Three fleets announce driver pay bumps
Milan Express, Central Oregon Truck Company and Risinger recently announced driver pay increases. Central Oregon and Risinger each instituted a weekly guarantee salary.
View ArticleGuaranteed pay making waves in driver compensation
Fleets are introducing plans that promise company drivers a minimum weekly pay. Will owner-operators be next to see the benefits from this growing trend?
View ArticleNo guarantees for fleets trying guaranteed pay
Small fleets are showing an eagerness to experiment with guaranteed pay for employee drivers. Of those that have established such a program, 83 percent did so within the last five years, though 67...
View ArticleGuaranteed pay: The promise for company drivers, small fleets
Guaranteed-minimum plans born in recent years have generally higher minimums than those of the past -- for driver Dereik Rich, his carrier's move to a salary program and his own shift from local to OTR...
View ArticleFive more fleets announce driver pay bumps
CFI, Heartland Express, Roehl Transport, Paschall Truck Lines and K.L. Harring each announced pay increases that are either already in place or go into effect later this month.
View ArticlePodcast: The demise of One20 Trucking, and its owner-op’s efforts to get paid
Owner-operators Lee and Lisa Schmitt say they are still owed in the neighborhood of $4,200 for loads hauled under the One20 authority through early May. That was around the time when they, like the...
View ArticleThe chicken-little tactics behind the ‘driver shortage’
The latest from owner-op Clifford Petersen: "Big trucking has been running around like chickens with their heads cut off for years now. In 1993, when I first came into the trucking industry, they were...
View ArticleDart announces pay increase for OTR owner-ops
The increase, the company's third in the last 12 months, gives owner-ops an additional 4 cents-per-mile. Dart says its OTR owner-operators will have the potential to earn up to $165,000 or more per year.
View ArticleFour fleets announce driver pay bumps
Atlas Van Lines, Maverick, Heyl Truck Lines and Kottke Trucking are the latest fleets to announce driver pay increases.
View ArticleModest proposal: Outlining a federal, graduated CDL
Spitballing a graduated CDL with Clifford Petersen, which "could be the approach to take if lawmakers are seriously considering bringing 18-year-olds into over-the-road operations."
View ArticleFactoring: A view from the broker’s side
Previously in this series: Just as truckers have benefited from the online portals that factoring companies have opened to their clients for credit checks and other services, in some cases the brokers...
View ArticleHopeful and careful-what-you-wish-for dynamics in reader commentary in wake...
Everybody's favorite subject of debate -- the hours of service rule -- has engendered plenty among Overdrive's mostly owner-operator readers.
View ArticleTrucking ‘in trouble’ if it doesn’t solve the payroll problem for drivers
A dispatch from reader and 30-year trucking veteran Peter Harrigan: "In the last three years I've been told of the 'driver shortage' yet to come. Looking at the big picture, it's not a driver storage,...
View ArticleFour fleets announce driver pay changes
USA Truck, Super Service and Big G Express each announced pay increases for drivers, and Walmart announced a new referral bonus for drivers who recruit a new hire.
View ArticleDriver pay continued to push carriers’ costs higher in 2017
In sum, carriers' per-mile costs rose 9.9 cents a mile in 2017 compared to 2016, with increased spending on driver wages and benefits accounting for more than half of that increase -- 5.2 cents.
View ArticlePOLL: Which issue would you describe as the biggest in trucking today?
Which of these major issues of discussion in trucking gets your vote for the most pressing today?
View ArticleAt risk of repeating oneself … Pay and the ‘driver shortage’
More evidence improving financial and other conditions for drivers and owner-operators, and a shift in carriers' top recruiting concerns to those of retention, will pay dividends for the overall...
View ArticleJudge rules drivers should be paid minimum wage for all hours worked —...
The judge's Oct. 19 opinion says that drivers’ total compensation, once divided by the total number of hours worked, should equal at least the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. However, the...
View ArticleTruckers are classified as ‘unskilled labor’? Nope
A new video from TruckerNation effectively debunks this oft-repeated myth. What it doesn't do is highlight what's typically happened in my own experience when those invoking the myth are asked for some...
View ArticleLocal/regional fuel hauling and the winter volume boost, cost tradeoffs and more
This week's Overdrive Radio podcast features small fleet owner Dave Marti of Forrest, Ill., with six power units leased to Transport Services of Sullivan, Ill., hauling fuel in the region around his...
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