Tenstreet is a software platform built for the trucking industry that connects commercial drivers with motor carriers. It handles recruiting, hiring, compliance, and safety management for fleets of all sizes, and it serves as a centralized hub where drivers can store their credentials and apply to multiple carriers without re-entering the same information each time. If you’re a truck driver who just encountered the name on a job application, or a fleet manager evaluating recruiting tools, here’s how the platform works.
How Tenstreet Works for Drivers
The core product most drivers encounter first is the IntelliApp, Tenstreet’s standardized driver application. Instead of filling out a separate paper or PDF application for every carrier, you complete one IntelliApp, and your personal details, work history, and license information are saved. The next time you apply to a different company through Tenstreet, the system pre-populates the majority of that data for you. According to Tenstreet’s own numbers, 91% of completed IntelliApps come in with some degree of pre-populated information.
The platform maintains a database of more than 89,000 carriers. When you list a previous employer on your application, the system can pull that company’s details automatically, saving you from looking up addresses and DOT numbers. It also runs built-in gap checking: the IntelliApp cross-references your current application against employment dates you’ve listed on prior applications to flag any unexplained gaps, which is a requirement under federal DOT regulations.
The Driver Pulse App
Tenstreet’s mobile app, called Driver Pulse, goes beyond job applications. It functions as a personal dashboard for your trucking career. You can search and apply for jobs, communicate directly with recruiters, upload and store documents like your CDL, medical card, and MVR, and share those documents with specific carriers when requested.
Once you’ve applied to a company, the app shows task lists that carrier has assigned to you. These might include uploading specific documents, completing training courses, or finishing onboarding paperwork. You can also track the status of your applications and contact carriers directly through the app if you want an update.
Pulse also includes optional training content. Some carriers assign specific training courses through the app, while other general courses are available for any driver to complete on their own.
What Carriers Use Tenstreet For
On the fleet side, Tenstreet is primarily a recruiting and compliance platform. Carriers use it to receive and process driver applications, run background checks, verify employment history, and manage the regulatory paperwork that federal law requires for every driver they hire.
Three tools form the backbone of the carrier experience:
- IntelliApp: The same application drivers fill out feeds directly into the carrier’s recruiting pipeline, giving recruiters a standardized format and automated screening.
- Xchange: A fully automated employment verification system. When a carrier needs to confirm a driver’s past work history (a DOT requirement), Xchange sends and receives verification requests electronically between carriers, replacing the old process of faxing forms back and forth.
- DQF (Driver Qualification Files): A paperless system for maintaining the driver qualification files that federal regulations require carriers to keep on every active driver. This includes medical certificates, road test results, annual reviews, and driving records.
Tenstreet also offers a safety management dashboard that consolidates compliance and fleet safety data in one place. Carriers can monitor driver records, track expiring documents, and stay ahead of regulatory deadlines rather than discovering problems during an audit.
Job Board and Telematics Integrations
One reason Tenstreet is so common in trucking is the breadth of its integrations. When a carrier posts a job through Tenstreet, that listing can flow out to roughly 20 job board partners, including Indeed, ZipRecruiter, Facebook, Google, Craigslist, and several trucking-specific boards like CDLLife, TruckDrivingJobs.com, and JobsInTrucks.com. Applications from all those sources funnel back into a single Tenstreet dashboard, which is why you might click “Apply” on Indeed for a trucking job and find yourself filling out an IntelliApp.
On the safety side, Tenstreet integrates with major telematics and dashcam providers, including Samsara, Motive, Lytx, Geotab, Trimble, and Platform Science. These integrations import ELD-triggered dashcam events directly into Tenstreet’s safety management tools, letting fleet safety managers review incidents alongside driver records without toggling between separate systems.
Why Drivers Keep Running Into It
Tenstreet has become something close to the default application system in the trucking industry. With tens of thousands of carriers in its network and integrations with nearly every major job board, most CDL drivers will encounter the IntelliApp at some point in their job search. The experience is similar to applying through a platform like Workday or Taleo in other industries: individual companies use it as their backend hiring system, so you interact with it whether or not you’ve heard the name before.
For drivers, the practical benefit is speed. Your first IntelliApp takes the longest because you’re entering everything from scratch. After that, each subsequent application to a different carrier reuses most of your data. Your documents stored in Pulse travel with you from job to job, and verification requests between carriers happen electronically instead of through slow manual processes.