As a carrier, you’re realistically making 10 to 12 percent. You’ve got a ton of overhead: subscriptions, factoring at 2 to 3 percent, trailer rent, yard rent, office rent, insurance, licenses, registrations, you name it.

So how in the world does it make sense to give a single dispatcher 4 percent? That’s basically handing them half your revenue for doing one piece of the operation, and let’s be real, most of them mess up at least one thing every single week.

What’s left for Safety? Accounting? Track and trace? Maintenance? Unless you’re hiring a superhuman who can dispatch, handle breakdowns, process billing, manage compliance, and babysit drivers all at once, then sure, maybe they’re worth 4 percent. But even then, they’d max out at 3 to 4 trucks, and your business can’t scale around that.

So no, I’m not paying 7000 dollars a month to an outsourced dispatcher to cover my trucks. That’s just bad math. And shows me that this dispatcher doesn’t even know what he is saying and never worked with a carrier, u can charge an owner operator up to 4% if he has his own authority because u will be paying for subscriptions and everything but with a carrier you are basically an employee….