* Tennessee - U.S.'s second largest private trucking firm announces incentive-based pay raise for drivers
-- It didn't take long for U.S. Xpress drivers to get their first pay raise of 2016... Earlier this week, officials at the country's second-largest private trucking firm announced that solo drivers with 12 months of clean, violation-free driving — whether with U.S. Xpress or another company — will get a 13.5-percent increase in pay per mile, effective March of this year... The safety-based pay increase would boost a solo driver making 40 cents a mile to 45 cents a mile, for instance. U.S. Xpress raised driver wages 13 percent across the board last fall... Company officials said the latest pay raise could take a solo driver with five years' experience up to $70,000 a year... Eric Fuller, president and chief operating officer at U.S. Xpress, said about 40 percent of the company's roughly 3,000-person driver pool is made up of solo drivers...
(Photo by Doug Strickland /Times Free Press: U.S. Xpress's Eric Peterson, Eric Fuller, Max Fuller, and Lisa Pate, from left, pose for a portrait in their offices Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015) -- Chattanooga, Tenn., USA - The Times Free Press, by Alex Green - January 16th, 2016Labels: truck drivers payment, trucking industry news USA
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