Get and Keep Drivers and Owner-Operators

In today’s message:

• How to get and keep drivers and owner-operators
• Loans for repairs and maintenance
• Helping you buy or sell equipment
• Quick-pay: Want to offer it? Or want to get it?

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How to get and keep drivers and owner-operators

I have heard and read many complaints about how difficult it is to find and keep drivers.

Imagine for a moment that you are a driver or owner-operator who is looking for a new carrier/employer.

He or she looks for advertising and finds an ad like this:

Wanted: Truck drivers and owner-operators

We offer: Pay

Call now!

That’s it. Nothing else. So I ask: Every carrier offers pay, so why would anyone bother calling this one?

When I look at job ads today, most look like this one. Sure, I’ve left out the details about “who” and “where”, but to the driver it is the offer that matters most. When there’s no difference between your offer and another offer, there’s no reason for someone to contact you instead of someone else. So they go with a name they already know.

How about this ad instead (I’ll call it the turbo version):

Wanted: Truck drivers and owner-operators

We offer: Pay, plus:

• Help to buy your own equipment
• Group life insurance
• Group health and dental benefits
• Loans for repairs and maintenance
• Scale bypass transponders
• Satellite dispatch
• Fuel efficiency bonuses
• Safety bonuses
• Discounted repairs and parts
• etc.
• etc.
• etc.

Call now!

This is an ad that will attract many more applications and make your offer stand out from the crowd.

What you see in this ad is the Aquilian program for driver and owner-operator recruitment and retention, our one-stop shop for features and benefits that attract employees and subcontractors. And we give it to you for free. You only pay for the actual costs (if there are any) of the benefits you choose to offer. You don’t have to take all of them, just the ones you want.

Most of the benefits in the program can be provided at no cost or low cost to the carrier. (Yes, even group health and dental! Just ask me how.) And those fuel efficiency and safety bonuses are proven to save much more money than they cost.

Do you want to know what the “etc. etc. etc.” means? Those are the features and benefits we don’t want to make public, so contact me if you want to hear about them privately and then profit from them yourself. Email: eric@aquilian.ca  Phone toll-free: 1.844.252.0524

 

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Loans for repairs and maintenance

One of our new financing products was requested by a carrier whose repair shop is used by the carrier’s owner-operators as well as by other truck owners. The carrier told us that these customers sometimes have difficulty finding enough cash to pay their repair or maintenance bills.

We listened. So now we offer loans to anyone who owns a truck, tractor, or other heavy equipment and who needs to stretch their bills over several months.

It’s free to apply for our repair loans, all credit scores and all repairs are considered, the interest charge is simple to understand, and you can pay off the loan early with no penalty. The minimum loan for a single truck is $5,000, but we can do less if you own more than one truck.

The initial approval takes less than an hour.

If you have a shop and want to offer your customers/owner-operators financing – at no cost to you – or if you have a truck that needs a repair, contact me. Email: eric@aquilian.ca  Phone toll-free: 1.844.252.0524

 

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Helping you buy or sell equipment

• Do you have equipment you’d like to sell, but buyers don’t have enough cash?
• Do you want to buy from a private seller who wants only cash?
• Do you have an employee who could be an owner-operator, if only they could get financing?
• Do you want your owner-operator to replace equipment or get an additional unit?
• Does your bank or leasing company say, “No”?

I can help!

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Quick-pay: Want to offer it? Or want to get it?

Do you have carriers or other suppliers who have trouble waiting for you to pay them? Perhaps you’re brokering loads and need a quick-pay solution to be competitive.

Or maybe you are the one who is waiting to get paid…

In any case, Aquilian has a quick-pay solution that will fit your business and speed up your cash flow.

 

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