CDL-A division · 53′ trailers · swing or roll door
Dry van — the steadiest lane in the book.
Retail, consumer packaged goods, palletized industrial freight. Minimal touch labor, maximum consistency — the steadiest year-round volume in the book.
Fleet photography for this lane is coming from our trucks — not from a stock library. That’s a policy, not a delay.
What moves in it
Retail and consumer packaged goods and palletized industrial freight — the freight economy's baseline. It's the volume that doesn't disappear when a season turns.
The working day
Dock-to-dock work — drop-and-hook or live load, set by the shipper, minimal securement either way. If flatbed pays a premium for straps and tarps in the weather, dry van is the other side of that trade: steadier, cleaner, more predictable hours.
Why it fits a business
Consistency is a business model. Fewer variables per load means your cost-per-mile math holds, week over week — run yours in the cost-per-mile calculator on this site and see how a steady lane changes the picture.
The honest fit
Who this lane fits. Who it doesn’t.
Dry Van fits if…
- You want year-round volume over rate spikes
- You'd rather run more miles than work more tarps
- You value predictable hours and dock rhythms
Look elsewhere if…
- You're chasing the securement premium — that's the flatbed page
- You want the lowest-cost entry into trucking — that's the hotshot division
Telling you a lane isn’t yours is cheaper than a bad six months — for both of us. The other lanes: Flatbed · Step-Deck · the hotshot specialty
Straight answers
Dry Van questions, answered.
Bring one if you have one — owned equipment is welcome. If you don't, ask the desk about trailer options for the division during your application; what's available and on what terms goes in writing at onboarding, like everything else here.
The program mechanics — pay, settlements, requirements — are the same across the fleet: how pay works · the settlement, explained · driver requirements