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North America’s top motor carriers, dedicated fleets and 3PLs, and private trucking fleets rely on NTI’s data, surveys, and wage benchmarking reports to build compensation and benefits programs that underpin recruiting and retention success.
NTI’s research empowers fleets to take an analytical, data-based approach to building compensation plans to achieve their hiring goals, monitor real-time changes to driver pay, and to engage with their workforce, leadership teams, and customers to remain competitive in changing market cycles.
Executives, recruiting and HR managers, compensation analysts, and operations and sales teams have access to benchmarking tools for nearly 200 attributes of driver pay programs, along with Power BI-driven graphs and visuals to easily compare wages, benefits, bonuses, incentives, and the dozens of other components that make up driver and technician comp plans. Compare your pay to select competitors and the market at large to gain an in-depth understanding of where your pay ranks, how you can make adjustments to grow in the markets you operate, and to understand how economic trends are affecting driver wage momentum.
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“Understanding how to articulate your pay, making a plan for messaging your pay, and being consistent in how you deliver your pay is just as important as the amount you pay,” writes NTI’s Leah Shaver in a column for FleetOwner. Read it here.
NTI’s Leah Shaver recently contributed an article in NORA’s Liquid Recycling magazine, where she explored important driver pay trends specialized fleets should know. Turn to page 12 to read it.
NTI President and CEO Leah Shaver recently joined HDT’s Deborah Lockridge on the HDT Talks Trucking podcast to explore ways to make trucking a more attractive and secure career choice for women across the industry. Listen here.
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On the first Thursday of every month, NTI President & CEO Leah Shaver, aka the Sunshine Girl, goes live on air on SiriusXM Channel 146, Road Dog Trucking, to talk with drivers about all things pay. From paycheck questions to working with fleets on resolving issues around compensation, HR and legal, life on the road, and relationships with their employers, Payday on Road Dog Live dives into topics drivers care about most.
Catch every episode live on SiriusXM, SiriusXM.com, or the SiriusXM app, where you can also listen to episodes on demand.
