a few very important topics tocover this month!

First I have to start fromthe top the members of Law En-forcement who once again putthier best foot forward to makethis years Law EnforcementTorch Run Convoy for the Spe-cial Olympics a historical suc-cess and event in Manitoba.

If you have never had theopportunity to take part in a Con-voy, in 2013, please make sureyou do!

There are several truckconvoys across NA that may benear a city to you or get your com-pany involved and get you home toyours and raise some money forthese great causes

On the heals of this comesthe picture of Rachèle Champagnefounder of the Convoys acrosssNA for a cure. Her vision to havetrucking convoys to help stamp ourCancer has become a strongreaality each October .

Dave brings to you 38 years of valuableexperience in transportation, management,business and compliance. Dave has driven inevery condition across North America andoverseas as military, police, company driver toowner operator to now Publisher Editor ofCanadian Trucking Magazine.

Rachèle Champagne hada new goal to accomplish andaccomplish this she did!

To establish a Truck Showin our Nations Capital Winnipeg,opps I meant to say Ottawa. Wpgof course being the center ofCanada. Anyways back to the Cap-ital Truck Show in Ottawa this year,first time this has been tried in 18years and it was a success!

As with all the truck showsthis year it did not have the hugecrowds you would have wanted,but the industry stood tall behindthis show and was there.

Without all the vendorsand the support and investmentthey put into these shows, wethe truckers would not havethem.

That tells you when yousee these shows in 2013, pleasegive them your support andshow up.

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Alain Deschamps and Family takes home the BFG fromthe Capital Truck Show in Ottawa !

Can’t express howhappy this makes me whensomeone like Alain wins theBFG, Moron Masher at one ofthe shows CTM attends!

First of all a hard workingfamily man who takes the time outof trucking to bring his family out insupport of our industry truck showadded a fan of our Canadian truck-ing Magazine Face Book page andloyal reader.

Now Alain will roll downthe road with a Big Front Grill onhis truck with no worries about wildlife or morons.

It is hard to explain thefeeling to anyone that has neverhad a moran masher, moosecatcher on thier truck. It is likestress is off your plate.

On my Trucks I had acow catcher on mine and I cantell you I never had that whiteknuckle feeling night driving orin fog.

Not only that, if you see mein a truck stop, stop me for coffeeand I can tell you stories where mymoran masher saved me damage,down time and expensive towingbills.

Thank-you Alain fordropping by the CTM booth inOttawa and entering the contestto win the Big Front Grill!

Thank-you too all the peo-ple who won the other great prizeswe gave away from thesource.ca tovery happy people.

If you did not win one,win by using your CTM code forone!4

TRUCK SHOWS

Want a Big Front Grilllike Alain to the left here won atthe Capital Truck Show!

Just contact BFG, givethem the code CTM100 and re-ceive $100 off the total cost(around 2,500 delivered) and youhave a stainless steel moranmasher that weighs less than 300lbs, fits right in your tow hooks andis ready for action!l Don’t leave onthe road without one!

Tara Sherman, Dave & Mylène Harvey at the Alberta Convoy for a Cure

CONVOYS

Drivers, to be a part of aConvoy rolling down the black topwith full Police escort for greatcauses like the Alberta Convoy fora Cure, you just have to be a partof this!Below these proud members of Law En-forcement dedicated thier Saturday to beout there looking out for us, as always!

Convoys are withouta doubt fun for everyone,even the spectators andriders.

I have to put a big Plug infor the RoadKing in SherwoodPark AB.

Walter has been feeding

us there at the RoadKing forover 18 years and at the Convoyagain the RoadKing provided anexcellent breakfast!

Glen and I stayed at theRoadKing as always finding it to bea complete stop for us. Greatrooms, good food and entertain-ment at night.

I am asked all the timeabout food on the road, as invalue and quality. The RoadKingis one I don’t hesitate to recom-mend. Not just because theystand behind transportation sup-porting and donating to greatcauses like the Alberta Convoyfor a Cure, but because theRoadKing facilities are clean andwelcoming to Drivers.

If you have not tried thebreakfast brunch at the Road-King, please do and let me knowwhat you think.

A big thank-you too forTara and Mylène who dedicatethier time to make the Convoyhappen. Least we can do is showup with our iron and pledges

I will keep you posted onthese Convoys and truckingevents coming at us in 2013, allyou have to do is participate.

I hope to see you there!

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A couple of the Black JackGals are in the Crossword thisMonth..

