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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.
With enforcement of English-Language Proficiency regulations ramping up, motor carriers and private fleets must be aware not only of compliance
Which drivers are seeing their pay climb in late 2025? How has per-mile pay changed over the past year? What’s
NTI is immensely proud to announce that Leah Shaver, NTI President & CEO, has been named one of four finalists
Recent regulatory changes removing hundreds of thousands of drivers only exacerbates critical driver supply constraints as industry nears a reckoning
Where does the disconnect occur between a child’s excitement of trucks and truckers, teens who have become somewhat apathetic to
Guaranteed pay has been a growing incentive for recruiting and retention. But is it right for your fleet?
Declining interest in college highlights opportunities for fleets to engage the younger generation seeking lucrative, rewarding, and meaningful careers.
In a column in FleetOwner, NTI’s Leah Shaver highlights a curious conversation with a colleague about guaranteed pay, and touts ways the industry has been evolving driver compensation even while barreling through market uncertainty.
NTI analysis in HDT: The slow-but-steady momentum of driver pay increases has been showing surprising resilience despite ongoing uncertainty in the freight market and the broader economy.
NTI’s Leah Shaver lends her insights to an article in FreightWaves about fleets’ announcements of pay adjustments.
