Also you fill the packet out as ABC trucking who you are leased with soon as you try and add the broker as a insurance certificate holder they won't with out them saying do it and the check that you get from the broker will be made out to ABC trucking not you
Personal dispatch services
Discussion in 'Freight Broker Forum' started by Roadrunner26, Aug 25, 2010.
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I have dispatched my self in the past and sometimes it is quick and sometimes it takes hours to get one. Also when you have to set up new brokers their packet can have anywhere from 3 pages to 25 pages that need to be printed and faxed back to them. Then it must be entered into the system and then you have to wait for your insurance company to get a cert holder for them. It can sometimes take hours just to book one load and then you are going to go through it again the next load.
I now use a dispatch service and he does it all for me, I have 24 hour access to him in case of emergencies. His prices are well worth it to me. He will use text, email, phone or fax to dispatch me and he really cares about getting the best rate out there.
To the people who pay a percentage on the loads. Have you thought of this? They book one load going from California to North Carolina and it pays $6500 and you pay $650 for them to dispatch 1 load for you. My dispatcher charges $50 for the load and $10 to invoice it and keep the records and mail them to me quarterly. Not bad at all. I won't advertise on here but I do like his service.
Anyone who says they can promise you a certain price is talking out their rear. There are no guarantees in this industry because the next truck will always haul it cheaper.CondoCruiser, Bigbang and MSTEECEE Thank this. -
I just started looking through this thread. On the first page the guy books $900 in one week and $1200 the next and everyone thinks it's good. What am I missing? No matter how good the rate is, if that's all you can do, you won't last long in the trucking business. I do my own bookings and drive MN-NY. On a bad week I make $5500 round trip. On a good week around $7K. 2800 miles including all deadhead. Tolls are about $350 for the round trip. I tried booking services, but haven't been able to find anyone good. Most will just take what's available because they make their money no matter what.
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Bayou those are similiar to my rates I am a Broker/Dispatcher also I try to stay away from loads under $500 but sometimes you have to take them but I am $500-$999 $50, $1000-$1999 $100, $2000-$2999 $200 and so on....and the less than $2.00 a mile is workable for flatbeds & Reefers not Dry Vans so I know the guy above bases all his guarantees on the truck type.......and because we spend day in and day out in front of our computers we remove that stress from the drivers. (I start at 3:30am M-Th) because I have several trucks on Central time and Eastern time so when its 3 for me it is 5 or 6 for them and most shippers start loading at 7am so I have to be ahead of the shippers start time.
I have been thinking about going fulltime as a dispatcher and giving up my Broker title because there are so many shipper that are now not wanting to have the third party involved, you find so many stating "No Brokers". I have been brokering not officially but for my husband, ex-husband, 2 brothers and a few cousins for years I keep them rolling so I decided to try it for real and got all the legalities covered and I think I rather be dispatching....see I wanted to Broker to give the drivers their fair share because I had been fighting with Brokers for years for better rates but this business is full of scams, crooks, con artist and other adjectives that I wont mention......so I am really thinking about doing Dispatching fulltime..... -
I pay a lady to do my dispatch stuff now $300 a week at the end of the day what they are doing is on the fax machine
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Let me begin by saying that whatever dispatcher is promising you $2/mile + on every load is BS'ing you. Its nearly impossible to guarantee that kind of rate on every load.
I am a subcontracted dispatcher and I work with a few drivers and I basically call them, find out their location and then look for the best rate I possibly can for him....If my rate beats the carrier or broker, then they go with the load I presented to them...and I take care of him from beginning to end with that load...
Also, a lot of drivers don't have time to do all of the paper work, so a dispatch service is a good idea when you need a helping hand...With one of the drivers I work with, I basically just handle all of his paperwork, he prefers to picks up his own loads: He just calls in the info to me and I just do the faxing, signing and sending (set up) so he can get on the road ...
A dispatching service can have a lot of value for a driver and a carrier because the more time you are on the road (and not in a truck stop sending faxes) the more money you make... -
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The trick to dispatching is knowing where to go and where not to go. Most dispatchers will book loads based on where you are now, not construct the entire route. I've used services like this and all they can do is make the best out of bad situation. THey also usually don't look for partial combinations, which can bring in a lot of money. If a driver wants to go to Florida, he will have a fun trip but will not make much money. So, on the way back all that a dispatcher can do is get them $1/mile.
Dispatcher should be the one to set up the entire route and make sure you can get at the very least $2/mile. I do my own dispatching and I consistently get $2+/mile including all deadhead. This is based on the whole trip, not any one leg. -
The trick is when you do that, to have very definite rules in place for the dispatcher to follow, ie, no loads under this, no loads going to FL unless you get X coming out, etc, and then just make sure they follow that etc, -
The trouble with those rules, and an owner not actively participating in the search is... They get to where they don't have a clue what you are up against. And you looking at a loadboard can never really know exactly what options they may or may not consider. I book loads all the time that on the surface look odd and doubtful dispatch would even consider but I know where I need to be and am not scared to deadhead 150 miles, haul a load, then deadhead another200, if the Times and numbers work. No-one can know that better than the driver I just don't understand shirking the singlemost important aspect on the bottom line. No-one works harder than number one and no-one else gets blame either.
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