Who Makes More Money? Dispatch or Drivers?

Drivers.

 

I'd get canned by lunch the 1st day for telling some driver to #### and do their job.

 

My dispatcher at the tanker company was making 35k per year. Us drivers were making at least double that. One company I worked for didn't think it was a good idea to have former drivers as dispatchers. I don't recall why.

 

As a driver you'll make 2 or 3 times what a dispatcher makes.

 

As long as they don’t forget where they came from…

 

Because most drivers have common sense to figure out issues vs one that doesn’t

 

I think the company was concerned that a former driver, as dispatcher, would be more willing to accept a driver's bad behavior or possibly even help a driver conspire to get around some company policy. That company preferred to hire people for inside jobs with ZERO trucking experience so that the newbies could be trained The Company Way, and not fall back on past habits. I'm just guessing.

 

I'd rather hire on with a cruise ship. Plenty of those jobs available, You and the wife hire on and travel, great meals, comfortable bed every night. Lots of travel. Some wealthy people actually live on cruise ships and have their own stateroom.

 

I dispatched for awhile. Worst job I’ve ever had in my life. The only positive aspect was time FLEW by because you are busy as hell. Your new catch phrase will be “wtf?” You get yelled at by customers, and brokers, and drivers all at the same time !

I’ve had drivers lose everything at casinos, get stuck going into restaurants, forget to close van doors when they hit the interstate, drivers take wrong trailer all the time, constantly late, you name it.

I had a guy that would park and wait out school zones instead of going slow through them. I couldn’t figure out why he was always late.