Dispatcher

Good Afternoon Mr. Lemke,

While my company is newly formulated, I do have 4 years of dispatching under my belt from a previous company I have worked for. My decision to form my own company was like anyone else's whereby I wanted to work hard and make money for my self offering a service that I am familiar with. As for my location, there are 6 units to this address and per the postal system, it has to be notified that way for correspondence purposes but this is actually a home. I stand by my statement that I provide a service that can get any driver/owner-operator loads that suit that needs, personally and financially. If you have any other concerns, please feel free to contact me at the number above. Being a dispatcher does not require you to have a license, just knowledge of the trucking industry and if anything, I deal directly with shippers so that it takes out the necessity to have a broker unless there are backhauls.

Best Regards,

NSLE LLC

Can you provide profitable and non-offensive rates to the truck for the distances travelled and type of commodity?

Can you pay a truck $1500/day for honest, professional and consistent service based on legal operations under the federal HOS rules?

Do you take more than 10%? (5% is more acceptable to those who don’t mind using a dispatch service)

Trucks are much more expensive to operate than most brokers tend to accept or even understand so I must say, that if you are working directly with shippers, and only take 10%, then you have an opportunity to be a reputable and profitable broker/dispatcher.

if you offer $1.95 and think it’s acceptable while you take 50, 60, 70% then it will be a struggle for you to find the quality carriers required for a professional appearance.

Im not knocking your attempt t reaching out, it’s exactly opposite. If you have direct shippers, and can make our operation some money, then SURE, I am interested.

Clarify if you are brokering for direct shippers or are you dispatching for direct shippers...there is a large difference between the required authority and insurances.

Hello Mr. Winters,

To answer your question, each broker or even dispatcher may have within the words of their contracts the term "power of attorney", it merely means permission from the driver to book loads for them and to receive a fee for that service. In no way are you giving up your independence; I can't speak for a broker because I am not that, I am a dispatcher and our main focus is to deal directly with the shipper on your behalf to get the loads you want and handle the back office of it all while all you have to do as the driver is drive.

NSLE LLC

Good afternoon Mr. Walton,

As I have already mentioned, I am not a broker (which is someone that has to be licensed and bonded), I am a dispatcher and I do not need a license to deal with a shipper. All the shipper needs are to make sure the person who is carrying their load had their MC, DOT, authority, and insurance up to date and that is to protect them if something happens to their load. This again is why it is being provided to the dispatcher since it is the dispatcher who is booking the load for you

Thank you,

NSLE LLC

Good Afternoon Jace King,

First and foremost, I'm sure this forum is meant to vet drivers and well as loads, shipments, etc. It does appear that there is a slight innuendo of sarcasm which is completely understandable. I recognize that you and any other driver would want for someone to see moving freight from their end of the spectrum so let me answer those questions for you: I have never owned a truck before, however, my child's father does and I have been taught to operate it and dispatch for him. Bulk freight and transportation are generally items that are sold in weight or volume as opposed to individuals pieces, for example, gasoline (liquid) or grains (solids). I have not dispatched a bulk load before but know how to and as far as how many direct loads I have......well, you'll have to work with me to get that answer.

Thank you,

NSLE LLC

Hey Wes, I see what you're getting at in your post, and your point. I would just point out that I pay significantly more than $1300 for bonding and insurance (add a zero and then some) but as I've always understood it that a dispatch service should be handling your billing as well, but billing under your company flag.

Jon at our company runs his own version of a dispatch service, but it's through our broker authority, and no special contracts other than the carrier agreement that we have every carrier sign. So we do all billing, etc under our company name, pay the truck, and deal with collecting separately. As far as fees go that's a better question for Jon directly, but the biggest cost we see is $5/$1000 is the rate for bonding, insurance, etc. So if your truck makes $1500 per day, I'm paying $7.50 for insurance (roughly) + petty costs of postage, labor time for billing etc.

As with anything in business there's costs. I know that these non-broker dispatch services are legal, but I'm not sure how everything works if say their customer doesn't pay you. My guess is the dispatch service is shielded from liability, since they don't have to carry a bond or insurance, whereas our version here at SFS would still fall under our bond because we technically are brokering everything.

What is most interesting here though is the 9% fee... I won't go into our details, like I said that's a better question for Jon privately, but if he's pulling 9% on a "dispatched" load (as compared to traditional spot brokered) we'd typically be doing next day quickpays on it.

If a broker gets 10% on a load, that 1% extra gets you a bond, additional insurance, another liable party, etc. Food for thought.

I want 2 things, for people to operate legally & for me to be protected from guys or gals that can't or won't pay me for my service. That is the regulation the government provides me...but only if brokers follow the rules. A dispatching service skirts around the rules.

