Old Drum Driver Recruiting CDL Drivers — All Types Welcome Veteran-Owned Warrensburg, Missouri
CDL Driver Placement // Veteran-Owned · Loyal As The Dog We're Named For

YOUR TRUCK.
YOUR TERMS.

Old Drum has proprietary access to a network of carrier jobs that don't all hit the open market. More important: we have the intel on each one — what the pay actually looks like, what dispatch is really like, what home time actually holds. We're carrier independent. We work for you.

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OTR
Long Haul
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Regional
Home Weekly
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Local
Home Daily
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Owner Op
Run Your Own
// 01 — How It Works

Three steps. A real conversation.

You apply. We get on the phone — a US-based recruiter who knows the carriers in your area — and we work out together what you want from the next seat and what each carrier we'd put you up with is really like. We place you. And once you're rolling, we stay in your corner.

01
You Apply
Pick a posted seat below or send a general application. Two minutes through Tenstreet, our secure applicant system. Tell us anything we should know up front — recent CDL history, accidents, restrictions, hometime constraints. We'll work with it.
02
We Call
A US-based recruiter who knows trucking. We make sure you're a fit for the carriers we work with. We share what we know about each one — pay, dispatch, home time, equipment, what the seat is actually like to drive. And we help you figure out what you actually want from the next seat if you're not sure yet.
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We Get You In The Right Seat
We place you with the carrier that fits. Walk you through orientation, the start, and the first weeks on the road. We check in at 30, 90, and 180 days to make sure the seat is working — and if anything's off, we'll advocate for you with your carrier to get it sorted. We win when you stay.
// 02 — Open Seats

Currently hiring.

Apply direct on Tenstreet. Each posting routes to our applicant system and lands in front of a US-based recruiter the same business day.

General Application Begin Your Driving Career

Don't see the right seat? Apply general.

One Tenstreet application. We match you against every active opening across our carrier network — and the ones coming online next. We work for you.

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// A Principle We Run On

Trucking is a hard job.
Don't make it harder by a mismatch.

Trucking demands purpose, resilience, and a kind of grit that isn't in everyone. The drivers who have it deserve to be put in the right seat the first time. A mismatch between driver and seat costs the driver, the carrier, and the industry. Our entire job is to make sure that mismatch never happens to you.

// 03 — What You Get

Real intel. Real options.

Anyone can hand you a list of open jobs. We give you the inside story on each carrier we'd send you to — what the work is really like, what drivers there are saying, where the seat is a good fit and where it isn't. That's the work most agency recruiters skip. We don't.

→ 01Proprietary access. Carrier openings that don't always hit the public job boards. You see what the open market doesn't.
→ 02Real intel on every carrier. Average earnings drivers actually take home. Dispatch reputation. Equipment age. Home time that actually holds. The kind of detail you can't get from a job board.
→ 03Carrier independent. We work with a network of carriers but we work for you. That independence is what lets us be honest with you about which seat is actually the right fit for your situation, not just the easiest to fill.
→ 04"Every carrier has a great culture — just ask them." We've heard the pitch from every carrier we work with. So we cut through it. We tell you what driving for them is actually like — not what their recruiting deck says it's like.
→ 05Carrier intel from real feedback. Every driver we place tells us what their seat is actually like — pay reality, dispatch, lanes, home time. We share that intel forward with the next driver. The good carriers earn our repeat business. The ones who don't fit a driver get our honest read.
→ 06Privacy and respect. Your application isn't blasted across the network. We talk to you first, figure out what fits, then send you only to the carriers we both agree on. Your time matters.
→ 07Real support after placement. A real call at 30, 90, and 180 days. Not a survey email. If something's off with the seat, we advocate for you with your carrier — pay, dispatch, equipment, anything we can help resolve.
→ 08Zero cost to you. The carrier pays us, not you. No fees. No deductions from your paycheck. No catch.
// 04 — The 180 Club

180 days is how you know.

The culture's moved soft. Trucking didn't. The 180 Club is for the drivers who do work the rest of the country has stopped doing — and stay 180 days at the placement we put them in. The recognition is real. Your pick of a premium kit only members ever see, and a $180 donation in your name to the One-Eighty Out Campaign at Heroes & Horses — funding a combat veteran through 41 days in the Montana backcountry.

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// 05 — Why Old Drum

We value what you value.

  • // 01Carrier independent. We're not in any single carrier's pocket, which is what lets us tell you straight whether a seat actually fits your situation or not.
  • // 02Intel over inventory. Anyone can list open jobs. We know what's inside each one — the average earnings, the dispatch, what daily life on that seat actually looks like.
  • // 03Straight talk. No BS. If a seat isn't right for you, we say so up front. Even when it costs us the placement fee. The long game pays better.
  • // 04Loyal as the dog we're named for. Old Drum was the 1870 hound at the center of the most famous courtroom speech ever made about loyalty. We took the name because it means something. We back the drivers we place. We back the carriers we work with. That's the standard.
// The Industry Problem We Exist To Solve
94%
Annual driver turnover at large truckload carriers. The industry standard. Not because trucking is broken — because drivers and seats keep getting mismatched.
Source: American Trucking Associations
$8K–$15K
What it costs a carrier to replace one driver. Recruiting, training, idle equipment, lost revenue. Every mismatch we prevent saves a real number on someone's P&L.
Source: UGPTI / Industry Estimates
Churn, not exit.
Most drivers who leave a carrier don't leave trucking — they just go find a different seat. The industry already has the drivers it needs. It just keeps putting them in the wrong trucks.
Source: ATA · NPR · Industry Research

Stop settling. Find your lane.

Apply direct through Tenstreet or call a US-based recruiter. It costs you nothing.

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