Personal dispatch services
Discussion in 'Freight Broker Forum' started by Roadrunner26, Aug 25, 2010.
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Hey I'm very interested in her dispatch services. Can you send me an email at felya@outlook.com ?
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@boredsocial tried to send you a message but your settings are prohibiting it. Can you PM me please.
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I remember seeing in another thread, that you want to pay fair market price. What is your idea and expectations on how much a truck should make? Lets say Mon-Fr on 2500-3000 miles
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Honestly, I think the only way you can do it, is to become a trucking company and sign people up under your MC or just do brokerage. This whole independent dispatching thing is a mess to deal with -
One of the reasons why dispatch is such a lousy business is that trucks routinely get juicy direct freight to terrible places like CO/FL/MA and then expect the dispatchers to find them freight back out for a %... as though that was in any danger of being fair. That's truly having your cake and eating it too. If people want that the only way the dispatcher can operate is fee per load, which creates a whole new set of problems (namely that dispatchers suddenly discover that they couldn't care less what the freight pays as long as the truck takes it).
Maybe I do need to create my own trucking company and just lease people onto it. How does that usually work exactly? -
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If I started a trucking company it would either be a pure leasing on operation with 10-20 trucks or 5-10 company trucks. Much less and it doesn't really make any impact on the number of loads I can cover and that's the main reason for doing it.
EDIT: Honestly I'd be in the market to buy a trucking company if I knew anything about running a trucking company. Unfortunately what I know about the trucks themselves could fit on a business card. Way outside my circle of competence. Finding them loads and making sure they get paid on time on the other hand is something I'm pretty comfortable with.
Hell my dirty little secret is that I'm not even 100% firm on HOS rules. I just figure my trucks can generally make 500 miles a day and I ask them politely if they are going to need to reset during the run. I'm not responsible for keeping log books and I only ask questions that I need to ask for liability reasons... So I've actually never had a good reason to really get into the nitty gritty of it.Last edited: Jan 29, 2017
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