Vanquish Your Trucking Monsters This Halloween
Halloween is the season that draws our fears to the surface, and trucking offers plenty of terrors to keep any carrier employee up at night. Whether it’s the chill down your spine when you wonder what new compliance rule could leave your business vulnerable or the ghost of a driver who never showed up to […]
Faster, More Personal Orientation With Tenstreet’s Mobile-First Training Library
Build a Better Orientation We know your primary goal for driver orientation is to create a meaningful onboarding experience for drivers. The overwhelming challenge of juggling tasks between communicating and collecting information, essential safety training, and interacting with drivers can be difficult to balance with the overarching objective of shortening classes to get drivers on […]
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 […]
Tenstreet Offers Free Driver Onboarding Services in Response to COVID-19
In CCJ’s March 17th edition of the Daily Dispatch, NATSO President and CEO Lisa Mullings recognized travel and truck stops as “‘essential’ businesses that must remain open even if other ‘nonessential’ businesses are forced to close.” As we watch our local restaurants and gyms close, see social and business events cancelled, and continue to distance ourselves […]
6 Tips to Optimize Onboarding
Optimizing onboarding to create a better experience for the driver is a burning issue today. StayMetrics, a company highly focused on driver retention, states that a driver’s perception of your onboarding process weighs heavily into his decision to not only join your team, but to stay with your team. Simply put, by creating a positive onboarding […]
Tenstreet’s ITI Integration Is Like a Box of Chocolates…
…you always know what you’re gonna get. That’s how the quote goes, right? At any rate, our new partnership with Instructional Technologies, Inc., announced at our 2019 User Conference, is as delight-filled as your favorite box of indulgences. This integration will bring you tasty content inside your favorite container, the Tenstreet dashboard. Sample just a […]
Increased Retention Starts with Onboarding
When does a driver’s experience with a new employer begin? You might think it’s the day they walk through your door for orientation, but the reality is that once a driver has shown up at your office, they’ve already formed an opinion about how life will be with their new employer. Your onboarding process is […]
The Case of the Paper Pit
Here’s the second mystery in our series on crimes against trucking – keep reading to discover some of the biggest culprits in holding back your business and how to stop them in their tracks. The abandoned building on South Street is the reminder of the town’s once-lusty progress, a wretched emblem of what could have […]
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 ready to sit back and take a break once you’ve located the people you want driving for your company. But it isn’t enough to locate […]
5 Reasons to Go Paperless for Earth Day
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 cans and bottles, and consider making your business processes paperless. Everything from your job application to your driver management files can be made digital, allowing […]
