Sample report · Trucking & Logistics
Truck Driver Labor Market
Hiring after the freight boom
Trucking is the clearest labor-market cycle in the archive: heavy-truck postings fell from 2.28 million in 2022 to 1.06 million in 2024 and stabilized near half of boom volume. Posted pay ratcheted from $58,000 to $78,000 and held, while the incentive layer receded, with signing-bonus mentions dropping from 28% to 16% of postings. Requirement extraction reads the fine print at scale: 2.64 million postings explicitly require a CDL Class A.
Heavy-truck postings
-53%
2022 to 2024, the freight reset
Median posted pay
$78K
2026 YTD, up from $58K in 2022
CDL Class A required
2.6M+
postings with extracted requirement
Unique US postings per quarter, heavy vs light truck drivers
Pay held, incentives faded
| Year | Median posted pay | Signing bonus | Urgent-hiring language |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | $58,240 | 28.2% | 8.9% |
| 2023 | $68,640 | 29.2% | 13.8% |
| 2024 | $78,000 | 20.0% | 8.8% |
| 2025 | $72,800 | 21.0% | 9.5% |
| 2026 (H1) | $78,000 | 16.1% | 9.4% |
Inside the full report
- The freight cycle in postings: annual and quarterly volume, heavy vs light truck
- Pay vs incentives: posted wages held while signing bonuses and urgency language receded
- The endorsement economy: CDL Class A, tanker, HAZMAT, TWIC, and doubles/triples requirement counts
- Carrier-level series (C.R. England, Schneider, Roehl, and more) with recruiting-board volume separable
July 2026 archive snapshot. Figures are unique US postings after two-stage semantic deduplication.
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