* Pennsylvania - Fastport’s military veteran-hiring effort expands to retention
-- Fastport Inc., a job placement service active in an industry effort to hire military veterans for driver positions, has embarked on a retention campaign, says Jim Ray, a co-founder and member of an old-line trucking family... Fastport now has 12 top fleets that participate in its veteran-hiring work, and Ray wants 50 more trucking companies to be part of the retention effort... Hiring veterans remains a top goal because of the current driver shortage... Ray said Fastport has partnered with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Hiring Our Heroes program to create a Trucking Track Mentoring Program that maintains contact with vets after they are hired... Five thousands such contacts have been made through participating trucking companies, and Fastport has processed 15,000 on-line “quick” applications for employment... The American Trucking Associations and the Truckload Carriers Association together have pledged to hire 150,000 veterans for trucking jobs over a two-year period. And the Owner Operator-Independent Drivers Association "provided great educational material for those veterans that want to someday become entrepreneurs" ... As part of its hiring program, Fastport is building a data base of available jobs, qualifying applicants before they apply, then putting them in direct touch with prospective employers. The effort is complicated because so many trucking firms are small and medium-size fleets that are not represented by any recognized organizations...
(Photo: Fastport - Service men and women who are transitioning to civilian life attending a "hiring fair" at Fort Drum, New York) -- Philadelphia, - Truckinginfo, by Tom Berg - October 18, 2015Labels: drivers' shortage solutions
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