dispatch company

...if thats a serious question - you should be anywhere close to trucking

 

Well both have good intentions when starting out. But only one tries to screw you over form the beginning, the other just takes a while for them to start doing it.

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in this current climate nothing really different about a broker and a dispatcher.


Always remember there is exception to the rules.

 

Dispatch is a company that is finding you loads for a fee. It may be fixed or based on %. Instead of a carrier, they are calling on loads listed on load boards or calling brokers...They find loads in your name, and with your legal permission (your authority) to find and haul loads (using the power of attorney granted to them by you).
Brokers are people who have legal permission (authority) to acquire loads from a variety of sources such as factories, plants, farms, private citizens and then give those loads to individual carriers (truck companies) or dispatch companies - who are acting in the name of the carriers by obtaining their permission /(power of attorney) to do so. They cannot solicit for getting loads from direct shippers nor from brokers on their own, as brokers do.
Dispatch companies might be a useful resource in case of a small fleet where an owner does not have an office where he could hire a dispatcher or he is busy a truck driver himself and does not have time to look for loads for his other trucks. He gives permission to a dispatch company to look for loads in his own name.
I personally detest dispatch companies more than brokerage companies due to the possibility that they create a competition by having a bunch of people staring at load boards at any given time, perhaps booking whatever juicy they can spot, in the name of anyone, then worry about assigning that load to whoever is available, perhaps rectifying the misdeed by calling a broker and apologetically explaining that all is good except that a carrier's name changed or not saying anything at all and most of the time getting away with that...to me it is an illegal and parasitic competition because as a solo o/o I need to find time, stop the truck and then look for a load.

 

Aw cmon @TallJoe i coulda had you a load that paid $2000 for 350 miles... but after my cut, a measly $500 you could’ve been loaded and making $$$.

 

Did you tell him that there are five stops and it's all on the floor?

 

And hand unload and restack from 8 high to 3 high onto a pallet.

 

My previous post was simply of an encyclopedic purpose. I think people don't nessecarly must know terminology, definitions and what is understood by what. The op was simply asking things that even a seasoned truck driver may not have enough exposure to. Before becoming an o/o - after 12 years of being a company driver - I too had limited knowledge of what the brokers were, load boards and how they worked.

 

Kinda like Owner operator/lease operator/Carrier/Driver