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The average gives each captured advertised offer equal weight. The median is the middle rate in the sorted sample. Both describe gross offered revenue per loaded mile before expenses; deadhead reduces revenue per total mile. Neither is a pricing floor, guaranteed payment or representative national transaction average.

Captured and approved October 30, 2026. Rate per offer = advertised carrier pay ÷ source-listed loaded miles. Average the 34 unrounded offer rates, with equal weight per offer: $1.84 per loaded mile (unrounded 1.8434093265). Median $1.79; observed range $0.32–$3.82. This is not total pay divided by total mileage; that separate mileage-weighted ratio is $1.68.

Coverage: Northeast 8, Midwest 9, Southeast 5, Southwest 6 and West 6 offers. Sources: Direct Freight 32 and Atlantic Logistics 2; independent broker/feed diversity is not established. Collection checked nine boards and 15 states; 199 raw rows were screened. Counts are offer observations, not proven unique freight.

Inclusion: Public domestic offers explicitly tagged BT/box/straight truck with positive carrier pay and source-listed loaded mileage. The OTR headline includes 500+ loaded miles with full or unspecified load type. Mixed tags containing BT are accepted and flagged unless details conflict with box/straight equipment. Missing fuel treatment, posting date, load ID, authority age, insurance, GVWR or cargo weight does not block entry; unknowns remain unknown. Explicit wrong equipment, conflicting 53-foot requirements, implausible values, past pickup dates, cross-border offers and missing essential figures are excluded. No automatic high/low price trimming is used.

Separate groups: Local 1–149 miles, regional 150–499 miles and explicit partial/LTL offers are collected separately and do not enter this OTR mean. This capture retained 31 regional, 6 local and 1 partial observation outside the 34-offer headline.

Duplicates and freshness: Exact source/lane/pay/miles/load-type/pickup-date repeats are collapsed. Different pickup dates may remain separate advertised observations, not proof of separate physical freight. Current page capture does not establish original posting date or present bookability. Pickup dates extend through November 19. No fuel or accessorial amount is invented or added.

Limitations and sensitivity: Four offers have mixed BT/other equipment tags, including extreme low values. Restricting to the 30 box-only tags/explicit descriptions gives a $1.98 mean and $1.85 median. One main-sample BT offer lists 29,000 lb of cargo; this is a broad box/straight-truck sample, not a verified non-CDL-only sample. Keeping one observation per city lane gives 30 offers and a $1.87 mean. Retaining only known cargo weights at or below 10,000 lb gives 27 offers and a $2.06 mean, without proving non-CDL eligibility.

Method change: This replaces the $1.98 historical median from ten October 19–20 captures. The new headline is an arithmetic mean under broader eligibility rules, so the difference does not establish a market decline. The earlier approved sample, expired-offer and possible-duplicate caveats, and legacy $1.66 modeled estimate remain in the research history. The complete evidence is retained in BTO’s ledger, Public Offers Oct30.