A dispatch service for owner operators who want to stay the boss of the truck
You bought the truck to run your own business, not to sit on a load board. Our dispatch service for owner operators finds the freight, pushes every rate, takes the broker calls and keeps the paperwork straight. You keep the final say on every load, every lane and every day off.
What stays yours
- Which loads you haul, every time
- Your lanes and your home time
- Your floor rate per mile
- Your authority, your customers, your name on every rate con
- The right to leave with 30 days notice
Your Call week: you decide, load by load
Set your floor rate, then take or turn down five EXAMPLE loads for your rig. Loads under your floor are flagged. Each yes sends the rate con to your inbox in your company name, and the bar shows how much of your payment the week covers after our fee. Change your rig, payment, MC age and truck count in My Deal.
EXAMPLE LOADS FOR A DRY VAN
- Drop and hook: Chicago, IL to Columbus, OH$799
355 mi · $2.25/mi
- Live load: Dallas, TX to Atlanta, GA$1,638
780 mi · $2.10/mi
- Drop and hook: Atlanta, GA to Charlotte, NC$625
245 mi · $2.55/mi
- Live load: Memphis, TN to St. Louis, MO$499
285 mi · $1.75/mibelow your floor
- Dedicated: Kansas City, MO to Denver, CO$1,320
600 mi · $2.20/mi
Take a load and its rate confirmation lands here, in your company name. Say no and the next load comes up.
This week covers
0% of $650 · you keep $0 after our 5% fee
4
loads a month cover $2,815 (payment $1,715 + fixed $1,100), at an average $976 per load.
EXAMPLE loads and payment, not offers or market quotes. Fee 5% of gross load revenue; no haul, no pay.
This is the rhythm of a dispatched week. We bring you loads that fit; you decide. Most owners find they say yes more often once the offers stop being cheap.
What you keep control of
Owner-operators who have been burned by a dispatcher usually tell the same story: loads booked without asking, lanes they never wanted, and a fee that grew when they were not looking. We built this service the other way around.
You set the rules once on the first call, and we work inside them. If they change, tell us and we change with you.
- Loads: every load is offered to you with the rate, the stops and the weight before anything is booked
- Lanes: we plan around where you want to run, not where we find it easiest to book
- Home time: tell us your days and we plan the week to get you there
- Floor rate: nothing under it reaches you unless there is a clear reason, like a short reload that saves a long empty leg
- Your customers: any shipper you already work with stays yours
What our owner operator dispatch services handle
The hours around a load add up fast when you are the driver, the dispatcher and the billing office. Here is what comes off your plate:
- Load searches on the major load boards and through our direct broker and shipper contacts
- Rate negotiation on every load, pushed against your floor
- Carrier packets with every new broker, so the first load is not held up by paperwork
- Broker calls, check calls and delivery confirmations
- Deadhead and reload planning so the next load is lined up before you unload
- Detention and layover claims, tracked from your arrival time
- A weekly earnings report with gross, miles, rate per mile and fee
- Dispatchers on nights and weekends, when brokers post and trucks break down
The weekly report, EXAMPLE
Every Monday you get a report like this one. It is how you judge our work, and it is the number you should hold us to.
| Line | EXAMPLE week |
|---|---|
| Loads hauled | 4 |
| Loaded miles | 2,180 |
| Empty miles | 260 |
| Gross load revenue | $5,460 |
| Rate per loaded mile | $2.50 |
| Our fee at 5% | $273 |
| Detention claimed | $150 |
EXAMPLE figures to show the format, not a result or a promise.
The truck payment is the number we plan around
Most owners we talk to bought or financed their truck in the last few years, and the payment is the bill that keeps them up at night. So we start there. On the first call we ask for your payment, your insurance and your running cost per mile, and we work out how many loads or miles a month cover them.
From there the job is simple to describe and hard to do: keep rates above your floor, cut empty miles, and fill the days the truck would otherwise sit. Read the honest math in can a dispatcher cover your truck payment, and work out your own cost per mile with the trucking cost per mile calculator.
