Landstar Questions

understandable... I've started looking today for loads coming out on Friday-Monday from the house, I have a good week and then get a late start the week after because can't find nothing halfway decent leaving on Monday.. Seems like the good stuff starts appearing on Tuesday

 

Your maintenance account and all other things related to the truck and the business need to be broken out of what your gross take home pay is. Your maintenance should be part of your fixed costs just Insurance, truck note, and all other cost that are a set amount.

If you are going to own your own truck and run a business, if you cant take home a 1000 a week, is it really worth it? It surely would not be to me!

 

I understand that and at first I want to get as much as I want in a mantince account but after I get it up and good then I well pay my self more and just woundering if it can be done and make 2500 or 3000 but I don't plain on staying out all month to I have wife and kid so I want to stay out 2 weeks at a time I am hoping to make more then that a week but that's what I need to make to make it worth my time on being gone

 

How's the rates are there for van loads out of Atlanta Georgia area and back

 

How's the new hours of service working out for everyone bottle line

 

hasn't changed a thing ljbigtrucks!

 

What new hours of service?

 

hasn't change things by much, all though the 30 min break screws up my curfew times in some places, makes it hard to get around at times. Just have to adjust my route planning a bit

 

It is a norm for me to take a 30 minute lunch break anyway. I think the thing that might hurt the worst is the 34 hr re-start modification.

 

There is a certain weekend which I always need a 34 hour restart to make sure I can complete the first two legs of my triangle without any hours-of-service problems. Recently I had to go on for 15 minutes just to make sure I did not get a 34 hour in since I need that fresh 70 later in the week.

That 8 hour rule has messed me up once so far. Customer said if I could get to them by 3pm they would off load me a day early. My GPS said I could be there by 2:45pm but my 8 hour clock was going to make me sit for 30 minutes before I could get to receiver which would make me get there 15 after. Messed up a good reload out the next morning.