Do dispatchers make good money?

Seriously ...???? You want to be a dispatcher?

 

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Dispatchers do pretty good considering how little they actually work. They spend a lot of time jawboning, just killing time between loads and issues. Truckers make more, but they work ALOT more and endure far more hardships than any pampered dispatcher. One thing the dispatchers have is STRESS, because they are completely dependent on the fleet, over which they sometimes don't have complete control. He makes a delivery time promise and the trucker decides to spend an extra hour at the truck stop, it's on him.

 

It sure is. First off, babies are delicious. Especially roasted on a spit over a fire. Crispy on the outside, tender and juicy in the middle. Secondly, satanic rituals are the best rituals. You tell me spending your Friday sacraficing a goat in the center of the pentagram in your basement doesn't sound like a good time and I'll call you a liar.

 

When I dispatched, It was really fast paced , always on call cel phone, email or however they can contact you, stressful and only saw real money when I left Pacer, for a very small company ( 15 trucks)

 

Drivers need to know that too. Actually you can fit 26 chimney block and 28 sideways in a 48 footer.

 

Lol reminds me a little story. Gave a pack-up of 10 pallets to IFS ( Ontario company). Dispatch sent a trailer already full to do my pick up.

 

I agree with Mack E-6, a dispatcher should have some knowledge of trucking, although, that's not always the case. I've had dispatchers that were someones brother in law and had a major in accounting(or something) and needed a job and the drivers would pass each other in the night. "Where are you going?" "Picking up a load at so and so". "I just came from there"!
A dispatcher has to be a psychiatrist, a baby sitter, a problem solver, a magician, a mind reader and the less conscience, the better. Answering phones in the middle of the night and usually at the bottom of the hill where "stuff" rolls. You couldn't pay me enough to be a dispatcher.

 

I'm very happy with my dispatcher, he was a former owner operator/ fleet owner, He is paid a base salary and a bonus on top of that for all miles his board runs in a month, needless to say i'm preplanned all the time and run my *** off. all of his drivers are O/O and we stay busy all of us last year avg 14,000 mi a month, he buys us lunch anytime were near home terminal and it's his lunch break. he makes well over 70K a year so he has said. with that being said he takes care of us and we make sure he is taken care of it's a win/win. been that way for over 5 years now. hope he never retires. but he is in his late 60's so i'm sure it'll be soon.