landstar

Nope, never heard of Landstar, one of the biggest trucking companies out there.

They only have owner operators, so its actually the driver who keeps up the maintenance on the truck.

However landstar does do DOT inspections every 120 days I believe..so the truck should be in pretty good condition.

 

Broncrider, Brickman is our resident Landstar expert on the board as much as anyone on here. He will provide you with straight, valid, current information.

Whether or not the information is to your liking may be a totally different subject, but I guarantee it to be straight info......

 

so much info, but none i feel comfy with. we are husband and wife team our truck is 10 years old. we just ran for ups o/o division. worked 3 month to get hired and lasted 4 weeks. yikes. great company to make lots of money, but you hurry hurry run faster, than sit. micro management the worst we ever had.just not the way we want to live. so we are looking at landstar, but dont know if we could do ok, just repasted this into you box, new to this site. we can't afford another mistake. the % is lower now than what evry1 else is talking about. our truck is 10 years old. we been husband & wife team for 12 years o/o for 11. all those deductions sound realy confusing, do they realy teach you how to figure out what you make?

 

I have been with landstar for over ten years now, all i will say about is you need to be a businessman as much or more than a driver, you have to be able to sell yourself to the agents.

all the decisions are made by YOU!!

Landstar is different and don't worry about micro management there is very little interaction with Jacksonville unless you screw up one way or another.

Most people that don't make it with Landstar are not willing to do the selling of themselves to the agents, and there are a lot that don't but if you are willing to work at it you can make a pretty good living with them.

Landstar is going thru some issues with their business model at the moment but if what I heard in Jacksonville in Jan. come about things should smooth out a bit this year.

bottom line if you are willing to work at it you can make it, if you just want the freight to fall into your lap without doing anything for it landstar will not be the company for you.

 

I agree....I never leased on with Landstar when I was an O/O but I did drive for an agent for the better part of 7 years....If you can learn the "system" quickly and basically get in with an agent or agents you should be ok....but be advised the first few months as your learning and running the "system" can be very hard....Looks like I'm gonna be going back to the agent I drove for (almost re-qualified now) so if I can be of any help pm me, I try to help as best I can..