Leasing on with landstar, any advise?

Working everyday? I couldn't do that.

 

It is no easier being leased to Landstar! You still have to search for loads like you are doing now, no one dispatches you. I do get phone calls from agencies but not all the time and we do specialized work. I would say to keep your authority and run the Landstar approved carrier board, I know a few people who cancelled their leases with Landstar and got their own authority and are very happy doing that!

 

You'll do well here if you choose to come over. Being able to see the rates means you won't waste your time calling on crappy loads. When I dropped my authority in 09 and came here it was like being on vacation. Yes I would lease your trailer as well. That's 7-10% depending on the trailer you'd be losing, and if you're dry van, there are many horror stories about trailer availability. You can always reactivate authority when the market corrects. When you say your making 10k a month now, is that gross or net?

 

If that's gross he's pulling around $2500/week in total revenue. I wouldn't blame him for wanting to give up his authority for that.

 

Actually they aren't left over from another board......You basically have the same load board that BCO's do. That is one of our biggest gripes as we BCO's believe it should be posted at least 1/2 hr on our board before it goes to the approved carrier board but Landstar wont do it.

 

I'm tiers of the agents posting #### on other load boards then getting on ls board 5 hours later saying we load Bcos first lol

 

I agree we are certainly doing better than that but feel we are only moving in baby steps. We have a big sleeper truck that we bought to move to landstar or aviation but after we purchased our truck and proceeded to do paperwork we were told that with out admission we can't move so we have 144 inch sleeper truck that we are beginning to hate cause our intention were to haul heavy haul and we can't where we are at