retention

Show up for yourself to show up for others – Taking the Hire Road

On this week’s episode of Taking the Hire Road, guest host Leah Shaver, president and CEO of the National Transportation Institute, is joined by Eileen Dabrowski, director of learning, development and marketing at ReedTMS Logistics.

Like many within the industry, Dabrowski came to trucking with no prior experience with the work. “All I knew about trucks,” she says, “was that they are bigger than me and that they’re on the road.”

But a phone call from Jason Reed, CEO of ReedTMS, pulled...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/show-up-for-yourself-to-show-up-for-others-taking-the-hire-road

Leveraging associations and networking in tough economy – Taking the Hire Road

On this week’s episode of Taking the Hire Road, Jeremy Reymer, founder of DriverReach, is joined by Amber Edmonson, president and CEO of Trailiner Corp.

Edmonson is an industry veteran of nearly 25 years, having been with Trailiner since 1999. 

But Edmonson’s connection to trucking runs deeper than just her years of employment: Her father became an owner-operator when she was 8, and Trailiner itself was started by Edmonson’s grandfather in 1976. 

Trailiner, a long-haul refrigerated carrier from...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/leveraging-associations-and-networking-in-tough-economy-taking-the-hire-road

DriverReach rolls out driver qualification checklist – Taking the Hire Road

On this week’s episode of Taking the Hire Road, Jeremy Reymer, founder of DriverReach, is joined by Sam Bloomquist, the organization’s chief operating officer and CPO.

After decades in software development across multiple industries, Bloomquist came to both DriverReach and the trucking sector nearly seven years ago, attracted to the meaningful potential of technology adoption in the field.

In Bloomquist’s early days at DriverReach, the company focused primarily on the pressing issues of driver...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/driverreach-rolls-out-driver-qualification-checklist-taking-the-hire-road

How PSPs lead to better data-driven decisions – Taking the Hire Road

Jeremy Reymer, founder of DriverReach, is joined by a great industry friend and ally, Yvonne Glover. Glover serves as the director of operations at Tyler Technologies, an organization that builds solutions aimed at helping the public sector operate more efficiently.

About 97% of large government agencies use Tyler Technologies’ solutions, according to the company’s website. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is one of those agencies. The company was contracted to help FMCSA build...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-psps-lead-to-better-data-driven-decisions-taking-the-hire-road

Simplified rewards system designed to support driver retention

Driver turnover has been a hot topic across the logistics industry for decades. Only in recent years, however, have industry leaders gained a more comprehensive understanding of why drivers leave carriers. Despite what many people once believed, it is not all about the money. 

Tenstreet’s driver survey tool, Insights, has enabled the company to gain a more complete and nuanced understanding of why drivers choose to leave carriers. While pay often dominates the retention conversation, survey...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/simplified-rewards-system-designed-to-support-driver-retention

ACMC Smith: USMC Weighing Changes How it Recruits Marines in the Future

Marine Corps Senior Drill Instructor with Charlie Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, stands at attention before a motivational run at Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) San Diego, May 4, 2023. US Marine Corps Photo

THE PENTAGON – The Marine Corps is on track to meet its recruiting and retention goals in Fiscal Year 2023. For the rest of the year, leaders are spending the year thinking about how they can keep it up for the next 50 years as the pool of recruits becomes smaller. 

To hit that...

https://news.usni.org/2023/05/08/acmc-smith-usmc-weighing-changes-how-it-recruits-marines-in-the-future

Navy Reserve Struggling to Recruit New Sailors, Emphasizing Benefits

Chief of Navy Reserve, Commander Navy Reserve Force Vice Adm. John Mustin delivers remarks during a Naval Reserve all-hands call at the U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa and U.S. Sixth Fleet (NAVEUR/NAVAF/SIXHFLT) headquarters, Feb. 9, 2023. US Navy Photo

The Navy Reserve is emphasizing benefits from medical care to transferability of education benefits to commissary and exchange privileges to attract exiting active-duty sailors to sign up, Vice Adm. John Mustin said Wednesday.

The Navy Reserve...

https://news.usni.org/2023/03/01/navy-reserve-struggling-to-recruit-new-sailors-playing-up-benefits

Navy Fitness Assessment Reset Latest Effort in Ongoing Retention and Recruitment Drive

Sailors take pushup portion of the physical fitness assessment (PFA), May 15, 2022. US Navy Photo

Last week, the Navy announced it would hit reset on the service’s physical fitness assessments to give sailors a chance to get fit after almost three years of pandemic restrictions.

The PFA pass is the latest in a series of efforts the service has rolled out to increase recruiting and retention over the past two years, including most recently erasing failed fitness test scores for the past four...

https://news.usni.org/2023/02/21/navy-fitness-assessment-reset-latest-effort-in-ongoing-retention-and-recruitment-drive

Military Services Competing Over the Same Recruiting Pool of Less Than 500,000

Marine Corps recruits with Bravo Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, squat with a log during log drills at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Nov. 28, 2022. US Marine Corps Photo

SAN DIEGO – The Marine Corps and other service branches are competing to attract the same 412,000 eligible Americans between the ages of 17 to 24, a Marine recruiting commander said Tuesday.

There are approximately 32.8 million Americans, part of Gen Z, but when looking at those who qualify for and want military...

https://news.usni.org/2023/02/14/military-services-competing-over-the-same-recruiting-pool-of-less-than-500000

Navy Spent About $1.8 Million on Super Bowl Ads

Image from the Navy’s new ‘Never’ ad campaign.

The Navy spent approximately $1.8 million to air a commercial in 16 markets during Super Bowl Sunday.

The “Never” commercial featuring sailors talking about how they did not expect to have a career in the sea service is part of the “Forged By the Sea” ad campaign targeting the Gen-Z population that kicked off in October. Until the Super Bowl ad, the commercials were typically pushed on social media and streaming platforms.

“While most Navy advertising...

https://news.usni.org/2023/02/13/navy-spent-about-1-8-million-on-super-bowl-ads

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