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<p>[QUOTE="rollin coal, post: 12252045, member: 15779"]Dispatch and dispatcher are terms that have been stolen by scammers and bastardized.</p><p><br /></p><p>Real dispatchers are a W2 employee of ONE carrier. Usually a legit carrier that has it's own customer freight. Before I started booking loads from brokers myself as an o/o I had never even heard of a dispatcher who worked with brokers but I had worked under several dispatchers as an employee driver.</p><p><br /></p><p>Real dispatchers have a mundane job and get paid hourly or salary wages. They make sure the customer loads (real customer loads of the carrier not broker loads) get covered and help drivers deal with everyday trucking issues, break downs, paying lumpers and the likes. The extent to which they might book anything from a broker it's normally just some garbage load to get the company's truck back to their customer's freight where the real money is at.</p><p><br /></p><p>These "dispatch" shysters who negotiate with brokers all day every day booking loads for lazy carriers and o/o are not really dispatchers. They're some sort of middle man but they're not a dispatcher in the normal sense of one who manages a fleet of trucks. They might even bill the brokers for those carriers. It's all just a scam to skim money and steal from carriers or o/o who refuse to learn or just don't know any better.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rollin coal, post: 12252045, member: 15779"]Dispatch and dispatcher are terms that have been stolen by scammers and bastardized. Real dispatchers are a W2 employee of ONE carrier. Usually a legit carrier that has it's own customer freight. Before I started booking loads from brokers myself as an o/o I had never even heard of a dispatcher who worked with brokers but I had worked under several dispatchers as an employee driver. Real dispatchers have a mundane job and get paid hourly or salary wages. They make sure the customer loads (real customer loads of the carrier not broker loads) get covered and help drivers deal with everyday trucking issues, break downs, paying lumpers and the likes. The extent to which they might book anything from a broker it's normally just some garbage load to get the company's truck back to their customer's freight where the real money is at. These "dispatch" shysters who negotiate with brokers all day every day booking loads for lazy carriers and o/o are not really dispatchers. They're some sort of middle man but they're not a dispatcher in the normal sense of one who manages a fleet of trucks. They might even bill the brokers for those carriers. It's all just a scam to skim money and steal from carriers or o/o who refuse to learn or just don't know any better.[/QUOTE]
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