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Text and Voice Blasts Develop Driver Leads

Your recruiters keep asking for more (and better) driver leads, but what happened to the thousands of leads from the last campaign? How many potential drivers were dropped after one or two voicemails?

To Exceed builds and manages Text and Voice Blast campaigns to make the most of the leads already sitting in your ATS. Get more hires out of the driver leads you already paid to generate.

CDL driver gets ghosted by a recruiter without SMS and voice campaigns, looking at phone without replies

Clear Answers on Driver Follow-Up

Recruiters get busy. New leads arrive. Calls go unanswered. Before long, potentially qualified drivers are buried in a spreadsheet or ATS while your team keeps asking:

  • Why did it take so long to contact some of these new leads?
  • How many times did we call and text before giving up on each lead?
  • When should we reach out again by SMS?
  • Who has the time to schedule and track this outreach?

To Exceed gives your team a repeatable system to follow up with more potential hires.

How reliably text messages reach drivers

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%

Frequently cited estimates for SMS and cell phone use, not specific to the trucking industry or To Exceed.

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.

Inconsistent Follow-Up

  • Recruiters calling leads one at a time
  • Old leads sitting untouched
  • Follow-up whenever someone has time
  • Recruiters suddenly flooded with calls

Smarter Follow-Up with To Exceed

  • Reach larger contact lists efficiently
  • Reconnect with past prospects
  • Schedule outreach systematically
  • Control volume around recruiter availability

Not Every Follow-Up Does the Same Job

Text

Put the opportunity right on their phone.

Text campaigns let you quickly reconnect with past leads using concise messaging about current openings, hiring needs and reasons to respond.

Voice

Reach drivers with a message they can hear.

Voice campaigns give you another way to reconnect with contacts who may have ignored an earlier call, text or application follow-up.

Call Routing

Generate responses recruiters can actually handle.

Campaign volume and timing can be adjusted around recruiter availability, with incoming responses routed where your team needs them to go.

CDL driver recruiters need qualified leads and tracking

Get More From Leads You Already Paid For

Generating another batch of driver leads can’t fix a follow-up process that lets good prospects disappear.

If a qualified driver fills out a form, misses one recruiter call and never hears from your company again, you paid for an opportunity you may still be able to recover.

To Exceed builds Text and Voice campaigns around:

  • Existing lead and contact lists
  • Custom recruiting messages
  • Current job openings and incentives
  • Controlled daily campaign volume
  • Call routing and opt-out handling
  • Response and campaign tracking

A lead that went quiet isn’t necessarily a lead that went bad.

“We Already Follow Up With Our Leads.”

Your recruiters probably do. The problem is whether they have enough time to repeatedly call and text every new lead. Flooded with hundreds or thousands of new leads, something is going to fall through the cracks.

Older contacts are usually the first to get ignored, even though your company already spent money generating them.

Choose To Exceed if you want a follow-up system that helps recruiters reconnect with more drivers without making another hundred individual calls.

Recruiter talks to a CDL driver because of text and voice lead management

Know What Happened After You Hit Send

You shouldn’t have to guess whether another round of follow-up actually reached anyone.

To Exceed answers the practical questions that help improve the next campaign:

  • How many contacts did we reach?
  • How many responded?
  • Which messages generated interest?
  • How many calls reached recruiters?

Leads Don’t Stay Warm Forever

Don’t keep buying new driver leads while old prospects sit untouched. To Exceed helps trucking companies turn neglected contacts into potential hires. Let’s build and schedule a Text and Voice Blast to support your recruiting team.

When they pay for advertising, most trucking companies pay too much.

Call To Exceed to start saving by recruiting smarter.