Wife and I are buying our first truck and are looking into Landstar and want as much information as possible. Please dont give your negitive input if you have no real data to prove yourself, hearsay is cheap and unreliable.
We live in the dallas area.

Thanks!

From my research Landstar is one of the better all o/o companies. They are discussed in their own forums and you can read reports from others at the link below:

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my father is at Landstar, it's a good company, but you have to want to run if you want to make money, with fuel prices try not to get a big truck payment, they have a good fuel program if you have your own trailer you get 73% of the line haul, if you use thier trailer you get 65%. It takes a few months to learn the system becuase you do your own dispatching, so you learn who the good agents are and who to stay away from. There is money to be made if your dedicated and learn the system, even with high debt ratio and a truck payment my dad is making money and staying aflout. There is some dedicated runs out here, my father is on a crane trailer run, its a 53 van with a crane inside of it all those loads pay l/h plus fuel surcharge, he alsohauls front end aliagnment machines, i cant tell you those rates the agfent wont let us, all i can say is he had a load from missispii to california over 6 days and dead headed all the way back to misssispi for another front end alainment machine load. Pay really good.

Most loads already have the fuel surcharge in the rate so you have to ask agent to break it out for you.

If you need anymore info just let me know

I will tell you this about the front end alaginment machine loads, the fuel surcharge isnt paid by miles, its paid by percentage so if you have a load with a l/h of say 2000 bucks on that load with the current rate the f/s is 70% of the line haul. so his l/h would be 2000 bucks and then his f/s would be 1400 dollars 100% of that paid to you. that is a real load by the way but a very cheap one and i mean a very cheap one

I was sent a packet from LS and it had several sample load sheets with gross revenue listed. Is that payed to the truck or is that gross before the 65%? dont see how one could make anything if it was before the deduction, after fuel you would run for 25 -30 cents a mile.

The info on the load sheets are before deductions. Keep in mind that some of the rates on the samples you got include FSC, stop pay, etc etc.

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yes the info sheets are before deductions like brickman said some include fsc, stop pay, and etc, but if u can get on a dedicated deal your pretty much set

If that is the case, I would'nt make enough after 35% was deducted to justify running with them. I can make more as a company driver. example: 1300 ml run at $1.65=$2145, subtract 35%=$1394,subtract fuel at $4.60 with 6 mpg =$966. that leaves $428.25. This run payed .30 cents per mile. Why would anyone submit to that kind of finacial suicide? If my figures are wrong, let me know.

I do not see either how the van drivers are doing it!


You wouldn't see me doing van.

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yuo have to get on decicated to run a van in landstar IMHO, it sucks but thats the way it is, but thats going be everywhere in this time right now. I will add this, my dads buddy just came into landtsar as van and he isnt on dedicated yet he is making it, he takes nothing under 2.50 a mile the frieght like that is out there if your running in certain areas.


if you take the miles 1300 x .61= 793 dollar f/s take the l/h 2145 and subtract the fuel you get 1352 Dollars x 65% 878.80 l/h to you plus your 793 f/s thats 1671.80 paid to you which= 1.28 a mile thats a low paying load then you have to take all your deductions out

Hope it made sense lol. one example I just boooked my father on a load paying 2.23 a mile to the truck a 25,000 lb load of paper

You'll need the negative info in order to protect yourself and learn how the system works. It'll give you a higher profit sooner.

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