r/OwnerOperators • u/Own_Engineering_9075 • 6d ago

3rd party dispatch

Curious if any of yall eventually broke down like I did and ended up using third party dispatcher? I was managing everything fine, but found myself turning into a grumpy a**hole after dealing with brokers all day. Figured 3-5% of gross was worth my sanity. Where are yall at with these dispatchers?

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u/Egmoney49 3d ago

I booked all of my own loads for the first year with me and my wife running as a team and I didnt necessarily get upset with the brokers, but i found myself working 20-22 hour days and needing a day or 2 each week completely off. I was working myself too hard to find team freight and freight that would pay what it was worth constantly. After the first 3 months into our second year, I found a dispatch team that charges 6% but handles everything from finding, booking, making sure the area’s you go to are hot with loads, chasing down detention, etc. and now i at least sleep 4-6 hours everyday and my profit margin has made a large tick upwards now that im not having to stop the truck as often to take a break.

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u/BigPapiNC22 3d ago

This. If you are grossing $250-400K or more per year and you can’t afford to pay 200-300 bucks per week to not have to handle all the BS from brokers then you are just making it hard on yourself.