Dump truck dispatch that keeps you working and home every night
Dump truck work is local, and the hard part is not the driving. It is keeping the truck booked every day, knowing which pit opens when, and making sure every ticket turns into money. Our dump truck dispatch desk finds the jobs, checks the pay basis and the site rules, and tracks your tickets. You say yes or no to every job.
Tandem, tri-axle, quad and end dumps. Aggregate, dirt, asphalt and demolition. Same fee tiers as every truck we dispatch.
5% of gross for one truck, 4% for 2+, 7% while your MC is under 6 months. No haul, no pay.
Yard, pit, job site, home
Here is an EXAMPLE dump day: pre-trip at the yard at 06:30, the truck route to the pit, then loads from the pit to a job site until the work is done, and home. Move the number of loads and switch the pay basis to see how the same day pays three different ways.
The numbers are examples, not market rates. Dump rates are set locally, by the job, the material, the season and the contractor, and we do not know of a national figure worth quoting. Use your own.
EXAMPLE LOCAL DAY · AGGREGATE
- 06:30 Yard, pre-trip
- 06:45 Truck route to the pit, 25 min
- ×6 Load 15 · haul 30 · dump 10 · back 30 min
- 15:35 Home, 9h 05m on the clock
How the job pays
By the hour, this day grosses $954. At 5% the dispatch fee is $48, leaving $906 before fuel and your costs.
Home inside 14 hours. Stay within 150 air miles of the yard and the short-haul exception can replace logs.
Two things the card makes plain. Hourly pay rewards you for waiting, at the pit or at a slow job site, while per-load and per-ton pay reward you for speed and a full legal payload. Neither is better on its own. A short haul with fast loading can pay well by the load; a long haul or a slow site is usually better by the hour.
The clock still applies. Most dump work fits inside the short-haul exception: stay within 150 air miles of your work location and get released within 14 hours, and you can skip logs. Run past either line and the full hours of service rules apply that day, which is why a long day with an extra load is worth checking before you say yes.
POSTED: eCFR, 49 CFR 395.1(e)(1) · checked Oct 2026
Truck routes, pits and job sites
Local rules shape a dump day more than any other kind of trucking. Many cities and counties designate truck routes and limit heavy trucks on other streets except to reach a delivery. Some job sites have posted haul routes in the contract, and some neighborhoods restrict hours. Pits keep their own hours, scales and loading order. We ask about all of it when we book the job, so you are not finding the rules from a police officer or a closed gate.
Our guide to truck routes explains how they work and where to check the local map. When a job's haul route is set in the contract, we put it on the job details.
Dump truck pay: hourly, per ton and per load
Dump work pays three ways, and each one shifts the risk to a different person.
| Pay basis | How it works | Works best for | Watch for |
|---|---|---|---|
| By the hour | Paid for time on the clock, usually from arrival or from the yard, as agreed | Long hauls, slow pits, busy job sites, bad weather days | Minimum hours, when the clock starts and stops, and lunch |
| By the load | A flat price for each load delivered | Short, fast loops with quick loading and dumping | Waiting time is on you; ask how many trucks are on the job |
| By the ton | A rate for each ton on the scale ticket | Heavy material and a truck that carries a full legal load | Overloading to earn more risks fines; scale tickets must match |
Before you commit to a rate, run it through the dump truck hourly rate calculator with your own costs: fuel, insurance, the truck payment, tires and the days the weather keeps you home.
Legal payload and the scale
Per-ton pay makes it tempting to load heavy. Do not. On the Interstate system the federal limits are 20,000 lb on a single axle, 34,000 lb on a tandem and 80,000 lb gross, and states set their own limits on other roads, often with special rules for dump trucks. An overweight ticket can wipe out a week of per-ton gains.
Most tandem dumps are rated over 26,001 lb, which puts them in CDL Group B. If your truck is rated lower, tell us, because the legal payload decides which jobs make sense by the ton.
POSTED: eCFR, 23 CFR 658.17(d) · checked Oct 2026
POSTED: eCFR, 49 CFR 383.5 (CMV, Group B) · checked Oct 2026
Tickets, hours and getting paid
On dump work the ticket is the invoice. Every load gets a scale or load ticket at the pit, and many jobs need the ticket signed at the site. Hourly jobs need start and stop times the contractor agrees with. Lost tickets are lost money.
We ask you to send a photo of each ticket before you finish for the day, match them against the job, and invoice the broker or contractor with the full set. If a count or a time does not match, we sort it out with the customer while the job is still fresh, not three weeks later.
Where dump truck work comes from
Most dump work never touches a national load board. It comes from general contractors and site work companies who need extra trucks for a few days, from paving and road crews, from quarries and material yards that sell delivered, from demolition and landscaping outfits, and from brokers who line up trucks for all of them. Some of it is a single day; some of it is a month on the same site.
