Truckers with own authority

Are you a broker?

 

Find your own loads like everyone else does.... or lease on to a carrier.

 

There are people who do that already,dispatch services.Good luck on here,I am new on here and have realized there is some good people here,but also a lot of jelaous,negative attitudes also.

 

BigGreg - I personally believe there is a market for this, kind of like a "truckers assistant" - despite the few idiotic comments you will get from knucklehead truckers, I think you could make a sizable income doing this provided you build a nice website and market your services aggressively...

 

and get good freight, not just the broker left over's.

 

that would mean he would have to get a brokers liscense... He's just talking about dispatching... taking the weight of trying to find a load, call on load, haggle lod, confirm load off of the busy driver.....personsally I've always felt that what your offering is a great idea... someone has to book the loads. if it's not the wife at home its the driver sitting at a truckstop...

 

Good paying freight? Not broker trash? Absolutely.

 

Out of curiosity since I have no experience dealing with brokers or anything, but just what would the difference be between what this OP has in mind and being a broker?? The only thing I can see is that he'd be searching load boards to find load and not necesarily dealing with shippers/recievers directly. Would that be what would make it so he wouldn't be an actual broker ?

 

Exactly. Be just like a dispatcher at a small company. Trolling the load boards, calling the brokers with the freight, working out a deal, etc. Basically taking on the legwork of finding and booking a load for the owner/op.

I think this would be a good service, provided the person providing the service has good contacts with decent (eh-heh) brokers.