Guides
All the guides, sorted by situation. Each one answers a specific question a driver asks.
Pay and wages
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Compare your driver card with your payslip
TruckerMaster sets your real hours against the lines of your payslip, calculates the gaps and prepares a clear file to request a correction.
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France — Truck driver overtime: 25%, 50% and the thresholds nobody checks
This is where the most money is lost in transport. Not necessarily through dishonesty, but because the calculation is complex and almost no one cross-…
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Night work: the period, the 10-hour cap and the pay
Driving at night changes two things: your working day is shorter (10-hour cap), and your night hours must be compensated. But you need to know when &q…
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France — Truck driver travel expenses: how much are your meal, breakfast and overnight allowances worth?
Travel expenses are not wages, but they make a significant difference at the end of the month. And it is one of the most frequently underpaid items,…
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France — The collective agreement: what really determines your pay
The Labour Code sets the foundation, but in road transport it is the collective agreement that governs the essentials: reference service hours, equiva…
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France — Shift span, working time, breaks: the words that decide your pay
Shift span, working time, driving time, break, rest… We use them every day, but we often mix them up. Yet each concept follows a different rule, and i…
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Complete Glossary: Understanding Road Transport Jargon
It's not easy to decipher the obscure acronyms and technical terms on your pay slip or your employment contract. TS, TTE, IGD, CCNTR, Coefficients... …
Defending your rights
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My employer isn't paying my overtime — what can I do?
One thing has to be said first, because it decides everything else: how much an overtime hour is worth is not an EU question. Europe harmonises how lo…
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Build your truck driver's evidence file
Gather your card days, your payslips, your calculations and what happens out on the road — so you can prepare a discussion based on precise facts rath…
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Unpaid hours: which country's courts can you actually go to?
If your employer is registered in one Member State and you drive out of a depot in another, you are probably not stuck with the company's home courts.…
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Inspections, exemptions and traffic fines: know your rights
A recorded infringement is not always inevitable. Between the safety exemption under Article 12, the manual annotation and the appeal procedure, you h…
Driver card and tachograph
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Read your driver card yourself, without going through your company
Your driver card is your working memory. You don't need to wait for your company to give you access: with a simple reader, you can read it yourself,…
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The plain-language guide to EU social regulations for truck drivers
EU social regulations govern the working time of professional road transport drivers. Between driving times, breaks, rest periods, and hefty fines, it…
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Your tachograph live on your Android phone
TruckerMaster turns more than 25 ITS data items from the Smart Tacho 2 into a clear RSE (driving and rest times) dashboard, with no dongle, no company…
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Understand the infringements recorded on your driver card
TruckerMaster spots the overruns and anomalies in your activities, then explains the rule concerned, the period and the severity level.
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Master the tachograph one-minute rule
Leapfrog watches the current minute and guides you with sound signals and a countdown when your truck has to be moved a few metres.
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Your whole driver card in a calendar you can actually read
Every day recorded by your tachograph becomes a readable square: driving, work, availability, rest, duty span and expenses.
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Rest, compensation and return: what you're actually owed
Three different things that get mixed up all the time — and that many employers "forget": the length of your weekly rest, the compensation f…
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Driving home: the +1h / +2h rule and its pitfalls
Article 12 of Regulation 561/2006 allows, in certain cases, a slight excess of driving time to return home or to the depot before a weekly rest period…
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Never let a document expire without noticing again
Medical examination, FCO, driver card, roadworthiness tests and tachograph inspection: the seven deadlines that can take you off the road, tracked to …
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How TruckerMaster performs its calculations
Every result must be traceable to a piece of data, a rule, a period and a calculation method the driver can understand.
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Check whether your equipment is compatible
Three things can get in the way: the phone, the card reader, the on-board unit. Here is what each one needs, and what is only needed for certain funct…
Driving in Europe
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HGV rules in Europe, country by country
Plan your trips with the driving bans, public holidays, seasonal restrictions, ADR rules and national specifics that matter to truck drivers.
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Compare the minimum wages of truck drivers in Europe
Find the legal floors, the sector rules and the main premiums that apply in the countries documented here.
