Ryder Partners with Hiring Our Heroes and FASTPORT to Help Veterans

Ryder System, a leader in commercial fleet management and supply chain solutions, has announced its partnership with Hiring Our Heroes and FASTPORT to assist veterans, transitioning service members, and their spouses in finding great careers in the trucking industry through the Trucking Track Mentoring Program.

The mentoring program serves as a useful tool to provide information about the trucking industry, available positions, and mentors who are ready to assist with recruiting and on-boarding efforts. Ryder employees serve as mentors by educating military men and women on the available opportunities to them and providing ongoing career coaching in trucking.

Ryder has committed to hiring 2,000 veterans over the next three years (2015 – 2017). Since the start of its veteran hiring initiative in November 2011 through August 2014, the Company has hired 2,100 veterans, including many drivers.

Ryder has increased the percentage of veterans in its U.S. workforce from 8 percent to 10 percent, and has more than doubled the amount of recently-separated veterans hired, since joining the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Hiring Our Heroes program.

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