Anyone out there 100% independent and use a dispatch type service?

I know exactly what my deadhead is on every load month to month week to week, whatever. I keep very detailed records. I did $2.21 a mile last year on 76k miles, 23% of those 76k were deadhead, with a 53' dry van. This being leased to a company after their cut comes out, Self dispatched, that is why I say no dispatch service will ever come close to what I do on my own. 23% deadhead is a lot. What is your dry van deadhead percentage?

 

Im looking for REAL LEADS AND INFO on hotshot jobs Im in TN. looking for TX,OK- etc NOT Canada east coast/......No R.V.s.......Im looking for Money..lol. oilfield ;or LTL ... Iv got a 07 cummins/9ft flatbed. iv been running terminal to terminal for the last 3yrs..so im a bit out of the loop of real trucking. and any info on oilfield jobs in general out in tx. im new to posting here so i may be slow

 

looks like we are going to take on a few new flatbeders for dispatching in the next few weeks......been getting alot of calls last few weeks about it

 

I do own a dispatch company but am not operating it currently as we are running our semi.
I do recommend using a dispatcher but it is very hard to find a good one many dispatchers have to many drivers, or cant get the better rates. I do suggest a trial period at a lower rate and if the dispatcher performs increase the rate because if u get a good dispatcher and pay him well u will do well also. Many drivers try to pay the lowest poss rate but my logic is I want my dispatcher to make a lot of money for good performance
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part of it is just consistency, if the industry generally pays dispatch as a percentage of gross, then that's the metric that is widely understood: sorta like lease taking 25% of gross

 

@cgilliland good job responding to Danny's post from July 2012............

 

LMAO

 

When I started otr I ran my own numbers, my wife took care of the dispatching from a home office. It didn't take me long at all to understand that I was better off driving while someone else took care of the task of keeping me loaded. It was not too long before I added a couple of trucks and 3 oo's, another girl in the office, to help my wife.
It was not too long after that that a trucker I knew called and ask them if they could possibly find them a load, and before long they were dispatching 3 one man show, outside trucks, which worked out well for all involved.
Like Gman mentioned, we charged 10% on the gross, but it came in as to no cost to the oo, because we typically got them better rates than they were getting trying to drive and dispatch themselves. It was a win win for everybody.

 

I own a couple of trucks and it's hard for me to dispatch loads myself. It takes to much of my time. So I have independent dispatch services that I use. They help manage all my dispatching for my flatbed and dry van trucks. I use truckdispatch360 they do awesome truck dispatch services. I know if I dispatched myself I would save some money but I am actually trying to grow my fleet so I need to focus on other things instead of sitting behind my laptop dispatching.