Updated July 2026
Log Driver Home Time & Miles in the United States (July 2026)
Miles, lanes, and home time decide whether a log driver takes your offer as much as the pay figure does. Here's what the United States carriers are offering as of July 2026. Right now the median offer is 1,650 miles/week (middle half 1,000–2,125), 44% of postings advertise dedicated routes, and postings that state home time average 3.2 weekends home per month, across 45 active postings.
What log carriers are offering in the United States
Median offered miles
1,650/wk
42 postings with stated miles · July 2026
The middle half of the United States postings offer between 1,000 and 2,125 miles a week. These are offered miles (what the ad advertises), not delivered miles.
Dedicated routes
44%
of 45 active postings advertise dedicated routes
Weekends home
3.2/mo
average across 42 postings that state home time
Route mix
Source: Lanefinder index, July 2026
The shape of log freight
Log hauling is short-loop, off-highway regional work: woods-to-mill circuits concentrated in timber regions, usually home daily. Offered weekly miles are low; the work is measured in loads, terrain, and equipment wear more than road 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 log drivers, the pay half of the offer
- How fast carriers respond to log 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
- 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
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.