Updated July 2026
Dry Van Driver Home Time & Miles in the United States (July 2026)
dry van driver work in the United States, benchmarked (July 2026): the offered weekly-mile distribution, the share of dedicated-route postings, and how much home time carriers advertise. Right now the median offer is 2,700 miles/week (middle half 2,000–3,000), 34% of postings advertise dedicated routes, and postings that state home time average 2.9 weekends home per month, across 3,436 active postings.
The dry van workload in the United States right now
Median offered miles
2,700/wk
3,049 postings with stated miles · July 2026
The middle half of the United States postings offer between 2,000 and 3,000 miles a week. These are offered miles (what the ad advertises), not delivered miles.
Dedicated routes
34%
of 3,436 active postings advertise dedicated routes
Weekends home
2.9/mo
average across 2,834 postings that state home time
Route mix
Source: Lanefinder index, July 2026
The shape of dry van freight
Dry van is the baseline for lane structure: the biggest share of dedicated-route postings, the most regional and OTR variety, and offered miles that set the market's reference distribution. If your van offer is below the segment median on both miles and home time, it competes on pay alone.
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 dry van drivers, the pay half of the offer
- How fast carriers respond to dry 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
- 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
- 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
Where these numbers come from
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 July 2026.