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October 2016

Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info

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32 | Overdrive | October 2016 S tacy Turner heads up all things relative to driver employment at the seven- driver Turner Transport open car hauling fleet based near Atlanta. One of those drivers, her husband and fellow company head Eric Turner, says that as far as retention goes, the fleet has little problem keeping its drivers on board. That's largely due to something of a holy trinity of best practices that Stacy is quick to boil down in her interviews with driver prospects. She considers all who join to be family. Want to keep a driver around for a long time? Give him "good equipment, good home time and good money," says Turner driver Jay Dorris, paraphras- ing Stacy's central message. Turner's haulers, with few exceptions, are home at least on the weekends, if not more often. If they're not, it might be for a special occasion such as the fleet's recent Small-fleet owners use good pay, equipment and home time to attract loyal drivers. They say those are the bedrocks of retention, the top employment issue named in an Overdrive survey. BY TODD DILLS Keeping the 'family' happy

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