Truck dispatch for every rig, 26 ft box and up
Car hauler, reefer, cattle pot or 26 ft box: our dispatchers find the freight your truck is built for, check the rules that ride with it, and call you first. The rate con comes to you. You decide.
5% standard · 7% new MC · 4% fleets · no setup fee
26 ft box truck
Palletized retail, furniture and appliances, LTL partials, liftgate deliveries
26 ft box truck
7%Car hauler
Dealer, auction, rental and private vehicles on open or enclosed trailers
Car hauler
5%Dry van
Packaged goods, paper, retail freight, palletized loads
Dry van
5%Dump truck
Aggregate, sand, gravel, asphalt, dirt and demolition debris
Dump truck
5%Flatbed
Steel, lumber, building materials, machinery, coils
Flatbed
5%Hazmat tanker
Placarded fuels, chemicals and gases in cargo tanks
Hazmat tanker
5%Hopper bottom
Grain, feed, fertilizer, DDGS and other free-flowing bulk
Hopper bottom
5%Hotshot
Equipment parts, ag and oilfield loads, building materials on a gooseneck
Hotshot
7%Livestock
Cattle, hogs and other livestock between ranches, sale barns, feedyards and plants
Livestock
5%Heavy haul
Construction and farm machinery, transformers, oversize and overweight loads
Heavy haul
5%Power only
Pre-loaded trailers owned by shippers, brokers and carriers
Power only
5%Reefer
Produce, meat, dairy, frozen food and pharma at set temperatures
Reefer
5%Step deck
Tall machinery, equipment and freight that won't clear on a flatbed
Step deck
5%Tanker and bulk
Non-hazmat liquids (food grade, water, chemicals) and pneumatic dry bulk
Tanker and bulk
5%A dispatcher who only knows dry van will happily offer a tanker load to a driver with no N endorsement. Specialty freight comes with rules, and a bad match costs you a fine, a refused load or worse. These are the checks our desk runs before your phone rings.
A loaded combination rated 26,001 lb or more with a trailer over 10,000 lb needs a Class A CDL. We match the load to the license you actually carry, not the one a broker assumes you have.
Tank loads of 1,000 gallons or more need the N endorsement. Hazmat needs H, or X for both. Placard rules change at 1,001 lb for most hazard classes, so we confirm the class and weight before the call.
Interstate gross tops out at 80,000 lb, with 20,000 lb on a single axle and 34,000 lb on a tandem. If a load would push you past your axles, we flag it before you pull onto a scale.
Oversize work runs on state permits and escort rules that differ at every border. We confirm the dimensions, the route and who pays for permits before the load reaches you.
Livestock can't stay confined past 28 consecutive hours without being unloaded for feed, water and rest. We plan load times and stops around that clock, along with your hours of service.
Broker credit and payment history, detention terms, appointment times, lumper rules and whether the reload near your delivery is real. Nobody brags about this part. It's where most of the money is saved.
Our dispatch fee is a percentage of the gross on each load you haul. One truck with an MC older than 6 months pays 5%. New authorities pay 7% for the first 6 months, and so do 26 ft box trucks and hotshots, because those loads take more calls to book well. Fleets of 2 or more trucks pay 4% while that limited-time rate lasts.
What you won't pay: a setup fee, a monthly minimum, a cancellation fee, or a cut of a load you turned down. If the truck sits for a week, you owe nothing for that week. The agreement is month-to-month, cancel with 30 days notice.
Here is the math on a sample week. A truck grossing $6,000 at the standard rate pays $300 and keeps $5,700. Slide the number to your own week and see all three tiers side by side.
New MC, 26 ft box, hotshot
7%
Fee $420
You keep $5,580
Standard
5%
Fee $300
You keep $5,700
Fleet
4%
Fee $240
You keep $5,760
Fee on gross load revenue only. No setup fee, no minimums, month-to-month, cancel with 30 days notice. No haul, no pay.
The percentage buys a working desk, not a list of load board links. Here is what our dispatchers handle so you can keep your eyes on the road.
A dispatched week
EXAMPLEMost dispatch services sort loads by rate per mile and stop there. That works until a car hauler gets offered a load its deck can't fit, or a hopper bottom gets sent 300 miles past the last elevator still buying. Every mismatch means a cancelled booking, an angry broker or a truck that sits.
