Can my drivers call you directly?

Yes, and it is usually the point. Drivers call us about loads, directions, detention and paperwork, which takes those calls off the owner.

Will you respect a driver who refuses certain lanes?

Yes. We keep driver preferences on file — home time, regions they will not run, equipment they prefer — and plan around them. Ignoring that is how a fleet loses a good driver over a load worth a few hundred dollars.

Can you dispatch a mixed fleet?

Yes. Dry van, reefer, flatbed and power only in the same fleet is common, and a mixed fleet is often easier to keep loaded because we can work more than one freight pool.

What if we want to take dispatching back in house later?

Then you should. There is no long-term contract. Plenty of fleets use a dispatch service while they grow and bring it in house once the volume justifies a full-time dispatcher on payroll.

Small fleet dispatch service

Small fleet dispatch services for two to ten trucks

Running several trucks is not running one truck several times. The job becomes coordination — keeping trucks near each other's reloads, balancing drivers who want different lanes, and knowing which truck is about to go empty before it does.

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The problem changes shape at the second truck

With one truck, dispatching is a search problem: find the best load available. With five, it becomes a scheduling problem. The best load for truck three might be the one that puts truck five in a market with nothing outbound on Friday. Booking each truck independently, as if the others did not exist, is how a small fleet ends up with three trucks in the same dead region and one deadheading across a state to cover a load.

The other thing that changes is that you now have drivers, and drivers are not interchangeable. One will run the Northeast and one will not. One wants to be home Friday night and means it. A dispatcher who ignores that produces a rota that looks efficient on paper and a driver who quits in March.

Most owner-operators who grow into a small fleet end up dispatching from the cab or the kitchen table, and it is the thing that caps the business. There are only so many broker calls you can make while driving.

BSG Carriers is a dispatch service, not a freight broker. You keep your own authority, your own insurance and your own carrier packet — the loads are booked under your MC, and you are paid by the broker or shipper directly.

What changes when we dispatch the fleet

Planned as a fleet

We look at where every truck lands, not just what each load pays. Reload density matters more than the headline rate on any single run.

Driver preferences respected

Home time, lanes they refuse, equipment they prefer. We keep it on file and plan around it, because turnover costs more than a soft load.

One point of contact

Your drivers call us, not you. Brokers call us. You get a summary rather than a day of interruptions.

Paperwork for the whole fleet

Rate confirmations, BOLs, lumper receipts and invoice packets, organised per truck and per settlement period.

How we run a small fleet

Tell us about the truck

Equipment, home base, the lanes you like and the ones you will not run. We set up your carrier packet once and reuse it.

We find the freight

We plan the fleet a few days ahead rather than load by load, so trucks finish near freight instead of near nothing. When a plan breaks — and it does — we re-plan the affected trucks rather than the whole week.

We negotiate and book

We call the broker, push the rate, confirm the details and send you the rate confirmation. You approve every load before it is booked — there is no forced dispatch.

You drive, we chase the paperwork

Check calls, lumper receipts, detention claims and the invoice packet. You send the signed BOL; we handle the rest.

What it costs

Dispatching is charged as a percentage of the linehaul, agreed before you take your first load, and there is no long-term contract to sign. Ask a dispatcher for the current rate.

The percentage is the same whether you run two trucks or ten. There is no per-truck minimum and no long-term contract.

Where to go next

Dispatch for a new authorityFor the first truck, before the fleet.Our dispatch servicesEverything that happens off the wheel.How our dispatching worksThe four steps from sign-up to settled.Power only dispatchA common way for a small fleet to add capacity without buying trailers.

FAQ

Questions carriers ask

Dispatching is charged as a percentage of the linehaul on the loads we book, so it scales with what the fleet actually earns rather than with how many trucks are parked. Ask a dispatcher for the current rate.

Put your truck to work

Send your MC and DOT numbers and a dispatcher will call you within one business day.

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