While you can choose when and where you run, our experienced dispatchers and load planners book your loads for you. When you’re booking your own freight, accessing load boards costs you money, let alone sitting there and figuring out which loads you want to take. Time is money, and you want to spend all of your working time on the road, spinning those wheels.
In addition, we don’t recommend working with a company that allows you to book your own loads. We can almost guarantee you they have been freight guarded in the past, and you won’t have the opportunity to book with all the brokers out there. You’ll lose the chance to work with a lot of organizations because of that.
Finally, many drivers who don’t run freight day-in and day-out get excited when they see a $4 per mile load. They book it and realize after the fact why the load paid so much – there are no backhauls! You may have to accept a load for 85 cents just to get out of that area. Even worse, you may have to deadhead 400 miles to get a decent paying load back home.
Our experienced load planning team takes all of that into consideration. We know what areas are hot, and we don’t get suckered into booking high-paying loads that are really dead ends. We see our load planning services a major value-add for owner operators, not a downside!