Nine questions, no Social Security number, and the name of the driver who sent him — so the right man gets the credit.
Every driver at Empire knows two or three good ones somewhere — a man he ran with, a man at the next dock, his brother-in-law who is tired of a company that treats him like a number. This page is so that sending one of them takes thirty seconds instead of a phone call and a game of telephone.
Send him here. He answers nine questions. A recruiter calls him and tells him what is actually open near where he lives. Your name is the first thing the form asks for, so it stays attached to him the whole way through.
He is not asked for a Social Security number, ten years of address history or three references before anybody has told him what the job pays. That comes later, in the full application, after he has talked to a person and decided he wants to. Asking a man for his SSN before he knows whether the job is any good is how you lose a good driver — and it is how a referral turns into a favour that wasted his evening.
Every lane below shows the same pay Empire publishes on driveforempire.com, read from the same file. Not a summary of it, not a version written for this page — the same numbers. You should be able to send this to a man you know without checking it first.
Pay, home time and hiring area for every lane Empire is hiring in. These are the same numbers driveforempire.com publishes — they are read from one place, so the two sites cannot tell your friend two different things.
$300
per day
$3,000
sign-on bonus
Dedicated flatbed driving for Empire Express out of Memphis, West Memphis and Blytheville. $300 per day plus a weekly bonus, a $3,000 sign-on bonus, and a modern assigned flatbed tractor.
$0.75
per mile, up to
$1,400 – $2,000
average weekly gross
$3,000
sign-on bonus
Regional flatbed driving for Empire Express out of Memphis, Arkansas, east Texas and Louisiana. Up to $0.75 per mile, $1,400 to $2,000 average weekly gross, a $3,000 sign-on bonus, and an assigned late-model Peterbilt, Volvo or Cascadia.
28%
of line haul
$1,800 – $2,400
average weekly gross
Percentage-pay regional flatbed driving for Empire Express across Kentucky, the Ohio Valley, the Great Lakes, the Mid-Atlantic and the Southeast. $1,800 to $2,400 average weekly gross in an assigned 2026 or 2027 Freightliner Cascadia.
$0.75
per mile, up to
$1,600 – $2,200
average weekly gross
$3,000
sign-on bonus
Over-the-road dry van driving for Empire Express. Up to $0.75 per mile, $1,600 to $2,200 average weekly gross, a $3,000 sign-on bonus, and an assigned 2025 Peterbilt 579 UltraLoft or 2026 Freightliner Cascadia.
75%
of line haul, with your trailer
Owner-operator opportunities with Empire Express. Seventy-five percent of line haul pulling your own trailer, or sixty-seven percent pulling ours, running out of Memphis, Tennessee.
The same in every lane. If something differs by lane, it is on that lane's page, not buried here.
Most carrier application forms ask for your Social Security number, ten years of address history and three references before anybody has told you what the job pays or whether they hire in your county. That is backwards. It is a lot of a driver's evening spent on a job they may not want.
So this one is nine questions, and none of them are your Social Security number. A recruiter calls you, tells you what is actually open near you, and answers whatever you ask. If it sounds like a fit, the full DOT application comes after that conversation — and by then you will know what you are filling it out for.
