Owner Operator Payment and Contract Questions

Call the broker and ask what the rate is. He doesn’t know that your dispatcher sent you a rate sheet and see if it matches.

 

Why do you need a dispatcher?

 

If I was worried about being shorted by the one I was leased to I would not be leased there .
If you are paranoid about pay then you go crazy in this business !!!

One of the reasons to lease to someone is to take the worry about pay away .

As for hauling for less than the average rate that one is on you .
Tell your dispatcher or whatever catchy title they are using what money you need to move your truck for and if they cant deliver the freight then cancel the lease and find a company that can .

Of course these and just my opinions and not having all the facts they as worthless as a politicians promise .
good luck in the struggle !!

 

Work for a Mega? You’re being shorted. Period, end of story.

Most of the Mega carriers have an in-house but seperate brokerage business.

They take their cut, pass it to your company, they take their cut, you get yours. And it’s all perfectly legal.

 

As someone already mentioned, you should consider dispatching yourself if you have your own authority. You won’t be getting the best rates when you get started, but with time you learn how to navigate the load board and start getting good rates.

The DAT load board average rates are for lanes and not exactly for regions, and they change over time. For example, you can find a load going from Minneapolis to Los Angeles paying 4,000 and another load some 50 miles from Minneapolis paying 5,000. Both loads are very similar in miles, but have different averages.