Question for Landstar BCOs

Hi there,

My father drives for Landstar on a 48 flatbed. He joined Landstar hoping to make more money than at CRST where he initially started. The idea of Landstar's loadboards sounded great, but if you want to be driving constantly, then you just don't have time (or the Internet) to watch the loadboard and catch a good load in time to call the agent and take it. He started out with the phone call alerts, but by the time the system sent him the alerts, the loads were off the loadboard.

That's where I came in. I started watching the loadboard for him as a full-time job. I am handling contacting the agents, negotiating rates where possible, getting him loads home when he wants to, and dealing with financial information getting faxed. Since we started doing this, He has been running nonstop for Landstar (except when his hours are up).

My question for Landstar BCOs is how are they managing to run for Landstar without the use of an assistant? Are they able to get good paying loads by watching the loadboard when they drive? If there was a service that was willing to do this full time for Landstar BCOs (a service independent of Landstar), would they be willing to pay a small fee for it?

Thanks for any help you can give!

Virginia