Landstar rates , what are you guys averaging on all miles for Van?

Ask a truck driver a very specific question which should have a short answer which is a number not a long useless post just a number and that's all. Instead you get 7 pages of long posts replies from a bunch of people that have no idea what their all miles revenue number is in the 1st place.

 

???? uh ok ??

 

That's because only a couple of the posters here are actually leased to Landstar, so they can't answer the actual question. I averaged 2.50 to the truck(after LS cut) for all odometer miles last year pulling a step deck. The years previous I averaged 2.12 and 2.11. Once again that is revenue paid to me divided by the odometer miles.

 

Then why would they answer as though they have know what they're talking about?

 

Because they heard from a friend's brother who used to be leased to Inway in 1989, or something like that. You also have the guys that pull brokered loads under their own authority that think they know all about the carrier side. Others just like to up their post count.

 

Can anybody tell me how LS figures their fuel surcharge

 

The usual method is to calculate the per-mile surcharge that would return the price of fuel to $1.25 per gallon from the current national average price from the preceding week for a truck achieving 6 mpg. I'm sure a Landstar BCO could be more enlightening on the exact parameters they use.

If fuel cost an average of $3.50 per gallon last week then...

($3.50 - $1.25) / 6 = $0.375 per mile or 37.5-cpm.

Since this is a deal based on what the individual carrier wants to do, then they can pretty much pick how they want to do it. It's not like there's a "law" stating how it's supposed to be done. For instance, my carrier uses the fleet average price per gallon after corporate discounts are deducted, which results in a lower fuel surcharge rate. But they do pay you whatever was collected above that amount, and guarantee that you'll get the calculated surcharge as a minimum.

 

Gonna pm you a question about prime since I didnt want to ask in the ls post. Nevermind that your inbox is full. If prime calculates f.s. after the fuel discount then in my eyes a way of looking at it is that they are giving the discount back to the customer. Do all/most companies do this? If not is there some other way that prime enables I/c's to make this lose up?

 

It's a Landstar thread... we should keep it that way.

 

Ls does the FS weekly by the DOE.(dept of energy) Its suppose to be a minimum amount per mile. For example, I think this week its around .40..I may be wrong but, that's what I received on a load from VA to SC yesterday.

You can always ask for more.....the better agents usually are good about giving you the FSC or more. I have a load today that's 552 miles and the FSC is 383$.... Done one on Monday for this same agent and that direct customer gives over $1 FSC per mile.