Vent Over! Thanks Y'all!

Tell him you want percentage of the loads you broker then, sounds like he's working you to a frazzle 70 hours in an office would drive me nuts in a hurry.

 

You would make more money stocking shelfs at walmart.then what you do now

 

They get a base salary (around $30K) plus commission.

 

Every "dispatch" or "transportation coordinator" position that I've seen in my latest job search has "sales" on the list of job responsibilities. Making cold calls is not "brokering" as others have mentioned.

Even switching jobs, you're likely to end up having to make cold calls anyway.

You'll have no luck telling potential employers at an interview for an office position: "I don't do sales calls".

And I'm pretty sure you don't have to put in more hours to make cold calls.

This may not be the advice you're looking for from the sounds of your desperation, however I'd say to stick it out. Negotiate a higher salary with your boss AFTER you have brought him a solid lead for an account.

Building your resume with adding sales to it is a huge advantage. Keep track of your statistics and successes. Your next employer will be salivating over you if you can learn a new trick in sales and back it up with numbers.

 

IF we get enough signatures completed in the next 30 some days to get a minimum wage increase on the midterms ballot here in Arkansas. Fixing to if approved go from 8.50 piddling dollars per hour to a better 11.50 starting in 2022 or so.

I remember my first two jobs. 3.35 and taxes too. Isnt America GREAT!? //sarcasm.

 

Only? Video games? Life style? Ugh.

Most company owners Ive cross swords with.. ahem been talked to now and then by.. usually participate directly in everything we did day to day. One time a ice storm destroyed communications and power in his city putting his entire company of 200+ 18 wheeler reefer loads sitting still. Put into the stone age of old style telephone communications where possible and paper and pencil. With their computers down, there was no accessing on their end everything we needed to roll on.

He went into action and had large generators trailered in on a bunch of money, dug up a portable field telephone system and patched his building into that. And then brought his computers and qualcomm back up within a day.

He was a good owner, into everything. I remember sitting on the lunch counter near Tejon Pass TA in california all loaded, reefer humming and half tank of fuel to do the day on until all of that was restored. So we wait. I was fixing to poach the tractor fuel into the reefer or call a local fuel dealer to show up with desiel in his box tanker truck to my truck on my credit card to make things safe on that load and my tractor too. Fortunately I did not have to resort to that extreme.

It was a interesting day.

I know enough to stay away from owners unless something came up related to my deafness. Then I am the one doing the educating. Or something else.

 

Sounds like you should offer to buy his trucking company. And he can lend you the money to do it. If he doesn't feel like doing that, you can quit and he can discover if he has what it takes to run one. Honestly I'd have quit a long time ago in your spot... But I've always been a truly awful employee. "Do unto others as they would do unto you" was basically always my motto... which means that if they had zero loyalty or regard for me as a person I returned the favor.