Landstar Model

To compare:

Prime had 13
C.R. England had 10
TransAm only had 2

good post ....

of course, JB, Swift, and Werner had more, but those are predominantly company drivers who don't have a clue.

Landstar has more than the rip off lease companies.

That is an awful statistic. I am embarrassed as a Landstar BCO. I mean our safety rating is good, but that statistic carries more weight than any of the others.

 

Landstar "books" any load that they can if there is a BCO that can haul it. Some of these very specialized loads pay a tremendous amount of money, that will more than balance out the "freight all kinds," as you have clearly pointed out.

The "beauty" of Landstar is that they don't own any assets, which means their overhead is very low. The agents and the BCO's are independent contractors which means that everything is negotiable. Landstar is pure capitalism on display, and a lot of people don't like that. As a defender of capitalism, I have even had to be more vigilant in my thinking and attitude since I signed on with Landstar. It is one thing to talk about capitalism, but it is quite another to practice it.

James, what I love about Landstar is that the only person I can point the finger to is myself when things go wrong. For example, I took a load to Calgary, AB that paid really well. However, once I got there, I found that there was no freight and I had to deadhead a really, really, really long way to get a load. Was I mad? Yes?

But, I have 2 choices - I can learn my lesson and no go back to Alberta unless I have a load waiting close by to get me out, or simply not go back.

I guess there is a third choice - I could whine about it and talk about how the US government should regulate the industry and force someone to give me a load at an artifical rate and buy fuel at a government set price, but I do not believe in that because it doesn't work.

Capitalism works because it is the most efficient way to produce and bring to the the marketplace products made from scarce resources. If I am going to demand more money for my services I must be willing to provide a service that has a high demand relative to the supply. Right now, the supply of trucks is greater than the demand of freight to be pulled and therefore the rates are low (and accordingly the fuel is low). However, when the economy gets better, the ratio of freight to available drivers will increase thereby raising the rates (and the fuel prices as well). Of course, more people will buy trucks and increased the supply of trucks and thereby level out the rates. All that is happenning right now is a market correction - the trucking companies and owner operators that aren't efficient are having to get out of the business, for now.

Now, the above paragraph relates to the economy as a whole. There is still specialized freight out there that only specialized carriers can haul and therefore their rates remain high no matter what the economy as a whole is doing. That can shed some light on why Landstars overall rates are higher than your generic "common carrier"

 

none of trucking is what it was. You can't compare it to itself it's just not a fair comparison. compare it to the other companies, that's all you can do.

I also am disgusted at what it's become. I really wanted to lease to landstar. Everything about there operating system appeals to me but there percentage is way too high, they do double deal the loads and the do nickle and dime you on fees

 

You got it.They rip ya apart pennie by pennie...They charge you to the dime for ''everything''

 

He isn't lying. They'll even charge you for the $.0079 ad valorem tax for miles driven through Tennessee. They don't miss anything.

 

ROLMFAO....

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So... agents are actors?