Strategic Recruiting Group

Toughest Environments

Turnarounds, rebrands, and hypergrowth. We recruit where it is hardest.

True Innovation

We build our own recruiting technology instead of renting everyone else's.

0 Hires a Week

The peak weekly pace of recruiting operations our founder has helped lead.

Veteran Owned

Army and Air Force discipline, faith-driven from the first phone call.

The Model

Pay-per-hire, explained straight.

Most recruiting spend pays for activity. Posts, clicks, apps, leads. Pay-per-hire pays for one thing only: a driver in your seat. We carry the cost of sourcing, screening, and selling the job honestly. You pay a flat fee per driver, invoiced when they start.

Job Boards

You pay for posts and clicks.

Whether a qualified driver ever applies or not, the meter runs. The risk is yours.

Lead Vendors

You pay for names and numbers.

Most are cold, many are sold to your competitors at the same time. The risk is yours.

Advertising Agencies

You pay for advice and reports.

You pay to be told how to spend ad money that is not working, and for reports we hand our clients for free. The risk is yours.

You pay when a driver starts.

One flat fee per hire. No ad spend, no paying per app, no monthly fees. The risk is ours.

The model is the guarantee.

Our standard engagement is pure pay-per-hire: if the seat does not fill, the invoice never exists. We get paid for drivers in seats, not for activity, which is why our pipelines are built to keep producing long after the first hire.

Fleets under 50 trucks are taken on selectively and structured individually.

What We Fill

Every segment. Especially the hard ones.

OTR & Dry Van

The backbone lanes, filled at volume without sacrificing quality.

Dedicated & Regional

Drivers matched to the account, the schedule, and the customer standard.

Local & Home Daily

Home-every-day recruiting for the fleets that keep drivers close.

LTL

Dock-savvy, city-tough drivers for freight that moves on schedules.

Reefer

Temp-controlled freight needs drivers who protect the load. We find them.

Flatbed & Specialized

Securement-minded drivers for the freight that rides in the open.

Team Operations

Paired, compatible teams ready to run, not two strangers in one cab.

Intermodal & Drayage

Port, rail, and container work, recruited by people who have led it.

Owner Operators

Real conversations about revenue, freight, and fit. No fairy tales.

Driver Unload

Touch freight takes a different driver. We recruit for the job as it really is.

Hazmat & Tanker

Endorsed, experienced drivers for freight with no room for error.

Cryogenics & Niche

The niche freight most recruiters never touch. We fill it anyway.

The seats other recruiters run from are where we do our best work.

Cryogenics. Tanker. Night shuttles. Remote domiciles. Positions that sit open for months with everyone else get our most experienced recruiters, because hard-to-fill is not a problem to us. It is the assignment.

CDL trucking first. Other trades and professions as our partners need them. The pipeline discipline travels.

The Difference

Why carriers choose SRG.

Faith that shows up

We run this business as a ministry. That means the truth sometimes costs us a placement, and we tell it anyway. See what that means in practice.

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Pipelines, not placements

A one-off placement patches a hole. We build pipelines that keep filling your seats month after month, so hiring stops being an emergency.

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Trained before they dial

Our recruiters study each carrier's freight, pay, and lanes before they ever make a call, trained carrier by carrier inside The Terminal, our own training ground.

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Leadership that has done it

Chris Schoate has led recruiting through the Roadrunner LTL rebrand, grown Covenant teams in the most difficult environments, managed Landair and Star Transportation recruiting efforts, and led Gulf Winds to 1,000+ owner operator hires in 13 months, growing from four terminals to nine and from 400 trucks to 750.

Iron sharpens iron

Through the FleetFill Network, six founding partner firms and the recruiting companies under them sharpen each other on every opening. Proverbs 27:17 is a business model.

The Process

Simple from start to hire.

Meet and map the need

We sit down with you to learn the operation, the openings, and where we can actually help.

Unbranded ads, our dime

We run our own ads for your job with the carrier unlisted, so we are never competing against your own advertising.

