How Steve Uses Cloud Recruiting with Safety as a Service

Steve explains how he uses Safety as a Service and Gary's Job Board to hire and manage his drivers.





Imagine being able to carefully screen and select your team of drivers without spending a dime on advertising,

Keep driver training current and driver compliance paperwork up to date, tracking those requirements and much more with 21st century technologies. Developing driver loyalty at the same time.

Now, imagine doing it from the comfort of your office.

Safety as a Service delivers that and a lot more…and…does it all for less than the cost of a single help wanted ad

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Dangers of road rage and technology

A woman in Florida was being tailgated by an aggressive driver in a pick up, so she decided to take out her cell to get the incident on video.   When the road rager decided to pass her he gave her the bird and then lost control of his vehicle then crashed into a ditch taking out a light pole in the process.  Talk about instant gratification, but the woman filming the whole incident could have just as easily been the one who lost control and crashed.  Remember that two wrongs do not make a right.

As professional drivers, we see road rage directed at us and other drivers frequently.  We need to remember that we are professional drivers, and should act accordingly.  Neither the driver in the video below is a professional driver, and it shows.  If another driver is tailgating you or has harsh words for your mother its better to ignore them than to get back at them.  Do not pull out your phone and start making a YouTube video while driving.  The risks of causing an accident do not out weigh the benefits of getting 4 million views on YouTube in one day.  Remember the bigger picture and please drive safe.

Crikey! Gary is the Driver Hunter

Find A Driver Form

Gary's Job Board-Sample

This is a sample of the email that we send to drivers on our list.  The links below do not go anywhere.  Call Eric Haney at CDL College, 303-367-1030, if you are a driver or a carrier that would like to participate in the program. Keystone Ski Resort is in need of several CDL Drivers Experience of a Lifetime. More than just our mission, these words describe our unique and iconic resorts and the people who share a desire to achieve and experience excellence.  One of our core values is providing an exceptional experience to our guests and to our employees.  Must have a current CDL Class B (or A) with P2 Endorsement and airbrakes- required. More........  10 CDL Class A Drivers; local, OverTime! Hurry!!!!!!  Dear Gary, I am looking to locate about 10 drivers for full time positions out of Fort Lupton, Colorado. This is a huge opportunity to make overtime, and to have a local position that allows individuals to be home every night. All resumes must be received within the next 24 hours and individuals need to be able to interview on Friday Feb 7th. Additionally, all candidates must be able to pass a drug test and background check. Thank you so much for your help! We need to bypass Rob and Gary on this one. Go directly to the source. Please send them tonewtons@enscicon.com Regional/Multi-State OTR Drivers Needed  Hi Gary, Thank you for all of your help with getting our OTR driver position posted with your school. I have attached the flier that I have created for the position. Please let me know if you need anything further. Thank you, Katie  Click Here for more information Local Class A Job. Hi Gary, Ahern Rentals is looking for a Class A CDL driver to unload, load and transport general rental and high reach equipment from work sites and other branch locations. Thanks, Mark Click Here for more information Local Class A Job. Dear Gary, Looking to hire a Class A CDL driver to drive tractor trailer on 2 local routes to pick up heavy freight. Must have CDL! Must be able to lift at least 50lbs on a consistant basis. Must be at least 25. Competetive wages paid by the hour bi weekly. Shift is approximately 2-8pm Monday -Friday Must be reliable! More Information is Here

North Dakota Oil Field Truck Drivers

This is a great piece from the New York Times chronicling the life of a female truck driver in the oil fields of North Dakota. What a hard life for her? The things we do to make it in America today.

Thank god for the trucking and oil industries. They are replacing the manufacturing economy that we used to know. The difficulty of the work is comparable. At least we still have the opportunity to hustle and break our backs for a decent living.

http://nyti.ms/1aiYpeL

Driver Instructions for Safety as a Service.com

Print this guide and give it to your driver. It will walk them through signing in and taking the courses.

1. Go to www.safetyasaservice.com

2. Login with the E-Mail and Password supplied by your company. Your company might not have known your email address when they signed you up. Your personal email address may not work. Make sure you get the email address from the company. You can change it to your personal email address after you sign in.

3.  You will end up at the overview page after you sign in. You will see the courses assigned to you. Click "View".

4. The course will open in a new window. The Overview Page will still be in it's existing window. Make sure to leave the over page open while you watch the course.

5. Watch the course all of the way through. Take all of the quizzes. Close the window when you are complete.

6. Closing the course window after completing the class triggers the Overview Page (that you left open). This action will tell the system your status.

