FU·005 · Book · 33 pages
The Right Seat
The Make-or-Break Guide to Hiring Your First Driver, and Building Them Into Your Business Partner.
The day you put someone in the seat is the day your company is won or lost.
About the book
What it's about
In brief: your first driver can make or break the company. The book shows where to find the right driver (start local), how to read a record and a job-hopping pattern, how to interview, and why the real goal is to build a partner through a developmental program, clear systems and a path from driver to owner to broker.
Most trucking companies are won or lost on one day, and it isn't the day you get your authority or buy the truck. It's the day you put a human being in the seat. This book is for the new carrier, the broker, the dispatcher, the investor who just bought a truck and the owner-operator deciding whether to add a second driver.
It shows where the right driver is, how to read the record, what the job-hopper pattern predicts and how to interview without an interview. Then it goes further: stop hiring a driver and build a partner, through a Driver Developmental Program, clear direction and systems, and a path from driver to owner to broker.
What you'll learn
Five things to take away
- Why your first driver is the highest-stakes decision you'll make
- Where to look for the right driver, starting local
- How to read a driver's record and what a pattern of short stays predicts
- How to build a driver into a partner with a developmental program
- How to end the tension between owners and drivers and raise the ceiling together
Inside
Chapter highlights
Who your driver really is.
The grass-is-greener trap.
Where the right driver is.
What six-months-and-gone really predicts.
Building a partner, not filling a seat.
Raising the ceiling together.
Built into Freight University
Keep the carrier alive and growing.
Freight University's asset-based and business-model training treat the driver as part of the circle, not a cost to cut. Hiring well, keeping people and growing them is taught as how a trucking company stays alive and adds trucks, because the company only grows as far as the people in its seats.
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FAQ
Questions about this book
Who should read The Right Seat?
Anyone about to put a driver in a truck they're responsible for: new carriers, investors who own a truck, owner-operators adding a second driver, brokers and dispatchers.
Does it cover background checks?
Yes. Reading the Record covers what to check, and The Job-Hopper Pattern covers what a driver's movement history tells you.
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