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North America’s top motor carriers, dedicated fleets and 3PLs, and private trucking fleets rely on NTI’s data, surveys, and wage benchmarking reports to build compensation and benefits programs that underpin recruiting and retention success.
NTI’s research empowers fleets to take an analytical, data-based approach to building compensation plans to achieve their hiring goals, monitor real-time changes to driver pay, and to engage with their workforce, leadership teams, and customers to remain competitive in changing market cycles.
Executives, recruiting and HR managers, compensation analysts, and operations and sales teams have access to benchmarking tools for nearly 200 attributes of driver pay programs, along with Power BI-driven graphs and visuals to easily compare wages, benefits, bonuses, incentives, and the dozens of other components that make up driver and technician comp plans. Compare your pay to select competitors and the market at large to gain an in-depth understanding of where your pay ranks, how you can make adjustments to grow in the markets you operate, and to understand how economic trends are affecting driver wage momentum.
Driver turnover remains one of the biggest and operational and financial challenges fleets face, and fleets often find themselves determining
Private fleets last year extended the gap between professional driver pay at their companies and those at for-hire fleets. Here’s
Here’s NTI’s 2025 recap of driver pay trends, resources published throughout the year for your fleet to lean on, and
If we want to hire, retain, and support the drivers who make all of this possible, then the way we
With enforcement of English-Language Proficiency regulations ramping up, motor carriers and private fleets must be aware not only of compliance
Which drivers are seeing their pay climb in late 2025? How has per-mile pay changed over the past year? What’s
Declining interest in college highlights opportunities for fleets to engage the younger generation seeking lucrative, rewarding, and meaningful careers.
In a column in FleetOwner, NTI’s Leah Shaver highlights a curious conversation with a colleague about guaranteed pay, and touts ways the industry has been evolving driver compensation even while barreling through market uncertainty.
NTI analysis in HDT: The slow-but-steady momentum of driver pay increases has been showing surprising resilience despite ongoing uncertainty in the freight market and the broader economy.
NTI’s Leah Shaver lends her insights to an article in FreightWaves about fleets’ announcements of pay adjustments.
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On the first Thursday of every month, NTI President & CEO Leah Shaver, aka the Sunshine Girl, goes live on air on SiriusXM Channel 146, Road Dog Trucking, to talk with drivers about all things pay. From paycheck questions to working with fleets on resolving issues around compensation, HR and legal, life on the road, and relationships with their employers, Payday on Road Dog Live dives into topics drivers care about most.
Catch every episode live on SiriusXM, SiriusXM.com, or the SiriusXM app, where you can also listen to episodes on demand.
