Prime Route Freight dispatches owner operators and small fleets. We find the freight, argue the rate, handle the broker paperwork and keep your wheels turning. You pay seven percent of linehaul. No contract, no setup fee, no charge on a week you do not run.
Most dispatch services quote you a percentage and then quietly widen what that percentage applies to. Ours applies to one number: the linehaul on the rate confirmation. Detention is yours. Layover is yours. Fuel surcharge is yours. Truck ordered not used is yours. Drag the slider and watch what that difference does to a normal week.
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Seven percent, applied to linehaul only. Nothing charged against detention, layover, fuel surcharge or TONU. Nothing charged on a week you sit.
Ten percent applied to the full invoice, accessorials included, with a weekly minimum that lands whether the truck moved or not. This is the structure most carriers are already on.
Worked example. Accessorials estimated at 4.5% of linehaul, the alternative modelled at 10% of the full invoice with a $250 weekly minimum. Your real numbers move with your lanes and your load mix. We will run them with you on the phone before you commit to anything.
Anybody can send you a screenshot of a load. The job is knowing which broker actually pays in fifteen days, which lane is about to soften, and how to get another forty cents a mile out of a rate that was posted low on purpose. That is what the seven percent buys.
Your dispatcher works your equipment and your preferred lanes across the major boards and a direct broker list built over years, not a free trial account. You get options, not one take-it-or-leave-it load.
Posted rates are an opening position. We know what the lane paid last week and what the broker paid the last carrier, and we negotiate from there. If a load will not come up to a number that works for your truck, we do not book it.
Carrier packets, broker setups, insurance certificates, rate confirmations, BOLs chased down after delivery. The administrative tail that eats an evening in the sleeper gets handled at our desk instead.
Loads are sequenced so you are not deadheading three hundred miles to start a week, and so you get home when you said you would. Home time is a scheduling constraint we plan around, not a favour.
Brokers want updates every few hours. You want to drive. We sit between the two, sending the tracking updates and fielding the calls so your phone stays quiet while you are rolling.
An invoice that sits is a truck payment that gets tight. We make sure paperwork goes out complete and correct the first time, and we follow up on the ones that go quiet.
Some dispatch services only really know vans, and it shows the first time you hand them a step deck with a permit problem. We run all eight equipment types, and your dispatcher knows the difference between securing coils and securing lumber.
We sit twenty five miles east of Atlanta, which puts us on top of one of the densest freight markets in the country. The southeast is where we know the brokers by name and where we can usually get you reloaded the same day you deliver.
That does not mean we keep you boxed into the southeast. Plenty of our carriers run coast to coast. It means that when you want to come home to Georgia, or anywhere along the I-75, I-20 and I-85 corridors, we can usually get you there loaded instead of empty.
We ask every carrier who calls us what went wrong at the last place. After a while the same six answers come back. We built the way we work around them.
It started at eight percent of linehaul, then it was eight percent of the invoice, then there was a fee on detention. Our seven percent is written against linehaul and it does not move.
Weekly minimums punish you exactly when you can least afford it. If we do not book you a load, we do not invoice you. The incentive stays pointed the right way.
A detention problem at seven at night is not a tomorrow problem. Our desk runs seven to seven eastern, and carriers already running with us have a number that reaches a person after that.
When a dispatcher is paid on volume, cheap loads still pay them. You approve every rate before we book it, and we will tell you plainly when we think a load is not worth your truck.
Ninety day terms and cancellation notice periods exist to keep carriers who want to leave. There is nothing to sign here. If a month goes badly, you walk, and we would rather earn the next one.
You cannot build lane knowledge with a rotating desk. You get one dispatcher who learns your truck, your home time and what you will and will not haul.
I ran myself off load boards for two years and thought I was saving money doing it. First month with Prime Route my linehaul was up and I got two evenings a week back. The fee paid for itself before the second load.
What sold me was that they told me not to take a load. Broker was offering decent money but had a slow pay history and my dispatcher said skip it. Nobody had ever talked me out of freight before.
We put three trucks on with them last spring and added a fourth in the fall. Same dispatcher the whole time, knows all my drivers by name and knows which one will not go to New York.
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There is no onboarding fee and no trial period you have to buy. We start by running a real load search on your lanes so you can see the kind of freight we would put you on before you decide anything.
Equipment, authority age, insurance limits, where you are based and where you want to run. We tell you honestly whether we can keep you loaded on those terms.
Before any paperwork, we search live freight against your equipment and show you what is actually moving and at what rate. If the numbers do not impress you, nothing has cost you anything.
MC authority, W-9, insurance certificate and a signed dispatch agreement. We handle the broker setups from there so you are not filling in the same form eleven times.
Your dispatcher sends options, you approve the rate, we book it and send the confirmation. From there we keep the next load lined up before you deliver the current one.
One phone call, no paperwork, no obligation. We will show you the freight we can get on your truck this week and you can decide from there.
