Truck Dispatching in 2024: Trucking Is A Minefield 

Those overseas dispatchers are out of control.

I get half a dozen dispatcher calls a day from overseas dispatcher that I could barely understand their English. Why would I fire my dispatcher which I’ve had for years just to take a chance A possible scam dispatcher that doesn’t know anything about me.

Im happy i subscribed..getting got knowledge in some subjects and in others realizing im not the only one with the issues..Overall a lot of things need to change. Starting with rates ridiculous lumper and late fees.bad treatment. Mandatory 30 minute break on duty not driving or off duty!!! Truck parking.Broker Shipper transparency. And a few more items including fair detention and lay over pay..carrier's have allowed the abuse to continue and look where we are now..if every single truck here in US would stop running for only 1 week things would change. But unfortunately more than half don't have the cojones in place to do it..

If a broker refuses to pay or "screens your calls" and never answers, or if the bond has been drained, you can always go back to the shipper and bill them under the "Bills of Lading Act". Please look into it!!

Miranda, dispatching your own small fleet off the spot market has to be stressful to say the least. A lot of the dispatching horror stories come from bigger fleets with hired off the street kids (I’m 62 so yes, kids) who are at best ignorant and/or absent minded or at worst deceitful. From lying about no loads available getting you home (as you load at a Shipper with another driver with the same company as you going to the location you requested weeks ago) , to lying about your load being “hot” just to find out the Consignee laughs at you as he points to a whole warehouse full of the same product or gives you a 0700 appt when they know it’s actually several hours later just to assure you’re not late cuz some other driver was in the past, etc! How about a dispatcher not understanding why the load she just gave you can’t be picked up in one hour cuz on the map it’s only one inch apart from where you are at 3pm in Chicago on a weekday before they had toll by plate/prepass and everyone had to stop and pay at the toll booth. Just a few examples!

"Dispatching is easy money" has to be the most ridiculous statement in trucking. There's not even many loads out there and whatever's there so cheap that you can lose money every week. We ended up in Iowa on today and everything was less than 2/mi for a market that's generally good paying. Once I had a load booked but my paranoia struck and I didn't know whom to call so I just copied tracking number from rate con to confirm if this is a legit load and we're on it.

Trucking and working off load boards are stressful to say the least ! You can’t afford to get scammed money is to hard to come by ! Thanks so much for tips ! Your the best!!

I never will forget the time I called a Mason Dixon agent years ago in she was out of Oklahoma and in here exact words "I've been to busy to even look for you anything I've been baking cookies all day" lmao and that's when I decided to get my own authority WTF baking cookies 😂😂

Fmcsa has some dumb rules, obviously. That interstate and intrastate is super dumb. If you do business as a truck driver in state you're still regulated by fmcsa rules. They should be doing everything they can to protect trucking companies from scammers and bankrupt shippers and receivers.

shippers and brokers don't care if you go bankrupt.The bank wants it's money.

I dont know if you use factoring company, but I use them never got the problem with my payment. Thanks for the video!

Great nuggets of info! Thanks Miranda 👊🏼

I've learned not to post my truck this is one way to avoid unwanted fake dispatchers But I only run Intrastate so most of my work is repeat customers so it works as a safeguard against scammers because unfortunately any business is at risk!!!

Extremely insightful!!! Thank you for the video!!!

Please make it all better babe 😢

I refuse to use any additional services in this market. Doing it all myself. It’s a lot of work and requires a lot of attention to detail, out I look out for my interests better than anyone else in this predator-infested industry.

Thanks for your insights. Preciate ya!

I was talking to my dispatcher on the phone. She had no idea. I was in the building when I walked into the office. She was playing Candy crush. Now she just got done telling me. She was currently looking for a load for me at that moment.

You can go after shipper or receiver for payment if bond is dry ...

Good listen and information

Love ur content!

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And the problem that i'm seeing is these foreign dispatchers Are becoming a problem and need to be handled.

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Why would you guess that trucking is a minefield and the pizza delivery business is not. The difference is between "transportation and door dash"?? They can deliver fast food for 50yrs and never get stiffed even 5 bucks in 50yrs............ Maybe transportation people need to be expecting payment when the product is delivered to avoid any less than honest con-artistry? We dont even do a credit check, or a background check before we invest thousands of dollars......... That is Wild

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You can't run a 1000 mile,s over nite ? Well now you tell me !! 😂😂

Ma'am which TMS you use to manage your work flow ?

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What country are you originally from? Or your family? Hope youre having a great week 🙏💪

Miranda, Some short while back, you posted a detailed presentation comparing your own truck's (and cousin's) April 2023 and April 2024. In this, you were lamenting an AFTER EXPENSE fall from c. 23K to c. 14K. At that time, I commented that my own monthly before tax net never rises to anywhere near the lower of those two examples, AND I am getting the CONTRACT, not spot market, rates of an established carrier. Now, who cares about me, any reader might fairly ask. BUT your April 2024 numbers and the $&¢/mile numbers you often throw around when speaking of our 2024 market absolutely cannot be reconciled. This is not an accusation, but can you explain?

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