How do I become a dispatcher?

Welcome to wanting to be home at night and with your family on the weekends. The best way I can tell you if you're a company driver is to check for internal transfers on the job board. If you're an O/O, get to know the agents/brokers you work with on a personal level. We have a few of our folks who work from home and operate on our same phone system via VOIP. I forwarn you. This job isn't as easy as 98% of drivers think. It's long hours, it's a lot of rejection, and a lot of stress. It's not just customer service and blowing smoke up the rearends of everyone you speak with like many of you all think. I happen to know of a few Landstar Agents looking for help in 2013. Our agency will actually likely be hiring in April, but at this point, I'm looking to hire a couple of local people in the Nashville area.

 

Annnnnnd... just for funnies:

 

First you have to #### over every driver you know or deal with. than lie and blame what ever goes wrong on other drivers. you must be able to stand in a field of #### and not smell and shine like gold...lmao.....other wise good luck

 

Just do the unthinkable; ask your dispatcher how to become a dispatcher.

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You dispatch 3 loads, 700 miles loaded. One will pick up and deliver on time. One will pick up on time and deliver late because he stopped at the casino. One will pick up late, bellyache, drive 250-300 miles per day, and deliver 2 days late. How would you get 3 drivers to deliver 3 loads on time? You bonus depends on it.

No offense meant to you, friend, but I get the feeling that you would be like all the dispatchers that everyone complains about. Driving 1 year and now all of a sudden, you know enough to run a fleet. I find that hard to believe. But why not go ahead and apply? You cant be worse than some of these clowns trucking companies hire.

 

Just like every position in life, there is a skillset that you either have or don't have that will, to some degree, determine your success at the job. Me? Never. Don't have the organizational skills to be a really GOOD one. I can type like lightning...I can understand driver's needs...but zippo in the organizational department. Wifey has those attributes, which is why she is the Assistant to the head of a department at the college she is employed by.

Understanding your strengths and weaknesses will not only make you a better dispatcher. It will help you understand if you should be one.

 

I would think that you would need experience selling used cars first. That way you would already know how to lie to a person and never crack a smile doing it.

 

First you kick the dog and sleep around on your wife and lie to her about it. That will give you the early training to see if you like it. If it bothers you then you won't make it. If it doesn't phase you then you are a good candidate. Eventually you believe your own lies and you can weasel out of anything or at least you think you do! If drivers call you "Slick" is an added plus.

Then comes the behind the scenes behind the back training. If drama is the name of your game and you love to talk about drivers behind their back in an office environment, then you will fit right in. Did you hear about #214786 ??.....

Next is the under the desk promotion training. It's private training (literally speaking) that can't be mentioned on a public forum. Any questions ask the head dispatcher.

Then comes the biblical King Solomon training. There you learn when a driver makes you mad you either behead the driver or make him sit for 3 days or make him run a short 60 mile run that takes all day. This training is actually fun. The first solution is rather messy so most experienced dispatchers chose the later. Later in the course you learn advanced tricks like delayed home time trick and the 70 hour $200 paycheck trick.

Be warned the first year you have to make the morning coffee and do the lunch runs.

Good Luck!

 

After reading your post again;I believe you have way too much class to dispatch.

 

Where do you live?