using them. We hear a lot of …
What’s New Here at Tenstreet?
We know it’s been a little over a week since our last blog update, so we wanted to fill you in on all the exciting things that have been happening …
7 Habits of Highly Effective Driver Recruiters – Revisited
About two years ago, we released our poster series titled ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective Driver Recruiters’. Today, we wanted to revisit this post to show you how Tenstreet creates …
Walk the Walk with Ban the Box
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 …
New Job Store Merchants Being Added Monthly
Job store allows you to purchase IntelliApps from Pulse Match, Tenstreet Market, as well as over a dozen popular job board sites. This article was designed as a companion piece to our …
Next Up on Extreme Makeover: The Charts Tab
The Backstory The Xpress dashboard Charts Tab has always known it’s had more to give. Normally spending its days adrift with self-neglect, the Charts Tab was surprised to suddenly find …
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
Tenstreet User Conference 2018 Thursday, April 5th – Friday, April 6th The Venetian Las Vegas Register Now, Space is Limited! 2018 User Conference Tentative Agenda Thursday, April 5th Warmest …
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 …
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