Originally Posted by wreckless4thf

Don't just tell them the good about Landstar!!! Tell them about how there hasn't been freight for chitt in the last two years. Tell them how 98% of every load that they see on that board goes to places that no one wants to go because you can't get out of them. Tell them how all the money they see on that board get's smashed by all there fee's and shorter than short mileage they are figured on to make the loads look sweet and how that the agents put the fuel surcharge into the rate to make the rate look acceptable. Tell them about how Landstar won't protect them when the dead head 300 miles to pick up a load that isn't there. Tell them how Landstar does not make the agents pay up the detention fee's they owe the driver. Tell them how the compliance department bugs the living chitt out of you and your Dr's for the nit picking paperwork. Tell them how rude some of the people are at Landstar when speaking with them. Tell them about how the load email notification boards are set up so that you can't put a date on them so you get 500 emails a day and your supposed to pull over or have them call your phone for each one of them. Tell them how it feels to sit in Dallas and when you see a load posted and you have the agents phone ringing in 30 seconds after the load is posted but you were beat and the load is no longer available. Tell them how it seems that decent freight is like a man throwing a steak in the midst of 100 waiting dogs. Not counting how it feels after countless times of agents calling you and telling you your load you won has been cancled and it's 11am in the morning and you have already delivered and all the meat has been thrown for the day. Tell them the whole package!!!

Originally Posted by MGASSEL

Do you need fuel money or can you use the comdata or something like it to charge against your pay?

This info is for my trainer he was thinking about getting his own truck and possibly leasing it on to landstar.

Originally Posted by DONNALOU

Once you've accepted the load,been assigned. You can get an advance on your comdata card. Yes it will come out of your load pay. I believe its 10% of the loads pay plus your fsc. You may pay with your own money. But you will need to submit a receipt. There will be a charge 1.75 to load the card.

Originally Posted by Brickman

30% of the gross freight receipt can be advanced as soon as the agent gets your load in the computer.

Originally Posted by DONNALOU

My hubby pulls flatbed, so it is like comparing apples to oranges.

Originally Posted by Gazoo

I know that Landstar requires HazMat, but will they hire without it?
I had it for 6 years and just dropped it in January. Looking for a carrier to lease on with and hear good things about Landstar.......minus the above opinion of course.

Originally Posted by Brickman

Nope. You gotta have it, but you are not forced to ever use it. Its a small hurdle to go thru to be leased with them. My opinion of course.

Originally Posted by Brickman

somebody took a HM load without the endorsement just to get out of the area. That didn't sit too well.