SAM BARRET Transportation Group
Start here Dispatch The Almanac Company Contact (817) 000‑0000
Fort Worth, TexasMonday 24 August 2026
Gulf Coast diesel $5.481 ▲ 24.4¢U.S. average diesel $5.652Dry van spot linehaul $2.25 / miMarginal cost $2.336 / miImplied cost per loaded mile ~$2.80Detention invoices paid, under 50%Drive hours used 6.4 of 11Two year carrier survival 64.7%Recordkeeping violation $1,584 / dayTexas IFTA late filing $50 or 10%Gulf Coast diesel $5.481 ▲ 24.4¢U.S. average diesel $5.652Dry van spot linehaul $2.25 / miMarginal cost $2.336 / miImplied cost per loaded mile ~$2.80Detention invoices paid, under 50%Drive hours used 6.4 of 11Two year carrier survival 64.7%Recordkeeping violation $1,584 / dayTexas IFTA late filing $50 or 10%
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Sam Barret Transportation Group · Fort Worth, Texas

You own the truck. We run everything that happens off it.

Sam Barret is a Texas based dispatch service. We find your loads, negotiate the rate, and then handle the paperwork behind them: the filings, the driver files, the fuel tax, and the invoicing that gets you paid.

You keep your own authority, your own insurance, and your own money. The broker pays you directly. You pay us a percentage of what you actually haul.

Call (817) 000‑0000 Start here: how this works New to this? Read the plain version first.
In one minute
What we areA dispatch service
Who we work forYou, the carrier
Who pays usYou, not the broker
Who owns the authorityYou do
Who gets the freight moneyYou, directly
What it costs8 to 12% of gross

The whole arrangement in six lines. The start here page walks through it slowly, and pricing shows the exact numbers.

The plain version

Four things happen. That is the whole service.

If you have never used a dispatch service before, this is all it is. No jargon, no acronyms.

1

We find the load and agree the rate

We work the boards and our broker contacts for freight that fits your truck and the lanes you want. We negotiate. Nothing gets booked until you say yes to the load and the number.

2

It is booked in your name

The rate confirmation comes to your company, under your authority and your insurance. You are the carrier on the paperwork. We are acting for you, the same way a booking agent does.

3

You drive it. We do the office work

We invoice the broker the day you deliver, chase it if it goes past due, and keep your filings, driver file, fuel tax, and inspection records current so nothing expires while you are on the road.

4

The broker pays you. Then you pay us

Freight money goes from the broker straight into your account. It never passes through ours. At the end of the week you pay us our percentage of what you hauled.

Nothing on this site is legal, tax, insurance, or regulatory advice. See disclosures.

Open for carriers

You keep the authority, the truck, and the profit. We take the office work.

You are not handing over your company. You are hiring the department you cannot justify staffing: one dispatcher, one bookkeeper, and one compliance person, for a fraction of what those three salaries cost in Texas.

A mile costs more to run than the market is paying for it right now. That margin has to come from somewhere, and the only place left is the part of the business nobody is managing.

What the dispatch service does Apply as a carrier
The arithmetic, in five lines
Cost to run a truck, 2025 average$2.336 / miATRI
Dry van spot linehaul, mid Aug 2026$2.25 / miDAT
Average days to get paid40Truckstop
Detention billed but never collectedover 50%OOIDA
New transportation firms reaching year three53.4%BLS

Every line links to its publisher. Worked out in full on the arithmetic page.

The Almanac

Read the numbers before you call anybody.

Diesel and this week's surcharge at your own mpg. Every filing deadline in date order and what a missed one costs. The permit rules in the states you actually run. Free, no login, no email, and every figure links to the agency that published it.

Diesel and the fuel surchargeGulf Coast weekly average and the surcharge worked out per mile at your mpgOpen Compliance deadline calendarEvery recurring federal and Texas filing in date orderOpen What a carrier must trackRecord inventory, retention clocks, and the current penalty scheduleOpen Corridors, border, and permitsTexas bottlenecks, Laredo crossings, and oversize permit rules by stateOpen

Ask any dispatch service this

Who pays you, and what happens to my load if someone pays you more.

  • ·You pay us. Brokers never do. There is no second check we are protecting.
  • ·We hold no brokerage authority, so we cannot profit from the spread on your load.
  • ·Your freight proceeds go from the broker to you. They never touch our accounts.
  • ·We work for you specifically, so no load booked for you goes to another carrier's truck.
Where we sit

Fort Worth, in the middle of one of the busiest freight hubs in the country.

I‑35W north to Oklahoma, I‑20 west to the Permian, I‑30 east to Arkansas, and I‑35 south to Laredo and the busiest land port in the country. Houston, San Antonio, and the Rio Grande Valley are all inside a day.

Which matters for one practical reason: we know the lanes we put you in, the brokers who post them, and what a fair number looks like on a Tuesday afternoon in August.

More about the company and where the name comes from

Start with a phone call

Twenty minutes. Bring your truck count, the lanes you want, and the one thing that went wrong last month. You will leave the call with a tier, a number, and a start date, or a straight no.

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