Can't I just hire a young person or single mom to do my administration?

There are companies that do this. Third party dispatching services. I suppose finding a good one is trial and error.

 

Shouldn't even be a question......The Brokers ALWAYS want too much info.....So What!!!,They Lead you to freight.....Call them (If you choose) once its delivered,Then Hope your invoice is paid in 30.

Cant stand Them people...Like the Plague

But to answer your initial question..Absolutely, For a small fee- You can have virtually everything done for you-If you just wanna drive- Again,If you work for Brokers- Their 20-40% margins may Constrict you from affording to pay an outside administration....

See how brokers ##### up everything? Yet,We still allow them to flourish.

 

Any monkey can drive a truck. And any monkey can sign a rate confirmation and fax it along with the carrier packet over. Most of your energy should be spent on getting the good paying loads aka dispatching your truck, that actually takes business skills. Subbing that out would be a horrible mistake. I'd how a driver before i hired a dispatcher. No one is going to put in the amount of effort as you will. Especially not for some flat base salary. On percentage, they will try harder, but without a strong trucking background they can't possibly be as skilled at it.

 

It isn't like a forum.

Are you talking about an authority or owner leased to a company.

You pay people good wages to get good results. If you paid someone cheap as you indicate, then you will end up with problems.

 

i use to work with a company out of chicago as an oo and they had full time dispatchers in eastern europe!! unbelievavble , i talked to one dispatcher one time and guess how much they were getting paid a month ? $800 !!!

 

This ^^

Hiring someone for $200 a month to be the face of your business, along with dispatching you (actually negotiating and agreeing to rates and schedules), is a really dumb idea.

If you believe you aren't up to the tasks, or have the bandwidth to do it well, at least you recognize your limitations. That said, maybe you should more seriously consider leasing on to an established carrier. That solves the problem and takes those sales and administrative tasks off your back. There's plenty of owner operators that make way more profit leased on to a carrier than being one themselves.

I'm going to make another important point by expanding the topic to include all sorts of valuable services you might think of hiring to enhance your trucking business. In fact, these service providers will be blowing up your phone and inbox within seconds of you going into business.

That is: Never forget that those costs, those small fees being taken, come out of your profit not the gross revenue.

Say some valuable service, maybe dispatching, costs you $50 off a load. The load pays $2,000 so it's ok right? It's only 3%! Well hold on a minute. You also bought fuel, paid yourself, and put money aside for maintenance, tires, insurance, and so on. After all that, let's say your profit is $400. Nice, except now that $50 service took away 13%.

Put it another way. Six of those dispatches equals a PM service. Ten equals a new tire. You really need to get a clear picture of what actual value versus just straight cost is, before agreeing to anything that's going to take some of your profit.

 

There are call centers tied to internet in india overseas taking orders where you pull up at the drive through via voice then send pictures to the order screen for the crew to assemble at the fast food here in the USA

 

If your running one truck it not that big of deal the paper work.I would just start on your own then trek it as you go.Brokers you can find good brokers I would prefer to deal with that myself.your hear horror stories about brokers but the ones that have the stories seem to keep dealing with those same brokers.Have to ask yourself why .I think most of the one that complain the most haven't even worked with them just repeating stories they heard from other drivers at the coffee counter at the truck stop.

 

I'm a little slow, but I'm thinking it will be way more headache than its worth. Take more phone calls to you asking can you make this or that when you can handle it with one direct call. Not to mention putting a 3rd person in place that is just relaying info is an invitation to have bad info or no info relayed.
I have 2 trucks, 3 trailers each one for a different purpose me being the only driver, head mechanic and secretary. It isn't that bad. Especially with the help of several really informed friends.