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
Pay audit for truck drivers
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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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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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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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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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Build your truck driver's evidence file
The driver's safe
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Labor court: how to claim unpaid hours and expenses as a truck driver
When dialogue with the employer is no longer enough, the French labour court (Conseil de Prud'hommes) is the route to recovering unpaid overtime or road expen…
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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
Direct BLE connection to the Smart Tacho 2
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Understand the infringements recorded on your driver card
RSE analysis of the driver card
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Master the tachograph one-minute rule
Short-move assistant
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Your whole driver card in a calendar you can actually read
Your history, day by day
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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 an inspection expire without noticing again
Mandatory inspections
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How TruckerMaster performs its calculations
From raw data to results
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Check whether your equipment is compatible
Technical requirements
Driving in Europe
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