Getting that work is mostly phone calls and relationships. Contractors call the trucks they already know first, so the first jobs are the hardest to land. A dispatcher's value here is the calls: keeping your truck on the lists of the people who hire, following up on bids, and filling the gaps between longer jobs with day work so the truck is not parked.
Rain days and slow seasons
Dump work stops when the ground is too wet to work or the ground freezes, and in many places winter is slow. We cannot change the weather, and we will not pretend a week is full when it is not. What we can do is plan around it: look for indoor or paved-site work on wet days, line up material deliveries that do not depend on a job site, and tell you early when a slow stretch is coming so you can plan maintenance for it.
What a dump truck dispatcher handles
Finding the jobs
Day work, multi-day jobs and longer site contracts, from contractors, yards and brokers in your area.
Checking the terms
Pay basis, minimum hours, when the clock starts, material, pit and site hours, before you say yes.
Haul routes and site rules
Truck routes, posted haul routes in the contract, gate times and any site safety requirements.
Tickets and invoices
Daily ticket photos, matched against the job, invoiced as a full set, with follow-up on gaps.
Paperwork for the customer
Certificates of insurance, W-9 and any site forms the contractor asks for.
Your schedule
The days you work, the days you do not, and the radius you will drive to a job.
To start, we need your truck type and axle setup, your legal payload, your insurance limits, your home yard and how far you will drive to work. One call is usually enough.
A dump truck job offer, start to finish
This is how a job offer from your dump truck dispatcher reads. It is an EXAMPLE, not a real job. Accept or decline it to see what happens next.
LOAD OFFER · EXAMPLE
from your dispatcher
Quarry, Lithonia, GA to Job site, Conyers, GA
- Miles
- 140
- Rate
- $950
- Per mile
- $6.79
- Pickup
- Thu 06:30, yard
- Delivery
- Thu 15:30, home
Crushed stone, tandem dump, about 9 hours at $105 an hour, paid on signed tickets. Loop runs on the county truck route; the site gate opens at 07:00. Home every night.
Your call. Nothing is booked until you say yes.
What a dump truck dispatcher costs
Dump trucks pay the same tiers as every truck we dispatch, on the gross of each job. A new MC starts at 7% and drops automatically at month 6. The details are on the fees and terms page.
YOUR TIER
Standard (1 truck, MC 6+ months)
5%of gross
- Weekly gross (1 truck)
- $6,000
- Dispatch fee
- $300
- You keep (before costs)
- $5,700
Month-by-month table
| MC month | Fee |
|---|---|
| 12 | 5% |
| 13 | 5% |
| 14 | 5% |
| 15 | 5% |
| 16 | 5% |
| 17 | 5% |
| 18 | 5% |
| 19 | 5% |
| 20 | 5% |
| 21 | 5% |
| 22 | 5% |
| 23 | 5% |
Same tiers for every equipment type. No setup fee, no minimums, month-to-month, cancel with 30 days notice. EXAMPLE math, not a promise of revenue.
Dump truck dispatch questions
Do dump trucks have to follow truck routes?
Usually, yes. Many cities and counties designate truck routes and limit heavy trucks on other streets except to reach a pickup or delivery. Some job contracts also set a haul route. The rules are local, so check the city or county map and the posted signs. We ask about haul routes and local limits when we book each job.
Can you find steady dump truck work?
We look for it every day, but we never promise a set number of days or loads. Dump work rises and falls with construction, the weather and the season. What we can do is keep your truck in front of brokers and contractors who have work in your area, and tell you honestly when a week looks thin.
How do you track tickets and hours?
You send us a photo of every scale or load ticket, and your start and stop times on hourly jobs, at the end of each day. We match them against the job, invoice with the full set, and follow up on anything that does not add up. Keep the originals until the job is paid, in case a customer asks.
Can you find steady dump truck contracts?
Sometimes. Longer jobs, like a road project or a big site that needs trucks for weeks, do come up, and we bid your truck on the ones that fit. They usually come with conditions: insurance limits, start times, haul routes and paperwork. We go through each one with you before you commit, and you can always say no.
How does dump truck dispatch work?
You tell us your truck, your area and how you like to be paid. We find jobs, check the pay basis, the site rules and the haul route, and send you each offer. You confirm every load before it is booked. We track tickets and invoice. You pay 5% of gross for one truck on an established MC, with no setup fee and no contract.
YOUR YES. YOUR RATE CON.
Keep my dump truck working
You confirm every load before it is booked. The rate confirmation is sent directly to you.
LOAD OFFER · EXAMPLE
from your dispatcher
Quarry, Lithonia, GA to Job site, Conyers, GA
- Miles
- 140
- Rate
- $950
- Per mile
- $6.79
- Pickup
- Thu 06:30, yard
- Delivery
- Thu 15:30, home
Crushed stone, tandem dump, about 9 hours at $105 an hour, paid on signed tickets. Loop runs on the county truck route; the site gate opens at 07:00. Home every night.
Your call. Nothing is booked until you say yes.