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.
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.
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.
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.
$0.75
per mile, up to
$1,600 – $2,200
average weekly gross
$3,000
sign-on bonus
Over-the-road dry van driving for Empire Express. Up to $0.75 per mile, $1,600 to $2,200 average weekly gross, a $3,000 sign-on bonus, and an assigned 2025 Peterbilt 579 UltraLoft or 2026 Freightliner Cascadia.
$0.75
per mile
$1,400 – $2,000
average weekly gross
$3,000
sign-on bonus
Regional flatbed driving for Empire Express out of Memphis, Arkansas, east Texas and Louisiana. $0.75 per mile, $1,400 to $2,000 average weekly gross, a $3,000 sign-on bonus, and an assigned late-model Peterbilt, Volvo or Cascadia.
28%
of line haul
$1,800 – $2,400
average weekly gross
Percentage-pay regional driving for Empire Express across Kentucky, the Ohio Valley, the Great Lakes, the Mid-Atlantic and the Southeast. $1,800 to $2,400 average weekly gross in an assigned 2026 or 2027 Freightliner Cascadia.
$300
per day
$3,000
sign-on bonus
Dedicated flatbed driving for Empire Express out of Memphis, West Memphis and Blytheville. $300 per day plus a weekly bonus, a $3,000 sign-on bonus, and a modern assigned flatbed tractor.
75%
of line haul, with your trailer
Owner-operator opportunities with Empire Express. Seventy-five percent of line haul pulling your own trailer, or sixty-seven percent pulling ours, running out of Memphis, Tennessee.
The same in every lane. If something differs by lane, it is on that lane's page, not buried here.
Nine questions. A recruiter calls you back, and you decide from there whether you want to fill out a full application. We do not need your Social Security number to have a conversation.
