Drive 4 Empire
OTR Van
The biggest weekly range on the board, and the newest sleeper we own. You are out about two weeks at a time — we would rather say that on the first screen than the third.
$0.75
per mile, up to
$1,600 – $2,200
average weekly gross
$3,000
sign-on bonus
- Assigned truck, no slip-seating
The trade you are making
This is the highest weekly range we run, and the reason is not complicated: you are out about two weeks at a time. Nobody here is going to dress that up. If what you need is to be in your own driveway every Friday night, one of the regional lanes is the better fit, and we would rather tell you that now than after you have given notice somewhere else.
What you get for it is the top of our pay scale — up to seventy-five cents a mile, sixteen hundred to twenty-two hundred a week — and three thousand dollars in sign-on money.
The truck
An assigned 2025 Peterbilt 579 UltraLoft or a 2026 Freightliner Cascadia. Assigned means assigned: it is your truck, it stays your truck, and nobody else sleeps in it while you are home. We do not slip-seat.
That matters more than it sounds like it does. A driver who is out fourteen days is living in that cab, not visiting it.
Where you run
The Deep South and east of I-35. You are not going to be dispatched to Seattle.
What comes with it
Full medical through UnitedHealthcare, plus dental, vision, life and AD&D. Short-term and long-term disability that Empire pays for rather than offers. A 401(k) with a company match. Paid vacation. And a pet policy and a rider policy — two weeks is a long time to be by yourself.
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.