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Sep 27, 2014

TRUCKERS PAYMENT * USA: Drivers gain from wage race as truckers turn away cargo

* Indiana - Faster U.S. economic growth could exacerbate the driver shortage
Columbus,IND,USA -Bloomberg, by Thomas Black/Ed Dufner and Gail DeGeorge -Sep 25, 2014: -- Tommy Walters, hauling lawnmowers to Rhode Island from Maryland with his Boston terrier Daisy riding shotgun, is feeling flush these days after the biggest raise of his 17-year trucking career... It’s a big step up from Walters’s usual $48,000 to $55,000, and he’s not alone in an industry where drivers’ wages haven’t kept pace with the national average. Long accustomed to driver shortages, U.S. companies now find themselves fattening up paychecks to retain employees and handle surging freight demand... U.S. Xpress Enterprises Inc., Walters’s employer, announced a 13 percent average boost in August, more than four times the industry-wide increase last year. It became the shot heard around the trucking business, outpacing Con-way Inc., Celadon Group Inc. and other competitors that have also raised pay to keep their trucks rolling... Average driver wages may rise as much as 6 percent in 2014, said Kenny Vieth, president of Columbus, Indiana-based Americas Commercial Transportation Research Co...

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