We need to give a bigThanks to BlackJacks for thier con-tinued support to the Convoy andthe excellent lunch and facilitiesthey provided.

If you have been south andheaded home, to the right is the newexemptions right from the horsesmouth!

Which brings me to an impor-tant point about this months issue! Asyou are picking this up in November Ihave included a load of content re-garding our service people.

Customs officers are ourhomeland defence, a lot of US cus-toms officers are men and womenwho have served, they and our currentserving people, Police, Fire, Rescue,Military require our thanks and re-membrance this month and every day!

Fridays please remember towear Red Shirts and on Nov 11th atthe 11th hour, you know what to do!

A Service person is some-one at some point wrote a blankcheque up and including thier lifeto protect us! They run towardsdanger as others run away!

Happy Trails,,,Dave

November 11th Remembrance Day, do not forget on the11th hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month to STOPwhat you are doing and GIVE that moment of Silence!

Well, here it is 2012, and itseems like it was just yesterdaythat I disembarked the plane in Yel-lowknife in January 1991. Wow, itwas cold, -38 Celsius, a big tem-perature drop for a boy from New-foundland. A new chapter in myjourney was about to begin in thefar north of Canada.

Now, almost 22 yearslater, with a lot of snow and iceunder the wheels, there have beenmany wrecks with fatal loss ofmany friends and coworkers.

I have learned and experi-enced a lot since that cold day inJanuary. I never thought that Iwould someday be the guy givingout advice and telling my story. Ithought Dave was crazy for askingme to submit a story, but he con-vinced me when he pointed outhow much ground I have coveredin the past twenty plus years.

Having spent 7 years inthe Arctic, I owe a debt of gratitudeto the north. That’s where I learnedwhat a truck can do, and what ef-fect cold can have on everythingaround us. That’s where I startedrecovering wrecks, pulling equip-ment from the ice and cleaning updiesel spills. I was lucky enough tohave some hard ball old buggersteaching me the ropes. Believe me,

they showed no mercy on a lot ofevents, but they taught me how towork hard, drive truck, repair it, andrecover equipment. I think today alot of the mentoring is gone now,because a lot of the people like myold friends and peers of Yellowknifeare no longer with us.

For the past 14 years, Ihave resided with my family andwork in the Edmonton area. I havemany irons in the fire with cleaningup environmental debris and mov-ing big iron around the province ofAlberta.

I am sharing some of myknowledge from experiences, withhopes that a few of these winterdriving tips can assist drivers of allclasses.1. In about the month of Oc-tober, ensure that the air tanks andfuel tanks are free of water, andthat the air dryer is working prop-erly. I prefer to change out the airdryer at least once annually andthis is a good time to do it. Keep thefuel level topped up when parkingin a shop; this will reduce conden-sation in the tanks, and keep youprepared to outlast the situation ifyou get delayed somewhere andneed to idle the engine. I alwayskeep some methyl hydrate in thetruck; it works with both the fueland air systems.

WINTER TIPS by JAMIE

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2. Store a good supply ofwinter clothing and footwear in thetruck; if the engine fails you willonly have about one hour ofwarmth on a cold day, and runningshows don’t cut it.3. Always have a good sup-ply of food and water to last a 24hour period.4. For those of you using tirechains, make sure you inspect andtest fit them before you need them.Don’t leave it until you are in a sit-uation and then discover you don’tknow how to put them on or miss-ing hardware. If you are not sure,ask someone to show you how todo it correctly. This will give you ef-ficiency in a biting cold situation.5. Keep the truck warm bykeeping the water temperature up.Use a weather front or if you don’thave one, you can improvise withcardboard. Again, if you don’t knowhow, ask someone to show you.6. Refrain from using cruisecontrol on icy or snow coveredroads; and maintain a safe roadspeed. Remember, speed is akiller, when the weather turns, backoff a little.7. Always inspect your tiresand replace as necessary on a reg-ular basis, best to replace them inthe fall rather than the summermonths.8. Keep the fifth wheelgreased and maintained; lack ofgrease can cause the truck to notrespond correctly with steering.

These are just a fewbasic tips, but these little thingsif not followed can cost you botha lot of time and money. Most ofthe road side calls I respond toare because of lack of prepara-tion and knowledge.

I hope I have been able tohelp some of you a little or morewith these few tips. I could go onforever, but we don’t have timefor a complete book on trucking,we are busy recovering and as-sisting drivers throughout ourarea.

