{"id":2762,"date":"2011-07-13T03:43:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T03:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/?p=2762"},"modified":"2011-07-13T03:43:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T03:43:22","slug":"ata-offers-driver-pay-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/ata-offers-driver-pay-study\/","title":{"rendered":"ATA offers driver pay study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/\">American Trucking Associations<\/a> released the ATA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/available-truck-drivers.php\">Driver <\/a>Compensation Study with the first look at the state of the trucking labor market since the end of the recession with data from 2010 and 2011, the new driver compensation study updates the previous report from 2007 and 2008.<\/p>\n<p> It is the trucking lobby\u2019s first report on driver compensation in six years, gleaned from data from publicly held and privately owned nationwide less-than-truckload (LTL), regional LTL, nationwide truckload (TL), regional TL, dedicated carriers, <a href=\"http:\/\/freightbrokerscourse.com\/products\/freight-broker-training\/\">logistic providers<\/a>, and other companies. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trucking industry faces many challenges in 2009,\u201d said ATA president &#038; CEO Gov. Bill Graves.  \u201cAppropriately compensating and retaining top-notch drivers is a necessity for companies trying to weather the current economic storm.  This study provides very important national and regional data the industry desperately needs today and during the subsequent economic recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 96-page report synthesizes information from 155 motor carriers of all types and sizes and includes a variety of data, including:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Employee<a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/available-truck-drivers.php\"> driver<\/a> salaries on national and regional levels;<br \/>\n\u2022 Employee driver salaries by carrier type (flatbed, refrigerated, tank truck and more);<br \/>\n\u2022 Employee driver benefits, including bonuses, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightnowloads.com\/cargo-insurance\/\">insurance<\/a>, retirement and vacation;<br \/>\n\u2022 Employee driver recruitment, training and retention practices;<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/available-truck-loads.php\">Owner-operator<\/a> employment and compensation structure; and<br \/>\n\u2022 Technician employment, salaries and benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Trucking Associations released the ATA Driver Compensation Study with the first look at the state of the trucking labor market since the end of the recession with data from 2010 and 2011, the new driver compensation study updates the previous report from 2007 and 2008. It is the trucking lobby\u2019s first report on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2775,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions\/2775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}