How To Become A Personal Dispatcher

Couldn't you use the MC # (and passwords)of one (or more) of the owner operators you intend to dispatch?
If the contract between U and them goes south, they just change the passwords.

 

Become a broker, be transparent in what you are offering to the owner and let them decide if they can use you. Nothing in the regs say you can't be a private broker to a group of owners or what your services can provide. This by the way is the best way to do it, it may be a little more paper work on the front end but on the back end it would help the owner out more.

 

If the sole service that you are offering is to look at load boards and book loads, i would say that the expense of the load board subscriptions falls squarly on you.

 

No you don't seem to get it, the owners are your customers and you don't need to act like you are a broker getting loads from somewhere and putting them on a load board.

That's absolutely wrong. You take the loads from a shipper, broker or whom ever and give them directly to your customer. It isn't double brokering because you are not offering them to the general public as a load offer, you are passing it along to a customer for consideration.

Wait, you want to be a personal dispatcher to a driver now and not an owner?

Being transparent isn't using their numbers and booking them loads, being transparent is being independent, and being up front about the process and your fees.

See here is the problem I see, doing this for an owner, you have to know their business and their goals, you have to know how to keep them moving and how to deal with problems when they come up. Being a dispatcher for a company is a lot different than being a dispatcher for a owner.

Being a broker sets the owner up for some protection, without that protection, $100 a week/truck is really a waste of money. if you screw up as a broker, then he has recourse to recover money, if you screw up as a "personal dispatcher", then he has nothing to cover him.

 

Get set up as a Broker so you can have access to the load boards. Then dispatch for whoever uses your services by calling (and subsequently negotiate the highest rate you can on that given lane) on posted loads that fit your clients needs. You don't have to broker freight right off the bat. In the future, begin to expand into more brokered freight as you make connections. I commend you for not wanting to double broker. It's a very slimey move to be so parasitic. People like to play word games with double brokering but the way I see it is I want as little people in between me and the customer as possible. That's all I need to know. Call it co-brokering, double brokering etc etc. The less hands in the money jar the better.