What Is Co-Dispatching?

"Co-dispatching" isn't a term you'll find in most trucking glossaries — it's Dispatch Xchange's own model for a problem every dispatcher runs into eventually: you have a great carrier and an available truck, but no load that fits. Or you have a load opportunity, but none of your own carriers can take it.

The Problem It Solves

In the traditional setup, both of those situations end the same way — the opportunity gets lost. A dispatcher with an idle truck keeps searching alone. A dispatcher with a load that doesn't fit their own carriers just passes on it, or scrambles to find someone off-network to take it.

How Co-Dispatching Works

Co-dispatching lets two dispatchers work together on a single load:

• Dispatcher A has the carrier and the available truck, but hasn't found the right load yet.
• Dispatcher B has access to a load opportunity that fits Dispatcher A's truck, and posts it to the Xchange Board.
• Dispatcher A accepts the opportunity, and the two dispatchers split the carrier's existing dispatch fee according to terms they agree on — no new cost is added for the carrier.

For example: a carrier has agreed to a 7% dispatch fee (7 Xchange Points) with Dispatcher A. Dispatcher B posts a matching load opportunity for 4 Points. If Dispatcher A accepts, the original 7% is simply split — Dispatcher B earns 4 Points, Dispatcher A keeps the remaining 3. The carrier still pays the same 7% they always agreed to, not 7% plus another 4%.

The carrier gets moving. Both dispatchers get paid for the role they played. Nobody loses the opportunity just because it didn't fit neatly on one side of the deal.

Xchange Points and Xchange Rate

Dispatch Xchange uses Xchange Points to keep this simple and upfront: 1 Point equals 1% of a load's gross revenue. So a 7% dispatch fee is "7 Points," and an offer to collaborate at 4% is "4 Points." The Xchange Rate is just that percentage converted to a dollar amount for a specific load — 4 Points on a $2,000 load is an $80 Xchange Rate. Points make it clear at a glance whether an opportunity is worth taking, before either side has to negotiate from scratch.

It's Optional

Co-dispatching is one way to use Dispatch Xchange — not a requirement. Members can post trucks, share load referrals, browse the Directory, and manage loads without ever entering a co-dispatch arrangement. It's there for the moments when a load and a truck almost fit, and two dispatchers would rather share the opportunity than lose it entirely.

Dispatch Xchange provides complimentary agreement templates — including a Co-Dispatch Agreement — as a convenience for exactly this kind of arrangement, though members are always free to use their own and should have any agreement independently reviewed for their business.