Con-way launches driver choice program for longhaul, LTL seats
Con-way’s driver career choice program is designed to provide an important benefit to drivers, allowing them to investigate a different career path while remaining with an enterprise whose operating companies share the same culture and values.
The Trucker News Services
5/5/2008
SAN MATEO, Calif. — Con-way Inc. has launched a new driver career choice program that creates the opportunity for drivers at full-truckload carrier Con-way Truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier Con-way Freight to formally consider new-hire driving positions at their respective sister companies.
The program, according to the company, represents a first for the industry by providing a career path for truckload drivers interested in moving to an LTL environment, while enabling LTL drivers to consider a different driving experience and lifestyle change as a long-haul, over-the-road truckload driver. The program emerged from discussions between the two companies following Con-way’s acquisition of Contract Freighters Inc. (CFI) last year. CFI was recently renamed Con-way Truckload.
“This program provides a great path for Con-way Truckload drivers who work well with us over a period of years to increase their earning power and move into a driving job that consistently allows them to be home every day,” said Herb Schmidt, president, Con-way Truckload. “We are confident this new career option will retain current drivers and get new drivers to join us, since this truly is an opportunity they won’t find at any other company.”
Con-way’s driver career choice program is designed to provide an important benefit to drivers, allowing them to investigate a different career path while remaining with an enterprise whose operating companies share the same culture and values.
The organization benefits through increased retention and reduced recruiting and hiring costs, enabling its existing pool of professional drivers to be considered as a first alternative for new-hire positions before they are shared with the open market.
“This program gives Con-way Freight more flexibility to address its new-hire needs through ready access to an experienced driver workforce that already shares the Con-way culture and values,” said John G. Labrie, president, Con-way Freight. “It’s a cost-effective recruiting platform and, for Con-way Freight driver sales representatives, it provides the opportunity, if they choose, to investigate a different career experience on the open road without having to leave the familiarity of the larger Con-way enterprise.”
Under the program, interested drivers have access to information about open driving positions at their respective sister company before they are advertised in the market. Candidates who wish to pursue an opportunity with a sister company would have to meet certain eligibility standards. Once eligibility is confirmed, candidates would complete the standard application and hiring process to be considered for employment at the respective hiring company.
Con-way Inc. acquired the Joplin, Mo.-based truckload carrier CFI in August 2007, creating a business unit with more than $500 million in annual revenues for truckload freight.