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Recruiting and Retention: Get Ready to Gear Up

By Kelly Anderson

I’ve asked several carriers how business is going and the standard answer I’m getting from non-flatbed carriers is, “We’ll have a couple of good weeks and we think ‘here it goes’ and then the third week is dead.” They go on to say they are receiving increased requests for rate quotes. However, substantial downward pressure remains on freight rates. Flatbed freight remains nearly nonexistent, and they don’t expect any major increase in freight volumes until 2010.

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Letter to the Editor:
Gold Standard for Drivers

By Jeff Clark

Thousands of drivers never get noticed because they do an outstanding job. These are drivers who do not get into accidents. They don’t get moving violations. They don’t get out-of-service violations, and they don’t do drugs. These drivers deserve to be recognized. They also have a lot to teach new drivers.

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Live Long and Prosper

The familiar saying, “Without your health, you are nothing,” is ringing true for many during tough economic times, and companies across the country are finding healthy employees are happier. Employers, recent reports reveal, are turning to wellness programs to promote healthier lifestyles, and both employees and companies are reaping the benefits.

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National Truck Driver Appreciation Week

When it comes to driver retention, oftentimes it’s the little things that count. For example, did your company join the American Trucking Associations and countless other carriers, fleets and organizations around the country to celebrate National Truck Driver Appreciation Week Nov. 1-7? .

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My Point: Thinking Outside the Box

Marvin Shefsky
- Publisher

If you talk to management at most trucking companies and ask them what they are doing to improve the health, wellness and lifestyle of their drivers, they will typically tell you they are “doing all they can do.” They’re right … if they confine their thinking to what they’ve always done.

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Drivers Sound Off

For two years, the U.S. economy has been struggling to pull out of the “Great Recession.” No one knows that better than the trucking sector. The trucking industry, particularly the flatbed niche, was the first to feel the pain and history tells us it will lead the economic recovery.
When the economy does turn the corner for good and begins the long haul back to robust freight and rates, the issue of driver recruitment and retention will once again jump to the forefront as drivers suddenly find themselves once again on everyone’s wish lists and companies scramble to fill cabs with quality drivers.
With that in mind, Driver HEALTH magazine recently asked a handful of truckers the following question:

When changing jobs, what do you look for in a company?

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Survey Says Staying Healthy Poses Major Challenge

Staying healthy on the road is the biggest challenge drivers face according to a recent survey of 340 Atlas Van Lines operators representing 43 states. Nearly two-thirds of respondents said maintaining a healthy lifestyle is the biggest challenge of life on the road. Fifty-six percent said eating right was their greatest hurdle, while another 24 percent said getting enough exercise was their biggest challenge.

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