Average Dry Van Per Mile Pay 2025

Percentage or miles doesn't really matter if you're not getting any (or very little) accessorial pay for ALL on duty time they're both the same difference. If you're having to save time by logging loading/unloading time as off duty or sleeper berth or taking other such shortcuts what difference does it make what's being paid per mile or per load?

 

Your not wrong. Just saying that ive found percetage usually ends up with my account having more numbers in it on average then CPM

 

Percentage and accessorial pay usually go together
Unless its market freight, then its crap on just about every end.
Contract freight Matters

 

I’m on salary..works out to about $0.20 +/-



Wife is the boss

 

I’m at 74 doing flatbed. A good friend does dryvan IL to PA. 2 rounders per week he’s at $1700 around 2500 miles, home on Friday morning till Monday morning.

 

At Swift I was topped out at 64 cpm as a regional driver. Regional has an 8 cpm advantage over OTR.
14 years there, but yearly pay increases top out at 10 years. The biggest increases are in the earlier years.
After 10 years all you can hope for are system wide increases, which don't happen very often.

 

I’ve been doing about 40% Local work @ $25 hr. And running 400-1200 mile round trips. Working 5 days per week. Pays been anywhere from .52-.66cpm. Weekly pay averages $1500+. Had a 6 day $2100 week, along with a few $1650-$1725 5 day weeks. Had a couple short weeks. Last week 36 hrs. Only made $900. Easy work. Nice for a change. Tight schedules on the road work. No layovers. Next week I’m running 2 1550 mile rd trips. Should pay $1800-$1900. Don’t know yet. Not looking forward to being gone 5 days. I take whatever is available, because I told them I want as much work as possible. So far, pay checks have been more than expected. More importantly they leave me alone. No micro managing or nit picking. I do my job, stay out of the Office. Try not to be a PITA. I Just got a nice upgrade to a newer Truck. I’ll drive anything. Old Cascadia was beating the hell out of me though. I don’t want to retire a cripple. Otherwise I’m still looking to get out of Trucking all together ASAP. For now it’s beats any alternatives I can see. A good friend of mine who’s worked 11 yrs. as a Shipping office/forklift operator just got fired due to “downsizing”. The obvious real reason is he’s 62 yrs old, and making top pay. All Workers are nothing more than a Commodity. Just Business nothing personal. Too bad it’s that way. Everyone is replaceable. Pay is never enough. No such thing as too much money. Only worth what the Market will bear. Just like anything.

 

That sounds like a heart attack or stroke waiting to happen.