driver pay increase

In this AskWaves, we look at the potential for a driver wage boost if a critical exemption in federal labor law were lifted.

With the pay boost, the company’s more experienced drivers will bring in 63 cents per mile.

GP Transco is the latest carrier to raise driver pay. Base pay alone for company drivers moves 15% higher.

Reliance Partners’ Thom Albrecht comments on the industry’s recovery efforts and job growth figures, as well as his thoughts on increasing driver pay.

Carrier Averitt Express said it was raising pay for its newly hired regional truckload and flatbed drivers. The company becomes the latest to increase driver pay as the industry struggles to seat tractors.

Temperature-controlled carrier Nagle Toledo announced a 17% pay increase for its drivers. The company was one of the first to start paying drivers a straight salary.

A couple more truckload carriers have announced pay increases for drivers ahead of the new year. Beacon Transport and Bay and Bay Transportation are the latest.

Schneider National announces a per-mile pay increase of 4 cents for most drivers beginning in late January. Earlier this year, the company announced an increase in team driver pay.

In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, Boyle Transportation’s pharma expertise leveraged in vaccine delivery. Plus, Frozen Food Express boosts driver pay and Forward Air adds California LTL terminals.

Autonomous truck maker TuSimple makes a deal with TRATON GROUP to expand into the European market and KLLM raises driver wages.

Temperature-controlled carrier KLLM Transport Services is rolling out “one of the largest” increases to driver pay in the company’s more than 55-year history.