While I continue to learnand experience the trucking indus-try, I like helping people, which iswhy I am ventured into the businessof big wreckers. No one ever wantsto need me but they are alwayshappy when I show up. Practicesafe trucking and feel welcome todrop me a line any time.

info@integrarecovery.ca

JamieIntegra Recovery

Editors Note: Thanks Jamie for yourdedication and services to the truckingindustry through your service, articlesand support for good causes! Dave

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On October 5,2012, CBSAseized morethan $250,000worth ofsteroids inHalifax, NovaScotia. CBSACriminal In-vestigationsD i v i s i o ncharged a Hal-ifax resident,

Greg Doucette, with possessing,smuggling, importing, traffickingand distributing steroids under theCustoms Act and the ControlledDrugs and Substances Act.

The investigation started afterthe steroids were intercepted in multi-ple postal seizures by border servicesofficers at the CBSA Vancouver Inter-national Mail center. The packageswere all destined for Halifax, NS. CBSAin Halifax searched the individual's res-idence, vehicle, and a storage locker allof which were located in Halifax result-ing in the seizure of $23,000 in cashand an estimated $250,000 in steroidsand steroid distribution materials.

In Lethbridge, Alberta onOctober 5, 2012, CBSA announcedthat finally Dean Barret Regehrplead guilty to Customs Act chargesof smuggling, undervaluation, andevading compliance.

` Regehr was at the Couttsborder crossing on September 4,2011 and had declared one shotgun,upon examination by CBSA officers,his vehicle had various firearmsparts which together made threecomplete rifles; additional partsseized included four rifle barrels, oneshotgun barrel, seven scope mountsand one bolt head for a rifle. Regehrwas fined $9,000 and required to for-feit all weapons and gun parts.

U.S. Border patrol agentsmade recent drug seizures that inter-cepted nearly $2 million in drugs. Thispast week border patrol agents inLaredo, Texas found three bundleswith 213 pounds of marijuana aban-doned in the brush and at the Heb-bronville Station seized bundlestotaling 729 pounds of marijuana intwo other cases. Totalling combinedstreet value is estimated at $754,480.

Another 1,542 pounds of mar-ijuana was found in a semitrailer Sept.28, 2012 by agents at the HebbronvilleStation, a check point on Farm-to-Mar-ket Road 1017 in Jim Hogg County. Adrug-sniffing dog alerted agents to-wards the back of the trailer where 81bundles of marijuana were stowed. Theestimate value of these drugs was$1,234,000.The U.S. and Canada An-nounce Pilot to Enhance Border Secu-rity at Land Ports of Entry

Steroids, Guns, Drugs, what’s next?By: Dawn Truell, President,

Cross Border Services

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U.S. Department of Home-land Security and the Canada BorderServices Agency announced that ef-fective September 30, 2012, bothagencies will begin the Phase I pilotof the Entry/Exit program as outlinedin the Beyond the Border Action Plan.Routine biographic information willbe collected between September 30,2012 and January 31, 2013. BeginningOctober 15, 2012, both agencies willbegin exchanging this information torecord entry into one country so thatit becomes a record of exit from theother country. The pilot will not affectregular port operations in any way. “Thesharing of entry and exit information willfacilitate the legitimate flow of traffic be-tween the U.S. and Canada whilestrengthening border security,” said U.S.Customs and Border Protection DeputyCommissioner, David V. Aguilar. “As out-lined in the Beyond the Border ActionPlan, our governments are committed tomaintaining the integrity of our sharedborder,” said Minister Toews. “This shar-ing of entry and exit information will playa key part in bolstering border security.”Under the pilot, the Department ofHomeland Security and Canada Bor-der Services Agency will exchangeroutinely collected data of third-coun-try nationals (those who are neithercitizens of Canada nor the UnitedStates), permanent residents ofCanada and lawful permanent resi-dents of the United States at the fol-lowing four ports of entry: • Pacific Highway, Blaine,Washington / Pacific Highway, BritishColumbia; • Peace Arch, Blaine, Wash-ington / Douglas (Peace Arch), BritishColumbia;

• L ew i s t o n -Qu e e n s t o nBridge, Lewiston, New York / Queen-ston-Lewiston Bridge, Ontario; and • Rainbow Bridge, NiagaraFalls, New York / Niagara Falls Rain-bow Bridge, Niagara Falls, Ontario.

A coordinated entry/exitsystem will help the U.S. andCanada identify persons who poten-tially overstay their lawful period ofadmission; better monitor the depar-ture of persons subject to removalorders; and verify that residency re-quirements are being met by appli-cants for continued eligibility inimmigration programs. The processof sharing personal information willbe done in accordance with eachcountry’s privacy laws and policies.It will also be consistent with the Be-yond the Border Action Plan JointStatement of Privacy Principles anda Letter of Intent agreed to by theDepartment of Homeland Securityand the Canada Border ServicesAgency.

