Owner-Operator Dispatch Service: One Truck, One Dispatcher

The solo owner-operator problem

You bought the truck to drive and earn. Instead, a good chunk of every week goes to load boards, phone tag with brokers and paperwork at truck stops. The hours you spend booking loads are hours you're not moving.

Negotiating alone is hard too. A broker talks to hundreds of carriers a day and knows what the lane is paying. You negotiate a few times a week, often while you're tired and parked, and the easy move is to take the first number.

A dispatcher for owner-operators fixes both. One person works the phones and the load boards for you every day, knows what lanes are paying right now, and hands you loads to approve instead of a list to search.

What makes our owner-operator dispatch service different

Everything included in the fee

• Load sourcing across load boards and broker relationships
• Rate negotiation on every load, against what the lane is paying that week. Here's how we negotiate with brokers
• Route planning built around your hours of service and home time
• Paperwork and invoicing: setup packets, rate confirmations, invoices in your name
• Broker communication, including check calls and appointment changes
• Detention, layover and TONU pay documented and recovered from the broker

We work only with freight brokers, on your behalf. We never deal directly with shippers and never take your load payments. Over time we build repeat lanes with the brokers who treat you right. Here's how broker relationships turn into steady freight.

Dispatcher vs doing it yourself

Self-dispatching isn't free just because there's no fee. The American Transportation Research Institute put the average cost of running a truck at $2.336 per mile in 2025, a record high. Every empty mile and every hour parked on the phone counts against that.

Here's how to work out your own cost per mile, and how we cut empty miles. We run the full math in self-dispatch vs hiring a dispatcher.

Every equipment type we dispatch

Switch trailers or add a second type later and keep the same dispatcher in most cases. Still deciding? Here's which trailer to buy first.

• Dry van dispatch: backhauls planned before you deliver
• Reefer dispatch: temps and appointment windows confirmed up front
• Flatbed dispatch: loads matched to your securement gear, tarp pay negotiated
• Box truck dispatch: CDL and non-CDL, up to 26 feet
• Hotshot dispatch: loads checked against your weight ratings
• Power only dispatch: trailer pools near your home base

The fee, and how you get paid

A flat 6% of your weekly gross for dry van, reefer, flatbed and power only, and 8% for box truck and hotshot, with nothing upfront. See what you pay and what's included.

The broker pays you, or your factoring company, directly. Every Monday we send one invoice for our fee, and you pay it after you've been paid. Want cash faster? You can get paid faster with a factoring partner, or keep the factor you already use.

Getting started

Send your MC authority, insurance certificate, W-9, voided check and the signed dispatch agreement, and most carriers are matched with a dispatcher within 24 hours. The full list is on our carrier setup page, and here's who we're the right fit for.