Advice to new Landstar bco's booking loads

On a drop and hook delivery always ask the agent about empty availability at the rcvr. I'm stranded in South Carolina for 3 days due to there being no empties and the receiver won't give an ETA for unload on my drop. That's just insane. I had a great week pre-planned and lost it all due to lack of empties. Just something I wish I knew before I booked this load. Also book ahead because if you wait, especially at the end of the week, zero freight until Monday. I was all excited about things. This very first load was a wake up call.

 

I dropped the trailer and looked for empties. The load instructions were drop THEN wait 24 to 72 business hours for them to unload the trailer. I'm still stuck here without a trailer.

 

It wasn't worded in a way that made that clear. Here's what the rate con said: drop 24 to 48 hours. That's it. Sounds to me like I have 24 to 48 houirs to drop the trailer. It doesn't sound like I have to drop the trailer and wait for 24 to 48 hours. I could show you the rate con. That's all it says.

 

And I've never heard of anything like this in the 12 years I've been doing this and this was my first load for Landstar. This sounds like a drop and hook where I have 24 to 48 hours to drop and hook the trailer not a drop then wait 24 to 48 hours for the trailer to be unloaded. Very tricky wording. I know now.

 

As a matter of fact, almost all drop and hooks are referred to as drops the hook is always assumed in my experience.