Dedicated Flatbed
$300
per day
$3,000
sign-on bonus
- Weekly bonus on top of day rate
- Assigned truck, no slip-seating
- Hauls
- Pipe.
- Runs
- Blytheville to West Memphis, loops, all day.
- Hiring
- Memphis, TN · North Mississippi · East Arkansas
You already know somebody who should be driving here.
Nine questions, no Social Security number, and the name of the driver who sent you — so the right driver gets the credit.
Send the link. That is the whole thing.
Every driver at Empire knows two or three good ones somewhere — somebody you ran with, somebody at the next dock, a brother-in-law tired of a company that treats drivers like a number. This page is so that sending one of them takes thirty seconds instead of a phone call and a game of telephone.
Send the link. Nine questions, then a recruiter calls and says what is actually open near home. Your name is the first thing the form asks for, so it stays attached the whole way through.
What this page does not ask for
No Social Security number, no ten years of address history, no three references before anybody has said what the job pays. That comes later, in the full application, after a conversation with a person and a decision to go ahead. Asking a driver for an SSN before they know whether the job is any good is how you lose a good driver — and it is how a referral turns into a favour that wasted somebody’s evening.
The numbers on this page are the real ones
Every lane below shows the same pay Empire publishes on driveforempire.com, read from the same file. Not a summary of it, not a version written for this page — the same numbers. You should be able to send this to somebody you know without checking it first.
Five ways to run
Pay, home time and hiring area for every lane Empire is hiring in. These are the same numbers driveforempire.com publishes — they are read from one place, so the two sites cannot tell your friend two different things.
Regional Flatbed Mileage Pay
$0.75
per mile, up to
$1,400 – $2,000
average weekly gross
$3,000
sign-on bonus
- Assigned truck, no slip-seating
- Hauls
- Pipe, aluminum coils, steel.
- Runs
- Gulf Coast to Blytheville and Memphis — Bay City, Houston, Pasadena — and out to Midland and Dallas.
- Hiring
- Houston and east Texas · Shreveport · Memphis and east Arkansas
Regional Flatbed Percentage Pay
28%
of line haul
$1,800 – $2,400
average weekly gross
- Plus a 2-4% performance bonus
- Assigned truck, no slip-seating
- Hauls
- Steel, aluminum sheet and coil, roofing shingles.
- Runs
- Ohio River mill country — Hawesville, Lewisport, Newburgh — to the Mid-Atlantic, the Carolina coast and Memphis.
- Hiring
- Kentucky · Southern Indiana · Ohio and more
OTR Van
$0.75
per mile, up to
$1,600 – $2,200
average weekly gross
$3,000
sign-on bonus
- Assigned truck, no slip-seating
- Hauls
- Dry van — general freight, apparel, chemicals.
- Runs
- Memphis and Nashville to Atlanta, Savannah, Orlando, Ohio and Laredo.
- Home
- Out roughly two weeks at a time.
- Hiring
- The Deep South · East of I-35
Owner-Operators
75%
of line haul, with your trailer
- 67% pulling an Empire trailer
- Settled weekly
- Hauls
- Your choice — van or flatbed.
- Runs
- Any of our FB and Van lanes.
- Hiring
- Anywhere we run company drivers
What comes with the seat
The same in every lane. If something differs by lane, it is on that lane's page, not buried here.
- Assigned trucks
- You get a truck and it stays yours. No slip-seating, no walking out to a different cab every week.
- Medical, dental and vision
- Full medical through UnitedHealthcare, plus dental, vision, life and AD&D.
- Disability, company paid
- Short-term and long-term disability, both paid by Empire. Not offered — paid.
- 401(k) with a company match
- Retirement plan with an employer match.
- Vacation pay
- Paid vacation.
- Pets and riders
- A pet policy and a rider policy, because a truck you live in should hold whoever lives in it with you.
Tell us who you are
Most carrier application forms ask for your Social Security number, ten years of address history and three references before anybody has told you what the job pays or whether they hire in your county. That is backwards. It is a lot of a driver's evening spent on a job they may not want.
So this one is nine questions, and none of them are your Social Security number. A recruiter calls you, tells you what is actually open near you, and answers whatever you ask. If it sounds like a fit, the full DOT application comes after that conversation — and by then you will know what you are filling it out for.