Call, sell, qualify, close

We source drivers and sell them on your company and your job. Every driver is called, qualified, and closed on working for you.

Full application, delivered

The completed application reaches you your way: transferred from our Tenstreet to yours, or a direct apply with our referral code attached.

Support through your process

From there we assist wherever your recruiting process needs us, from scheduling to follow-up to orientation confirmation.

Hired. Then invoiced.

You stay in control of who you hire. We just help. When the driver shows up and is hired, we invoice. Not before.

What We Stand For

Business as a ministry.

Recruiting touches people at the exact moment their livelihood is on the line. We believe that moment deserves reverence, not a script. Ministry is not a word on our wall. It is a set of habits you can watch us keep.

The truth, told first

Drivers hear the whole job. Pay, home time, freight, and the parts that are not pretty. When the truth costs us a placement, we count it money well lost.

People, developed

We are building a work environment where recruiters are supported, trained, and developed as people, not burned out and replaced. It feeds downstream: recruiters who are cared for treat drivers like they matter, because they do.

Generosity, built in

We believe in tithing and in giving back to the communities where we live and serve. Generosity is part of the model, not an afterthought.

A higher purpose

We don't believe it's a coincidence that our founder worked for two Christian trucking companies. We have seen what a company becomes when it is aligned with purpose, and we have seen what happens when private equity takes over and that purpose is stripped out. We are committed to our purpose every day. We are not changing.

Vision

Our vision is to honor God and everything He has done for us by building a company that shows what a God-centered workplace can be: a blessing to everyone who works here, the communities we call home, and everyone we help find employment.

Mission

Recruiting means to grow again. Our mission is to grow every company and every person we serve: high-volume, high-quality pipelines, built by elite recruiters.

Principles

1. Respect First (The Golden Rule)

We treat everyone with the dignity and genuine care we expect for ourselves.

2. Integrity in All Things

We tell the truth, even when it's hard. Trust is our most important asset.

3. Service Over Transaction

We prioritize people over profit. We aim to serve, not just to sell.

4. Absolute Accountability

We do what we say we will do. We take ownership of our work, our commitments, and our results.

Join the Team

Recruit with a team that trains like it matters.

Elite is a practice, not a title. SRG recruiters sharpen their craft daily and study each carrier before they represent it, because a driver's next job is too important to wing.

Daily training on craft, calls, and closing with honesty
Carrier-by-carrier training inside The Terminal, so you know the freight before you dial
Real pipelines to work, not a stack of dead leads
A team that prays for you, pushes you, and pays on performance

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The Training Ground

The Terminal

Every SRG recruiter trains inside The Terminal, our own training ground built one carrier at a time: the freight, the pay, the lanes, and the discipline of telling the truth about all of it. Ask about it on your call.

Our Story

Chris Schoate

Founder & CEO · U.S. Army & Air Force Veteran

Chris learned discipline in uniform, including direct security for Air Force One, then brought it to driver recruiting and never left. He has done the job at every altitude: recruiter on the phones, part of Covenant recruiting operations producing 150 hires a week in the most difficult environments, the director who helped carry Roadrunner through its LTL rebrand, the manager of Landair and Star Transportation recruiting efforts, and the vice president whose team hired 1,000+ owner operators in 13 months, growing Gulf Winds from four terminals to nine and from 400 trucks to 750.

He has recruited nearly every kind of driver there is, from hazmat team veterans to students fresh out of CDL school, across van, LTL, dedicated, reefer, drayage, and specialized freight. In 2025 he went all in on Strategic Recruiting Group, then built the family around it: the FleetFill Network, Big Rig Gig, TeamDriveNow, and CDL Funnel.

The thread through all of it is simple. Tell the truth, do the work, and treat every driver, client, and recruiter like they matter to God, because they do. Connect with Chris on LinkedIn.

High-volume, high-quality driver pipelines. Built by elite recruiters.