Dry van is the backbone of US trucking, and it's where we book the most loads — every single day. We dispatch 53' dry vans across all 48 states, focusing on round-trip lanes that minimize deadhead and high-RPM regional runs that get you home weekends. Our flat 8% rate is the lowest tier we offer because van freight moves on volume, and we win on consistency.
Concrete numbers from our active dry van dispatch desk.
Van capacity is the most volatile rate in trucking. By Wednesday afternoon you can see the spot market move 8–12% in either direction. The drivers who out-earn their peers aren't running harder — they're running with someone who watches the market move every hour and dispatches accordingly.
The pattern most owner-operators miss: van rates peak Monday–Tuesday (shippers staffing the week), bottom out Thursday–Friday (capacity coming home for the weekend), and reset Sunday night. We dispatch toward the front of the week from the heaviest outbound van markets — Texas, Louisiana, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania — and pivot lanes mid-week toward where rates are climbing.
If you're new to van dispatch: forget headhaul rate-per-mile in isolation. Round-trip RPM is the only number that matters. A $2.40 RPM headhaul with a $1.20 RPM backhaul beats a $2.80 RPM headhaul with deadhead, every single time. We do that round-trip math before we ever send you the offer.
"I switched to TruckersTool Dispatch last spring. Same lanes, my weekly gross went from $7,400 to $9,100. The difference paid my truck note in two months — even after the higher dispatch cut, the rate-after-cut math wasn't close."
"Dispatcher answers in 3 minutes any time of day. They've never put me on a broker that didn't pay. That alone is worth the percentage."
If we missed yours, call dispatch — we'll talk straight.
Apply now and a US-based dispatcher will call you within the hour to walk through onboarding. No contract. No setup fee. Just better loads.