Landstar Flatbed? One Year Experience.

Well good luck. LS takes 4 or 5 weeks to approve. You need to have a truck at that point. But call them to double check on the process. They wont approve you for orientation until your truck passes a LS approved inspection. Which is a problem, since how do you get it inspected if your not supposed to drive it. You need to do it on the temp permit.

 

What are your repair and maintence costs going to be for the Lone Mountain truck? My last used truck averaged $3,700 a month over and above a $1300 payment for the 36 months and it was maintained pretty good by the original company, I have their records for the truck with every detail they did right down to service calls because the driver locked himself out. My only major repair was basicly replacing the emissions system, with that take out of the equation maintanence still average $3,200 a month. I spent more every year then the original owner did in the 5 years they operated it combined and it wasn't them neglecting it either. Now I've talked about what the averages were I can assure you those repair bills didn't come in at predictable 3,300 a month bills, just food for thought

 

It's not 65% of the line haul. Or 73%. You don't know what the contract rate is. Then you have to deal with agents for some reason. I doubt you'll get more than 50% of the contract rate.

 

How much contract freight am I hauling? As far as what the agent is getting vs posting the load for, that's for LS to figure out. If it pays enough I will call, if it doesn't I won't.

 

I can talk only for a dry van. If you haul a multistop hazmat, it may pay well. That load will pay like 6-7 dollars per mile, and you'll get paid $2.50. That's why like half of the orientation is about hazmat loads.

 

What part of the country you live in makes a big difference with l/s.
Land star has it's perks and it's problems. Self dispatching takes a little getting used to. I don't want to offer any advise but I will. Keep what you have saved up. And start a another savings for a used truck off of market place. While building this account you will be getting more experience. And you won't have to worry about a payment until your sure you want to stay leased on. Cause if you quite a lease you still have a payment. Also look into the LLC. Vs LLC s corp and LLC c corp.
And even if you don't have it. Make sure your app with them shows snow experience.
But to get on with them all you need is a 2290. Which is 550.00. after being there for a year I would by my own plates thou.