You did the hard part. You pulled your own MC, put your own insurance in place, and got your name on the authority. What you didn’t sign up for was burning your nights on the load boards instead of sleeping. You want freight that pays, and you want to stay the one who decides. Fortuna dispatches for owner-operators like you: we hunt and negotiate the loads, you keep the authority and the final say.
(306) 801-7004Dispatch-only means exactly that. You keep your own MC, your own insurance, and your own name on the paperwork. We never route loads under someone else’s authority, and we never ask you to sign yours away. We’re the desk working the phones for you, not a carrier you answer to.
No forced dispatch, ever. We bring you the freight, walk you through the rate and the lane, and you make the call. Don’t like the number or the destination? Pass. Nobody penalizes you for it. Because two team leads see every offer, there’s no inner circle quietly grabbing the good loads while you wait on the leftovers.
We hand you the actual rate con on every load, with no markup and no skim between the broker and you. We charge a flat, transparent percentage of your gross for the dispatching, and that’s the only way we make a dollar off your truck. What the broker paid is what you booked.
Owner-operators live and die by cost per mile. Here’s a simplified walkthrough with round numbers. Your truck, your lanes, and your fixed costs will look different. Run your own figures, or have your accountant do it.
| Monthly fixed costs (illustrative) | Amount |
|---|---|
| Truck payment | $2,200 |
| Primary liability and cargo insurance | $900 |
| ELD, compliance, and permits | $150 |
| Total fixed costs | $3,250 |
Say the truck runs 9,000 miles that month. Fixed costs alone come out to about $0.36 a mile. Add a variable cost of roughly $0.78 a mile for fuel, tires, and maintenance, a common range for a well-kept truck, and the total cost per mile lands around $1.14. Book anything below that number and you’re losing money before you count your own time behind the wheel.
Now put a rate against it. At an average of $1.85 a mile, illustrative only and not a promise of what any lane pays, that $1.14 cost leaves roughly $0.71 a mile in margin, close to $6,400 for the month before taxes and dispatch fees. Flip the numbers around and you get your break-even point: at that rate you’d need to run about 3,050 miles just to cover fixed costs, before you clear a dollar of profit. Swap in your own truck payment and your own fuel mileage. The math is what tells you whether a lane is worth taking, not the rate alone. It’s also what separates owner-operators who stay in business from the ones who don’t. The ones who last know their own number before the phone rings.
No long contract locks you in. Book a single load, see how the desk runs your week, and stay because it works, not because you’re trapped. Same lanes, same authority, same control you built. You just stop chasing freight and start picking it.
A real dispatcher picks up, day or night, in your language: English, Ukrainian or Russian. No contract to start.