At a Glance: Truckstop, the freight technology company that launched the first load board on the internet, needed to add engineering capacity in data, full-stack, and mobile without expanding its US headcount. Second Talent worked five requisitions and placed eight engineers in Vietnam at an average of 22 days to hire, with every role filled inside 83 days.
Company Background
Truckstop is a transportation technology company serving carriers, freight brokers, and shippers across North America. Founded in 1995 in New Plymouth, Idaho, it launched the first load board on the internet and has since built out a full freight platform: load matching, real-time rate data, negotiation tools, transportation management, factoring, and carrier vetting and fraud prevention.
The company employs more than 500 employees and continues to ship new capability into the marketplace, including Truckstop Private Loads, released in 2025 to let brokers run their proprietary carrier networks with the same tooling as the public board.
That pace of product work is what drove the hiring. Freight matching is a data problem before it is anything else, and the roadmap needed engineers across the pipeline, the web application, and the driver-facing mobile experience at the same time.
Challenges Faced
1. Three disciplines open at once
Truckstop was not hiring for a single role. Data engineering, full-stack, and mobile requisitions were live in parallel, each with a different skill profile. Running three separate searches through three separate channels would have meant three different vetting standards and three different timelines.
2. Specialist engineering capacity at sustainable cost
Data engineers and mobile developers are among the most competitive and most expensive hires in the US market. Truckstop needed engineers who could work to a senior standard without the cost structure of adding equivalent headcount domestically.
3. Keeping the roadmap moving while roles stayed open
Requisitions that sit open for a quarter push delivery dates with them. The company needed shortlists that converted, not a long pipeline of profiles that required a full internal search on top of the one already running.
Solutions Delivered by Second Talent
Second Talent ran all five requisitions through a single pipeline of pre-vetted engineers, applying one standard across data engineering, full-stack, and mobile rather than treating each role as its own search. Every hire was made in Vietnam, a market where senior product engineers work to Western delivery standards at a fraction of US cost. Companies running the same play can hire developers in Vietnam through the same pipeline.
Because candidates were pre-vetted before submission, most requisitions closed almost immediately once a shortlist went across. Average time to hire across the engagement was 22 days, and several roles were filled from the first batch of profiles submitted, which kept the hiring effort inside the product cycle instead of running alongside it as a second full-time job.
The longest brief, a specialist data engineering role, took 83 days. Every one of the five requisitions was filled inside that window, so no track was left waiting on a search that never closed.
Results Achieved
Truckstop added eight engineers in Vietnam across five requisitions and three disciplines, without expanding US headcount. Data, web, and mobile capacity came online in parallel rather than sequentially, so no single track had to wait for another to finish hiring.
Team Composition
Key Outcomes
- Eight engineers placed: Three data engineers, three full-stack developers, and two mobile developers, all hired in Vietnam.
- 22 days average time to hire: Pre-vetted shortlists meant most requisitions closed within days of the first submission.
- All roles filled within 83 days: Including the longest and most specialised data engineering brief.
- One pipeline, three disciplines: A single vetting standard applied across all five requisitions instead of three parallel searches.
- Capacity in parallel: Data, web, and mobile tracks staffed at the same time, with no track waiting on another to finish hiring.
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