Updated September 2026
Dump Driver Home Time & Miles in the United States (September 2026)
Miles, lanes, and home time decide whether a dump driver takes your offer as much as the pay figure does. Here's what the United States carriers are offering as of September 2026. Right now the median offer is 1,125 miles/week (middle half 750–1,800), 38% of postings advertise dedicated routes, and postings that state home time average 3.6 weekends home per month, across 298 active postings.
What dump carriers are offering in the United States
Median offered miles
1,125/wk
298 postings with stated miles · September 2026
The middle half of the United States postings offer between 750 and 1,800 miles a week. These are offered miles (what the ad advertises), not delivered miles.
Dedicated routes
38%
of 298 active postings advertise dedicated routes
Weekends home
3.6/mo
average across 270 postings that state home time
Route mix
Source: Lanefinder index, September 2026
Why dump lanes run the way they do
Dump work is construction-driven and overwhelmingly local: quarry-to-site loops that start early and end at home. Offered miles are modest by design; seasonality (construction weather windows) moves posting volume more than lane structure does.
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 dump drivers, the pay half of the offer
- How fast carriers respond to dump 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
- 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
Source: active CDL job postings on Lanefinder. Offered miles per week are posting-range midpoints with nearest-rank percentiles; dedicated share and weekends-home are computed over the postings that state them. Everything here is what carriers offer in the ad, not what drivers ultimately ran. Segments under 30 active postings are withheld. Read the full methodology. Updated September 2026.