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
Assigned trucks. Weekly pay you can read. Dispatched from Memphis.
Five lanes. Flatbed and van. Every pay figure on this site is on the page you are hiring into, not buried in a phone call.
We are a Memphis company and we hire like one
Empire Express runs flatbed and van out of Memphis. Not a call center in another state that happens to have your zip code in a database — an actual terminal, with actual people, in a city somebody here grew up in.
That shows up in small ways that turn out to matter. Your truck is assigned to you and stays assigned to you; we do not slip-seat, in any lane. The lanes are built around where drivers already live rather than around where it would be convenient for us if they lived. And when you call the recruiting line, somebody picks it up.
Read the numbers before you call
Every lane on this site publishes what it pays on its own page: the rate, the weekly range, and the sign-on where there is one. If a lane has a bonus we say what it is. If a lane is hard on home time — and one of them is — the page says so above the fold rather than three paragraphs down.
That is not a marketing decision. It is that a driver who takes a seat believing something that is not true leaves inside ninety days, and everybody involved has wasted a season of their life.
Five ways to run
Pay, home time and hiring area for every lane we are hiring in. The numbers on these cards are the same numbers on the lane pages — they are read from one place.
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.
Apply Now
Rather talk first? Call recruiting at 800-500-3089.