It turns out that 2021 was a good year, financially, to be a truck driver in the U.S.
Driver wages rose significantly as large trucking companies, retailers and others vied for talent in a field where there are more jobs than bodies to fill them, according to a new report from the American Trucking Associations (ATA).
“The data supports what industry sources have been saying for some time — the driver shortage has been great for drivers who saw their salaries rise last year,” Bob Costello, chief economist at ATA, said in a statement. “Pay increases were broad-based across the industry, for example between salary increases and bonuses, the average truckload driver saw a wage increase of 10.9 percent last year.”
