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From the middle of the pandemic to today, the trucking industry has cooled down on its hiring. According to the jobs report released this month (March 2023), trucking companies have lost 22,000 jobs. Why? What happened in the industry?

At the end of January, job openings decreased slightly to 10.8 million, and hires marginally increased to 6.4 million, from the 6.2 million in December. The quit rate fell minimally again to 3.9 million, and layoffs and discharges increased to 1.7 million.

It is important to remember that open and honest communication must be the foundation of any plan to use quiet hiring. Don’t risk losing the talented employees already in the company; make sure to take their needs and desires into account before making any moves. With the right plans and discussions, though, quiet hiring may the answer that employers need to re-engage their workers and, most importantly, retain the best ones.

These questions, along with other similar ones, are important for identifying a company’s Employer Value Proposition, or EVP. A business’s EVP is, in short, the combination of salary, benefits, and other forms of non-monetary compensation and perks that a company brings to the table when it comes to hiring and retaining talent. It is important to communicate these values to employees, and that communication and transparency can help smooth the way for workers to choose to stay with their current company.

Most everyone can agree that truck driving is a normally lonely profession. While driving teams are starting to become more prevalent, they are not an everyday occurrence yet. So, for the bulk of drivers, time in the truck is spent alone. When Covid-19 hit, this issue was exacerbated when restaurants and truck stops closed; this was either voluntarily done by owners or by government order in some places. In many places, warehouses and shipping and receiving facilities barred truckers from entering due to fear of contagion. This meant that one of the loneliest jobs in the world became even more solitary.