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Did you catch our recent webinar, “Driver Outlook & Wage Trends You NEED To Pay Attention To!”? We received more questions than we had time to answer in the allotted time frame, so our presenter, NTI’s COO Leah Shaver, has answered them below in this Q&A-style blog post. If you weren’t able to join the

NTI COO Leah Shaver to continue as Secretary on the WIT Board of Directors Press Release from Women In Trucking Association Association: Plover, WI – June 14, 2019 –  Women In Trucking Association (WIT) is pleased to welcome new board of directors and officers. The change came from an annual meeting where the association votes on

NTI’s quarterly study of key driver compensation categories found that, while the acceleration of pay moves has decreased, the pay changes that were made do rank as substantial. The trends from Q1 of 2019 point to the continued difficulty in attracting and keeping highly qualified drivers. KANSAS CITY, MO. – June 3, 2019 – The

National Transportation Institute (NTI) Chief Operating Officer Leah Shaver will serve as a featured presenter and a panelist during the upcoming Trucking Profitability Strategies Conference, which is being hosted by the Terry College of Business on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens. Set to take place April 28-30, the Trucking Profitability Strategies

National Transportation Institute CEO and founder Gordon Klemp will serve as the subject matter expert for an April 25th webinar to be presented by Spireon’s FleetLocate service. The webinar, entitled Driver Compensation and the Driver Shortage: What’s Working?, will focus on one of the most pressing questions facing the trucking industry today. Through the free

The National Transportation Institute is again overseeing all aspects of the confidential data collection and analysis of the WIT Index. The annual survey accurately tracks the percentage of women working as professional drivers and in management positions within the trucking industry, the expansion of which is seen as a key solution to the driver shortage.

National Transportation Institute (NTI) released a supplement to its Quarterly National Survey of Driver Wages report, published in March, in response to rapid movement in driver pay. Due to the extreme volatility in driver pay at the end of the quarter, NTI has issued a supplement with updated data to provide subscribers with clear, actionable

KANSAS CITY, MO (February 20, 2018) — The National Transportation Institute (NTI), the trucking industry’s source for knowledge capital, announced the survey for the 2018 private fleet compensation research study is now underway. Private fleet executives nationwide consider this annual proprietary research to be the gold standard for accurate, reliable driver compensation data because it