Family Transporter is a Non Profit 501c-3 Association. Fees to participate is dependent on organization size ($2,500 to $5,000 per annum). The fee will include a development of a customized program specifically tailored to your hiring requirements. Our goal is to provide your firm with the required personnel that will be providing your commercial driving requirements including for Special Needs students/families. The incentive program specific to driver retention will be provided by Family Transporter in conjunction with benefits provided/offered by participating organization.
Depending on who you ask, the cost of hiring a commercial driver can range from $2,000 to $15,000 per driver. A study from Upper Plains Transportation Institute found an $8,234 average cost per hire between 15 different companies, but that was also in 2001. If we account for inflation, that equals about $12,719 in 2021. You also have to look at other losses and the long-term effects of high turnover.
- Expected capital costs,
- Program would couple to CDL training, and augment continuing education to now include drivers seeking a baccalaureate, associate, certification etc….
- CDL License,
- Cost of work effort to leverage existing subsidies provided through the schools, and government workforce development programs in support of access to affordable education.
- Program would couple to CDL training, and augment continuing education to now include drivers seeking a baccalaureate, associate, certification etc….
- Dependent on school specific costs will vary. Location of facility to be used for education can be the School, Company specific locations, or cab of truck with courses provided by way of distance learning capacities.
- Costs for detailed planning incorporating following including:
- Government involvement & resources,
- Academic involvement & resources,
- Corporate involvement & resources.
- Costs for detailed planning incorporating following including:
- Administrative burden Costs (dependent on participation)
- Outreach & Marketing
- Project Management
- Subject Matter Experts for strategy development, and implementation
- Analytic Modeling etc…..
How is this paid for?
Recruiting/Consulting Fees customized on case by case basis for all in need of commercial drivers.
—Drivers are consultants working for Family Transporter that are contracted out to those requiring drivers.
—Benefits provided the driver are provided through Family Transporter.
—Fees, will be based on a partnering model customized to individual participant..
—Applicable Grants, and Donations for a non profit 501c-3 association (e.g. https://www.epa.gov/cleanschoolbus/school-bus-rebates-clean-school-bus-programttps://www.epa.gov/cleanschoolbus/school-bus-rebates-clean-school-bus-program)
Project mechanics include Family Transporter engaging:
- Government relative to federal, state, local resource assistance & support tied to respective government initiatives of transportation, education, economic, and workforce development. Insuring pilots alignment with states “Freight System Plans”, and “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act”.
- Presidents of Community Colleges & Universities for program articulation agreements, curriculum alignment, and grant resource assistance & support.
- Government, Schools, Corporations, and respective strategic partners, to understand exact transportation configuration including modal requirements (e.g. commercial driver need etc…), and all/any related costs (e.g. recruiting-retention, reengineering costs etc..).
- Coordinated marketing campaigns providing outreach to driver candidates who want an advanced education, or creative way to pay off incurred student loan debt.
- Strategic Sourcing & Placement services will be managed to insure a continual flow of driver candidates, and placements.
- A continual evaluation of the program to include partnering firms offering technology service & product that can be leveraged.
- In coordination with participant organizations Family Transporter will co-sponsor
- Regional Town Hall Meetings
- Regional Interdependency Analysis of Driver Shortage, Quality Of Life Variables, Public Safety, Shareholder Value
- School Bus/Corporate Depot Terminal Site Visits (e.g. Parent/Teacher Committees, Drivers/Recruits etc..)
- Coordinated outreach, alignment corporate social responsibility, metrics to measure/manage/improve
- Define existing HR Process of Driver Recruitment & Retention (e.g. Salary, Training, Benefits etc..)
- Coordinated outreach, alignment corporate social responsibility, metrics to measure/manage/improve
- Regional Town Hall Meetings
- Community Awareness Campaign
- Parents can be applicants to drive own child to school for a stipend, and earn all driver benefits including student loan forgiveness, and academic scholarships.
- Drive-Along Program (Parents/Caretakers, School Principal, Teachers, Occupational/Physical Therapists etc.)
- Metrics to measure, manage, and improve (e.g. Special Needs, Safety, Security, Mobile Learning, Active/Micro Learning etc..)
- Commercial Vehicle Test Drive
- Family Transporter will also oversee the development of an business assessment for each participant (e.g. corporations, schools, and state-federal government) to quantify the tangible, and intangible risks, and benefits in the creation of a self sustainable pool of commercial driver candidates. The business assessment to be developed as a tool to be used for capital investment decision, with measurable and quantifiable returns.