Drive 4 Empire
Regional Flatbed Percentage Pay
Percentage pay, the widest running area we have, and the highest weekly range on the board.
28%
of line haul
$1,800 – $2,400
average weekly gross
- Plus a 2-4% performance bonus
- Assigned truck, no slip-seating
Percentage pay
This lane pays a percentage of line haul rather than a rate per mile. That is a different bargain from the mileage lanes and it suits a different driver. When the freight is good you are not capped by an odometer. When it is not, you feel that too. Drivers who like this lane tend to be the ones who want to know what the load did, not just how far it went.
Twenty-eight percent is the base. A performance bonus of two to four points sits on top of it, so the number a driver actually runs at is somewhere between twenty-eight and thirty-two. The weekly range is the highest we publish: eighteen hundred to twenty-four hundred.
Where you run
The widest area we have. Kentucky, southern Illinois and Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Maryland, the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida.
The truck
An assigned 2026 or 2027 Freightliner Cascadia. Yours, and it stays yours. We do not slip-seat.
What comes with it
Full medical through UnitedHealthcare, plus dental, vision, life and AD&D. Short-term and long-term disability, company paid. A 401(k) with a company match. Paid vacation. A pet policy and a rider policy.
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.