Regional dispatch service that gets you home more nights
Regional and local runs trade long-haul miles for more nights in your own bed. The catch is that good regional freight is harder to string together: shorter loads, more stops, tighter appointments and reloads that have to land near home. Our dispatchers build those weeks for owner-operators and small fleets, and every load still reaches you as a rate confirmation you can turn down.
RATE CON · 06:30
ATL -> MACON -> ATL
HOME 17:30
CONFIRMED
Your radius, drawn as two rings
Draw a ring 150 air miles around the place you start and end your day. Inside it, a driver who's back and released within 14 hours can use the short-haul exception. Draw a wider ring for regional work. Move the farthest point of an EXAMPLE day and see what changes when a run crosses the line.
RADIUS RINGSEXAMPLE
Back at base and released within 14 hours?
Inside the short-haul ring
If every other condition is met, this day can run on time records instead of a log, with no ELD and no 30-minute break required. The 11-hour driving limit still applies.
49 CFR 395.1(e)(1) · 395.3(a)(3)(ii) · checked 2026-10-05
The exception is decided day by day. A driver can run short-haul Monday, take a 300-mile run Tuesday that needs a full log, and be back on time records Wednesday. Our dispatchers know which loads keep you inside the ring and tell you before you confirm when a load will take you outside it.
When the short-haul exception fits
The 150 air-mile exception lets a driver keep simple time records instead of a record of duty status, which also means no ELD is required on those days. A driver qualifies on a given day by staying within a 150 air-mile radius of the normal work reporting location, which works out to 172.6 statute miles, and by returning there and being released within 14 consecutive hours. Property-carrying drivers also need at least 10 consecutive hours off between those shifts.
The carrier keeps the time records for 6 months: when the driver reported for duty, total hours on duty, and when the driver was released. The 30-minute break rule doesn't apply to drivers using the short-haul exception, but the 11-hour driving limit and the 60 or 70-hour cycle still do.
Non-CDL drivers have an extra allowance under 395.1(e)(2), and some local drivers can stretch one day a week to 16 hours under 395.1(o). Both have conditions of their own, so check the rule text or our glossary before relying on them. 150 air-mile exemption, defined
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150 air-mile short-haul exception
Drivers who stay within a 150 air-mile radius of their work reporting location, return there within 14 consecutive hours, and meet the other conditions may use time records instead of RODS and are not required to use an ELD or take the 30-minute break.
49 CFR 395.1(e)(1) · checked 2026-10-05
When a regional run needs full logging
The moment a day breaks one of the conditions, by going past the ring or not being released within 14 hours, that day needs a full record of duty status. Most drivers who log more than 8 days in any 30-day period need an ELD for it. That's why we plan regional weeks so you know in advance which days are local and which are logged, instead of finding out at 6 p.m. two hundred miles from home.
49 CFR 395.8(a)(1)(iii) · checked 2026-10-05
Local, regional or over the road
Local
- HOME TIME
- Home every night
- REACH
- Usually inside the 150 air-mile ring
- LOGS
- Often time records under short-haul
Regional
- HOME TIME
- Home most nights or every weekend
- REACH
- A few hundred miles from base
- LOGS
- Mix of short-haul days and logged days
Over the road
- HOME TIME
- Out for a week or more
- REACH
- Anywhere in the lower 48
- LOGS
- Full log on an ELD every day
These are common industry terms, not legal categories. The only distance the federal rules define is the 150 air-mile short-haul radius.
What we book regionally
Regional freight looks different from long haul, and so does the planning. Here's the work we look for, on every equipment type we dispatch. We favor shippers and brokers with steady work in your area, so the same lanes come back week after week and the planning gets easier as we learn your market.
Out-and-back runs
Short multi-stop routes
Regional loops
Repeat local freight
Why regional loads pay differently
Short loads often pay more per mile than long ones, but they come with fewer miles and more time at docks. A 120-mile load with an hour at each end uses a bigger share of your day loading and unloading than a 700-mile run. That's why we judge regional freight by what it earns per day and per hour of your window, not by the rate per mile alone. A day with two good short loads and a reload toward home can beat one long load that leaves you 400 miles out on Friday night.
WHERE THE 14-HOUR WINDOW GOESEXAMPLE
One long load
Two short loads + reload home
- Docks & fuel
- Driving
- Break
An EXAMPLE regional week
- MONOut-and-back: base to Macon and a reload home. Inside the ring, time records only. Home 17:30.SHORT-HAUL
- TUEThree drops around Birmingham, sequenced so the last one is closest to home. Inside the ring. Home 18:45.SHORT-HAUL
- WEDLoaded to Charlotte, 230 air miles: outside the ring, so a full log on the ELD. Overnight near the receiver.LOGGED
- THUReload out of Charlotte back toward base, booked Tuesday. Logged day. Home by evening.LOGGED
- FRILocal repeat load for a shipper near base. Home 15:00, weekend off.SHORT-HAUL
EXAMPLE only, for a 26 ft box truck based near Atlanta. Every load reached the driver as a rate confirmation first.
How we plan a week around home time
- 1Tell us your nightsWhich nights you need at home, and when your week has to end.
- 2Plan backwardWe start from the last delivery near home and work back to Monday.
- 3Book the reloads earlyEach afternoon's load home is shopped before the morning delivery.
- 4You confirm each oneEvery rate con comes to your phone first. Say no and we find another.
Home every night is realistic on some lanes and in some markets, and not in others. We'll tell you on the first call what your area supports, rather than promise every night and miss.
What our dispatchers handle on regional weeks
Reloads toward home
Dock times that fit
Ring awareness
Paperwork and check calls
Regional dispatch fits owner-operators and small fleets who want to be home most nights or every weekend, run box trucks, hotshots, dump trucks, flatbeds, vans or reefers in a defined area, and would rather earn on shorter loads than sit out for weeks.
What regional dispatch costs
The same tiers as all of our dispatch: 5% of gross for one truck with authority older than 6 months, 7% for a new MC under 6 months, and 4% for fleets of 2 or more trucks while the fleet rate lasts. No setup fee, no contract, and the fee is only charged on loads you haul. Deadhead miles and days at home are never charged. Full pricing
More nights at home, loads that fit your radius
Apply in about 2 minutes. Every load waits for your yes.
Keep me home more nightsEXAMPLE · 49 CFR 395.3 · checked 2026-10-05