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Drivers' shortage - USA - How Recruiters Can Put The Brakes On High Trucker Turnover
Study Reveals
New York,NY,USA -ERE Media -2 Aug 2006: -- Recruiting and retaining good truck drivers has long been a challenge for the trucking industry, where employee turnover rates average near 30 percent... Yet while trucking company recruiters and HR teams have made their recruitment pitches more attractive and their retention policies more effective, serious challenges persist. Now, a new study by management researches at the University of Arkansas reveals that a combination of poor working conditions and lingering pay issues explains why so many promising truckers put the brakes on their work for good... Technology is another issue that will continue to influence turnover, Gupta says. Depending on how they are used, computers in tractors could affect turnover in either direction. If they are used only as a tool to monitor and control drivers, quit rates could increase. But many companies provide computers to increase communication between drivers and dispatchers and, perhaps more importantly, between drivers and their family members. When used in this manner, the researchers suggest, on-board computers may serve as tools for recruiting and retaining good drivers...
posted by Unknown @ 4:29 PM
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one more thing is otr truck driver has to have at least $700.00 take home paycheck guaranteed so we dont have to worry if the freight is slow or the planner has some favoritsm or were not getting more miles etc etc....
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