Need input from O/O's

It is actually been done by many people including myself...theres nothing new about this....many owner operators look for smaller companies and better experienced dispatchers and perhaps even lower dispatching %....when i was workin for bigger trucking company there was 50 owner operators...4 of them were my uncles....i was dispatching and loading at least 15 trucks every week....been doing it for years...the boss at the old company charged my uncles 10% for dispatching fees...paperwork and all that good stuff....when i decided to go on my own i was just tired of dispatching so many trucks and getting paid less than 1% of gross income from each owner...because thats what my boss would pay me.....since i started to my own i load 7 owner operators that leased onto my company including my uncles and i charge them only 5% for dispatching and i make twice as much as i was making loading 15 trucks....but its not that my uncles and owner operators are much happier paying less in dispatch and also get better loads....hopefully this was helpful

 

Agreed. My husband and I have a few trucks, and we hired someone to come in 3 days a week to do all the stuff mentioned above. She and I are all over the map doing everything. I have wondered how a driver does all this stuff without someone at home, taking care of the minutia. I bet if you start part-time, new clients would show up as well, from word-of-mouth.

 

I am currently looking for a company to handle my DOT/IFTA requirements. Dispatching would also be a plus. Any information would be appreciated!

 

go online for dot/mc #'s and do that yourself. The ifta, ucr and irp can all be done when you get plates.