It’s likely there have been other driver pay increases implemented before Illinois-based Nussbaum Transportation announced one this week.
But it does appear Nussbaum is the first one to talk about it so publicly
The announcement this week by Nussbaum brought back memories of when Schneider National (NYSE: SNDR) in September 2020 said it was increasing the pay of its drivers. At the time, it wasn’t certain that it was the first one to increase compensation. But the giant carrier was the one who first did it publicly, and a wave of announced driver pay increases followed, a cascade of them that went on for months.
Joseph Anderson, the recruiting director at privately-held Nussbaum, told FreightWaves in an interview that the higher pay package announced this week was actually the second one the company had implemented in the past two months. But the April increase was not publicly disclosed, he added. Nussbaum is not claiming to be the only carrier that has increased pay.