Driver Recruiting Companies

What is a good independent driver recruiting company that really helps drivers find jobs?

What is a good independent driver recruiting company that really helps drivers find jobs?

They basically do the same thing you can do by fillings out apps for a lot of different companies at once. Plus they get a fee from the company that you get hired on to.

A lot of times these will be drivers trying to make extra money for there company cause companies do give drivers money for recruiting.

If you get enough drivers coming to you and wanting a job it's a matter of numbers. The more drivers you place with a company the more money the company gives them. Basically they are doing the exactly the same job a company recruiter is doing.

Yeah no reason to use recruiting companies. Just apply to every major trucking company, then call them a day or two later. Also try sitting at a truck stop near your home for a day or two and write down the companies you see often, then apply to them, and call a day or two later.

It helps with the applications if you organize your information beforehand. List out all your employment history, address history, anything related to your license such as moving violations. If you sit down for a day you can go through quite a few applications very quickly once you start because they are all the same and you will be typing stuff in faster and faster because it is repetitive.

We have an excellent listing of Truck Driving Jobs and you can even Apply For Truck Driving Jobs With One Application. You pick which ones you'd like to apply to and we'll send your application to all of them at once. Saves a ton of time!

Brett,

As a new truck driver making his bones with a little less than six months OTR , and with only dedicated experienced above and beyond that what I found were drivers who were disoriented, disgruntled about the recruiting process.

What I found were many truck driving veterans (many of which had left and found their way back to OTR) and newbies who have been beatin up with lies from truck recruiters who were staffed by the very companies that not only hired them but screwed them after they were initially hired.

Why isn't there an app that streamlines our DACs, MVRs, employment history, resume and other personal information readily available to the world for a nominal fee, so that the 3.5 million drivers in North America can make seamless changes in companies whether we are wanting to team, go solo, drive tankers, heavy haul, cattle haul or go local with intermodal?

This would literally "kill the middleman" and get us through the mud of lying recruiters, dicey companies who run drivers unsafe and since truckers have insight to most companies---- our moles are already there ie. sorta like Yelp for truckers but an app both mobile and desktop ready that could service our needs that both trucking companies can tap into as well as the truckers themselves?

After graduating from Crowder Trucking School in Neosho, MO. I was bombarded with the who's hiring scenario almost daily and the forums (yours is fantastic by the way) that i joined to self educate myself are really the only mediums out there for everyone,

Truth is there really should be an app for this, I know that you said you have jobs available on your sight but there are so many companies with 300+ fleets that are not mentioned here....yet somewhere in your forum there is a lady or gent or team working for that very carrier! so the potential for us as drivers to log, document and file real time information...thus assisting in a seamless transition and bottom line the right choice for said driver.

Thoughts?

We have an excellent listing of Truck Driving Jobs and you can even Apply For Truck Driving Jobs With One Application. You pick which ones you'd like to apply to and we'll send your application to all of them at once. Saves a ton of time!

Ok you mentioned a few slightly different ideas here so let's cover them.

Why isn't there an app that streamlines our DACs, MVRs, employment history, resume and other personal information readily available to the world for a nominal fee, so that the 3.5 million drivers in North America can make seamless changes in companies whether we are wanting to team, go solo, drive tankers, heavy haul, cattle haul or go local with intermodal?

One of the problems is that every company has its own system for doing background checks and they each have their own requirements for the information they're looking for from candidates. They also need a lot of signatures from people to access the information they need. So unlike most corporate positions where people use resumes, the trucking industry requires much more extensive information.

Another problem is that trucking companies can't hire someone until they've done an extensive and rather expensive background check. Well they're not going to do that on every applicant. They do a preliminary check where they just scan the application looking for automatic disqualifiers and if there aren't any they invite you to orientation. If you show up to orientation they will then begin the extensive and expensive background check on you. So even if companies did accept resumes and you could apply to 1,000 companies at once you still wouldn't know if you landed a job until you went to orientation and had all of the background checks, physical, drug test, and all that completed.

Now interestingly I've thought along the sames lines as you are now. Our Truck Driving Job Listings used to require that you fill out a different application for each company. Then we added a system where you could Apply For Truck Driving Jobs With One Application and it would get forwarded to as many companies as you would like at once. We've always gotten about four times as many individual job applications as we do bulk applications so most people aren't interested in bulk submissions. That really surprised me. I thought almost everyone would rather apply one time, send it everywhere, and see who offers you a job. But people don't seem to see it that way. Most would rather research companies and then apply to the specific ones they're interested in.

I know that you said you have jobs available on your sight but there are so many companies with 300+ fleets that are not mentioned here....yet somewhere in your forum there is a lady or gent or team working for that very carrier!

Well not every company will cooperate with every job board. We get job listings from a couple of different sources but naturally not every company uses those particular sources. So regardless of where you apply for jobs you're going to be limited to the companies using that particular system. I would love to be able to call every company in America and require them to accept job applications from us. Then you could apply to everyone in the country all at once.

sorta like Yelp for truckers

Ok now in this instance you seem to be referring to maybe a peer review system where drivers can give their opinions of different companies? If you've ever visited websites that allow people to say anything they like about any company out there you know that 98% of all of the reviews are just negative rants. And I know from experience that 98% of the drivers that blame their former company for their woes are actually the ones at fault, not the company itself.

The hiring process in trucking has always been the way it is now and I don't know if it will change much or not. The background checks are so extensive and the information required by each company is so specific that it's hard to get companies to standardize their application process so they can accept applications from all different sources.

I'll speak up for independent recruiters. One found me through the famous Apply For Truck Driving Jobs link.

Like the real estate agent that helps you buy a house, the independent recruiter only gets paid when you're hired. So, he's working for you!

Also, your recruiter may be in contact/familiar with several companies.

That worked for me!