Dispatch your own loads. Know the math before you call.
Bring an offer from wherever you find freight. Check the full trip cost, review a suggested counteroffer, and make your own Book, Negotiate, or Pass decision.
Not a dispatch service · You stay in control of every load
To be clear: LoadMerit doesn't find loads or dispatch for you, and it never contacts a broker on your behalf. It's the software for evaluating the details you enter: trip costs, risk factors, and counteroffer math. Every call stays yours.
Your co-pilot for the broker call
What a dispatcher does in their head, on your screen
The judgment you'd pay someone for — knowing the number, countering well, and spotting the traps — built into one fast tool.
Know your number before the call
Your minimum acceptable rate and target RPM, computed from your own miles and costs. Walk into the negotiation knowing the floor you won't go under.
Counter without flinching
A defensible counteroffer, ready to say out loud — and in Copilot, an AI-drafted negotiation script so you're never caught searching for words.
Say no to bad freight
The risk score flags heavy deadhead, tight delivery windows, and unconfirmed accessorials — the traps a good dispatcher would catch for you.
How it works
Paste, read, decide — you keep the wheel
Paste the offer
Lane, miles, rate, equipment — the details off the rate con or the broker's message.
Read it in seconds
Effective RPM, profit, deadhead, risk, and a Book / Negotiate / Pass call, with the reasoning shown.
Make the call — it's yours
Book it, counter with a number you can defend, or pass. You stay in control of every decision.
The rest of the job
Dispatching yourself means owning the back office
The calculator answers whether a load pays. These are the parts around it that a dispatcher would otherwise handle, and where the money quietly leaks.
Read the rate con properly
Whether the rate is all-in or linehaul plus surcharge changes what you are actually being paid — and the surcharge rarely covers your deadhead.
How fuel surcharge works →Vet the broker before the load
Authority and bond status are public on FMCSA and take minutes to check. Payment reputation is not — that comes from credit services, factoring companies, and other operators.
Broker red flags to check →Plan for the gap between load and payment
Thirty-day terms are normal. Whether you float them or factor them, the cost of covering that gap belongs in your rate floor.
What factoring really costs →Have the counter ready before you dial
The number you will accept, the number you will ask for, and the reason behind it — decided before the call, not during it.
Build a counteroffer →Still deciding whether to make the move? Owner-operator vs. company driver covers how to run that comparison on your own numbers. To practise the decision on synthetic practice scenarios before you use real offers, work through the training scenarios, and browse all the guides for the rest. The calculator stays free either way — reach for a paid plan only once you need comparisons and records across your working week.
Start free
Run your next offer through it
The free calculator gives you the full read on any load, no account needed. A free account adds your own cost profile and 3 saved analyses. Copilot adds unlimited saved loads, comparisons, settled-rate records, fuel logs, and reports for your working week.
LoadMerit is not a freight broker, motor carrier, dispatcher service, transportation intermediary, load board, or transportation management system. LoadMerit does not arrange transportation, book loads, dispatch trucks, represent carriers, represent brokers, negotiate on behalf of users, or participate in freight transactions.
LoadMerit does not guarantee income, employment, carrier clients, broker relationships, freight availability, load acceptance, business success, or profitable outcomes. Any examples, scenarios, or calculations are illustrative and depend on user-entered assumptions and changing real-world conditions.