Hey there, I am new to this whole thing, and right now working as dispatch

Do you have your own trailer?

 

Find direct clients. If you do not have someone I. The company doing sales( we always called the positio. 'Business development manager') then you need to hire someone to build direct clients for your company.

It makes a huge difference.

 

Your drivers shouldn't be forced to use personal conveyence to move freight .

 

Direct freight is how to do this, load boards won't work.

As a dispatcher, one of the biggest things that you have to learn is how to plan a load. DO NOT use the idea that the truck can do 70 mph, and cover 770 miles in a day, use 48 mph for load planning. THIS IS THE REALISTIC SPEED.

We know how it works, the real problem is you can NOT use Personal Conveyance while being loaded. You and your drivers are lousy at moving loads if this is all true. If your drivers AND YOU can not manage time, then do a couple of short loads a day and learn time management techniques on both ends.

Here is what will happen, if your driver gets into an accident, there is an 80% chance that you will have to deal with a POS ambulance-chasing lawyer who will have the logs not just for the driver but the entire company. They will have a real expert on logs go over minute by minute of what the truck did and when they find problems, they will look at the entire company, which means you just lost your case because you falsified logs on the company end.

How do you pay your drivers?

1099 or w2?

 

I think you mean "yard move", not personal conveyance. You might have to tell your drivers to use on duty yard move and not use personal convenience if they have a trailer

 

With this recession occurring its going to be difficult to average $2.60 to $3.00 cpm on a load board considering that there is to much capacity occurring. Way to much trucks out there with the supply of freight being less. Direct customers is the only way most trucking companies are surviving.

Trucking bloodbath snares fleets large and small

9000 in the 1st quarter speaks volumes.

 

Does Amazon tack on a fuel surcharge? I haul for Menard's doing power only and they pay us $1.80 per mile but we also get anywhere from .50-.65 per mile extra to help with fuel depending on how much fuel is. Also, we get paid for all miles as all I do is take a load to a store and bring the empty trailer back to the DC so there is no deadhead which helps a lot. As for the 1000 mile thing, those loads are probably meant for team drivers. That is the only way you could do that legally.

 

Those loads are basically for teams drivers (2 drivers in 1 Truck) where the truck only stops for fuel and bio breaks.

Other choice is relay loads. One driver picks it up and moves it toward the delivery and meets up with a second truck and swaps trailers.

One other thing to consider as a dispatcher is the truck can move for about 13.75 hours per 24 hours. Not all drivers can, should, or will run this way.

As an example: Driver starts fresh at 9am, drives to pick-up, and hooks to trailer with a half hour "break" at pickup site. Clears the gate at noon then drives out about 7 hours of remaining drive clock and shuts down at 7PM. Lets call noon the starting spot for our 24 hour window. Driver starts the clock at 5am (10 hours off duty) and does the required 15 Minute pretrip. They are now clear to run through noon.