Processes contributing to soil creep dominate the downslope movement of soil particles in many regions, and climate is generally hypothesized to have an important influence on the efficiency of these processes. However, a lack of uniformity in the measurement of transport efficiency has been an obstacle to evaluating the controls on this important landscape parameter. We address this problem by using a single method for calculating transport efficiency from 1-m LiDAR digital elevation data for a set of 6 regions in the United States with a broad range of mean annual precipitation (555 – 1405 mm), mean annual temperature (2 – 15 °C), and erosion rates (6 – 922 mm/ky). To further ensure consistency, the erosion rates are calculated from in-situ ­cosmogenic 10Be concentrations using the same algorithm, and a single source is used for the climate data. Surprisingly, transport efficiency appears to be insensitive to climate but strongly dependent on erosion rate. We propose that this relationship arises from the longer path lengths of the coarser particles found in the soils of rapidly eroding landscapes. Our results imply that the time necessary for a landscape to regain topographic steady-state after a change in erosion rate will depend on the direction of that change. Moreover, our results suggest that there may be a dilational soil creep process that has yet to be identified.