Application Transparency Gives Drivers Greater Visibility, Privacy
If you’re like most Americans, you take safeguarding your possessions seriously. You have a home security system to ward off intruders, a car alarm to protect from thieves, maybe you even have a lockbox to keep family heirlooms safe. It doesn’t end at your tangible possessions — you also have a password to unlock your […]
5 Ways Smaller Fleets Can Recruit Drivers and Save Time & Money
As trucking fleets across the nation face a severe driver shortage, recruitment can be a full-time job in itself. But for many smaller fleets, overburdened owners don’t have an additional staff member to take on the time-consuming duties of finding and hiring drivers. Fleet owners often wear multiple hats, from recruitment to safety to operations […]
Introducing FleetCheck: An Indicator of the Health of Your Fleet
In an industry currently struggling with finding and hiring drivers, it grows more and more painful seeing your drivers inexplicably leave — especially when you have a gnawing feeling it probably could have been prevented with a simple conversation. Not knowing what you don’t know is frustrating, but when viewed through the right lens it’s […]
3 Free & Easy Ways to Automate Hiring in Tenstreet
Do you associate the word automation with a time-intensive setup, a complex implementation, and expensive maintenance? Do you see it as a nice-to-have – one just a little too abstract to ever make it on your priority list? Do you justify mindlessly repeating tedious process steps with the conviction that you’re saving the world from […]
Tenstreet Market Index: What To Do When App Volumes Plummet
A healthy interest in the driver market always ranks high on a carrier’s list. But given the tough conditions the industry has experienced over the last year, this interest has shifted to a furrowed concern. With application volumes dropping every week and more trucks sitting vacant, the desperation for drivers means carriers are likely paying […]
Pulse In-App Messaging Captures Drivers’ Attention, Wins More Hires
Texting is a driver recruiter’s dream. With obvious advantages over email (e.g. a more intimate way to connect, a higher open rate, and a higher and faster response rate), text messaging has made a major shift in the way businesses communicate with us and has proved an effective strategy to get candidates hired over traditional […]
Tenstreet Acquires Stay Metrics to Lead the Market in Recruiting, Retention, Driver Data
We’re excited to announce that Tenstreet and Stay Metrics are coming together to help clients grow stronger in the areas of recruiting and retention, so you can continue to maintain and grow your fleets, even when the industry gets tough. As the leading SaaS provider of driver recruiting software and workflow solutions for the trucking […]
How to Improve Driver Performance through Targeted Training
“If you don’t have your house in order, they’re going to come after you. It all depends on prevention and what safety practices you have within your companies.” This statement, made by Mehdi Arradizadeh, vice president of safety and risk management for Anderson Trucking Service in a recent HDT article on how fleets can address […]
Online Onboarding: Everything You Need to Eat the Frog
“If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.” ― Mark Twain Whether it’s a new hobby you’ve wanted to try, a book you’ve promised yourself you’d read, or […]
COVID-19 Creates Industry Shift in Driver Behavior: Latest Stats
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently witnessing an unprecedented change in driver behavior and industry-related trends and would like to share these findings with our clients and the rest of the trucking industry. Our goal in this blog is to provide insight into the driver market to help carriers make more informed […]