Pay audit for truck drivers
Compare your driver card with your payslip
Updated 8 August 2026 · by Yann, a working truck driver
TruckerMaster sets your real hours against the lines of your payslip, calculates the gaps and prepares a clear file to request a correction.
Your payslip doesn’t always show you all your hours
Your driver card records minute by minute what you actually did. Your payslip sums it all up in a few lines. Between the two there is room for omissions — rarely spectacular, often repeated.
Driving time
The easiest part to check, and the first one to compare.
Other work
Loading, unloading, maintenance: service time in its own right.
Waiting and availability
Handled under the rules that apply to your contract — not always at the same rate.
Duty span
From clocking on to the end: the frame of the whole day.
Overtime
Above the monthly thresholds, with the matching premiums.
Night hours
Over the period set by your agreement, with the premium it provides.
Saturdays and Sundays
Days worked outside the week often give entitlement to a bonus.
Meals and nights away
Travel allowances, in France and abroad.
Hourly rate and coefficient
They multiply everything else: one mistake here skews the lot.
Not all these periods are paid the same way: the rule depends on your collective agreement, your contract and your coefficient. The audit compares what is comparable and shows you the detail, line by line.
From the driver card to the claim report
- Reading or importing the driver card — with a USB reader, or by importing a file you already have.
- Rebuilding the days — driving, work, availability, rest, duty span, day by day.
- Adding the payslip — by photographing it, or by entering the values by hand.
- Extracting the useful lines — hours paid, premiums, allowances, hourly rate.
- Comparison — real activity on one side, amounts paid on the other.
- Calculating the gaps — in hours, in days, in euros.
- Your own check — every value stays editable before going any further.
- Generating the file — summary and letter requesting a correction.
⚠ Automatic reading is not infallible. A badly printed payslip, a cramped column, a comma taken for a full stop: the information detected must be open to checking and correction before the report is generated. The app also flags obviously implausible values and asks you to confirm them.
What TruckerMaster checks
Normal hours
Up to the first monthly threshold — duty span, service time and breaks.
Equivalence hours
The intermediate tier and its premium — what the collective agreement provides.
Overtime
Above the second threshold — how the 25% and 50% premiums are calculated.
Night work
Over your own time band — the night hours premium.
Saturdays worked
Counted from the card, compared with the bonus paid.
Sundays worked
The same, with the flat rate specific to your agreement.
Midday and evening meals
France and abroad — travel expenses: meals and nights away.
Snacks and nights away
Departures before 5 a.m., nights away from home detected from the card.
Custom bonuses
The ones you declare are deducted, so you never claim twice.
Hourly rate and thresholds
Adjustable to your contract, with an alert if the rate looks inconsistent with your payslip.
Monthly and annual totals
Month by month, with the balance for the year — deferred payments are taken into account.
Repeated omissions
An item missing several months in a row is flagged as systematic.
Public holidays are not yet the subject of a separate calculation: they show up in the days worked, but their own premium is not automated yet. Better to say so than to let you believe otherwise.
Understand straight away where each gap comes from
Demonstration example — fictitious figures, purely to show how to read the table.
| Item checked | Card | Payslip | Gap | Estimate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overtime | 18.50 h | 12.00 h | +6.50 h | ≈ €123.63 |
| Night hours | 9.25 h | 6.00 h | +3.25 h | ≈ €8.09 |
| Midday meals | 21 | 19 | +2 | ≈ €32.20 |
| Saturdays worked | 2 d | 1 d | +1 d | ≈ €55.00 |
Every line links back to the detail of the days concerned: you can trace it down to the exact date before raising it with your employer.
A file that HR, a union or an adviser can understand
The result is not just a figure: it is a preparatory claim file, exportable as a PDF, which contains:
- the summary of the periods analysed;
- the sources used (driver card, payslip);
- the detail of the reconstructed activities;
- the payslip lines taken into account;
- the gaps found, item by item;
- the calculations, with the rates applied;
- the regulatory and collective agreement references used;
- a letter requesting a correction, ready to send.
What this file is — and what it is not. It is a working document, clear and sourced, that lets you open the discussion on a precise basis. It prejudges no decision. For an official procedure or a large amount, have it checked by a union, a union representative, a lawyer or a competent professional — see claiming your hours at the labour court.
Your employer receives nothing without your agreement
- The analysis runs on your device: card decoding and payslip reading included.
- The documents stay under your control, in your evidence vault.
- No automatic transmission to the employer, or to anyone else.
- Exporting is your decision, document by document.
- You can delete a payslip, a month or everything at any time.
- Optional features that would use a remote service are clearly identified and switched off by default.
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Frequently asked questions about the pay audit
Can the driver card be used to check the payslip?▾
Yes. It records your activity minute by minute: driving, other work, availability and rest. It is that activity the audit sets against the lines of your payslip.
Which activities are taken into account?▾
Driving, other work, availability and rest, plus the duty span of each day. From there, the app works out the hour thresholds, the night hours, the Saturdays and Sundays worked, and the travel expenses.
How is the payslip analysed?▾
You photograph it: text recognition runs on your phone and proposes the values it has read. You can also type everything in by hand if your payslip is hard to read.
Can I correct information that was read wrongly?▾
Yes, and it is even recommended. Every value stays editable before the report is generated, and the app flags on its own the amounts or hour volumes that are obviously implausible.
Is overtime calculated automatically?▾
Yes, from the thresholds and premiums set in the app according to your contract. The detail of the calculation is shown: you see which rate was applied to which band.
Are travel expenses checked?▾
Yes: midday meals, evening meals, snacks and nights away are counted from your real activity, France and abroad alike, then compared with what appears on the payslip.
Can I analyse several months?▾
Yes. Every month scanned is added to the annual summary, with the running total and the balance for the year. A single letter can group several months into one request.
What does the PDF report contain?▾
The periods analysed, the sources, the detail of the activities, the payslip lines, the gaps item by item, the calculations with their rates, the regulatory references used and a letter requesting a correction.
Can my employer see my documents?▾
No. The analysis runs on your device and nothing is sent automatically. You are the one who decides to export or send a document, when you judge it useful.
Does the report replace a lawyer or a union?▾
No. It is a preparatory file: it gathers and quantifies the elements in a readable way. For an official step or a large amount, have it reviewed by a union, a union representative or a lawyer.
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