Dispatch Service? Or Factoring

Use a device that allows you to sign and email back. A smart phone or tablet. It will save the time to print and then scan or fax back.

Also instead of running wily nilly all over the place where you deal with different brothers every day, find your lane and stick with it pulling for the same handful of brokers/direct shippers.

 

You sign/initial them with a touch screen device. Save and email back. It isn't difficult. Chances are you already have a touch screen device. If not upgrade your phone to one.

 

It may just be me but I've found the better paying independent brokers just want a copy of your MC and insurance to book and run a load. Then the contract can be done later at home.

Spend a few evenings calling the mega brokers and do their set-up packs when you're home.

After a few months you'll probably only use a few brokers anyway.

 

The most set ups are done in the first year. Then when time goes by, there is less and less of them as there is a tendency to stick to a certain broker pool. I am in my 2nd year, and have not done any additional set ups this year yet. With mega brokers you can do the set up ahead of time and be ready when time comes. Besides, everybody should read the contracts before agreeing to them because some of them could be really mischievous. That's the main reason why I would not want to delegate this task to a 3rd party. What would they be liable for, if you find out all of a sudden that a broker does not have to pay you until after they get paid first, or that a missing seal is an automatic claim?

 

Just do it yourself. I got a printer in my truck. Takes 15 mins to print documents and sign them and scan them back using an ipad. Do quick pay with brokers. Factoring companies take like 4%. The brokers I deal with take 1.5 to 2. Some dont take any fee to get paid quick.

 

No need to print them! Like stated earlier save document as a pdf file the you can go in on the screen of a smart phone or tablet and sign or initial. Save pdf attach to email and return it. Very simple. But if your determined to pay someone I bet I could talk my wife into doing it (for a fee). She refuses to look for loads though.

 

Yeah, I have a seperate phone just for this. It helps me stay 100% organized