How it works
No mystery to it. Here is the arrangement in plain terms, including the part most dispatch services are vague about: whose authority, and whose money.
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We sign the paperwork
A dispatch service agreement and a limited power of attorney. That is what lets us book freight and invoice in your name, under your authority — you stay the motor carrier of record on every load.
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We learn your truck
Equipment, home base, the lanes you want and the ones you refuse, your rate floor, your home time. It goes on file so the loads we bring already fit.
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We book and dispatch
We source the load, negotiate, and send you the rate con. You drive. We handle check calls, the broker, and anything that goes sideways at a dock.
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We invoice and collect
The broker is invoiced in your name the day the paperwork lands, and we chase it until it pays. Our fee comes on a separate statement, so freight money and our money never get tangled.
Where the money actually goes
Two separate flows, and we keep them separate on purpose. Mixing them is how carriers end up unable to tell what they earned.
Flow 1 — the freight
Broker → you
The broker pays the full gross for the load. It goes to you, or to your factoring company if you factor. We never touch it. We only issue the invoice in your name and chase it until it lands.
Flow 2 — our fee
You → Avantra
We bill you separately, on a statement listing every load we booked, what it grossed, and the fee on it. That is the only money we get, and it only exists on loads we actually found for you.
This is why you get two documents rather than a single net settlement. You can always answer “what did I haul, and what did I pay for it” without reverse-engineering anything.
The paperwork that makes it legal
A dispatch service is an agent, not a carrier and not a broker. Two documents make that real, and we will not book a load before both are signed.
Dispatch service agreement
Sets out what we do, what it costs, and that we act on your behalf rather than as a principal. It is what makes us your agent instead of a party to your freight.
Limited power of attorney
Narrow, and limited on purpose: it lets us sign rate confirmations and issue invoices in your name. It does not give us access to your bank accounts and it does not let us bind you to anything outside dispatch.
Read it before you sign it
That goes for our agreement and anyone else’s. If a dispatch service will not put the fee, the term, and the cancellation in writing, that tells you something. Nothing on this page is legal advice — have your own attorney look at anything you sign.