Dispatcher pay

I know they make way less then a driver, but they think there on top. But there not. I see your from WPG, if you go to Bison or Big Freight you won't last because they will treat you like crap. I know this from talking to the dispatchers.

 

If you are not making $50k don't bother. If you are good at your job, have a good rapport with the drivers and your bosses, demand $75K or more.

Learn to deal with stress. Have fun.

 

Good luck.Good or not,who pays a dispatcher 75k a year most don't even pay 50k.
No dispatcher worth that kind of money.

 

Where have you been? I was making $50K as a dispatcher 12 years ago. That was an entry level job (at that company).

You realize we are talking about Canada and not the USA right?

 

Big companies turned dispatchers into little robots they now call
"driver manager".
Nice title but in reality, they dont manage anything.

Like drivers, since they are just simple little robots answering to a satelite system, all they do is plug numbers into the computer.

Also they act as a buffer between the company and the drivers.

They are the ones who have to deal with drivers, informing them about what they have to do, give them the bad new when they wont be paid for time wasted, make sure they dont refuse ANY load the planer shoved into the drivers rear end. (planer...another cute title huh, this one doesnt have to deal with drivers) etc.

So since they are now just little robots like drivers, why pay them?

So like drivers, their salaries have been slashed bit by bit thru the years and are now part of the sweat shop mentality the magnificent business superstars, I like to call OTR vampires have created.

 

Seriously,in 7 years,I have never met,(or had) a dispatcher worth more than whatever minimum wage is..except for one,and he was the owner of the company..#### good man,he was..

IMO,the only thing worse than your average,run of the mill dispatcher,is,of course,a broker..

 

what I really like to see is how paranoid they are when something goes wrong or how fast they are to pass the buck- it tells me they have nothing to fall back on; and I am seeing how I can twist that knife to my own advantage

 

Pay peanuts, you get monkeys. A good dispatcher, not just a clerk who does computer updates, is worth every cent. A bad dispatcher is what you get when management does not give people the tools to do the job right and/or is unable to recognize the value in a good dispatch. Bad dispatching can cost a company more than maintenance on the trucks costs. All you guys moaning about bad dispatchers need to give it a shot for a while. Toughest job in trucking. Thankless too.

 

It's not thankless, I say thank you every time I'm dispatched lol.

I asked a dispatcher how he was doing a couple weeks ago and he was shocked, he said no one ever asks him. Maybe if more of us would treat them with the respect we want we would get it in return. I know there are some out there though that no matter how nice you are they're always going to be twats but life's too short for me to worry about them, that's what my terminal manager is for.