Practical Tips and Tools for the Trucking Industry

There is a pressing need for fleets to focus on recruiting and retention strategies.

Today's fleets turn over 22.1 per cent of their drivers every year, according to Canada's Driving Force Phase 2. Most of the newly licensed drivers who stay in the industry for more than a year will also change employers at least once in their first five years on the job. To compound matters it costs on average from $6,000 to $10,000 to train and replace an experienced driver. Almost half of fleets surveyed in 2006 have admitted that a lack of personnel forced them to idle equipment in the previous six months and 60 per cent of fleets cite a shortage of drivers as one of the top two concerns facing their organizations.

Now, the trucking industry has access to a new set of tools that can effectively guide their efforts to retain and keep professional drivers. Your Guide to Human Resources has been unveiled along with Human Resources Essentials, a related three-hour interactive seminar that will be hosted across Canada. Both offer practical answers to recruiting and retention issues that happen every day and is for the person who wears many hats in an organization.

The content of the guide and seminar addresses topics such as:

• the way driver turnover affects profitability;
• the importance of "fit" when recruiting drivers;
• effective recruiting strategies for hiring the right people, the first time;
• and, how to incorporate driver retention strategies.

Each guide also includes a CD "toolbox" packed full of checklists and sample HR forms that can be customized for use in any fleet, while practical application of the lessons are explained through stories that involve a fictitious company known as ACME trucking.

Human Resources Essentials seminars are being offered in conjunction with provincial and regional hosts. The seminar is $150 + taxes and includes a copy of Your Guide to Human Resources: Practical Tips and Tools for the Trucking Industry.

To order Your Guide to Human Resources: Practical Tips and Tools for the Trucking Industry from CTHRC today click here.

Reccommended Retail Price for the guide is $75 + taxes and shipping