What Is RoadTrades? A Look at the Job Board Built for the Traveling Trades

RoadTrades.com is a traveling trades job board on one side and a working toolkit on the other — per-diem and tax-home tracking, GPS mileage, credential management, crew tools. That second half is what separates it from the job boards that came before it, and it is the reason the platform is worth a closer look whether you swing the tools or staff the people who do.

Who is RoadTrades for?

Traveling tradespeople. Electricians, pipefitters, welders, millwrights, boilermakers, ironworkers, industrial mechanics, operators — 29 trades in all, covering the people who follow the work: plant shutdowns, turnarounds, outages, new industrial construction, data centers. Road work pays differently than local work — the rate is only part of it, and the per diem, the mileage, and what survives tax season are the rest. RoadTrades is built around that reality.

Recruiters and staffing companies. The firms that hire per-diem craft labor get the other side of the traveling trades job board: a talent pool searchable by trade, certs, and travel radius, structured job postings, matching that scores every application, and real market data to price offers with.

What makes this traveling trades job board different?

Most job boards in the industrial-staffing space follow the same two patterns. First, everything is sold piecemeal — job postings on one invoice, resume-database access on another, sometimes separate fees for each industry vertical. Second, the relationship ends at the application: the board helps someone find a job, then goes quiet until they need the next one.

RoadTrades inverts both. Everything a recruiter uses — postings, talent search, matching, market data, seats — comes bundled in one subscription. And the worker side is not a bare profile: it is a set of tools that keep working between jobs, all year. A board where the workers stay active is a board where the talent pool stays current — which is precisely what a recruiter is paying for.

One more difference shows up on the postings themselves. Every RoadTrades posting answers the questions travelers actually ask, in structured fields: what it pays, what the per diem is, how long the run is, what the schedule looks like. No fishing through paragraphs, no calling to find out the rate.

What does a tradesperson get?

Free, forever:

• Full access to the traveling trades job board — browse and apply, no paywall between a worker and work
• A structured resume built for the trades — trade, certs, travel radius, work history — with an AI polish assist
• A credential wallet that keeps tickets and certs in one place, and flags the gaps between the certs held and the certs jobs are asking for
• An expense tracker with receipt scanning (10 scans a month free)
• A per-diem check that shows whether a stint qualifies as tax-free travel work
• A blended-rate calculator that turns rate + per diem + hours into the real number an offer is worth
• Travel-partner and crew linking for people who run the road together

The paid profile ($24.99/month, 14-day free trial, annual gets two months free) adds the money layer:

• The full per-diem and tax-home tracker, with automatic day and state logging as the year unfolds
• Automatic GPS mileage tracking from a phone — the deduction builds itself
• Unlimited receipt scanning
• A year-end, CPA-ready report — W-2 and 1099 assignments each handled correctly, so tax season starts with a clean pack instead of a shoebox
• A pay-rate negotiator backed by real market data
• A +1 so a spouse or travel partner shares the expense reporting

Crew Tools ($24.99/month flat or $249/year) is the add-on for whoever runs the crew:

• Job sites, crew rosters, and dispatch in one place
• Crew timecards and shared expenses
• Credential checks across the whole crew, plus a safety and compliance hub
• Tool inventory tracking and crew messaging
• One subscription covers it — the entire crew rides free

Beyond the tools, the platform publishes working references: plain-language guides to tax homes, per diem, and mileage, and state-by-state licensing pages that answer whether a license travels before anyone commits to a job. The whole site also runs in Spanish.

What does a recruiter get?

• One board, every trade. All 29 trades on a single traveling trades job board — no per-vertical fees, no juggling separate boards for the pipefitters and the electricians
• Structured postings with pay, per diem, duration, and schedule up front — and an AI assist that turns a pasted job description into a clean, complete posting
• The Black Book talent pool — search traveling tradespeople by trade, certs, and region, with metered contact invites on every plan
• Smart matching — every application is scored against the posting, so the right trade and certs rise to the top of the pile instead of somewhere in it
• Roll-Off Radar — see which workers are coming off assignments next, before the market does
• Market intelligence reports — real federal wage, unemployment, and per-diem data for any trade in any U.S. metro, assembled into a client-ready report in about a minute
• Placement protection — gated contact details, blinded client-ready resume exports, and white-label options that keep a staffing firm in the deal it sourced
• Verified work history — placements confirmed by both sides become locked, verified resume entries, so a candidate’s road history can be read at face value
• Team features — multiple seats, saved searches, favorites, CSV exports, and hiring analytics with ROI reporting

What does it cost?

Recruiter plans run $99 to $899 per month across four tiers — Starter, Team, Agency, and Enterprise — scaling up the active-posting pool, Black Book invites, market reports, and seats. Every monthly plan starts with a 14-day free trial with full access, and annual billing takes two months off. Occasional hirers can skip the subscription entirely with a $99 single job post.

For tradespeople, the traveling trades job board is free to use, forever. The paid profile is $24.99/month, and Crew Tools is $24.99/month with the whole crew included. No tiers within tiers, no games.

The bottom line

Traveling trades job boards have existed for decades. What has not existed is a platform that treats the traveler’s whole working life — the job, the per diem, the miles, the certs, the crew, the tax season — as one connected problem. That is the gap RoadTrades is built to fill: find the work, then run the road.

See it firsthand: browse the board, start a free profile, or tour the recruiter side.