8% fee for Hotshot dispatcher is too much

That's almost $50.000/Year if you work with 4 drivers.

I think it should be somewhere between 3% and 5% ....no more than 5%.

Why do you (Dispatchers) charge so much ?

 

@ZVar

It makes no difference if it is offered to me at $8 per mile or $3 per mile. At 5% fee with 4 drivers you (dispatcher) will be making as much as a driver makes. I don't have a problem giving you 8% if you can guarantee me $300.000 revenue. Or we can do this: 5% up to 200k and 8% over 200k. You depend on my service as much as I depend on your service, we all want to make what's fair…. my fair value for dispatcher fee is 5%.


I'm looking at the numbers….numbers never lie:
Revenue $176.000
Driver Gross - $60.952
Dispatcher Gross (5%) - $9.000
Based on my calculation, dispatcher makes 15 % ($9.000) with 5% fee.



Revenue $176.000
Driver Gross - $55,673
Dispatcher Gross (8%) - $14.000
Based on my calculation, dispatcher makes 25 % ($13.918) with 8% fee.

 

Are you a dispatcher sir?

$176" thousands" revenue.If somebody is losing money would be if it doesn't make $176,000 which I believe is the case here. I had Hotshot driver telling me he made $330,000 last year... Hard to believe but that's what he's claiming...he even said he can prove it with his 1099. He also said he paid 20% to the house.... What a rip off. As a company driver you make standard 50 to 70k a year.The point of being an owner operator will be to save in the equipment maintenance and try and run more efficient... If you fail at this you will be making as much as a company driver.Anybody can run the numbers ,if you lease equipment and buy the trailer at the end of the year you will be making as much as a company driver. Hotshot business is a dream pipe.