We book the load, argue the rate, and chase the check.
Dispatching for owner-operators and fleets up to twenty trucks. We plan the week as a whole, negotiate every load against the market, and invoice the day you deliver.
Tell us what you run and where. We will tell you what we think we can book it for, before you commit to anything.
The terms, in full
- Our fee
- Calculated on
- Linehaul only
- Cut of your fuel surcharge
- None
- Contract or setup fee
- None
National spot averages, week ending 14 August 2026
Source: DAT Freight & Analytics. Cited with attribution. We are not affiliated with DAT.
| Equipment | Linehaul | With fuel surcharge | Surcharge we never bill |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dry van | $2.28 | $2.93 | $0.65 |
| Reefer | $2.75 | $3.38 | $0.63 |
| Flatbed | $2.79 | $3.54 | $0.75 |
We bill 6% of linehaul only. On a dry van load, that right-hand column is fuel reimbursement — your money, not earnings, and we do not take a cut of it. Plenty of dispatchers quote a lower percentage and bill it against the whole number.
What we do
Five things. Every carrier we dispatch gets all five — they are not sold separately.
Service
What it is
What it costs you when nobody does it
Truck dispatching
We work your lanes, plan the week as a whole, and put loads under you that make sense together.
Empty miles, and the rates you took because you were out of hours
Rate negotiation
Brokers open low because opening low works. We negotiate against market data, in writing, on every load.
Five to ten percent of every load, in either direction
Invoicing and collections
The load is not finished when it delivers. It is finished when the money arrives, and someone has to chase it.
Detention, lumpers and TONU that never got billed
Carrier packet setup
One clean packet, sent the moment a broker asks, so the load does not go to someone faster.
Loads that went to whoever was already set up
Paperwork and compliance
Rate confirmations read properly, documents filed where you can find them, and deadlines that do not arrive as a surprise.
A deactivated USDOT registration, or revoked authority
A dispatcher charging 3.5% who books you $2.30 a mile pays you less than one charging 6% who books you $2.80. It is not close, and it is not a hard sum. Nobody in this business shows you the sum, so here it is — put your own numbers in it.
What settles out
- Gross linehaul
- $5,700
- Our fee, 6% of linehaul
- −$342
- Fuel, 2,841 total miles
- −$1,683
Left for the truck
$1.29 per mile driven, empty miles included. Before your truck payment, insurance, and maintenance.
The other dispatcher, same week
$3,094
You keep $581 more a week with us — about $29,063 over fifty working weeks. The fee is higher; the rate is what pays you.
Rates default to the national dry van average. Annual figures assume fifty working weeks. This is an estimating tool, not a quote — your fixed costs, truck payment, and insurance sit underneath all of it. How our fee works.
How it works
Signup to settlement. This flow is genuinely sequential, which is the only reason it is numbered.
We talk about your operation
A call, not a form response. What you run, where you will and will not go, what home time looks like, and what your truck actually costs you to run per mile.
30 to 45 minutes
We build your carrier packet and get you set up
Authority letter, W-9, certificate of insurance, equipment list, and a notice of assignment if you factor. Then broker setup, one at a time, in their format.
One to three days, mostly waiting on broker systems
We book, you approve, you drive
We work the boards and our broker contacts, negotiate, and bring you loads with the rate, the miles, the terms, and the reload plan. Nothing gets signed without your yes.
Ongoing, and we plan the week rather than the load
We invoice the day you deliver, and chase it until it pays
Signed BOL and rate confirmation go out to the broker the same day, with any accessorials billed. Anything past terms gets followed up.
Same day, then as long as the broker takes
Equipment
Six markets that behave differently. We write about them separately because they are not interchangeable.
Dry van
Dry van is the deepest freight market in the country and the most crowded. The rate is rarely where a dry van week is won or lost — the accessorials are.
Reefer
Reefer pays better than dry van for a reason: more can go wrong, and when it does, the claim lands on you.
Flatbed
Flatbed pays for labor as much as miles. If your dispatcher is not billing for the tarp, they are giving away the part of the job that hurts.
Step deck
A step deck exists to solve one problem: freight that is too tall to ride legally on a flatbed. That is a smaller market and a better-paid one.
Power only
Power only trades trailer ownership for someone else's terms. Whether that is a good trade is arithmetic, and it is worth actually doing.
Hotshot
Hotshot works when the freight is urgent, light, and priced for speed. It stops working the moment someone treats a one-ton as a semi.
Proof
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Questions
The ones carriers ask on the first call.
- What does a truck dispatcher actually do?
- A dispatcher finds and books freight for your truck, negotiates the rate with the broker or shipper, handles the setup paperwork, and follows the load through to invoicing and payment. We work for you, under your authority. We are not a broker: we never take possession of your freight and we are not a party to the contract of carriage.
- How much do you charge?
- 6% of linehaul, calculated on the linehaul portion of the rate only. We do not take a percentage of your fuel surcharge, because that is reimbursement for money you already spent, not earnings. There is no setup fee, no monthly minimum, and no contract. Carriers running three or more trucks should talk to us about a lower rate.
- Am I locked into a contract?
- No. There is no term, no notice period, and no cancellation fee. If we are not making you money you should leave, and we would rather you left than stayed unhappy. Your authority, your insurance, and your broker relationships are yours throughout and you take all of them with you.
- Do I need my own authority?
- Yes. We dispatch for carriers running under their own MC and USDOT authority. If you are leased onto a carrier, your dispatch is already handled by them. If you are in the process of getting authority, talk to us anyway — we can have your carrier packet assembled and ready for the day it is active.
- Is a dispatcher the same as a freight broker?
- No, and the distinction is legal rather than cosmetic. A broker arranges transportation between shippers and carriers, holds a brokerage authority and a surety bond, and is a contracting party. A dispatcher is an agent of the carrier — we act on your behalf, under your authority, and we are paid by you. If someone offers to dispatch you and also to broker your freight, ask which hat they are wearing on any given load.
Send us your lanes and we will tell you what we would book them for.
No obligation and no sales sequence. If we do not think we can improve on what you are getting, we will say so — that answer is worth more to both of us than a month of disappointing loads.