Search "best truck driving companies" and you'll get a dozen nearly identical lists — same ten or twelve names, ranked by some combination of advertised pay and brand recognition. None of them mention the one number that actually predicts what your first year is going to feel like: turnover rate. That's not an oversight. It's just not a flattering number for most of the companies making those lists. The number every "best" list conveniently skips Large truckload carriers — the big national fleets you'd recognize by name — currently run annual driver turnover rates of roughly 90 to 95%, according to 2026 reporting sourced from the American Trucking Associations. Smaller truckload carriers land somewhat better at 60 to 75%. LTL carriers, by contrast, run dramatically lower turnover, typically in the 11 to 15% range, and regional carriers generally fall somewhere in between at 40 to 60%. Here's the honest nuance most sites skip too: the ATA it...
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