Paying Dispatchers

So stop and use the bathroom or stop for a bite to eat? Which is it? Or stop to go to the bathroom then 30 mins down the road stop to get a bite? Then an hour later realize oh crap I need fuel! Some guys keep their left door shut and some guys don’t. I agree some dispatchers probably are unrealistic while some drivers have no sense of time, organization, efficiency, or urgency.

Shower on your time, eat breakfast on your time, eat lunch on your 30, eat dinner on your time. Keep food in your truck if you get hungry while in a dock. Stopping for a top off of fuel and grabbing something and going my guess is alot different then what you have in mind.

70 hours burns fast and these trucks cost a lot of money to run. You want paid don’t you? Well so does everyone else including the owner.

 

I am not a carrier. But if I was I dont see any issue with paying a dispatch service 5% of load if loads are well paid. And it's a business cost deduction.

 

What? Did you even comprehend my post?
I’ve been Trucking well over 20 years and even I know that the need to take a sh..t is not always a scheduled thing. Neither is being hungry.

The point of my post is why dispatchers feel the need to book extremely tight runs with little to no room for error and is it pay related. Sometimes a driver needs to stop unexpectedly or maybe take a nap or use the bathroom and he won’t always do those things at fuel stops. There are dispatchers who either don’t understand this or refuse to acknowledge it. Things happen on the road where stopping becomes necessary. To assert that every stop should be a calculated and coordinated event to include fuel, bathroom and meal breaks all rolled into one is absolutely absurd.

“Let’s see, i’ve eaten, fueled and taken my 30 minute break. My next bowel movement is scheduled in about 2.5 hours, I can urinate and take a dump at the same time and save approximately 8 minutes. I won’t be hungry again though until about another 3 hours, better make a sandwich now so I won’t have to stop again and waste 5.75 minutes making a sandwich.”

Who runs like that?
GTFOH

 

Haha I kinda went on a rant on that last one. I just don’t like when people complain. Give it your best all the time and the rest falls in to place where it may.

If someone is booking loads only then I suppose 5% would do.

If it’s a full blown service where they are negotiating, booking, billing, paying you before they get paid, doing your IFTA, keeping your paperwork together, etc then 10% is more like it. At least for a company that knows what they’re doing.

I’d rather pay 10% that gets me 6500 on week average and does everything vs a noob who gets me 4500 maybe 5000 and does nothing. That’s just me though.

 

Unbelievable. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

Maybe I should’ve created my own thread about this topic in another section. I didn’t want to start a new thread though if one already existed about how dispatchers are paid and if that motivates them to make ridiculous appointment times.

 

10% should be max(no more than 12) with your own truck and trailer.
Cuz there’s factoring included in that too.

 

I have no idea how other companies dispatchers are and frankly don’t care. Mine are self motivated people who are trying to constantly find a middle ground of booking the highest paying loads going to the best areas, juggle timing when taking into account tons of variables, working with the driver to help handle any problems, all while trying to squeeze every last dollar they can in that 70 hour and still get you home. Oh, and guessing on bowel movements it sounds like. Smh.

You sound like a traveler, not a trucker. Years driving means nothing FYI. It’s what you learned along the way that holds any meaning whatsoever.

Edit: Mine are hourly but paid very well just like everyone in my program. All my drivers are salary. It’s why we all go hard. You can’t pay big money without banking big money. Besides, they want to be successful and WIN.

 

“I sound like a traveler not a trucker”

Really? Define trucker then tell me why I sound like a traveler instead of a trucker (Who by the way both travel). What is it about my post that gave you the impression that I sound like a traveler? That I like to stop when it’s time to take a dump? Or urinate? Or stop to eat? Let me guess. Truckers put a towel on the floor board under the brake pedal and whip it out and pee on the towel right? How about putting on a depend and just taking a dump right on that pamper while driving down I-40 then take it off once i arrive at the consignee. People like you are why this industry is in the shape it’s in today. But I digress.

Please, enlighten us on why you think I’m a traveler instead of a trucker.

 

Also I didn’t ask you about your particular dispatchers. Go back to my original post and read it again. You seem more intent on being combative than you are interested in giving me an honest answer, but somehow I think we’re way past that at this point. My response to your original smart aleck comment made you butt hurt.