Dispatch, on your own authority
You keep your authority, your insurance and your money. We find the freight, work the brokers, and get your paperwork moving the day it lands.
Owner operators
For owner-operators: dispatch on your authority, or lease on to ours
Two ways to run with this carrier, and they are opposite in law. Dispatch keeps your authority and your money with you. Lease-on makes us the carrier of record under a written lease. Plus the fee arithmetic, done honestly, and how to check any dispatch company before you sign.
Lease on to our authority
You bring the truck and the driving. We become the carrier of record: our authority, our filings, our insurance on the unit, and a written lease that says exactly how you are paid.
What a dispatcher actually costs you, and when one is not worth it
A percentage of gross compounds into real money. Here is the arithmetic, done properly, including the cases where the honest answer is to keep dispatching yourself.
How to check that a dispatch company is real, and allowed to do this
There is a federal test for whether a dispatch service is operating lawfully, and it is short enough to run on anyone in an afternoon. Here it is, with how to check each part.
For owner-operators running out of South Florida
A desk in Hialeah Gardens, working the same market you are sitting in, on the same clock you are.
How this desk is actually running
The document turnaround this desk is hitting, the number of loads it is measured over, and whether it is taking new trucks. Published whether the month was good or not.
Where the work is
Is there freight where you are?
Hover a state to see it. The ones in yellow are lanes this desk books regularly in both directions, so a truck sitting in that market is worth having. The rest is freight we price per move rather than pretend to run weekly.
- Home: the desk and the yard
- We need trucks here
- We go there, priced per move
- Not a truck lane from Florida
Talk to the desk
One conversation with the person who would actually be dispatching your truck. Nothing here commits either of us.
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What is the difference between your dispatch service and leasing on?
Whose authority the load runs under, and that changes everything else. Under dispatch you keep your own authority: the load is yours, the broker pays you or your factor in your name, and we are your agent and never touch the money. Under a lease this company becomes the motor carrier of record: the load runs on our authority, the broker pays us, and we settle with you under a written lease that says exactly how and when. They are different legal relationships with different obligations, not two names for one service.
Which one is right for me?
If you have your own authority and want to keep it, dispatch. If you would rather not carry an authority, the federal filings and the public liability policy that go with it, the lease is the arrangement that exists for that. Neither is better; they suit different trucks.
Who actually does the work?
The owner of this company, from South Florida, personally. Not a floor of dispatchers and not an overseas back office. That is the whole offer, and it is why the desk takes a small number of trucks rather than as many as it can sign.
How do I check any of this?
Look the company up in the federal register by its legal name, compare the address there with the one on this site, read the agreement before you sign it, and ask who will be dispatching your truck and what hours they work. There is a page here that walks through the whole check, including the parts we would rather you ran on everyone else too.