Landstar no longer a good company

I've also noticed this trend across the industry. If you look at load boards, freight is up, fuel is steady, yet some rates are in the sewer.

I talked to an O/O picking up at same place that also mentioned a few things you did. He said (they) stuck him big time for steers. They being their shop maybe?

We do fairly well with a few loads so I will vote

"Now and then"

I just asked our dispatch and she said we are doing very few Landstar loads.

 

If he was a O/O he can buy tires anywhere, if they stuck him then he let them.

 

So I quit them, and had to take early retirement Sound more like YOU called it quits. With your experience / clean record and your own tractor you could have goe elesewhere.

 

Yes rates on Landstar board are bad and when their is a decent paying load it goes to places where there is no freight. I have said my peace about it and you get nowhere. Bco advisors just say you have to get with agents to find that freight that's never posted. So what's the load board for then if their is no good freight on it? Oh and most of the freight is so cheap the agents tack on the fuel surcharge in the rate to make it look better. That's my big gripe that it should not show the FSC in rate. I've seen Land star hurt by the big companies with company drivers who go into a big shipper and low ball the rates. Land star ends up with smaller shipping companies with less regular freight and far fewer loads. Yes brokered freight is another issue. Many agents do nothing to seek out their own loads. I guess its easier to just post freight off logistic boards. This equals more cheap freight with surprises.

 

Big disappointment with Landstar. The loads on the board are cheap, heavy and usually hazmat. They say you must be old in the company, be known by the agents in order to get a decent load. That's all a bunch of crap, that they won't tell at orientation! Also stay on top of your settlement, as they always find a way to shortchange you. You do all the work, looking and booking loads, doing all the paperwork and still have to pay 35% to them. Oh, yeah, if you happen to get a trailer, hold on to that, because although they have plenty of trailers they won't give it to you, God knows why! I dropped mine 2 weeks ago, and had to wait for almost a week for another one and had to drive almost 400 miles bobtail -no pay - to get it! It's the biggest lie out there!

 

Whole lotta lying going on here. But then, it is the internet, which does seem to draw those people out.

 

I don't know who you are calling "liar"! But, please, tell us what you think it's lie here...I stand behind every word I wrote and I even sent a letter to Landstar stating my disappointment. I wish I knew those things before I leased my truck to Landstar!

 

If you didn't know it you didn't research them well enough....This board is full posts from people who couldn't cut it with LS there are two sides to every story...

I was in the LS system for close to eight years BTW..

 

Been here 15 years and LS is not my first rodeo. Never had a penny taken out of my settlement, that I hadn't already agreed to in my contract. Less than 10% of the loads on the board are hazmat and no one says you must haul them, if you don't want to. My average load weight is 20,000 pounds and pays between $2.50 and $3.50 per mile, gross. The majority of my loads come from the load board.
My percentage has not changed, in 15 years. Newer contractors get a lower percentage, on their contract, than older contractors. The only ones that had their contracts changed, in all these years were the Teamsters, when LS bought out the Union contract. If you have an older contract and leave, you vacate that contract. If you come back, you come back under the latest contract, but the contract does not change as long as you don't leave.
If Trailer Utilization sends you for a trailer, they pay you, no ifs, ands, or buts. If an Agent sends you for a trailer, it is up to the negotiations between you and that Agent as to payment and how much, if any.
Yea, we do a lot of smaller companies, like General Electric, Unilever, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Boeing, Lockheed, Department of Defense. Just little Mom and Pop outfits.