New Landstar Agent

I spoke to a owner operator he was upset about how cheap the load came in. I do the factoring and all his paperwork, but you are right they (shippers) assume your punishing them, like 6-7Mpg is only thing the load should cover. Its sad but you did well, im glad it only took an hour. Some shippers don't care, they could pay a reefer a good load but why? You really are the customer service pro for truck drivers. Do well, they are counting on you to help them feed their families, so I guess we do the same thing lol.

 

My favorite agents know if we're in the area. They call us!

Agents book our SD, on a flatbed load. We drive 150-200 miles, wait 2.5 hours, to be told, "No Step-Decks". That will get you on my, "no way" list.

If you call us with a load and we take it, it better be there. Once again, if we spent money to pick up your load, it better be there. Agents book us and then, we have no load. I used to book 3 loads. I don't do it anymore. I can't trust the agents.

 

Is that your agent code or did you join others?

 

Agent Marc what's your agent code? My business pulls van here at LS and will help when possible

 

I see your code now, FWP right

 

Landstars quotes are getting to be on the low side. Work with agents that know how to price OD loads and they will almost always pay more than the heavy haul department quotes.

 

Marc weve had our differences but be careful using heavy hauls est and pilot est, they are short most of the time especially the pilot side they use direct routing and with all the road work you can almost always count on a few hundred extra miles and if you hit that magic 14+ od mark you don't see to much interstate at that point