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How to check your road salary slip without error?
Night hours, increases, meal allowances... Discover the 3 mandatory checkpoints to ensure that your employer pays you to the nearest cent.
The simple guide to CSR regulations for truck drivers
Driving time, compulsory breaks, daily rest... Everything you need to know about European transport laws to drive peacefully and avoid fines.
Minimum wage and overtime for truck drivers in Europe (2026)
The legal wage floors, working time and overtime premiums in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland and Romania — backed by official sources.
Rest, compensation and right to return: what you're actually owed
The 45 h rest away from the truck, the compensation for reduced rests that nobody respects, and the right to go home every 3-4 weeks. Three things that get mixed up — here is what the rules actually say.
The RSE Bluetooth Cockpit in real time: Your driving assistant
Connect your phone directly to the tachograph via Bluetooth and benefit from a live driving assistance dashboard to manage your RSE times and avoid infractions.
Why Truckermaster is the safest tool for your data
Where do your pay slips go? Can your boss see your analytics? Discover our manifesto on 100% local encryption and the protection of your privacy.
Complete Glossary: Understanding Road Transport Jargon
TS, TTE, IGD, coefficients... Don't get lost in technical HR terms anymore. The professional driver's simplified dictionary.
Travel costs: meals, snacks and bedtime (France vs. Foreigner)
When are your travel allowances due, in what amount, and why are foreign costs increased? Trap #1: being paid the French rate for international days.
Overtime: 25%/50% increases and thresholds
How are your overtime hours calculated, for what time, and why waiting at the dock counts. The line where the most money is lost in transport.
Industrial tribunal: claim unpaid hours and expenses
Evidence to be gathered, limitation period of 3 years, progress of the procedure. What to do when dialogue with the employer is no longer enough.
Read your driver card yourself
Without going through the company: USB reader on Android, reading on computer then transfer for iOS, and your GDPR access right to your own data.
Amplitude, service time and outages
Amplitude, service time, driving time, cuts: the concepts that come up in all pay disputes, finally decoded.
Do the rules change depending on the country in Europe?
Driving and rest are the same everywhere (561/2006). What changes: the labor code, night hours, minimum wage, secondment and fines.
Night work: period, 10-hour ceiling and increases
When does “night” start, why your day is limited to 10 hours, and how your night hours should be compensated on the payroll.
Collective transport agreement (CCNTR)
Monthly payments, equivalence hours, short and long distance, bonuses and fees: what the CCNTR (IDCC 16) really changes on your pay.
The rule of +1 hour / +2 hours to return home
Article 12 of 561/2006 allows you to go a little further in your behavior to reach your home or depot before a weekly rest. Under strict conditions – otherwise it becomes an offense again.
Control and fine: your rights and how to contest
Security exemption (article 12), manual indication, supporting documents to keep and dispute procedure: assert your rights according to the rules.
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