How can I start an independent dispatching company?

Don't

 

Are you an owner?

If not become one and learn first hand what it takes to keep a truck running.

 

The best advice I have seen. Because if you do not know that part of this business you will be doing a disservice to the people you are trying to help. Your goal in a dispatching business is to help your customers ( owner/operator) if not you have no business.

 

And if you don’t have direct freight all you’re doing is charging to load guys with spot market freight from a load board.

 

Who is going to be your customer ?
Who will be giving you your paycheck ?

 

If your not acting as a broker , carrier , owner operator , driver etc etc I know of no laws regarding “dispatching”. I’m not an attorney so take that with a grain of salt.

 

I went to college for my bachelors in Logistics, after I spent a year OTR with my dad learning about how hard it is for drivers out there...if you don't k kw exactly what you're doing, you won't last long, honestly
If you don't have compassion for drivers, and skim off the rate Cons, you won't last, trust and respect your drivers, send them the true confirmation from shippers, not a 2nd copy with the rate changed. They are the ones doing all the work...
GET FREIGHT LANES, dont load drivers off of boards they can do themselves.
I've been doing this 27 years now, if you like answering the phone 24/7 try it out.
You need your brokering authority, freight forwarding authority

 

This is just the latest in a long line of ideas the good idea fairy has put into OP's head. If memory serves, he's a 19 year old kid with a tractor that runs intrastate in California, and has changed business plans like... a dozen times?