* Tennessee / USA - Truckers ready new driver pay hikes
-- With freight tonnage increasing in July, and the fall peak shipping season looming, trucking companies are readying another round of truck driver pay increases. Freight demand may not be as strong as a year ago, but the need to secure drivers remains a key pressure point in discussions of truck capacity and truck pricing... Averitt Express last week joined the ranks of trucking companies raising driver wages. It would raise per mile pay for experienced drivers to between 44 and 45 cents per mile, depending on how many years they have on the road... Averitt didn’t say how big of a raise its new pay scale represents, but many carriers have been raising pay by double-digit percentages, led by Swift Transportation, the largest U.S. truckload carrier. Salaries, wages and benefits were up 16 percent at Swift in the second quarter... Many companies that raised pay last year and again in the first half of 2015 are looking at another round of increases. “A good driver, practically speaking, can make in the mid-$50,000s,” Mike Regan, founder and chief of relationship development at TranzAct Technologies, said in a recent interview. “That needs to be in the mid-$70,000s.” ... With the national unemployment rate falling toward 5 percent, hiring truck drivers may become much harder, putting more pressure on driver pay and shipper rates. Trucking companies still claim they cannot find an adequate number of qualified, experienced truck drivers... Year-over-year, trucking employment increased by 40,100 jobs in July, up 2.8 percent. In the first seven months of 2015, trucking employment has risen 2.9 percent on average...
(Photo: Thanks to Averitt) -- Cookeville, TN, USA - J.O.C., by William B. Cassidy - Aug 21, 2015
* ACT / Australia - Draft RSRO issued on minimum payments for contract drivers
-- The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal today issued a draft road safety remuneration order (RSRO) on minimum payments for contractor drivers... The issuing of the draft Contractor Driver Minimum Payments Road Safety Remuneration Order 2016 (draft Payments RSRO) follows extensive consultation with interested parties and the publication of independent research by KPMG on minimum payments for road transport contractor drivers... The draft Payments RSRO covers certain sectors of the road transport industry, specifically drivers involved in the distribution of goods destined for sale or hire by a supermarket chain or drivers involved in long distance operations in the private road transport industry... The clauses in the draft Payments RSRO impose requirements on employers or hirers of road transport drivers and participants in the supply chain...
Canberra, Australia Capitol Territory - Big Rigs - 26th Aug 2015Labels: trucks' drivers payment
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