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
The Lanes
Five lanes, with what each one pays and where each one runs. Find the one that fits the driver you have in mind.
How to pick the right lane
Whether you are picking for yourself or for somebody you are about to send, it starts the same way.
Start with where you live, not with the biggest number.
The lane that pays the most per week is the lane that keeps you out the longest, and that is not a coincidence — it is the trade. If you are within reach of Memphis, West Memphis or Blytheville, the dedicated flatbed runs a day rate on a tight footprint. If you are in east Texas or the Arkansas delta, the mileage-pay flatbed lane was built around exactly those towns. If you are in the Ohio Valley or the Southeast, the percentage-pay flatbed lane covers more ground than anything else Empire runs. If none of that fits and you want miles, OTR van is the one.
Nobody has to pick correctly. The form has an option for “not sure yet” and a recruiter will work it out on the phone. Pointing somebody at the wrong lane page is not a mistake worth worrying about — pointing them nowhere is.
The cards below are the real numbers
Same pay figures as driveforempire.com, read from the same files, so the card and the lane page and the careers site cannot disagree with each other. You can hand this to somebody 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.