A dispatch service for owner operators who run their own log
You drive the truck, you sign the logs, you carry the risk. What a desk should do is simple: keep the truck loaded inside the hours you legally have, protect the rate, and get you home when you said you'd be home. That is the whole job, and it's the job we built this service around. One truck with seasoned authority pays 5% of gross. A new MC pays 7% while we build your broker file. Nothing is booked until the rate confirmation lands in your hands and you say yes.
RATE CON · 05:30
ATL -> CLT
$1,180
CONFIRMED
Price a dispatched week against the one you're running now
Set your numbers. The right side shows the fee math and, more honestly, the hours you stop spending on load boards and hold music. Those hours are the real product. Rates below are our actual tiers; the week strip is an EXAMPLE of where your restart can sit when it's planned instead of stumbled into.
YOUR WEEK, PRICED AND PLANNEDEXAMPLE
Your fee tier
Home time you want
- GROSS
- $6,000
- FEE 5%
- -$300
- YOU KEEP
- $5,700
- HOURS BACK / WK
- ~12.5
- MONload + 10-hr break
- TUEload + 10-hr break
- WEDload + 10-hr break
- THUload + 10-hr break
- FRIload + 10-hr break
- SATHOME · restart
- SUNHOME · restart
Hours back = your board time, 5 days a week, moved to our desk (estimate). Restart placement per 49 CFR 395.3(c). Every load still gets your yes.
Want the deeper version with fuel, insurance and fixed costs in the mix? Run the dispatch ROI calculator. If the math doesn't clear your self-dispatch numbers, don't sign up; we mean that. Dispatch ROI calculator
What stays in your hands
The fastest way to hate owner operator dispatch services is to pick one that acts like a fleet manager. You didn't buy a truck to get a boss with a percentage. Here is the line we hold, in writing:
01
Every load
The rate con goes directly to you with the lane, miles, rate and pickup window. You confirm it or you say no. A no costs nothing, doesn't get argued with, and doesn't push you down a list. We book exactly nothing on your authority without your yes.
02
Your lanes and your floor
Tell us where you run and the rate per mile under which a load isn't worth your diesel. We shop above the floor and bring you what clears it. If the market on your lane drops below your floor for a week, we tell you that plainly instead of dressing up cheap freight.
03
Your home time
Home every weekend, home midweek when docks are quiet, out two weeks and home three days. You set the pattern; the week gets planned backward from it. Home time that only happens when freight allows isn't home time, it's leftovers.
04
Your ELD and your logs
We never ask for your ELD login and we never touch a log. We ask one question: what do you have left on your 11, your 14 and your 70. You answer it the way you'd answer an inspector, and the plan gets built inside those numbers.
05
Your exit
Month to month, cancel with 30 days notice, no setup fee to win back, no exit fee to escape. The packets we set up with brokers are on your authority, so your relationships leave with you.
New rate con from your dispatcher
RATE CONFIRMATIONEXAMPLE
ATLANTA, GA -> CHARLOTTE, NC
MILES
244
RATE
$1,180
PICKUP
TUE 05:30
Fits your clock: full 11 after your 10-hour break
Declining costs nothing.
What an owner operator hands to the desk
Everything below happens on our clock instead of your 14-hour window. That matters more than the fee: on-duty time you spend finding freight is time you can't drive, and it's the quiet tax every self-dispatched owner-operator pays.
Load sourcing
Rate negotiation
Broker paperwork
Check calls and tracking updates
Detention and layover claims
Deadhead planning
A weekly earnings report
A day on the desk, hour by hour
Here's how a dispatched day actually runs, using an EXAMPLE Tuesday for one dry van owner-operator. Times are the dispatcher's; yours stay your own.
04:45
Your dispatcher checks overnight board activity on your lanes and your remaining 70 before you're awake. Two candidate reloads flagged for Thursday.
06:00
You start your pre-trip. Yesterday we confirmed today's pickup for 07:30, twenty minutes from where you parked, because a 07:30 start protects the back half of your 14.
07:30
Loaded and rolling. The check call to the broker is ours; you never pick up the phone.
10:15
Broker for Thursday's reload counters low. We counter back with what the lane has paid the last two weeks and hold your floor. Deal lands above it; the rate con goes to your phone. You read it at your 30-minute break and confirm with one tap.
13:40
Receiver is running 90 minutes behind. We notify the next broker before it becomes a problem, start the detention clock per the rate con, and shift tomorrow's pickup from 06:00 to 08:00 so your 10-hour break still fits without squeezing your drive time.
16:30
Delivered, POD collected and sent to your factoring company. Tomorrow is already confirmed; Thursday is waiting on your yes. You shut down with hours left on your 11 instead of hunting a load with none, and the next day starts with a plan already on your phone.
Multiply that by five days and you get the thing the fee actually buys: a week where every decision got made early, by someone whose only job was making it.