For further information on aid-ing in the fight against smug-gling, terrorism, C-TPAT, FAST,PIP please contact;Dawn Truell, President, Cross Border Services,at: www.c-tpat-certified.com dawntruell@c-tpat-certified.com.

Note from Dave here, if you seesuspicious activity, persons askingyou for a ride acrosss the border inyour truck, a loose lipped drivertalking about smuggling loads ofdrugs or weapons, do us all afavour and contact authorities. Tryto get as much information as pos-sible without becoming involvedand shut these bad guys down!BORDER WATCH CALL1.888.502.9060

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John’s secret weapon for on time delivery and millionsof miles of safe driving is Tekas his team driver.

Tekas I amsure wouldrather behome drivingthe tractorbut someoneneeds tomove theloads.

If you see John &Tekas out there,be sure to say Hi,and I bet he has acurrent copy ofCTM if you askhim.

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If you have driven anyamount of time at all, you will havehad a load that just seemed like itwas the load from hell. It is the onethat nothing you did could satisfythe broker, the dispatcher, the ship-per/receiver or everything fell apart.Perhaps it was one where you wereinjured, or had to load or unload it inhot weather or freezing cold. Manythings can happen that make a loada bad one; one thing for sure, thosetypes of loads stick in one’s mem-ory forever.

I ran into adriver severalyears ago thathad stitchesacross a longwound sur-rounded byswelling andbruises on hisface. Askinghim what had

happened, he related his load from hellstory. “I picked up a loaded trailer at ashipper. I found a flat tire and wiringproblems doing my pre-trip,” he said. “Ispent 4 hours in the shop right at thestart. Then before I left the truck stop, Iscaled the load. I was over on the trailertandems. When I tried to slide mytandems, the pins would not pull. Cometo find out, one of the springs on the pinassembly was broken, so back to theshop for another hour or two. I finally gotto the receiver and went to open thedoors. As I opened the handle, it stuckand when I tugged on it, the whole thingflew off and hit me in the face!”

A past employer used to like totake off on a run to the North West onceor twice a year. He and his wife went outtaking a new truck and flatbed with allnew equipment, took the scenic routesand reloaded a load of orchard stakes forthe return run. Now he had been pulling

flatbeds for over 30 years, but he forgotthe important thing about hauling stakes;you have to put a little extra dunnageunder the front of the front bundle andthe rear of the rear bundle or else theywill ‘walk’. (Walking is where the stakesor lumber/pipe move to the front or rearof the bundle they are in.) He pulled intothe tire shop and was cussing that load.I went around looking to see what hadhappened.

To try to stop the walking of theorchard stakes, he had put on brand newlumber tarps. It did not work. Every stakeon the front and rear bundles had holedthe tarps and were sticking through afoot or two. So adding injury to insult, hehad to replace the tarps…of course; I didnot give him a hard time about it all…much.

Some loads from hell gainhumor with the passage of time. About 20or so years ago, my co-driver and Ipicked up a load of oranges in Californiagoing to up-state New York. On the way,we broke a transmission line and had togo to the shop. As this was before cellphones and qual-coms, I called the bro-ker and then the receiver telling themboth of the problem from a pay phone. Iknew there was going to be a little bit ofproblem with the receiver when he calledme a lying b-word about being brokendown.

My co-driver and I hustled aftergetting the line fixed and got to the re-ceiver only an hour late. The receiver wasa little short balding man who ran fromhis office as we got onto the dock tocheck in. He was waving a pistol aroundas he yelled at us! To say I was scared isan understatement. My co-driver got himcalmed down and we proceeded to fin-

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Loads from Hell

BySandyLong

gerprint the load off the trailer and left.When we called the broker to report inempty, he told us that no one would goto that receiver’s twice and laughed.

About 5 hours later, we weredispatched to go to a neighboring townto pick up a load of salvage oranges totake to the Huntspoint Market auction fordelivery the next morning for the samebroker that we had just hauled the loadthat we had just delivered. We went tothe shipper’s and backed into the dock. Istayed in the truck doing paperwork asmy co-driver went into the shipping of-fice to take care of the bills of lading aswe were loaded. As we had been backingin, we had noticed a truck from the ear-lier receiver pull in and back into thedock next to us; we did not give it muchthought.

