Updated July 2026
Curtain Van Driver Home Time & Miles in the United States (July 2026)
What's the actual work for curtain van drivers in the United States? Miles, dedicated routes, home time: this is the July 2026 benchmark of what carriers are offering, posting by posting. Right now the median offer is 2,250 miles/week (middle half 1,750–2,850), 26% of postings advertise dedicated routes, and postings that state home time average 3.3 weekends home per month, across 73 active postings.
The curtain van workload in the United States right now
Median offered miles
2,250/wk
69 postings with stated miles · July 2026
The middle half of the United States postings offer between 1,750 and 2,850 miles a week. These are offered miles (what the ad advertises), not delivered miles.
Dedicated routes
26%
of 73 active postings advertise dedicated routes
Weekends home
3.3/mo
average across 67 postings that state home time
Route mix
Source: Lanefinder index, July 2026
What curtain van work actually looks like
Curtainside freight blends van lane structure with flatbed-style cargo, so lanes look like dry van (regional, with meaningful dedicated share) while load handling adds site time that trims offered miles.
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 July 2026 distribution, and how the fastest-hiring carriers on Lanefinder structure their offers.
CDL home time & miles by segment
- What companies pay curtain van drivers, the pay half of the offer
- How fast carriers respond to curtain van 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
- Container 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
- 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
Every figure comes from active job postings in Lanefinder's index. Miles are OFFERED miles (the midpoint of the weekly-mile range a posting advertises), never delivered or actual miles. Percentiles are nearest-rank; each metric only counts postings that state it, and segments with fewer than 30 active postings are not published. Read the full methodology. Updated July 2026.