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“In other words, for each one of the almost ten thousand drivers it hired in 2004, Schneider needed to generate initial interest in the job from thirty-two workers and get eleven of those to actually apply. That’s”
― Steve Viscelli, The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream

“For instance, companies like Schneider National, a leading TL firm similar to Leviathan with about fourteen thousand trucks, decline many applicants based on motor vehicle records, criminal history, or spotty work histories. In 2004, Schneider reported fielding 320,000 inquiries about jobs and sending out 112,000 applications. It got about two-thirds (74,200) of these applications back, and interviewed about half (37,700) of those workers. Just twenty-seven thousand passed Schneider’s interviews. Only 9,959, less than three percent, of those who inquired that year were ultimately hired.3”
― Steve Viscelli, The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream