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Covenant Transport announced a new pay package for the company’s hazardous materials over-the-road drivers that includes per-week minimum pay.
As trucking staggers into the fourth year of the lingering trough, drivers’ mileage pay has been showing surprising ...
Crete Carrier (No. 22 on the CCJ Top 250) and Shaffer Trucking are giving their national over-the-road drivers a one-cent per practical mile raise in 2017, Crete announced Nov. 18. Crete’s OTR ...
C.R. England is implementing the largest overall percentage driver-pay increase in its history, the carrier announced April 22.
In recent years, the government reports 450,000-470,000 people work as OTR truckload drivers. On average, the government reports these drivers are working between 41 to 42.5 hours per week.
Tyson Foods reports it recently awarded a “substantial” pay increase to its over-the-road (OTR), refrigerated-division drivers, elevating compensation pay by up to 3 cents per mile for all ...
Overdrive Extra contributor Clifford Petersen underscores up a central conundrum of trucking work for the uninitiated: Tension between safety, pay, home time and regulation.