Want more responses to your driver surveys? Offer rewards points!

To tackle driver retention, many carriers use feedback surveys to learn directly from drivers about their pain points with the company. The surveys, naturally, become more valuable as more individuals complete them, providing additional data to analyze. Sometimes though, sending another reminder to complete a survey just isn’t enough to convince a driver to take […]

Stay Metrics Data Shows Driver Retention Issues Differ For Women And Men

When recruiting new drivers or focusing on your current fleet, there is a need to understand at a macro level what results in driver satisfaction and commitment. Should you focus efforts on pay, routes, dispatcher relationships, or elsewhere? Are there certain demographics that you are especially interested in learning about? Understanding what drivers are satisfied […]

Introducing Insights: Helping You Improve Driver Engagement & Retention

You and your team dedicate enormous amounts of time and money to driver recruitment in advertising, onboarding, training, and hiring. When drivers then leave shortly after starting, it hurts not knowing the reason or what you could have done to prevent it. It also bruises your budget to start all over again in filling that […]

Stay Metrics’ Driver Turnover & Retention Update: Q1 2021

Stay Metrics, now a part of Tenstreet, is excited to provide additional insights into trends we are seeing through our data. Each quarter, we will share updated retention and turnover data, along with insights from our team of experts. This will be featured in two ways, through our Stay Days Table and our Driver Turnover […]

Intervention Platform Bolstered By Turnover Risk Identification Functionality

Stay Metrics (acquired by Tenstreet) recently updated its existing Interventions platform, providing carriers with more opportunities to head off driver turnover. Through its onboarding surveys, Stay Metrics has been providing clients with insights into which new drivers may be at risk of leaving. In the past, this has been done by identifying drivers based on […]

Pulse In-App Messaging Captures Drivers’ Attention, Wins More Hires

Texting is a driver recruiter’s dream. With obvious advantages over email (e.g. a more intimate way to connect, a higher open rate, and a higher and faster response rate), text messaging has made a major shift in the way businesses communicate with us and has proved an effective strategy to get candidates hired over traditional […]

3 Tips For Addressing Work-Life Balance For Drivers

One of the key components of many of Stay Metrics’ (acquired by Tenstreet) retention product offerings is the ability to see how you are doing compared to aggregated client data from our database, on a variety of survey questions asked of drivers. These “Community Ranks” are broken down into quintiles that divide carriers into five […]

5 Tips To Improve Truck Driver Retention

Truck driver retention is constantly on the minds of many trucking carrier executives. Outside factors like the economy, the current COVID pandemic and driver availability will impact the truck driver turnover rate and a carrier’s ability to retain drivers. Still, there are a number of factors within your control as well. While driver pay is […]

How to Improve Driver Performance through Targeted Training

“If you don’t have your house in order, they’re going to come after you. It all depends on prevention and what safety practices you have within your companies.” This statement, made by Mehdi Arradizadeh, vice president of safety and risk management for Anderson Trucking Service in a recent HDT article on how fleets can address […]