Letting your driver Dispatch themselves.

Awesome, I'll just run west for you for .80/mile, I keep .60 and the rest you can have to pay for your truck, trailer, yourself, my benifits and s.s etc etc

Sounds like a great idea already!

 

If I didn't have my cdl and my own truck, there is no way I would buy a single truck and put a driver in it. If I did, there would be no money left over for me after paying the driver, insurance, maintenance, etc. So, why do it at all?

And let's say I find a driver that is willing to run for 20 or 25 cents a mile so I can make a few bucks. Well, agreeing to run for that amount proves he/she is about as smart as a flat rock. And I wouldn't let them check the tire pressure. Let alone do any dispatching.

 

So you are looking for a driver that has freight contacts ... because you don't have your own ....

 

Your company driver will be booking the dumbest loads for the dumbest reasons and making a profit for you will not even enter their mind. Very bad idea.

 

I'll deadhead from Washington to Iowa just to pick up a load going to Florida because it was cold in Washington

 

Or maybe you could just let him L/P the rig? You'll make money that way; ask the megas!!

No sarcasm intended, just saying.

 

you give them a rock bottom number per mile that can book the loads for, say $1.20 and between that rate and $1.35 they get 22%. Between $1.36 and $1.50 they get 25% and $1.51 and $1.70 they get 30% some kinda formula like that that incentitices them to book higher paying freight.