Updated September 2026
Container Driver Home Time & Miles in the United States (September 2026)
Through September 2026, Lanefinder benchmarks the work container carriers in the United States are advertising (offered miles per week, dedicated routes, weekends home) so you can see how your lanes stack up. Right now the median offer is 1,750 miles/week (middle half 900–2,250), 43% of postings advertise dedicated routes, and postings that state home time average 3.5 weekends home per month, across 275 active postings.
What container carriers are offering in the United States
Median offered miles
1,750/wk
270 postings with stated miles · September 2026
The middle half of the United States postings offer between 900 and 2,250 miles a week. These are offered miles (what the ad advertises), not delivered miles.
Dedicated routes
43%
of 275 active postings advertise dedicated routes
Weekends home
3.5/mo
average across 260 postings that state home time
Route mix
Source: Lanefinder index, September 2026
Why container lanes run the way they do
Drayage is the most local segment there is: port and rail-yard turns, often home daily, with mileage bounded by gate hours and chassis logistics rather than road time. Weekly-mile offers are structurally low; home time is the segment's selling point.
Benchmark your offer
If applications are slow, pay is the first thing to rule out. Tell us what you're offering and we'll show you where it sits in the September 2026 distribution, and how the fastest-hiring carriers on Lanefinder structure their offers.
CDL home time & miles by segment
- What companies pay container drivers, the pay half of the offer
- How fast carriers respond to container drivers, speed wins the hire
- Why steady miles beat top-line CPM, reframing the offer
- All segments: CDL driver pay benchmarks
- Flatbed home time & miles
- Reefer home time & miles
- Dry van home time & miles
- Tanker home time & miles
- Car carrier home time & miles
- Dump home time & miles
- Hopper bottom home time & miles
- Livestock home time & miles
- Log home time & miles
- Hazmat tanker home time & miles
- Pneumatic tanker home time & miles
- Curtain van home time & miles
- Double drop home time & miles
- Step deck home time & miles
- Removable gooseneck (RGN) home time & miles
- Walking floor home time & miles
How this benchmark is computed
Numbers are computed from live postings, one entry per ad: the midpoint of the advertised weekly-mile range, whether the ad flags dedicated routes, and the weekends-home figure where stated. Offered, not delivered. Percentile bands use the nearest-rank method, and the 30-posting publication bar applies to every slice. Read the full methodology. Updated September 2026.