We start from your card instead: the trailer, the license and endorsements you hold, the states you like to run and the days you want home. Loads that don't fit never reach your phone. Loads that do fit get negotiated before you hear about them. The result is fewer calls, fewer surprises and a week that holds together from Monday pickup to Friday report.
Fourteen kinds of equipment, one desk, the same attention for each. A dry van gets the same planning as a lowboy, and a reefer gets the same rate push as a car hauler. Pick your truck to see what we book for it and what we need from you.
Box trucks: 26 ft only. We don't dispatch cargo vans or sprinters.
You keep your customers and your home time. We fill the gaps between your regular loads, find the backhaul so you don't deadhead home, and handle the broker calls while you drive.
Dispatch for owner-operatorsPlenty of brokers won't touch a carrier with a few weeks of history. We know which ones will, set up your packets with them, and help you build the first lanes that pay.
Dispatch for new authoritiesOne dispatcher keeps the whole fleet in view, so trucks don't chase the same lanes or sit while another runs empty. Every driver still gets the call before a load is booked.
Dispatch for small fleetsNot sure how the first week goes? Here's how dispatch starts, from the first call to your first rate con.
A freight broker sits between the shipper and the carrier and earns the spread between what the shipper pays and what the truck gets. A higher rate for you is a smaller margin for them. A dispatcher sits on your side of that table.
GearLoads is a dispatch service. We don't own the freight, we don't take a cut of the broker's margin and we don't get paid more for steering you to one company. Our only income from your truck is the percentage of the loads you choose to haul, so the higher your rate, the better our week too.
If a dispatcher asks for any of these, keep your wallet closed.
Run the numbers before you take the load. Each tool shows its formula and cites the rule it uses.
What each specialty hauls, the license it takes, the rules that apply and how the work is paid.
Brokers often pay on 30 day terms or longer while fuel, permits and insurance come due every week. If you want cash sooner, we can introduce you to RTS Financial for a factoring quote. Factoring is optional and never required to use our dispatch.
How freight factoring worksWe refer carriers to RTS Financial and may be paid for referrals.
5% of gross load revenue for one truck with authority older than 6 months. 7% while your MC is under 6 months, and always for 26 ft box trucks and hotshots. Fleets of 2 or more trucks pay 4% for a limited time once the MC passes 6 months. No setup fee, no minimums, and no fee on weeks you don't haul.
No. We call you with the lane, pickup time, rate and anything unusual about the load, and nothing is booked until you say yes. Turn down as many as you like. There is no penalty and no fee for a load you pass on, and we keep looking for one that fits your plan.
You do. The broker sends the rate confirmation straight to your email as the carrier, you read the terms and you sign it. We never sign a rate con on your behalf. If something on it doesn't match what we told you on the call, don't sign, call us, and we'll fix it with the broker.
Yes, along with livestock, hopper bottoms, dump trucks, hotshots, flatbeds, step decks, power only, dry vans and reefers. Each rig gets loads matched to its equipment, your license and endorsements, and the rules that apply to the freight. Specialty work is part of the desk, not an add-on with a different price.
No. The smallest truck we dispatch is a 26 ft box truck, and we don't take shorter boxes, cargo vans or sprinter vans. Brokers size a lot of freight for a 26 ft box with a liftgate, and that is where we can keep a truck steadily loaded. Anything smaller is outside what our desk books.
There is no setup fee and no long contract. The agreement is month-to-month, cancel with 30 days notice. You can stop at any time with that notice, and you only ever pay the percentage on loads you actually haul. We don't charge monthly minimums, onboarding fees or a cancellation fee.
Yes. A new MC pays 7% of gross until the authority is 6 months old. Some brokers won't work with very new carriers, so we focus on the ones that do, set up your carrier packets and build a few lanes you can count on. Have your insurance certificate and W-9 ready when we call.
We confirm the load dimensions, the states on the route and who pays for permits and escorts before we offer you an oversize load. Permits come from each state's permit office, so the route and the cost are settled with the broker or shipper up front. You still approve the load before anything is booked.
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