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Market Study * Canada - Driver pay down, dispatchers up
Dispatchers are one of the few truck industry workers that are seeing nominal pay increases
Mississauga,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking -6 April 2009: -- It's not unusual that owner-ops' wages are falling along with carriers' bottom line in the current freight market... What is surprising, though, according to Cerno Research's a leading provider of industrial wage information in Canada, says that while owner-op pay -- especially in the upper percentiles -- contracted last year, highway dispatchers added 3.9 percent at the 50th percentile year over year... Reasons for the up-tick in dispatcher pay include: shortage of skill in some regions; layoffs of lower-paid dispatchers; skill shortage and correction caused by retirement; union contract increases; and outlier transport firms that are still profitable despite the economic slowdown...
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