 7. The main trouble shooting step is with your company. Get with the person that assigned you the course they can help you trouble shoot any logging-in errors. Logging-in errors are usually a mis-typed email address.

Driver Recruiting-Let Your Next Driver Find You

Your Safety as a Service subscription comes with a cool new feature-drivers. You always had the ability to provide your driver's with online training, an online employment application and a driver management portal. Now you can find drivers too. 

Here's how it works. 

Check out the Driver Recruiting page from your portal.

In the past you could obtain the link to your employment application and place it on your website or craigslist. The driver's application would be delivered to your portal.  

Now we have started a Driver Match Making service. Fill out a Job Profile from the same Driver Recruiting tab.

The Job Profile will tell us the type and number of drivers that you are looking for. 

The Job Profile triggers our recruiter's into action.  They will find a driver that meets your requirements. 

Driver Recruiting is one of the services that we offer at  http://safetyasaservice.com. 

Let us know if you have any questions. 

Let Your Next Job Find You

We are asking your permission.

You gave us your trust once, now we are asking for your permission again. You were either a student of CDL College, took our online courses, or filled out a driver profile from one of our web sites.

We are creating a new service for our corporate customers, who are currently having a hard time finding and hiring drivers.

We thought, how can we help carriers AND our drivers?

We know thousands of CDL drivers. Let's create a system to connect the two!

Our Decision

1. Invite all of the drivers whom we know to fill out a Driver Profile.
2. Invite all of the carriers whom we know to send us a Job Profile when they are looking for drivers.

We already contacted all the carriers we know and the response has been overwhelming. We did not want to breach your trust or overwhelm you with a stream of calls. So, this is what we put together. With that in mind, we decided that the process should be:

1. The carriers will send us a Job Profile and we will cross examine their requirements against your Driver Profile.
2. We'll send you an email with the details when we find a match.
3. You can let us know if you are interested by filling out the carriers employment application.
4. Finally, the two of you will meet and decide on the outcome from there.

What you need to do

1. Fill out the Driver Profile at drivemytruck.com
2. Wait for us to send you job leads.

It will be beneficial to fill out the Driver Profile whether or not you are looking for a job. We will earmark your profile as either: "actively looking," "passively looking," or "I need a job NOW". Let us know when your situation changes so we can put you into the correct category.

Our Hope

We hope the service proves beneficial to both parties.

But I hate junk mail too; please unsubscribe below if our offers do not interest you.

Remember

Fill out the Driver Profile at drivemytruck.com. The profile is the only way for us to connect you with our employer list.

Extreme Trucking - The New "Hours of Service" Rule

Extreme Trucking - The New "Hours of Service" Rule
The new "Hours of Service" rules went into effect on July 1, 2013. Why? It is an attempt by the FMCSA to make the roads safer by regulating a driver's time off.

Drivers can no longer work 82 hours per week. Is that such a bad thing? What other industry asks a worker to put in 82 hours? Or even 70 hours, our new limit. We can debate the issue at a later date.
Let's simplify the rule. What exactly do they mean by:

" A driver may not take an off-duty period allowed by paragraph (c) of this section to restart the calculation of 60 hours in 7 consecutive days, or 70 hours in 8 consecutive days, until 168 or more consecutive hours have passed since the beginning of the last such off-duty period. When a driver takes more than one off-duty period of 34 or more consecutive hours within a period of 168 consecutive hours, he or she must indicate in the Remarks section of the record of duty status which such off-duty period is being used to restart the calculation of 60 hours in 7 consecutive days or 70 hours in 8 consecutive days."

Do you remember the last rule change? The most difficult thing to understand was the limit of 14 hours in a day. That meant working 14 consecutive hours. If we started work at 7 a.m. we were not allowed to work past 9 p.m. Once we started our day, we could no longer make changes to our log book that would allow us to work later than 9 p.m. That was a big change. Previous to the change, we had plenty of ways to adjust the book. The "14 hour limit" put a stop to that.

The new 34 hour restart is similar. One week is 168 hours. This Monday to next Monday equals exactly 168 hours. You are not allowed to work more than 70 hours during that time, and you cannot work again until you have taken 34 hours off.

You may take two-34 hour breaks per week, but if you do it will not help you to exceed 70 hours for that week.

There is no more fiddling with the log book and giving yourself as many restarts as you wish. Get used to it. Drivers need to start thinking of their work like everyone else does. Work 5, or even 6 days per week, but take some time for yourself at the end of it. Recharge before you start again, everybody else does.

Trucking companies are worried that the FMCSA will upset their routines, but I have a sneaking feeling that the new rules will lead to better driver retention. We can address that at another time.