Regional dispatch service for owners who bought the truck to sleep at home
You picked local or regional work for the home time, then bought your own truck, and now the load boards keep showing you freight 900 miles away. Our regional dispatch service draws a ring around your home base and books inside it. You decide how big the ring is. You also decide on every load: the rate con comes to you, and you can pass.
Pick your ring. We book inside it.
The map uses an EXAMPLE home base in Indianapolis, a city with a lot of freight within a day's drive. Switch between the three rings to see which lanes fit each kind of home time. The inner ring is 150 air miles, the same radius federal rules use for short-haul drivers.
Your ring will look different. A home base near a freight hub can stay small and busy. A truck based in a quiet area usually needs a wider ring, or a plan where it runs out on Monday and loops back by Friday.
Straight-line (air) miles from an EXAMPLE home base, Indianapolis, IN. Road miles run longer. Distances from home are compressed so close lanes stay readable.
Home every night
Out and back in a day: the 150 air-mile short-haul radius
- Home ⇄ Cincinnati, OH99 air mi
- Home ⇄ Louisville, KY107 air mi
EXAMPLE lanes, not offers. Your real ring depends on your home base and the freight around it.
The short-haul line. Stay inside 150 air miles of where you start work and finish within 14 hours, and you can use time records instead of an ELD log. Owner-operators running day turns often use it; regional runs past it go back on the log.
Source: 49 CFR 395.1(e)(1) · checked Oct 2026
Local and regional freight we look for, and what we won't pretend
Day turns
Out and back in one shift: a load to a city 100 to 150 miles away and a reload home, or a round trip for one shipper. The hardest freight to find on boards, and the best for home time.
Short regional loads
Loads of 200 to 450 miles that let you deliver, reload and head home inside two or three days. Most regional weeks are built from these.
Loops that come back
When the ring is wide, we plan a loop: out early in the week, loads that bend back toward home, and the last one delivered close by Friday.
Repeat lanes
When a broker has the same lane every week, we try to hold it for you. A steady lane near home is worth more than a slightly better rate somewhere else.
The honest part
A lot of truly local work never reaches a broker. Shippers hire their own drivers or keep dedicated carriers for it. So local day-turn freight on the open market is thinner than regional freight, and some weeks a truck that wants to be home every night will run fewer miles. We'll show you the trade-off before you commit to a ring, not after.
Short loads also come with more stops, more docks and more check calls per mile. That's our job: appointment changes, broker updates, detention clocks and paperwork go through the desk, so your day is driving and loading.
Running a box truck? The smallest truck we dispatch is a 26 ft box. A lot of regional box truck freight is for exactly that size, but we don't book cargo vans, sprinters or shorter boxes.
A regional week from IndianapolisExample
- Mon: day turn to Louisville and a reload back. Home that night.
- Tue: load to St. Louis, overnight there.
- Wed: St. Louis to Chicago, reload to Indianapolis. Home late.
- Thu: load to Columbus, reload to Cincinnati, then home.
- Fri: short day turn, home by afternoon.
Four nights home, one out. The reloads are the part we work on hardest; each one is shopped before the load ahead of it delivers.
National spot rates, June 2026, all-in per mile
- Dry van
- $3.00
- Reefer
- $3.39
- Flatbed
- $3.69
Averages over all lengths of haul. Short loads tend to pay above them per mile and run fewer miles per week.
Source: DAT Freight & Analytics, national averages for June 2026 (released July 9, 2026) · checked Oct 2026
Thinking about the job before the truck? Read regional truck driver and local truck drivers for pay and schedules as a company driver.
Regional dispatch questions
Short hauls don't cost more to dispatch. The fee is 7% of gross while your MC is under 6 months, 5% after that, and 4% for 2 or more trucks (limited time), with no setup fee and no contract. See pricing and terms.
To draw your ring we need your home base (or the yard where the truck parks), the nights you want home, your equipment, and the lowest rate per mile you'll accept for short loads. If you already have a shipper or a lane you like, tell us; we plan around it rather than over it.
We work with owner-operators and small fleets on their own authority. Company drivers on local or regional routes are dispatched by their carrier.
What is regional truck dispatch?
Regional dispatch keeps a truck working inside a set area around its home base, usually a few hundred miles, instead of sending it across the country. The dispatcher books loads that start and end inside that area and plans them so the driver gets home on a set schedule, often several nights a week or every weekend.
Can a dispatcher keep me home every night?
Sometimes, if your area has enough day-turn freight: loads you can pick up, deliver and get home from inside one shift. That works best near freight hubs and with equipment local shippers use. Many drivers end up with a mix: home most nights, one or two nights out a week. We'll tell you after looking at your home base, not before.
Do regional loads pay less?
Per mile, short loads often pay more, because the shipper pays for the dock time and handling as well as the miles. Per week, regional trucks usually run fewer miles, so the gross can be lower. What decides your week is how little time you wait between loads. Tight reloads near home matter more than any single rate.
How far is regional trucking?
There's no legal definition. Carriers call runs regional anywhere from about 150 to 500 miles from home. The one federal line that matters is the 150 air-mile short-haul radius: stay inside it and get released within 14 hours, and you can keep time records instead of a log. Past that, it's regional by agreement, not by rule.
Draw your ring. We'll fill it with loads that bring you home.
Apply in about 2 minutes: tell us your home base and how many nights you want home. Every load comes to you to confirm or pass.