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We have freight that is not on the board, that pays much, much better. I hardly ever look at the load board. Some rates are based on the value of the freight or the sensitivity or the freight. You wouldn't ask J.B., Werner, C.R. England, Swift to haul that type of material, nor could they.

 

Howdy !
Landstar is sort of like Wall-Mart..
Sure those Waltons and Hunts are in the top worlds richest folks !!!
Butt go to work or ask most anyone who made it happin for the business and they are lucky to have lunch money.
Also consider the big picture. Since 2000 OOIDA and Landstar doubled and then some.
Like a City that grew while other little town's disappear.
2001 was the big one and well before I sold my stuff in 2004 there was only a skelton crew left in the transportation industry.
When companies like EK Miller, Roadrunner ect, ect went south The O/O's put the units on with Landstar system.
Landstar has no bragging rights on JB-Werner or anybody. .Landstar brokers are just the run of the mill..Same Suff !!
Landstar is like Burnie Madoff: they have nothing to loose but a telephone.

 

The botten line as everybody knows already is:
We are at war and Landstar is the Profiteer.

 

Why is landstar profitable you ask. Consider this. You drag their trailer, you haul gross $200,000 worth of freight for the year after fuel surcharges are taken out. Your share of the pie will be $130,000. Oh golly gee!!! there is more, They get you for tags, permits, insurance, extra ifta tax if you come up short.............the list goes on. Oh yeah, almost forgot, have you heard of "rate changes". Customer can and do change the rate AFTER you have hauled the load and guess what, you have to give back the money. But should I mention, it is all about FREEDOM. Thats all they got going on there. If your file is current, you will not here from them except for random drug testing and maybe they will beg you to put a trailer in for 120 day inspection..........

 

Landstar is a great company to lease to. I have my own trailer(flatbed), I buy my own tag. My personal expierence with Landstar for last year as an example. I grossed $155,000,(my share) and about $35,000 of that was fuel surchage. I cleared after fuel, insurance, fuel taxes, and misc. fees about $120,000. I only worked about 9 months total, home every weekend cept' 3 weekends. The people that bad mouth Landstar is the ones that can't get hired or was fired. I've been in the industry for 26 years and Landstar is the best company I've ever leased on to.

 

Landstar has such a large Agent system. Litteraly thousands of them across America. They do use internet load boards when their own customers are slow. Their Fuel surcharge is unmatched. As soon as the fuel increase's so does their FSC. They don't ever bother you when you go home. They have never cheated me out of a dime. Always get the money that was qouted to me.

 

All of the negative posts on this issue is definately sour grapes. I don't know if Landstar is the best company out there, but they are the best I have ever worked for. I have been with Landstar for 7 years, I made more money with Landstar and their "run of the mill" agents in the first 3 years than I did in the first 10 years of my driving career combined.

 

There are those charges for tags, permits, etc., but once the rate is set there can be no change once the driver picks up the load. Giving back a settlement after the load has been hauled is ridiculous.