A dispatch service for owner operators who are done working two jobs
You already drive the truck. Then you get home and work the second shift: boards, broker setups, check calls, invoices. We take the second shift. You keep the wheel, the lanes, the home time and the final yes on every load.
Takes about 2 minutes. No setup fee. No contract.
Count the second shift before you price it
Count the second shift before you price it
Most owner-operators guess low until they add it up. Slide your real hours in; the worksheet shows what a desk takes off your week and what those hours are worth at your own number, not ours.
searching, refreshing, posting your truck
carrier packets, COI requests, portal signups
negotiating, check calls, PODs, chasing detention
filings calendar, records, invoices to the factor
Estimate from your own inputs; compliance stays partly yours because the records and the audit are always the carrier's. Nothing here is a revenue promise.
Prefer the long version with your revenue in it? The dispatch ROI calculator runs the fee against your actual weeks.
The same week, run twice
Comparison is the honest pitch here, so here is one, labeled example, both columns the same truck and the same market:
Example week for illustration, not a promise. Markets swing, lanes go soft, and some weeks are thin for everyone. What holds in any market is the structure: the planning happens while you drive instead of after you park, the paperwork never blocks a tender, and the money owed for waiting gets chased instead of forgotten.
Add the columns and the difference is rarely the rate on one load. It is the reload that existed because someone booked it Thursday, the detention check that arrived because someone started the clock, and the Saturday that stayed a Saturday.
- MONDrive, then 2 hours on boards at the receiver. Take a $1.78/mi load because it is 9pm.
- TUEBroker setup paperwork over lunch. Forgot the updated COI, setup stalls.
- WEDDetention at the dock. No clock started, nobody to argue it. Eat it.
- THUGood load gone while on the phone with the last broker.
- FRIDeadhead home empty. Weekend spent half-planning Monday.
What stays in your hands, in writing
A dispatcher who takes your control is just a bad fleet manager you pay for. The deal here is the opposite:
Every load
We offer, you decide. The broker's rate confirmation goes directly to you, and a pass costs you nothing but the minute it took to read it. We go find the next one.
Your lanes
Run regional, stay off the coasts, avoid the city you hate: tell the desk once and it plans inside your map, not over it.
Home time
Tell us the days that are not for sale and the plan is built backward from them. A load that strands you Saturday is a load we did not book.
Your floor rate
You set the number a load must clear. We argue upward from it and bring you what clears; what does not clear does not reach your phone.
What lands on our desk instead of yours
- Load sourcing on the major boards plus direct broker and shipper contacts
- Rate negotiation on every load, starting from your floor
- Broker setups and carrier packets, kept current so tenders do not stall
- Check calls, delivery confirmations and POD chasing
- Deadhead planning: the reload booked before you are empty
- Detention and layover claims with the paperwork attached
- Weekly earnings report that reads line by line, load by load
- A phone that answers nights and weekends, because freight does not keep office hours
The fee for all of it: 5% of gross for one truck with 6+ months of authority, whatever you haul, dry van to oversize. An MC under 6 months runs 7% and drops to 5% automatically the day it ages in. No setup fee, no minimums, month to month with 30 days notice, and no haul means no pay: a week in the shop costs you nothing in dispatch fees. The full price list, including what is never charged, is on the fees page.
Authority younger than 6 months? The new authority page covers the extra work that stage takes and why the first weeks run differently.
If slow broker payments are the real pinch, owner-operator factoring is the other half of the fix. We refer carriers to our factoring partner and may be paid for referrals.
Put a dispatcher on itOwn authority or leased on: which desk is this?
Own MC This one is for owner-operators running under their own MC. You hold the authority, the insurance and the risk; we hold the phone. Everything on this page, from the floor rate to the weekly report, assumes the freight moves under your number and the money lands in your account first.
Leased on Leased onto a carrier? Then that carrier's dispatch controls the truck you leased to them, and hiring an outside dispatcher for it usually violates the lease. What we can do is help you plan the jump: the authority guides walk every filing with official links, and the day your MC goes active, this page applies to you.
Grading any dispatcher in one phone call, including us
Ask these five on the first call. The answers separate a desk from a middleman faster than any review page:
- 01Who confirms the load? The only right answer is you, with the broker's rate con sent to you, not signed for you.
- 02What do they need access to? Documents, yes. Your FMCSA, load board or factoring logins, never.
- 03When is the fee charged? A percentage after the load delivers is normal. Big setup fees and prepaid weeks are how bad desks get paid before proving anything.
- 04What happens when you pass on a load? The desk should go find the next one, not sulk or slow-walk you.
- 05How do you leave? Month to month with short notice is the honest shape. A 12-month exclusive for a phone service deserves a hard no.
We publish our answers across this site on purpose: every load confirmed by you, no logins, fee after the fact, passes cost nothing, 30 days notice. Hold any dispatcher, including us, to that bar.
Q-01Can leased-on owner-operators use a dispatcher?
Usually not for the leased truck: when you are leased onto a carrier, their operation controls dispatch for it. Our desk works with owner-operators running under their own MC. If you are planning the jump to your own authority, start with our new authority page and apply when your MC is filed.
Q-02How fast can I start?
Typically within a few business days of your documents landing: MC and insurance verified, W-9 and COI in, packets out to the brokers that fit your lanes. Carriers with paperwork ready move fastest. The first booked load depends on your market and your floor, and we will be straight with you about both.
Q-03Do you work with owner-operators who factor?
Yes, routinely. Send your notice of assignment with your packet and we make sure every broker setup points payment at your factoring company. If you are shopping for factoring, we refer carriers to our factoring partner; the comparison page walks the trade-offs honestly.
Q-04What does a dispatcher do for an owner-operator?
The off-the-road half of the business: find and negotiate loads, run broker setups and packets, make the check calls, plan reloads so you are not deadheading, chase detention, and send a weekly report. You drive, choose loads and keep the authority; the desk keeps the phone.
Q-05What if I want to run only certain lanes?
Then those are the lanes. Lane preferences, no-go regions and radius limits go into your profile on day one, and the desk plans inside them. We will tell you honestly if a preference is starving your calendar, but the call stays yours.
Q-06Can I choose my own loads?
Yes, every one. We send the load with the numbers, the broker sends the rate confirmation directly to you, and nothing is booked until you say yes. Pass as often as you like; finding the next option is our job, not your penalty.
Q-07Can a dispatcher plan my home time?
That is half the point of planning reloads in advance. Tell us the days you are home, and the week is built to land you there: last loads point toward the house, not away from it. A desk that cannot get you home on your days is not planning, just booking.
Keep the wheel. Hand over the phone.
5% of gross, no contract, your floor rate, your loads, your home time. Apply in about 2 minutes.