TruckNet Appoints New Manager
27 April 2000
TruckNet Appoints New Manager; Drives Forward With Enhanced Online RecruitingATLANTA, April 27 The momentum keeps building at TruckNet, the online driver and owner operator community of iFLEET, Inc., as it expands its reach and depth of offerings with additions to the management staff, online recruiting services and a new interface. "We listen to what drivers and owner operators expect from our Web site," said Craig Zwiener, General Manager of the TruckNet community. "We're responding. We're adding services and expanding our information resources to put TruckNet squarely in drivers' minds as the place to go for information, resources and services." Mike Smith, the newly appointed Content Manager for http://www.truck.net, will oversee the site's content direction. Smith, who has extensive Internet and software experience, combined with a background in the trucking industry, will be responsible for the creating and maintaining TruckNet's editorial content and special interest features -- a portion of which will provide community- generated content. The recently redesigned site receives an average 200,000 hits per day, with approximately 16,000 page views and 8,000 user sessions per day. The site's Drivers RoundTable currently provides community-generated content in an interactive bulletin board used by drivers and their families. The forum currently has more than 4,300 active subscribers and continues to grow at a rate of 1,000 subscribers per month. As more drivers begin to use the Internet for communication and information, they can log onto the Drivers RoundTable for a variety of valuable information regarding their careers, home life and issues in the trucking industry. At the same time, TruckNet is launching TruckNet FleetJobs(SM) , an enhanced online recruiting service. "We are providing more and better features that will add value to applicants and fleet recruiters," added Zwiener. "Drivers, owner/lease operators and diesel technicians will now have the choice of using our Web site to submit confidential applications to hiring fleets, or if they don't have Internet access, they can call a toll-free number, (888) 777-6727, where TruckNet representatives will take their application over the phone." TruckNet plans to further enhance FleetJobs in the third quarter, enabling applicants to research job requirements, company benefits and pay structures. FleetJobs will also provide enhanced services to recruiters, offering significantly more functionality to improve the overall hiring process and help fleets address driver retention more effectively. "We are working closely with several fleets to ensure the FleetJobs recruiting program tackles the driver shortage," said David Hoppens, iFLEET's General Manager of the fleet manager community. "Recruiting and retention managers will need better tools for carriers to remain cost competitive." Subscribing recruiters can currently search the secure FleetJobs site at http://www.ifleet.net to research driver, owner-operator and diesel technician applications and filter the database by state of residence and record age. They can then respond to applicants via email. TruckNet plans to add capabilities that allow recruiters to select applicants by individual profile. TruckNet will roll out the updated site and new services at the North American Truck Show in Boston, May 4-6, 2000. Truck.Net, the leading portal site for drivers and owner operators in the trucking industry, is a community of iFLEET, Inc., the leading provider of information services for commercial and automotive fleets. Truck.Net is based in Lebanon, Missouri. For more information on TruckNet, please visit us at http://www.truck.net For information on iFLEET, please visit us at http://www.ifleet.net