O/O's What are your thoughts? Would you use it? How much would you pay?

Hmmm. Sorry. I won't be giving that info out. You will need to get your own load board subscriptions.

No carrier with any brains is going to give you access his/her load boards. That is crazy talk.

 

Never mind big guy. Truck is covered. The RGN loads on Monday. 9'-9" wide. $4.48/mile.

 

One outfit I almost leased to would charge a flat $65 per booked load. The goad of this company was for the owner operator to get their authority and the dispatch would act as the back office. You may want to try a flat fee for this idea of yours. Many of the factoring companies out there probably started like that. Just an idea.

 

Personally I wouldn't pay anything for it. Already a percenatge off the top being leased to a company. I have always believed if a person is not willing or able to put in the effort to find and negotiate their own rates they will never reach their full potential. I know there are some out there who are good at it, and likely some rare dispatch services who do a good job.. ..but they would be rare and I doubt very seriously they'd even come close to what I do on my own, or anyone out here looking out for their own self interests. Most of them would probably choke on their coffee if they ever heard some of the quotes I bid and end up landing.

 

I wish it were only 14 hour days lol. You will too I'm positive you'll give it an honest effort and wish you all the best.

 

Too me, it sounds great in theory, but it seems like another hand in the pot. The broker you use takes a cut, you take a cut, then unless the o/o can wait 60-90 days to be paid they lose an additional 7-10% in a factoring service. Plus, imo you may have liability issues if there is a cargo claim or an unpaid invoice.

 

Starsonwindow, IMHO I believe a good dispatch service is worth it's weight in gold IF they can find good freight. I say "if" because a lot of freight listed on the loadboards is already priced so low that a large percentage of it is not worth hauling. On top of the lower paying freight.... If you take a percentage off as well then it really won't be worth doing. I find my own freight off the loadboards. It does not take me that long to do. Lets say you find a $1000 load and you take 10%. Would I rather pay you the $100 bucks to book it for me, or spend the hour or two myself and pay myself $50 an hour to do it? I believe a dispatch service should only charge a flat rate per load or per week for the service they provide. When you come on this forum and start throwing numbers out about all the money you are going to make dispatching 5-8 drivers and pocketing up to $96000 per year doing it.... You are not going to make many friends. All I can think is that the margins are so slim right now for O/O's that giving you a piece of the pie on top of all the other expenses would be taking money away from my family. HOWEVER if you had a flat fee, say $150 per week for load finding, you had your OWN subscription to the loadboards and you were good enough to do the job then I think you would have a service you could sell. Get ten drivers to give you $150 a week and you will make $6000 a month. I never believed in the percentage thing. Most people say "well it is incentive for me to find better paying freight" really? I am paying you regardless.... I deserve to get what I pay for and not have to pay a percentage for better service.

 

To top it off, what O/O that has their own contacts is going to share that info with someone they don't know?