Updated September 2026
Livestock Driver Home Time & Miles in the United States (September 2026)
What's the actual work for livestock drivers in the United States? Miles, dedicated routes, home time: this is the September 2026 benchmark of what carriers are offering, posting by posting. Right now the median offer is 2,250 miles/week (middle half 1,400–3,000), 54% of postings advertise dedicated routes, and postings that state home time average 3.1 weekends home per month, across 74 active postings.
The livestock workload in the United States right now
Median offered miles
2,250/wk
71 postings with stated miles · September 2026
The middle half of the United States postings offer between 1,400 and 3,000 miles a week. These are offered miles (what the ad advertises), not delivered miles.
Dedicated routes
54%
of 74 active postings advertise dedicated routes
Weekends home
3.1/mo
average across 55 postings that state home time
Route mix
Source: Lanefinder index, September 2026
The shape of livestock freight
Live-haul runs are schedule-critical and often long: animals move when they need to move, including nights and weekends. Home-time offers trail the market, which is part of why the segment pays a premium.
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 livestock drivers, the pay half of the offer
- How fast carriers respond to livestock 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
- 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
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.