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Want to Decrease Driver Lead Drop Off? Simplify the App Process!

We’ve all gone through the job application process one or two times in our lives (and most likely more!). One of the biggest frustrations for many job...

Upcoming Webinar: “FMCSA May Eliminate the 'DOT Employment Application' Requirement... But Why?”

On March 8, 2019, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) concerning the lo...

The Big Debate: More CDL Truck Drivers Versus Safety Challenges of Younger Drivers?

Regardless of how you’re personally approaching the issue, the trucking industry is now officially part of the national debate stage. The industry as ...

Webinar Presenter Information: Driver Lead Generator Digital Pitch Happy Hour

Did you have a chance to attend our webinar last week, "Driver Lead Generator Digital Pitch Happy Hour"? Whether you were able to attend or not, we en...

ATRI Crash Predictor Model Shows That Hiring More Women CDL Drivers Leads to Safer Roads

In the world of CDL driving, safety is everything. From the safety of drivers themselves to other autos and passengers on the road, there are many mov...

DriverReach — Platinum Sponsor of the IMTA Spring Summit

As anyone in the transportation industry knows, staying current on safety and technology trends as well as the ever-evolving regulatory environment ca...

Webinar Q&A: How to Promote Your Brand to Attract Great Candidates

Did you have a chance to attend our webinar last week, "How to Promote Your Brand to Attract Great Candidates"? We received more questions than we had...

FMCSA May Eliminate the ‘DOT Employment Application’ Requirement…But Why?

By Dave Osiecki, Pres., Scopelitis Transportation Consulting LLC & Regulatory Consultant to DriverReach

Upcoming Webinar: How to Promote Your Brand to Attract Great Candidates

In today’s hyper-competitive world of CDL driver recruiting, every single driver counts. Thanks to the ongoing driver shortage, drivers can now afford...

Clean Up your Driver Recruiting Process with CRM

In the world of CDL driver recruiting, data is everything. Sometimes, however, the way this data is collected, aggregated, and accessed can do more ha...

Recapping the 16th Annual Recruitment & Retention Conference

The 16th Annual Recruitment & Retention Conference took place in Nashville, TN, and brought together some of the top minds and thought leaders in the ...

The Two Must-Haves to Succeed in Driver Recruiting

In the modern world of CDL driver recruiting, there is no shortage of strategic assistance. As potential driver candidates and new applicants have con...

Ebook: How to Hire More Drivers by Training Recruiters in Sales

As the industry-wide driver shortage continues to loom large, attracting, hiring, and retaining drivers has become incredibly important, and much of t...

5 Copywriting Tips to Implement in Your Next CDL Driver Job Description

Let’s get this out of the way early: all CDL truck driving job descriptions are not created equal. In such a competitive recruiting environment, carri...

20 Years in the Making — Will 2019 Bring Implementation of the CDL Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse, Or a Delay?

By Dave Osiecki, Pres., Scopelitis Transportation Consulting LLC & Regulatory Consultant to DriverReach

Webinar Q&A: Hire More Drivers by Training Your Recruiters in Sales

Did you have a chance to attend our webinar last week, "Hire More Drivers by Training Your Recruiters in Sales"? We received more questions than we ha...

Keys to Building a Robust Driver Applicant Pipeline

When it comes to hiring CDL drivers, many innovative recruiters have the application game down to a seamless process. With the right strategy and focu...

5 Smart Ways to Recruit More Drivers in 2019

As we’re already several weeks into 2019, CDL driver recruiters are focused on hitting quotas and filling open positions. The industry’s driver shorta...

Tips for How to Improve Your Company’s Glassdoor Rating

If someone was searching for a new job a few decades ago, they would ask their network to find out about companies that were hiring in the area. Today...

What CDL Drivers Should Know During Human Trafficking Awareness Month

In early 2018, a bill was passed appointing a representative from the Department of Transportation to spearhead human trafficking prevention efforts a...

DriverReach's 2019 CDL Trucking Predictions Part II: Regulations Will Take Center Stage

The new year is here and we’re helping trucking industry leaders enter 2019 with a clear understanding of the most pressing trends and predictions. In...