We got loaded and hit the Mar-ket on time and the auctioneers wereselling the oranges as they were pulledoff our trailer. When we got empty and allthe oranges were sold, we left and founda phone to call the broker that we wereempty. He asked us what had happenedthe day before at the shippers. When wesaid nothing, and asked why, he replied,“The guy you brought the load to in thatmorning said you stole a load of orangeshis truck had delivered to where youwere loading.”

The upshot of the story wasthat as the shipper’s forklift driver wasunloading the receiver’s truck, the per-son loading us had grabbed the wrongoranges and loaded them on us. We hadtaken good oranges to the salvage auc-tion and cost the jerk with the gun a sale!It was not our fault though we sweated itfor a while, but the broker and the ship-per got it straightened out. I can laughabout the whole thing now, but it was a

definite load from hell that remains freshin my memory.

Loads from hell are a part ofour lives as truckers and one neverknows when a load like that will show up.It just goes to show that trucking is not ajob it is an adventure.

Ya’ll be safe and I wish you peaceand some serenity in your busy lives

(www.facebook.com/theoneandonlytv),email(trkrsvoice@thetruckersvoice.net), ortwitter (@trkingsantas).“

Do not cuss a trucker or a farmerwith your mouth full!Street Smarts: A Guide to a Truck Dri-ver's Personal SafetyArriving Alive: personal safety, drivingand sharing the road with semis tipsJust a Lady Driver blogSandy Long's Faire personal websiteSandy Long @ FacebookTrailerTruckinTechLife member OOIDAWomen In Trucking AssociationNOTE FROM DAVE;As a retired Policeman so many times Ihave witnessed victims at truck stops,they are dark, populated and high traffic.Perfect for crime, please never let yourguard down, think safety!

Also any place close to theMexican border lock your trailer, or youmay open it up to a surprise cargo!

Next year, three Canadianswill be rolling out on the road with ahuge national exhibition honouringthe service and sacrifice of ourcountry’s fallen heroes from theAfghanistan War.

Project Heroes artistsSusan Abma, Shairl Honey andCindy Revell are creating profes-sional oil portraits of each of thefallen. They interview the soldiers’families and from family photo-graphs they create images that areexpressive and reflective of theircharacters.

From the interviews, theyare writing stories and includingmore family photos, videos andmemorabilia that will help ‘intro-duce’ Canadians to the people be-hind the uniforms. These will beshared on individual touch screensthat create an interactive way tolearn about the heroes.

Three wall-sized paintingshelp complete the story of all whosacrifice as a result of war. Onecommemorates the wounded, oneremembers our serving soldiers andveterans, and one honours the fam-ilies of soldiers.

Everyone involved withProject Heroes (non-profit), includ-ing the artists, is on a volunteerbasis.

The artists work full-timedaily in a studio space the militaryhas donated in the Philip Debney Ar-

moury in Edmonton, Alberta. Theyeach do their own work before andafter hours, which means an overlyfull schedule, but they believe thatremembering these soldiers in suchan impactful and enduring way is es-sential and that is what drives them.The parents and spouses of the sol-diers will all receive free prints of theportraits when the project is com-plete. After the exhibition toursCanada, the artists will donate theoriginals to a Canadian collection,possibly with the Canadian War Mu-seum or the Military.

They hope it will be used forgenerations to come to tell ‘thewhole story’ of the Afghanistan War– those who fought and died, thosewho suffered with physical or men-tal wounds, those who served in thepast or are still serving, and thosewho waited at home for soldiers,some of whom never returned.

If you want to help withProject Heroes, some of the immedi-ate needs include: corporate spon-sorship, a shipper who canaccommodate a huge exhibition thatwill travel for several years, volun-teers to perform a variety of tasks in-cluding data input, experts in digitaltechnology, assisting with phonecalls, assisting in studio, etc.

ou can reach them atinfo@projectheroes.ca. Visit thewebsite atwww.projectheroes.ca.

PROJECT HEROS

From left to right, the artists Susan Abma, Cindy Revell and Shairl Honey

Big Thank-you to T and all thier helpers that came out for theAlberta Convoy fo

Tara and Mylène and all the people e

or a Cure 2012

Thanks again to LE who dedicated thier time

THEY RUN TOWARDS DAN FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THE

to make the Convoy Safe and smooth running!

GER AS OTHERS RUN AWAY! EM IF YOU DON’T STAND BEHIND THEM!

SEE EVERYONENEXT YEAR FORTHE2013ALBERTA CONVOY FOR A CURE!

