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Hard-working drivers may be too busy to talk.
Quickly connect (and stay connected) with a schedule of custom SMS blasts.
Text and Voice Blasts Turn Leads into Hires
Your recruiters keep asking for more (and better) driver leads, but what happened to the drivers you already paid to reach? How many contacts got buried under newer leads after the second (or first) callback attempt?
To Exceed builds and manages Text and Voice Blast campaigns to take advantage of the leads already sitting in your ATS. Re-engage past prospects without adding hundreds of manual follow-ups to your recruiters’ workload. Get more hires out of the driver leads you already paid to generate.
“Lead Quality” Problems? Audit Your Follow-Up
Recruiters don’t neglect leads on purpose. New applications arrive, phones ring, and older prospects move further down the list. Before adding budget to refill the funnel, make sure to ask a few questions:
- Why did it take so long to contact some of these leads?
- How many times did we call and text before giving up?
- Which older leads are still worth re-engaging?
- Who has the time to schedule and track this outreach?
To Exceed builds your team an automated system, aligning the schedule with recruiter availability.
How reliably text messages reach drivers
- Open Rate for SMS (source, opens in a new tab)
- 98%
- SMS Messages Read in 3 Minutes or Less (source, opens in a new tab)
- 90%
- Of American Adults Own Cell Phones (source, opens in a new tab)
- 98%
Text and voice campaigns go directly to the cellphones of qualified drivers, not broadcast to everybody outside of the trucking industry.
Every Missed Follow-Up Costs Money
A driver who didn’t answer yesterday might still be interested next week. To Exceed helps trucking companies follow-up at scale instead of letting valuable contacts disappear after one or two attempts.
Manual Follow-Up
- Recruiters working leads one at a time
- New leads pushing older contacts aside
- Different follow-up from recruiter to recruiter
- Large outreach efforts flooding phone lines
Managed Follow-Up With To Exceed
- Re-engage larger contact lists
- Develop leads that need more time
- Use more than one way to reach drivers
- Control volume around recruiter availability
One Channel Won’t Reach Every Driver
Voice
Make your case over the phone or voicemail.
Voice campaigns provide another touchpoint for drivers who get too many emails.
Call Routing
Recruiters should stay busy, not overwhelmed.
Campaign timing and volume should adjust (up and down) to match recruiter capacity.
Your Fleet Needs More Drivers, Not More Phone Calls
Leads need to be developed, but nobody has time to make that many phone calls. To Exceed builds an automatic system that works with your recruiting pipeline.
Text and Voice campaigns should bridge communication gaps and fill more empty seats:
- Existing lead and contact lists
- Current jobs, hiring areas and incentives
- Custom recruiting messages
- Controlled daily campaign volume
- Call routing and opt-out handling
- Response and campaign tracking
Before you spend more to replace old leads, make sure the useful ones have actually been worked.
“We Already Follow Up With Our Leads.”
Your recruiters probably do. The problem isn’t whether they work the phones. It’s about what happens when they're swamped or unavailable—how leads fall through the cracks
Even the best recruiting teams have limited time. Follow-up becomes less consistent as new, fresh leads replace the drivers who are harder to reach.
To Exceed schedules outreach to develop leads automatically—without getting lost in the noise.
Too Many Spam Calls Annoy Drivers
It’s true that drivers get way too many generic recruiting calls and texts. But drivers who contacted your company expect you to respond.
To Exceed drafts custom copy for each client and each campaign, not another one-size-fits-all message.
- Reminders of their application
- Custom job-specific messages
- Reasonable timing and frequency
- Outreach scheduled for recruiter availability
- Easy opt-out options for drivers
- Call routing for lead quality reporting
Professional messaging sets the tone for your company culture, whether drivers finish the application process or not. But how do you assess the quality of leads currently in your ATS?
Work the Leads You Have Before You Buy More
Leads need to be vetted, not neglected. Text and voice campaigns allow employers to develop leads buried among the contacts from weeks ago. To Exceed designs systems to support recruiters and fill seats with qualified drivers.