Driver guides
Understand your pay
Plain-English guides to how trucking pay really works.
Cents-Per-Mile Pay Explained: How CPM Trucking Pay Really Works
How cents-per-mile pay is calculated, the difference between paid and actual miles, and how to turn your CPM rate into weekly and hourly pay.
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Hourly Trucking Pay: What Your Effective Hourly Rate Tells You
Why effective hourly gross pay is the best way to compare trucking jobs, and how to calculate it from weekly pay and total working hours.
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How Waiting Time at Shippers Affects Your Real Pay
Detention and dock time can quietly lower a truck driver's hourly earnings. Learn how to measure it and factor it into job comparisons.
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Local vs. Regional vs. OTR Trucking: Pay, Hours and Home Time
An honest comparison of local, regional, dedicated and over-the-road trucking jobs — pay structures, schedules, nights away and how to compare them.
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How to Compare Trucking Job Offers the Right Way
A practical checklist for comparing CDL job offers: weekly gross, real hourly pay, paid weeks, home time, equipment and how pay is calculated.
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