Well honestly you came out swinging kinda hard here, dont get me wrong now. But why would you get your own authority to try to lease on with landstar later? Thats kinda like taking 1 step forward and 2 steps back. No offense to anyone with landstar, bronc or brick who like em, but they are not exactly the best out there. Schneider offers a way better percantage, pay, and loads over landtstar if you plan to run a dry van. I have 2 neighbors, one of them is my uncle who left landstar and went with shienider running dry van and he says its like night and day difference.

__________________


LOAD EM LIKE RAIL CARS, DRIVE EM LIKE RACE CARS!!!!

The real reason for me with that one is Scheider doesn't seem to have much coming into the Mobile Metro area where I can get back when I want. When I talk to them they tell me they don't have much coming here, and I know their Freight Place board doesn't show anything. Under their lease, at least the mileage lease, they exercise forced dispatch. I don't want that part at all. The tell me it's not truly forced, but they also tell me that I may not like the next load any better.

Who knows, maybe nine months down the road I won't consider leasing on to anyone, but for now, it seems the only way to achieve what I want is to get the MC and run for myself because I don't have the "recent" time to run with anyone other than Schneider. LS gets by here regularly and their broker board shows it.

And, maybe even more importantly, I certainly don't have all the answers. That's why I read so much. I've learned a whole lot here in the last how ever many weeks I've been around. Thanks y'all.

__________________
.
.

The percentage plan is alot better than the millage, its all done over the internet in realtime like LS stuff, but what you see is the pay you get you dont have to subtract 35%..... Reality will set it once you start running, ive done business with LS brokerage and will never again, they are low ballers. Maybe short runs pay better but their west coast runs were down there with CH robinson. You are going to be fully independent now, with truck, trailer, insurance payments. I dont think you really understand what you are getting yourself into, most brokers are scum, and will lie to you, whos to say you dont sit somewhere for days before you can get a run? The only person you can relly on is yourself, and getting into a MC number is easy but keeping it going is the hard part, with no broker or shipper experience i think you have your work cut out for you and hope you pull through it. But i think you should've taken a company gig before buying your own truck.... Just my 0.2c take it for what its worth.

PS: My MC number begins with 37, i see its up in the 60s now, that means there have been over 23,000 new companies started after mine. 90% of those are inactive.

__________________


LOAD EM LIKE RAIL CARS, DRIVE EM LIKE RACE CARS!!!!

I almost did do a company gig, but I can't pay my bills on what they want to pay. Really it comes down to one "paying his/her dues" in the end. You can pay your dues in the company gig, or you can pay dues doing it the hard way. Either way, dues still have to be paid. I choose what some would call the hard way. Maybe it is, but it also affords me a certain degree of choice and freedom that I'm not willing to give up. I'm big on those two things.

I will also say that I would not have chosen this path had I not examined the business itself about 10 years ago. Nor would I have chosen this path without the 15+ years of business experience I have accumulated in other areas. Certainly I don't know all the answers, but if not for the other experience, I would have gone the company gig. But, that's just me, and I'm kinda friggin' hard-headed like that sometimes. My hat's off to you and all others who survive and thrive.

__________________
.
.

there freight place board has nothing on it but the junk they farm out. Schneider has an internal board for there own trucks and I can guarantee if you live near a city they have loads there.

Cool. I'll check it out with the guy I'm talking to over there.

__________________
.
.

i'm considering leasing to them if I have to and I had to check the same thing. plus I have a friend running the percentage deal right now and I ask him a ton fo questions..

if you lease to someone it puts your authority into inactivity so you did that work for nothing. Schneider has a deal where you can pull one of there trailers and there freight under your own authority too though but I don't know how exactly it works

That's where the whole Freight Place thing comes into play. The agreement/contract states you're free to haul for whoever who want and vice versa. I have a copy of it if you want to read it. Send me a pm with your email and I'll pdf it to you, or go to Schneider Logistics website. You should be able to download it from there also.

__________________
.
.

I know off one that started with 61 that recently went inactive....

ours was in the 20's but now that the old man is gone I guess it is too. I should check and see if I can get it in my name still it's good to have a low MC#