I am in a leagal dispute with my former employer in which I worked as a freight broker. One of the carriers I used as a broker asked me if I knew of someone to become his personal dispatcher. I then set up a company and my g/f handeled the dispatching service from her home. My employer then terminated me and is sueing me because they claim I set up a competivie business against him. I would like the thoughts of other Transportation Industry Pros on this. If anyone could help or send information about this issue I would be very gratefull. Thank You All.
2006-11-29 01:58:31 · 5 answers · asked by macrotrans 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
Having been in the transport industry for almost 21 years, I would have fired you as well.
2006-11-29 02:02:55 · answer #1 · answered by fr2fish 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well you would be right. You are NOT COMPETING against your past employer. I actually started the business of INDEPENDENT FREIGHT DISPATCHING about 12 years ago. Prior to that it was unheard of to offer this service to Owner Operators.
You can work for a freight broker and sell freight on behalf of his company as a freight broker agent. Typically you would be forced to sign a NOT COMPETE with this freight broker to as to representing another freight broker.
In this case you are not representing the freight broker. You are representing the motor carrier as a Pro Se TRUCK AGENT. There is nothing illegal about it. Many freight broker agents represent trucking companies at the same time as they represent a freight broker. It is very common in the industry.
There is excellent revenue to be gained by dispatching Owner Operators. For more information please visit my website or feel free to contact me at http://www.freightbrokertrainer.com
2014-04-27 01:35:18 · answer #2 · answered by Scott Woods 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A dispatcher usually works for a company and assigns loads that the company already has contracted to the individual company trucks or to sub haulers that contract to the company. A broker would find loads from the manufacture or person that needs something hauled and sets up a truck to haul it for a portion of the freight charge. A broker is usually a independent business man that has customers that need freight hauled regularly and will find trucks to haul it for the customers for a fee or portion of the freight charge.
2016-05-23 01:45:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A broker collects the freight info and can send or sell the "trips" to thier company/s or sell them to another company for a share of the profits. A dispatcher just tells which truck to do which job. A broker requires a license but a dispatcher does not. When you started working for that one company (will will pick J.B. Hunt out of the air) you probly were also still employed as the broker yes? You were then able to influence what work went in which direction which is considered a conflict of intrest and there was probly a non-compitition clause in your employment contract with the broker. Sad to say you most likly will lose this one.
2006-11-29 05:51:03 · answer #4 · answered by tkrwlly 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
did you have a contract with these people and if so was there a no compete clause- it sounds like they had every right to terminate you but unless there was a contract thats all they can do-when i drove for indian river the dispatchers only assigned loads but the brokers had auth to do BOTH- and those guys switched companies alot between all the central fl juice haulers
2006-11-29 15:07:04 · answer #5 · answered by badmts 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