DriverReach's 2019 CDL Trucking Predictions Part I: Technology Will Be Essential

Crazy as it may seem, 2019 is already here! While the new year might bring some apprehension around ongoing industry challenges (more on the driver sh...

Women in Trucking Webinar Q&A: How to Attract and Retain Female Drivers

Did you have a chance to attend our special Women in Trucking (WiT) webinar last week, "How to Attract and Retain Female Drivers"?

The Consideration of Investment in Driver Recruiting Technology

As anyone involved with trucking knows, the industry as a whole is at a crossroads. While there is, of course, no shortage of challenges, there is als...

Upcoming WiT Webinar: “How to Attract and Retain Female Drivers”

In the CDL trucking industry, one group of driver applicants has been largely overlooked: female drivers. While women make up over 50% of the entire U...

Do You Know Your Driver Application Abandonment Rate?

The world of CDL driver recruiting is constantly moving, and recruiters are often laser-focused on one thing: moving candidates through the applicatio...

Upcoming ATRI Webinar: ‘What Your Drivers Want You To Know’

Every year, the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) surveys thousands of industry professionals — including carriers and drivers — to id...

Why Speed to Hire Needs to Be One of Your Most Important Driver Recruiting Metrics

In the world of truck driver recruiting, there is no shortage of important metrics. Trying to find and hire more than 60,000 drivers is no small feat,...

Upcoming TCA Webinar: Qualifying Drivers and Avoiding Risks in a Driver Shortage Market

Today’s recruiting environment challenges carriers of all sizes due to the industry-wide driver shortage and the high demand to move freight. Among th...

Is Your Driver Career Page a Recruiting Magnet?

For CDL driver recruiters, it can seem as though every day there is a new product or tool on the market claiming to bring in new applications or incre...

How Technology Can Help You Market, Recruit, and Retain Drivers

It’s no surprise that the CDL industry is in a bit of a rut. Thanks to a challenging public perception, a convoluted application process, and a lack o...

How AI Technology is Changing the CDL Recruiting Game for Good

Today’s CDL driver recruiters have a wealth of resources at their disposal. New advancements in technology have made it easier all around for recruite...

CDL Driver Recruiting and CRM: What You Need to Know

When you hear the phrase ‘Customer Relationship Management (CRM)’, you probably start thinking about sales teams and giant corporations with thousands...

Webinar Q&A: Reconciling 'Ban the Box' with FMCSA's Disqualifying Offenses

Did you have a chance to attend our webinar last week, "Reconciling 'Ban the Box' with FMCSA's Disqualifying Offenses"? We received more questions tha...

Randall-Reilly Webinar Q&A: Maximize the Value of Leads and Recruiters

Did you have a chance to attend our webinar last week, "Maximize the Value of Leads and Recruiters"? We received more questions than we had time to an...

Expert Guide to CDL Driver Recruiting

For CDL driver recruiters, it’s no surprise that today’s competitive industry is causing some major challenges. There just aren’t as many candidates a...

Why a Mobile-First Application Experience Matters to CDL Driver Recruiters

As a modern CDL driver recruiter, you’ve most likely been hearing about the value of the mobile DOT application. While yes, it is true that 77% of Ame...

How to Convert More Calls to Completed DOT Applications Using Mobile Technology

At some point, our collective culture made up its mind and agreed on a single thing: mobile is the movement of the future. It’s become all about our s...

Upcoming Webinar: Reconciling ‘Ban the Box’ with FMCSA’s Disqualifying Offenses

For any CDL driver recruiter, the recent news of states adopting ‘ban the box’ laws is bound to raise some questions. In case you haven’t heard, these...

Upcoming Webinar: Maximize the Value of Leads and Recruiters

Think about your team’s current recruiting funnel. Can you tell where there are substantial holes or gaps? For most fleet recruiters, the largest gap ...

Forging a New Path: How CTS’s Curt Reitz is Driving Toward a Positive Workplace Culture

Curt Reitz knows trucking. His father was a driver, his uncles were drivers—his entire family was involved in different aspects of the trucking indust...

