Truck driver availability starting to improve
The latest release of ACT Research’s For-Hire Trucking Index, with October data, showed a decrease in volumes, pricing, and productivity, with capacity up slightly and with a lower but still-healthy supply-demand balance. The ACT For-Hire Trucking Index is a monthly survey of for-hire trucking service providers. ACT Research converts responses into diffusion indexes, where the
Talking technology accessibility for truck drivers, fleet managers
It’s easy to broad brush technology and make it sound like things just happen instantly. But they don’t. The reality is that platform integrations can take a while (years, in some cases) and multiple log-ins are a daily business reality. My stomach drops every time I open a website that asks me for my username
Three ways truck technology can tackle seasonal challenges, driver shortages
While the U.S. driver shortage has plagued the transportation industry for years, ongoing pandemic-induced global supply chain disruptions, compounded by the ecommerce boom and an increasingly aging trucker population, has exacerbated this issue to now crisis levels. In fact, the American Trucking Association estimates the truck driver shortage could grow to 100,000 by 2023, an
Dealing with truck driver difficulties: Three takeaways from ATA MCE 2021
The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) set the tone for ATA MCE’s 2021 show when it announced that driver issues, including recruitment, retention and compensation, topped its annual survey of trucking industry issues for the fifth straight year. While that likely comes as no surprise, there was a feeling of restlessness around truck driver challenges
Truck driver shortage tops ATRI’s list of industry concerns, again
Driver-related issues dominated the Top Industry Issues report, recently released by the American Transportation Research Institute, a trucking industry not-for-profit research organization. This annual report identifies the industry’s key concerns, and the top five issues for 2021 were as follows: Driver shortage Driver retention Driver compensation Lawsuit abuse reform Lack of available truck parking More
How Hendrickson works with OEMs to deliver hard-working, driver-friendly suspensions
The best truck equipment solutions aren’t created in a vacuum. Relationships are everything in the trucking business, and that’s true when talking about OEMs and suppliers. Take the newly unveiled Western Star X-Series trucks, for example. The 49X and the 47X–purpose-built from the ground up to tackle the toughest vocational tasks. The field work for
The important thing truck drivers need to know about ADAS
In the world of ADAS, the way one system works in one truck could be subtly different from the way it works in another one. It all comes down to equipment and system integrations. Click here to watch more of FE’s On the Road video series. Here is a transcript of the video: Every piece
The keys to recruiting and retaining drivers
Talk to any fleet, any small trucking company, or even the drivers themselves and ask them to identify the biggest problem facing the trucking industry. Chances are they’ll tell you it’s driver retention and recruitment. The American Trucking Association reported a shortage of 50,000 drivers just two years ago, and that number is expected to
DriverReach, JOBehaviors announce driver recruiting app integration
DriverReach, a maker of recruiting and retention management software, has integrated with JOBehaviors, a provider of assessment tools and analytics that help identify the best driver candidates. “The combination of the DriverReach Recruiting and Compliance Management System and the JOBehaviors assessment and analytics solution will make the process of hiring truck drivers more efficient for our
Podcast: Driver training, retaining and the trucking industry’s ‘oral tradition’
The driver shortage is always a hot topic, and recruiting is only one piece of that; retaining is another. One overlooked aspect of retaining is in training—after all, the training process is the first impression drivers have of your company. To discuss this topic, today’s guest is Jane Jazrawy, co-founder of CarriersEdge. Jane talked about
