Well I guess I'm in for a little more sittin'.....

Well honestly you came out swinging kinda hard here, dont get me wrong now. But why would you get your own authority to try to lease on with landstar later? Thats kinda like taking 1 step forward and 2 steps back. No offense to anyone with landstar, bronc or brick who like em, but they are not exactly the best out there. Schneider offers a way better percantage, pay, and loads over landtstar if you plan to run a dry van. I have 2 neighbors, one of them is my uncle who left landstar and went with shienider running dry van and he says its like night and day difference.

 

The percentage plan is alot better than the millage, its all done over the internet in realtime like LS stuff, but what you see is the pay you get you dont have to subtract 35%..... Reality will set it once you start running, ive done business with LS brokerage and will never again, they are low ballers. Maybe short runs pay better but their west coast runs were down there with CH robinson. You are going to be fully independent now, with truck, trailer, insurance payments. I dont think you really understand what you are getting yourself into, most brokers are scum, and will lie to you, whos to say you dont sit somewhere for days before you can get a run? The only person you can relly on is yourself, and getting into a MC number is easy but keeping it going is the hard part, with no broker or shipper experience i think you have your work cut out for you and hope you pull through it. But i think you should've taken a company gig before buying your own truck.... Just my 0.2c take it for what its worth.

PS: My MC number begins with 37, i see its up in the 60s now, that means there have been over 23,000 new companies started after mine. 90% of those are inactive.

 

there freight place board has nothing on it but the junk they farm out. Schneider has an internal board for there own trucks and I can guarantee if you live near a city they have loads there.

 

i'm considering leasing to them if I have to and I had to check the same thing. plus I have a friend running the percentage deal right now and I ask him a ton fo questions..

if you lease to someone it puts your authority into inactivity so you did that work for nothing. Schneider has a deal where you can pull one of there trailers and there freight under your own authority too though but I don't know how exactly it works

 

I know off one that started with 61 that recently went inactive....

 

ours was in the 20's but now that the old man is gone I guess it is too. I should check and see if I can get it in my name still it's good to have a low MC#