Count Your Ghosts | Driver Recruiting Calculator

The ghost calculator

Count your ghosts.

Every driver who never got hired was still a lead you paid for. Three numbers your recruiting team already knows. 20 seconds. No email required.

Driver leads per monthEvery click, form fill and application

Drivers hired per monthThe ones who made it through

Monthly recruiting ad spendJob boards, social, paid search, all of it

9,360

drivers you paid for and never hired, every year

$936,000

in ad spend that never turned into a driver

Cost per lead$100

Cost per hire$4,000

What if you won some of them back?

+94more hires a year, same budget

$2,874new cost per hire

Based only on the numbers you enter. Results are illustrative and depend on your funnel.

Got your number?

That's $936,000 walking out the door. Let's go get it back.

In 20 minutes, we'll show you exactly where your drivers are dropping off — and how Driver Journeys brings them back automatically.

Book a free 20-minute walkthrough.

What fleets see with CDLConnect

60%Drivers recovered

145%Increase in hires

17%Reduced budget

Meet Driver Journeys

When a driver goes quiet, Driver Journeys kicks off automated follow-up — before a competitor calls first.

Outreach is tailored to the exact stage they dropped off — half-finished app, missed callback, or gone cold after the first call.

Plugs into the ATS you already run, tracks leads by source, and shows true cost per hire and recruiter follow-up speed.

R.I.P.

Got 80% done.
Nobody followed up.

R.I.P.

Called back Friday.
Hired elsewhere Thursday.

R.I.P.

One voicemail.
Never heard again.