How do you about being a load consultant?

It's called being a dispatcher. There's any number of hundreds if not thousands of dispatch services out there. I'm sure there's any number that'll let you work from home.

 

Take a % from the loads your finding for his buddies. Don't work for free.

 

When I had my authority I had my buddies daughter, a stay at home mom, dispatching my trucks. She took care of dispatching myself, her father and her uncle. She charged a flat fee, and I paid cash. If I remember correctly it was $500 a month, she ran four trucks on my end, and she was good at it. I don't think she charged enough, but that is what she wanted, and who was I to argue.

 

I'd be a little worried about having someone with such poor negotiation skills working my trucks... just saying.

EDIT: This is kind of the core problem with dispatchers though. If you pay them too much the juice isn't worth the squeeze. If you pay them too little you lose 10-20% of the orange. I guess low % (like 3-4%) outsourced services can hire people and pay them enough to be hungry in some 4th tier country so that you get a good value for your money.

I think dispatchers who actually make their trucks money are very rare. I think most of the ones that actually make their trucks money rapidly want my job... and get it.

 

There were people doing that at landstar when I was there. Just get the word out to other BCOs and get started.

 

Not giving up my secrets to potential competition