If the payment is too big for the work your truck can do, we will tell you. Better rates help, but they cannot rescue every deal.
How we plan a week for one truck
Owner-operator dispatch is about the week, not the single load. Here is the order we work in:
Start from your home time. we mark the days you want off before we book anything.
Set the first load out. the best paying load that fits your lanes and leaves you in a market with freight.
Find the reload before you deliver. so you are not waiting at a truck stop for the board to refresh.
Watch your hours. a well-paid load that forces a reset in the wrong place can cost a day.
Bring you home. the last load of the week heads toward your home base, not away from it.
How we push your rates up
Brokers start low because many carriers accept the first number. We do not. Before we counter, we look at what similar loads on that lane paid recently, how urgent the load is, and where it leaves your truck. Then we ask for more, with a reason the broker can take to the shipper.
Not every counter lands. When a broker will not move and the load is still worth it, we tell you the final number and let you decide. When it is not worth it, we walk away and keep looking.
Detention: the money owner-operators leave on the table
Most rate cons give two hours free at the dock before detention pay starts. Many owners never claim it because chasing it takes time they do not have. We log your arrival time, watch the clock and file the claim with the broker, with the times and signatures to back it up.
On a slow receiver, a detention claim can cover a day of fuel. It is your money, and collecting it is part of the job.
The rate con comes to you, every time
- 1Dispatcher finds and negotiates
- 2Broker sends the rate con to you
- 3You sign it, or you say no
We find the load and negotiate it. You decide. When you say yes, the broker sends the rate con straight to your email in your company name. You read it, check the rate, the stops and the detention terms, and you sign it.
We never accept or sign a load for you. If you say no, we keep looking, and it costs you nothing. That is the difference between a dispatcher who works for you and one who works for the broker.
What it costs a one-truck owner
For one truck with an MC at least 6 months old, the fee is 5% of gross load revenue. If your MC is newer, it is 7% until month 7, then 5% on its own. Add a second truck and the whole MC moves to 4%.
No setup fee, no minimum, no long contract. A week the truck does not haul costs you nothing. The full breakdown is on the pricing page, and the dispatch ROI calculator shows whether the fee pays for itself on your numbers. Running long haul? See OTR dispatch. Still in a lease-purchase? Read lease purchase dispatch first.
- 7%MC under 6 months, any fleet size
- 5%1 truck, MC 6+ months
- 4%2+ trucks on one MC, MC 6+ months
- Of gross load revenue. No setup fee, no minimums, month-to-month, 30 days notice, no haul no pay.
Factoring, if you use it
Many owner-operators factor their invoices to get paid in a day or two instead of waiting 30 days or more on a broker. We work with factored carriers every week: send us your notice of assignment and we add it to every carrier packet so brokers pay the right party.
If you are weighing factoring for the first time, read how owner-operator factoring works before you sign anything.
Straight answers for owner-operators
A dispatcher costs money I need for the payment.
Look at what you keep, not the fee. If our work does not add more than our percentage through better rates and fewer empty days, the weekly report will show it, and you can leave with 30 days notice. We would rather earn the fee than argue about it.
I will lose control of my business.
You keep every decision that matters: which loads, which lanes, which days. The rate con comes to you in your company name and you sign it. We do the searching and the phone work you do not want to do.
Is dispatch worth it for one truck?
For many single-truck owners, yes, because one person cannot drive eleven hours and work the board well at the same time. For some, no. If your lanes are simple and you enjoy the phone work, a load board may be enough. We will say so.
What about the best dispatch service for owner operators?
There is no single best one. Judge any dispatcher by four things: who signs the rate con, how the fee is charged, what the contract says about leaving, and whether they can show you a weekly report. Ask us the same questions.
Owner-operator dispatch questions
Can a dispatcher help me cover my truck payment?
What reports will I get?
Is a dispatcher worth it for one truck?
How do I pay the dispatcher?
Can I choose my own loads?
Do you work with owner-operators who factor?
Do I need my own authority?
Do I have to take the loads you find?
Keep the truck paying for itself
Tell us your rig, your lanes and your floor rate. A dispatcher calls you back, not a bot.