5 Things to Keep In Mind When Texting Driver Candidates

In today’s world of modern CDL driver recruiting, there are still some processes that are just downright antiquated and behind the times. Even though ...

What Red Flags Do Driver Recruiters Need to Watch Out For When Attracting Candidates?

CDL driver recruiting, like in any industry, is rife with potential missteps. While it’s important to build out a strong recruiting process, streamlin...

PSP Webinar Q&A: How a PSP Report Improves Driver Recruiting & Safety

Did you have a chance to attend our webinar last week, "How a PSP Report Improves Driver Recruiting & Safety"? We received more questions than we had ...

3 Signs Your Driver Application Process Needs an Overhaul

We’ve all been there – stuck in a rut. For CDL driver recruiters, being stuck in a rut means processes just aren’t working as well anymore. In such a ...

Celebrating National Driver Appreciation Week

It’s that time of year again… time to celebrate the more than 3.5 million men and women working in the trucking industry.

4 Ways to Attract and Recruit Gen Z CDL Drivers

As a CDL driver recruiter, you’re well aware of the ongoing driver shortage in the trucking industry. In fact, new studies show that the industry as a...

Can Criminal History Questions be asked in a 'Ban the Box' World?

With the proliferation of ‘ban-the-box’ laws around the country, some of which apply to motor carriers, there is a fair amount of uncertainty in truck...

5 Ways to Make Sure You're Recruiting From a Driver's Perspective

As an innovative CDL driver recruiter, you’ve probably heard the mantra “every experience should be better from the driver’s perspective” so many time...

Upcoming Webinar Hosted by Transport Topics & DriverReach: Modern Recruiting in a Driver Shortage

It’s no surprise that CDL driver recruiting is going through one of the toughest transitions in recent memory. Current estimates indicate that almost ...

Webinar Q&A: Google for Jobs: Modern Recruiting in a Google World

Did you have a chance to attend our recent webinar, "Google for Jobs: Modern Driver Recruiting in a Google World"? We received more questions than we ...

Best Practices to Convert a Call to a Completed DOT Application

One of the most frustrating and mind-boggling occurrences in the CDL driver recruiting process is when inbound phone prospects fail to convert into co...

Pain Point of Verifying Previous Employment Improves with Modern Recruiting

Part of the compliance challenge for carriers looking to hire excellent, safety-conscious professional drivers is the required investigation of what F...

Upcoming Webinar: Google for Jobs—Modern Driver Recruiting in a Google World

In today’s new, technology-driven recruiting landscape, CDL driver recruiters are at a bit of a crossroads. On one hand, there is the traditional back...

3 Technologies that Work Together to Improve Driver Speed to Hire

Although it’s been notoriously slow in the uptick, the trucking industry is finally joining the numerous more progressive industries in the new age of...

3 Ways to Thrive in Today's Driver Shortage

As a driver recruiter or executive in the trucking industry, you know first-hand how dire the driver shortage is today.

Webinar Q&A: How Technology is Changing Safety & Compliance

Did you have a chance to attend our recent webinar, "How Technology is Changing Safety & Compliance"? We received more questions than we had time to a...

WEBINAR: How Technology is Changing Safety & Compliance

Change can be unsettling, but it’s also necessary for advancement in the trucking industry. After hundreds of conversations, we’ve found that many in ...

Webinar Q&A: Modern Recruiting in a Driver Shortage

Our recent webinar "Modern Recruiting in a Driver Shortage" yielded too many questions from registrants to answer in the allotted 30-minute timeframe....

WEBINAR: Modern Recruiting in A Driver Shortage

Join us on Tuesday, June 5th at 11 AM EST for a free 30-minute WEBINAR: Modern Recruiting in A Driver Shortage. We get it, the demand for drivers is t...

Insights: Compliance - The Criminal History Question and a Conditional Job Offer (Part 1 of 2)

Over the past few years, a relatively obscure civil and human rights movement has taken root throughout the U.S., and it has resulted in the adoption ...

Increase Driver Applicants with DriverReach's Single Sign-on

When it comes to finding and hiring new drivers, the DOT application process is notoriously slow.