Straight talk about rates
No dispatch company controls the market, including this one, and any desk promising a guaranteed rate per mile is reading you a sales script. What a good desk controls is the spread between what a lane pays and what an unrepresented driver accepts: counters backed by recent lane data, relationships that surface freight before it posts, and the patience to decline the first cheap offer because the reload is already shopped.
What moves your number week to week is mostly structural: lane direction and the balance of freight in and out of your region, season (produce runs, retail ramps, quarter-end pushes), your equipment's supply on that lane that day, and deadhead, which quietly eats more revenue than any fee. Planning the reload before the outbound delivers is worth more than winning any single negotiation, which is why we treat deadhead as the first number to attack, not the last.
And the fee math stays simple on purpose. On an EXAMPLE $6,000 week at the 5% standard tier, the fee is $300 and you keep $5,700. For that $300 the board time, broker calls, packets, claims and planning move off your clock. If a quarter of the hours you get back becomes drive time, the service pays for itself before the rate advantage is even counted. When it doesn't, your weekly report will show it, and you can leave with 30 days notice.
- GROSS
- $6,000
- FEE 5%
- -$300
- YOU KEEP
- $5,700
- BOARD HOURS
- 0
Standard tier. Board and broker time moved to the desk.
How we plan around your 34-hour reset
- MONLOAD
- TUELOAD
- WEDLOAD
- THULOAD
- FRILOAD
- SATHOME
- SUNHOME
EXAMPLE · 34-HOUR RESTART LANDS AT HOME · 49 CFR 395.3(c)
Your 60/70-hour cycle is a weekly budget, and the 34-hour restart is the reset button: after 34 or more consecutive hours off duty, the cycle starts fresh. The rule doesn't care where those 34 hours happen. Your driveway and a truck stop in Nowhere, Oklahoma count the same to FMCSA, but they do not count the same to you.
So we plan the week backward from the restart. If you want weekends home, the Friday load is picked for where it delivers, not just what it pays: a Friday delivery 90 minutes from the house beats one that pays $60 more and strands you 400 miles out. You're home by Friday night, the restart runs Saturday into Sunday, and Monday starts with a full 70 and a pickup we booked on Thursday.
Running your recap instead of restarting can be the sharper play some weeks, especially when the market's hot and your daily recap gives back enough hours to keep rolling. We watch your recap numbers daily and tell you which way the math points; the call stays yours. The free reset and recap planner below does the same arithmetic if you want to check us. 34-Hour Reset & Recap Planner · the 34-hour reset, explained
And the thing we will not do: shave the plan so tight that one slow dock pushes you past your window. Every day gets slack built in, because a plan that only works when everything goes right isn't a plan, it's a bet against your license.
What separates the best dispatch service for owner operators from the rest
Shopping dispatch companies for owner operators comes down to five questions. Ask every desk the same ones, including ours:
- Is dispatch forced?
- If loads can be assigned without your confirmation, walk away. The rate con should reach you before anything is booked. Here, it always does.
- What's the real, full fee?
- Percent of gross, flat fee or percent plus 'admin fees'. Ours is one number: 5% standard, 7% new MC, nothing added.
- Is there a contract?
- A desk confident in its numbers doesn't need a 12-month term. Month to month, 30 days notice.
- Who plans around your hours?
- Ask how they handle a 14-hour window that's half gone at noon. If the answer isn't specific, the planning isn't either.
- What do you get in writing weekly?
- A real earnings report beats a vibe. You should be able to audit your dispatcher from one page.
Leased-on owner-operators have a version of this decision too: your carrier may dispatch you, but if your lease lets you find your own freight, a dispatch desk can fill the gaps the fleet leaves. Bring us the lease terms and we'll tell you straight whether we can help or whether you'd be paying a fee for nothing. And if cash flow is the pinch rather than loads, owner-operator factoring through our partner RTS pairs with dispatch or works alone. Owner-operator factoring
What we don't do, so nobody's surprised later
- We don't force dispatch. Not softly, not with 'preferred carrier' pressure, not at all. Every load waits for your yes.
- We don't dispatch anything smaller than a 26 ft box truck. No cargo vans, no sprinters, no exceptions.
- We don't ask you to stretch your hours, edit a log or lean on personal conveyance to rescue a bad plan. A plan that needs that was our mistake, and we fix our own mistakes.
- We don't sell ELDs, fuel cards or insurance, and we don't take kickbacks for steering your freight to a favorite broker. The 5% is the whole business model.
- We don't lock you in. If a bigger fleet deal, a dedicated contract or plain self-dispatch starts beating us, take it. Thirty days notice and a handshake.
Everything above also holds when things go sideways: a claim, a breakdown week, a slow market. The answer stays boring and honest, because an owner-operator's trust is the only asset a dispatch desk really has.
Owner-operator dispatch, asked and answered
One truck. One desk. Your clock.
Apply in about 2 minutes. A dispatcher calls you back the same day.
Start dispatch at 5%EXAMPLE · 49 CFR 395.3 · checked 2026-10-05