Just above whoever it is that started this thread talks about keeping 9% or whatever. They could keep 100%, or file bankruptcy and you really have no recourse - that is the protection of the bond.

Bottom line...this outfit has customers but no trucks. They find the trucks, provide them with freight, and hopefully pay the said trucker minus a fee. Still don't understand how this is anything but a brokerage. Kinda one of those sounds like a duck, looks like a duck things

Also ...

Does the Shipper pay You and You pay the Truck?

Good Afternoon Mr. Preston,

Thank you for letting everyone know that a Dispatch Service is legal and again I would like to say that any Dispatcher worth his/her weight in salt would want to make sure the Owner Operator/Carrier gets the best loads that shipper have to offer. There is a certain liability that a Dispatcher would have which would be being blackballed if they do not vet Owner Operators/Carriers to make sure their MC#, DOT#, authority, and insurance are up to par and something happens to the hipper's loads; no one would want to work that dispatcher anymore. As I mentioned in my other post, I cannot speak for all Dispatchers or all Brokers, I can only speak for what I would do as a Dispatch Servicer. As far as the fee of 9% goes, it merely means that whatever the load is paying (for instance, 1,000 just as an example), my percentage of that would be $90. When I vet a Carrier or Owner Operator, I would want to know what their fixed and variable costs are, with knowing that percentages could be adjusted accordingly so that way my service is compensated, the Carrier/Owner Operator's fixed and variable costs are paid and profit after that goes to the Carrier/Owner Operator.

Thank you,

NSLE LLC

Good Afternoon Mr. Luebke,

To answer your questions: I am not a W-9 employee for the Carrier, I am an Independent Dispatch Service 1099

I have a generalized Carrier packet that I received help in setting up from my Mentor and was advised on what needs to be put within it so the Carrier is under the full understanding of what my service entails.

In my initial post, I did say that whoever needs dispatching services must have their own truck with equipment and insurance, their own authority, Dot#, and MC# so of course, I would need a copy of those things before I could book loads for them. The shipper is going to want to make sure these things are in order as well.

As also mentioned, percentages for my services can be adjusted depending up the amount the load pays and the consistency in which loads are booked.

I realize how cut-rate this industry is and especially because it is male-dominated but I aim to provide a service that is professional and will make sure i get the best loads a carrier is looking for that suits their needs.

Thank you,

NSLE LLC

Good Afternoon Mr. Balthrop,

The answer to your question is Yes, I would want to know a ballpark estimated monthly figure, that would help me look for the best loads for them to take care of those expenses and make a nice profit. Make sense?

NSLE LLC

Good Morning Mr. Winters,

You are correct, there is a lot of confusion out there and the sad part is that there is always one bad apple that spoils the bunch for everyone involved in the trucking industry; in any industry really, you will find individuals doubling dealing and being dishonest to make a profit. For me though, I have a strict moral code that comes behind everything I do, including now, business. I aim to be the exception to the rule of dishonesty. I'm under no illusion that I'm unknown in the trucking world but stepping out there now to make myself known and to show forth what I can offer. As I said before, I cannot speak for all dispatchers or brokers, I can only speak to what I will do as a dispatcher. I also have no issue with government and law taking a look at how dispatcher do business as I feel that everyone should be held liable is something is not done according to the law but as for now, I am conducting myself according to the law provided and will conform if or when it changes. Even though I am in the process of getting my MC#, DOT#, authority, and insurance, if I add a carrier under that, they would now be my employee and they may not want that, they may want to retain some sort of independence of just me getting loads for them; which I have no problem with. Have a great day Mr. Winters

NSLE LLC

YOU are a fool.

I don't know much about any of this and that is why I am reading this. Starting my own company and needing knowledge.

As I see it , basically all entreprenuers start out with no credibility . You earn that by doing good business. So hiring you or not should not be soley based upon being a new business

Seem quite honest to me. I hope you do well and prosper

Hello Mr. Balthrop,

As I have explained to you before, my rate is 9% per load booked for the carrier.

NSLE LLC

Mr Killion,

I hope you do well as prosper just as much, good luck to you.

NSLE LLC

That makes sense to me. May I suggest if she stick with the carriers with the highest operating costs she could charge the customer a higher rate in order to provide the carrier with a handsome rate. Therefore she could acheive her handsome profit at a lower percentage.

WOW! I read through this thread and saw more dancing than on dancing with the stars!

If you need to send your bills to a factoring company on my companies behalf to get us paid, it is VERY shady! Our company does not, nor has ever needed a factoring company! That is just added expense to get your money a couple days early AND the recourse is still on you if the shipper does not pay! People wake up! If you need a fly by night service to make yourself profitable then you are doing something wrong! Good service and sticking to your word will do more for you reputation than a dispatch service!

UFF! What will people think of next to take money out of pockets without having any skin in the game!

Keith

ET Trucking