More Carriers Offer Drivers Pay Increases

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oining a growing number of truckload carriers responding to the potential for new federal hours-of-service rules to cut drivers’ earnings, three companies last week announced a variety of driver-pay increases.

In addition to raising mileage rates, carriers said they would also pay drivers for the number of stops they made, for being detained to load or unload and for other events that caused them to lose time on the road.

The carriers said they would also push harder than they have in the past to get shippers to pay for delays and inefficiencies in their operations.

Contract Freighters Inc. of Joplin, Mo., announced Dec. 1 that it would significantly increase its stop pay and institute a 6-cent-per-mile increase across the board — the biggest pay increase in the company’s history.

This letter appeared in the Dec. 8 print edition of Transport Topics. Subscribe today.