HireRight Integration Helps Companies Hire Drivers Faster

  HireRight, the leading global provider for employment background screening solutions, is now fully integrated with DriverReach to help you hire qual...

INSIGHTS: Compliance - Highlights of California’s Recent ‘Ban the Box’ Law

In late 2017, California (CA) passed a law restricting how and when employers may consider criminal history information during the hiring process.   T...

Modern Driver Recruiting = Sales

If you recruit CDL drivers, you know it’s getting increasingly difficult to find, qualify, and hire truck drivers in today’s driver shortage environme...

Improving Driver Recruiting Processes With Technology

For many in the transportation industry, it can feel as though processes and operations are stuck in the dark ages - especially when it comes to the a...

DriverReach earns Endorsed Product Status with IMTA  

DriverReach is proud to be recognized as an Endorsed Product of the Indiana Motor Truck Association (IMTA).

Increase Driver Recruiting Wins with a Better Applicant Experience

It’s no surprise to anyone in the transportation industry that there is a dire need for drivers. In fact, the industry as a whole needs to fill nearly...

Recruit & Retain Podcast featuring ATA President & CEO Chris Spear

The 15th Annual Recruitment & Retention Conference, held in Nashville, Tennessee on February 21st -23rd, was a rousing success with record breaking at...

DriverReach continues growth with addition of industry veteran as VP of Sales

DriverReach continues its pace of rapid growth, most recently adding trucking industry veteran Steve Iskander as Vice President of Sales.

WEBINAR: 3 Critical Methods to Recruit & Retain in a Driver Shortage Environment

 As the economy continues to grow, and the driver shortage worsens, carriers are facing significant challenges in recruiting and hiring CDL drivers.  ...

Live Podcast Interview with ATA President & CEO Chris Spear

In his first state association visit since ATA’s MC&E Conference in Orlando, ATA President & CEO Chris Spear spoke to the Indiana Motor Truck Associat...

Driver Shortage reaches all-time high

At the American Trucking Association's MC&E Conference in Orlando, FL this week, it was announced that 2017 will be a new high for the ongoing shortag...

Free Webinar: Struggling with hiring quality drivers fast enough?

June 15, 2017 - 10:00am EDT

Roadcheck 2017 starts Tuesday - Download the Checklist

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Roadcheck 2017 is coming June 6-8

Roadcheck 2017 is about 3 weeks away. Now in its 30th year, this joint effort between the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA), Federal Motor Car...

DriverReach Co-founder and CEO named as panelist at TCA events

Jeremy Reymer, Co-Founder, President & CEO of DriverReach, will be a panelist at the Workforce Builders Conference (WFBCON) and the Independent Contra...

Is Advertising the Best Approach to Filling Your Trucks?

This is a guest post by Max Farrell, Co-Founder and CEO of Workhound, an innovative feedback platform designed to help improve driver retention.

Will you join us at these April events?

April 18, 2017 Jeremy Reymer, our President and CEO, is presenting to the Kentucky Trucking Association (KTA) in Louisville, KY on April 18th at 11:30...

The "Recruiting Gold" You Toss In The Trash

I made a huge mistake back in my early days of recruiting that I'll share in just a minute.

DriverReach debuts at MATS 2017!

It's time once again to head down to Louisville for the Mid-America Trucking Show being held March 23-25.

Get expensive and time-consuming employment verifications off your plate - at no cost

Are employment verification requests for your past drivers weighing you down?

The Superbowl commercial you missed...

DriverReach featured in new Frost & Sullivan report on trucking industry start-ups

Here at DriverReach, we take great pride in helping our members with their CDL recruiting challenges.

Welcome Michael and Sam!

We have two new additions to our growing team in the Indianapolis office, Sam Bloomquist and Michael Jared.

New on DriverReach: Employment gaps, application stages, and more!

Employment gaps Checking an applicant's previous work history is a critical part of the work you do each day. To stay compliant and ensure an accurate...

New on DriverReach: Partial applications, driver signatures and more!

Partial applications For most of us, life is busy and time is short. It's no different for drivers. Regardless of what DOT application system you use,...