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DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF A SCREENING MODEL FOR PREDICTING TRACTOR-TRAILER
TRUCK DRIVER RETENTION | |||
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Barbara Hinton, Ed.D.
July 1, 1993 - June 30, 1994
The transportation industry has a driver attrition rate which has been estimated to be as high as 100 to 150
percent annually. The project developed and pilot tested a driver screening program which will allow transportation
companies to identify those persons most likely to remain in the occupation during their first year of employment.
The driver screening program was developed based upon research to identify the variables affecting driver retention/attrition.
A profile of the driver likely to remain on the job was developed and used as the basis for driver screening at an experiment
site terminal for a two-month period. Follow-up data on driver retention/attrition was collected at the experiemental site
and at a control site (a terminal with similar characteristics) at six-month and nine-month intervals. Descriptive and
inferential statistical techniques were used to analyze the data. Findings identified some factors, such as ethnicity, which
seem to be associated with driver attrition. In addition, additional variables previously thought to affect driver attrition,
such as marital status and number of dependents, were not shown to be closely associated with driver attrition.
Product: Completed - Final Report - MBTC-1016
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