recruiting and retention

Focus on drivers sets the best carriers apart – Taking the Hire Road

On this week’s episode of Taking the Hire Road, Tracy Rushing, executive director of safety and recruiting with R.E. Garrison Trucking and recipient of the Influential Woman in Trucking Award, sat down with host Jeremy Reymer, founder of DriverReach and Project 61, to discuss the importance of having the right mindset when it comes to recruiting and how staying focused on drivers is what sets the best carriers apart.

“I love talking about one thing that really matters, and that is how to keep...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/focus-on-drivers-sets-the-best-carriers-apart-taking-the-hire-road

Automate the automations with Leoforce – Taking the Hire Road

On this week’s episode of Taking the Hire Road, James Winfrey, vice president of partnerships and alliances with Leoforce, joined Jeremy Reymer, founder of DriverReach, to discuss the ongoing evolution of recruiting technology in the trucking space. 

From the earliest days of digital advertising to the current use of AI-assisted recruiting functionality, those companies that leveraged cutting-edge technology have gotten ahead of the curve and paved the way for more efficient practices in the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/automate-the-automations-with-leoforce-taking-the-hire-road

Recruiting passive drivers via Seated Social – Taking the Hire Road

Alex Carpenter, president of Seated Social, sat down with Taking the Hire Road host Jeremy Reymer to discuss the ways Seated Social focuses on quality recruitment leads and how that ultimately benefits drivers, recruiters and trucking companies.

Carpenter’s career path was a winding one, beginning with three deployments to Iraq in the U.S. Marine Corps. When he rejoined the civilian workforce, he sought the same kind of camaraderie and purpose that he had in the military.

Eventually, his career...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/recruiting-passive-drivers-via-seated-social-taking-the-hire-road

Second chance success with Emerge Career – Taking the Hire Road

Uzoma “Zo” Orchingwa, co-founder of Emerge Career, sat down with Taking the Hire Road host Jeremy Reymer to discuss justice and social change in the context of hiring and career development.

Having spent most of his formative years in Nigeria, Orchingwa was always intrigued and concerned by the disparity in living conditions between places like Nigeria and what he saw in American television and movies. “Understanding social ills and why things are the way they are formed a through line that...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/second-chance-success-with-emerge-career-taking-the-hire-road

Solving the parking puzzle: Truck Parking Club’s win-win approach — Taking The Hire Road

On this episode of Taking The Hire Road, Jeremy Reymer, CEO of DriverReach, is joined by Evan Shelley, co-founder and CEO of Truck Parking Club, a platform connecting truck drivers with available parking spaces.

Every day across the U.S., while truck drivers are hundreds or thousands of miles from home, they spend precious time looking for a safe place to pull over to rest. 

Truckers consistently point to parking as one of their top pain points. For carriers, though, alleviating this problem...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/solving-the-parking-puzzle-truck-parking-clubs-win-win-approach-taking-the-hire-road

Digging into Seiza’s Annual Driver Survey Report — Taking The Hire Road

This week on Taking The Hire Road, Jeremy Reymer, founder and CEO of DriverReach, is joined by Ron Yazzetti, VP of U.S. new business sales and partnerships at Seiza (formerly Work4Labs).

Yazzetti is very familiar with the world of HR. During his work at multiple job boards over the years, he noticed a recurring trend: the demand for truck drivers. 

Around seven years ago, he took it upon himself to learn about the trucking industry, and since then, his immersion in the transportation industry has...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/digging-into-seizas-annual-driver-survey-report-taking-the-hire-road

Retention through a culture of safety — Taking the Hire Road

Jetco Delivery CEO Brian Fielkow joined DriverReach founder and CEO Jeremy Reymer on this week’s episode of Taking the Hire Road to discuss how a culture of safety plays a critical role in recruiting and retention strategies, Fielkow’s work as an author and speaker, and his new workshop Making Safety Happen.

“Safety is the linchpin and yet so many people still think of safety in terms of a department or as a safety director, as opposed to it being a way of life ingrained in every decision that...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/retention-through-a-culture-of-safety-taking-the-hire-road