While Schneider’s announcement of higher driver pay may have been more prominent given its size, smaller companies had been raising their pay levels for several weeks prior to the Schneider announcement.
Dave Ables, president and CEO of Minnesota-based Dart Transportation, is one of the companies that got a jump on others with an early August move on several fronts. In an interview with FreightWaves, Ables said the steps he took were mostly aimed at the independent owner-operators Dart employs,...
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