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Driver pay in the final months of 2024 has seen its largest year-over-year gains throughout 2024, albeit those gains still remain sluggish, according to current data in The National Transportation Institute’s National Survey of Driver Wages. Per-mile wages across experience levels — 1 year, 3 years, max experience, and cap earners — rose a percentage point from the same time in 2023. Those gains build on the late summer momentum NTI reported in September. 

The per diem rate the IRS allows trucking companies to provide to drivers as tax-free earnings — and lets companies use to lower their own tax liabilities — jumped on Oct. 1, to $80 per day after holding steady at $69 per day the past two years. How should your company navigate this change?

Despite the freight market malaise and 2024’s overall sluggish pay movement, the summer months did bring the most movement to driver wages so far this year, according to the latest data from NTI’s National Survey of Driver Wages. Here’s what the latest data shows around per-mile pay, pay be experience level, market-level data, and more.

“Our drivers often quit with no notice. How can we address this when it happens?” Here are three strategies NTI recommends employing at your fleet.

Effective communication is one of the most powerful tools your fleet can use to attract and retain professional drivers. Here are a few of NTI’s best practices for implementing successful driver outreach and communication programs.