# Jeff Moten, Owner at Moten Recruiting Solutions — read of CDL Driver Recruiting Voice Intake, June 12 2026

> 16 years in CDL staffing, currently running 6 people out of Columbus doing contract recruiting for regional carriers. Coaches his daughter's travel volleyball on weekends, which means he's unusually good at reading whether someone is actually serious or just confident.

## How I got here

Someone dropped a link in the CDL Driver Recruiting Facebook group with the caption "has anyone tried this." Nobody replied. That got me curious more than the link itself did. I clicked through, read the whole thing standing in a Speedway parking lot waiting for my daughter to finish practice.

## What I clicked first

The headline is actually clean. "Turn inbound calls into scheduled driver candidates" tells me exactly what the pitch is. No "AI-powered end-to-end recruitment intelligence platform" garbage. I kept reading, which I usually don't.

## Where I paused

The score card stopped me cold. They're showing their own math in public: "$-19,620 Year-1 take-home (Fermi)" and "1 in 7 Meaningful-success odds." Those are the numbers they chose to put on their own product page. That is either very honest or very dumb, and I haven't figured out which yet. The line that really made me slow down was this: "We shipped the strategy package; you ship the customer conversations." That sentence is doing a lot of work. It's telling you what they actually sold you, right up front, before you buy it.

## What I distrusted

The five stars with zero review text underneath. Where did those come from? There's no quote, no name, no carrier, no nothing. Just the stars sitting there. Given that they also wrote "Honest disclosure: we don't have live customers on this idea yet" three paragraphs later, the stars feel like a placeholder someone forgot to remove or a UI element that defaults to five regardless.

Also: "pain intensity: 4/10" is their own self-score. In 16 years I have watched a lot of vendors claim CDL recruiting is broken. Some of them are right. But if the people selling me this idea score the underlying pain at a 4 out of 10, why am I the one who should take the risk on it?

## What would convince me

One real carrier name and one real recruiter saying "we were getting 40 inbound calls a week and scheduling maybe 8 of them, now we schedule 22." Not a case study deck. Not a testimonized ROI figure. An actual person I could look up on LinkedIn who works at an actual company with trucks in their fleet and a number I can verify. The Fermi math is interesting but it's still their math.

## What I'd ask in an email reply

1. The year-one take-home shows negative $19,620. Is that the cost to the operator building this service, or is that the net of everything after paying for software and labor? Because those are two very different business problems.

2. What does "working code starter" actually mean at the $99 tier? Is that a Twilio integration, a prompt template, a Retell or Vapi config, or something else? Because "code starter" and "brand assets" for $99 to $199 is either a steal or a folder with a logo and a README.

3. You scored credibility at 9/10 but you have zero live customers. Who or what generates that credibility score, and can I see the methodology?

## Verdict: on-the-fence

The transparency is unusual enough that I didn't close the tab, which puts this in maybe the top 5% of things I read in a parking lot. But negative year-one take-home plus 4/10 pain intensity from the people selling the idea is not a combination that makes me reach for my credit card at $5, let alone $99.

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*Memo by skeptic persona, generated 2026-06-12. Studio breaks own self-grading loop.*