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Performance appraisals: Best practice guide and template examples
Performance Appraisals: Best Practices & Template Examples helps trucking and logistics employers create consistent, respectful, and effective performance review processes. This resource provides guidance on preparing for appraisal conversations, setting SMART goals, delivering constructive feedback, and using practical templates to support employee development, role clarity, and continuous performance improvement.
Steps to building a recruitment rubric and sample template
Steps to Building a Recruitment Rubric and Sample Template helps trucking and logistics employers create a more structured, consistent, and objective hiring process. This resource outlines five practical steps for building a recruitment rubric, including defining evaluation criteria, creating a rating scale, implementing the tool with interviewers, comparing results, and retaining documentation.
90 Days to success
A practical resource for trucking and logistics employers who want to strengthen onboarding, improve retention, and support new hires. This guide helps managers assess key areas of early success—role, team, and culture fit; basic performance and learning progress; engagement and initiative—as well as important conversations they should have with the new hire and others in the organization.
Building a strong job posting
Create job postings that make a strong first impression. This resource helps trucking and logistics employers write clear, inclusive, and welcoming postings that attract qualified candidates and support stronger recruitment outcomes.
Interview questions you can and can’t ask
Interview Questions You Can and Can’t Ask helps trucking and logistics employers conduct interviews that are fair, consistent, and focused on job-related requirements. This resource provides practical examples of permitted and prohibited interview questions across key assessment areas, including skills, physical capabilities, accommodations, certifications, work availability, criminal record, family status, nationality, and more.
Navigating new roles: A checklist for onboarding internal hires
Navigating New Roles: A Checklist for Onboarding Internal Hires helps trucking and logistics employers support employees moving into new roles within the organization. The resource provides practical checklists and tips for preparing the transition, facilitating knowledge transfer, communicating clearly, setting expectations, supporting the learning curve, providing structured check-ins, and reinforcing team and organizational culture.
From criteria to contract: A comprehensive approach to attracting talent
Strengthen recruitment from planning to offer. This guide helps trucking and logistics employers improve hiring outcomes by defining clear job criteria, attracting qualified candidates, creating a better candidate experience, assessing applicants consistently, completing reference and background checks, navigating offer considerations, and tracking recruitment success.
From reviews to results: A guide to performance management
Support stronger performance conversations and clearer expectations. This guide helps trucking and logistics employers set role-specific goals, develop practical KPIs, conduct regular check-ins, complete effective performance appraisals, address underperformance fairly, and connect performance management with employee development and retention.
Success from the start: A practical guide to onboarding new hires
Build a stronger start for every new hire. This guide helps trucking and logistics employers create a practical onboarding process that supports orientation, job-specific training, preboarding, first-day planning, 90-day check-ins, safety expectations, buddy programs, driver onboarding, recognition, and a welcoming workplace culture.
Take Our Kids to Work Day
Introduce students to career opportunities in trucking and logistics. This guide helps employers plan a meaningful Take Our Kids to Work Day experience with timelines, employee engagement ideas, safety considerations, sample activities, workplace tours, career pathway connections, wrap-up tips, and tools to help students explore both driving and non-driving roles in the sector.