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Old 03.23.2007
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anyone know anything about landstar.......im thinking of buying a truck and trailer from one of thier drivers and he seems to get a good deal outta em.....anything positive or negitive will help in this decision
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Nope, never heard of Landstar, one of the biggest trucking companies out there.

They only have owner operators, so its actually the driver who keeps up the maintenance on the truck.

However landstar does do DOT inspections every 120 days I believe..so the truck should be in pretty good condition.
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Bronc do you really want me to reply?
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Broncrider, Brickman is our resident Landstar expert on the board as much as anyone on here. He will provide you with straight, valid, current information.

Whether or not the information is to your liking may be a totally different subject, but I guarantee it to be straight info......
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Broncrider, Brickman is our resident Landstar expert on the board as much as anyone on here. He will provide you with straight, valid, current information.

Whether or not the information is to your liking may be a totally different subject, but I guarantee it to be straight info......


He already knows that, he wants a second opinion.
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lemme have it brickman...after all i wanna buy yer truck..lol

send it on....ive already talked to a guy who gets alot of his frieght form them an hes pretty happy...just was looking to get more general info on em is all
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The reasons I'm wanting out of OTR have nothing to do with Landstar.

The biggest negative I hear out of a lot former Landstar O/Os or wanna bes that can't get qualified is that they take too much of a percentage. I suppose that is debatable, but they have to make some thing for what they do as well. They are the ones with the opperating authority, and that take all the risk on the money for the loads not me. I never have to worry if a customer is going to not pay. I get a settlement every monday just like clock work. When I was independant I worked a lot lot harder for the same revenue, and even got jacked out of $2400 for a load delivered that I never got paid for. The company filed bankruptcy between the time I had picked up the load on wednsday and delivered it on Friday.

One big difference with Landstar is that you are your own dispatcher. If you get a load you don't like, or it goes to a part of the country you don't want to run in, guess whose fault that is?
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