I’ve askedseveral carri-ers how busi-ness is goingand the stan-dard answerI’m gettingfrom non-flatbed carri-ers is, “We’llhave a couple

of good weeks and we think‘here it goes’ and then the thirdweek is dead.” They go on tosay they are receiving increasedrequests for rate quotes. How-ever, substantial downwardpressure remains on freightrates.

A couple of people havetold me they are still skepticalabout the turnaround and theybelieve things are getting betterwhen we have three good weeksin a row. My answer to them is:think back two months agowhen you didn’t have two goodweeks in a row. I believe theeconomy is bouncing on thebottom as evidenced by thegood weeks we’re having fol-lowed by bad weeks. This is astart to steady improvement.

I just received theWeekly Economic Recap fromthe ATA. Bob Costello, ATAChief Economist, reports thatdurable goods are up and theFed held the rates steady. Capi-tal Goods orders increased attheir fastest rate since Septem-ber of 2004. The ManufacturedDurable Good orders increased1.8% in May, which matchedApril’s gain, which is the third

gain in the last four months.Wachovia and Global In-

sight analysts both predict aneconomic turnaround by latesummer or at the latest thefourth quarter of this year.Given the conservative nature ofthe Wachovia Analysts, thisgives me quite a bit of hope.

Several carriers have re-ported to me that driver turnoveris starting to ease back up. Fur-thermore, although they con-tinue to get a large number ofapplications, the quality hasgone from very good to about50/50 good vs. bad.

Dale Reagan, Vice Presi-dent at Tenstreet (in my opinion- the absolute best driver appli-cation software system in the in-dustry), monitors the number ofconsumer reports being orderedas an indicator of carrier hiringactivity. Dale told me last weekthat he has seen a substantial in-crease in the number of reportsbeing ordered. I see three rea-sons for the increase in orderedreports: Increased Turnover;Fleet’s growing their fleets; andas Chris Anderson, Vice Presi-dent of MCT, told me, they wereordering more consumer reportsbecause they had to processmore applications to find thedrivers he wanted to contractdue to reduced driver applicantquality.

Jay Wommack, Presi-dent of Vertical Alliance Group(BubbaJunk.com, Truck-ertrucker.com, and1099trucker.com) and Brian

Gentleman Start Your Engines – Recruiting and Retention are Gearing UpBy Kelly Anderson

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Thomforde, President of Truck-Driver.com have both had multi-ple unsolicited carriers’ callrequesting internet advertising.

Ken Schaffer of Pocket-Card Networks has also re-ceived several calls fromcarriers wanting to start their ad-vertising in preparation for laterthis year.

Scott Shaver of Recruit-ing Edge, USA, which provides3rd party recruiting services,has received calls from 3 carri-ers asking him to start recruitingfor their companies.

Based on the conversa-tions above and the economicreports I am very optimistic theeconomy is starting to improveand will continue to improve.With it we will see a significantspike in turnover as driverssearch for greener pastures andcarriers start filling idled equip-ment.

We are facing severalchallenges. First is the decisionof when to start our advertisingcampaigns. Second is commu-nicating with our driver fleets toimpress on them that they are inthe greenest pastures to controlyour turnover. Finally, to moti-vate our recruiters to get back toaggressively recruiting again.

With regard to the lastpoint, I believe recruiters havebecome complacent as they’vehad an over-abundance of highquality drivers calling and ask-ing for a job. Moreover, you did-n’t have to process theapplication quickly because the

driver wasn’t going anywhere.One Vice President told me hehad over 100 of the highest qual-ity drivers he’s ever seen on awaiting list. I believe that list willevaporate once carriers start hir-ing.

I believe we are about toenter the toughest recruiting en-vironment we’ve ever seen dueto an incredible driver shortagecaused by drivers that have leftthe industry, drivers leaving dueto their age, and CSA 2010. Thecarriers with the drivers will win.To get the drivers they will haveto get their recruiters fired upagain to compete in this everchanging industry.

Kelly has worked in thetransportation industry for thepast 27 years. He has held manypositions including Federal LawEnforcement Officer, Profes-sional Driver, Driver Trainer,Driver Recruiter, Safety Supervi-sor, and Safety Manager over arecruiting department for a 1,720truck fleet. Using these experi-ences, Kelly founded Impact inJanuary 1998.

http://www.impacttrans.com/WATS - 888.429.3445Local - 417.451.0853Fax - 417.451.609813693 Middle Grove LaneNeosho, MO 64850

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