Landstar

I know LSAgent doesn't want to hear this but unless you can get one of the specialized routes that every body wants and few get, you will make more money with your Loves yob than you will make being a LS O/O pulling FAK.
And be home every night.

 

I didn't mean as a recruiter.


I was a happy LS lease OP from late summer 05 to spring of 07.
I got out because of wanting more home time.

I generally liked where I was, except I believe that HQ certainly could have done much more to put more money in the pocket of the lease OP.
For example........ nobody wins, or at least the truck owner DOES NOT WIN when freight is double and triple brokered like happened a lot with some agents.

LS is big enough there is no reason they cannot go direct to the shipper and cut out the money grubbing middle men.
And those big agencies that float the freight around the office to collect a higher percentage of the freight money before it goes to the truck.

 

Thanks for the advice but I'm not a child.

I know a lot of folks that talked big about how they'd sit for a month or more if the rate wasn't north of $3 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

I suppose if you are independently wealthy and have nearly unlimited funds that strategy would work for you.

For MOST folks that is far from reality, and so the truck owners that have to keep food on the table, the lights on, and the mortgage paid are taken advantage of in the terms of rates.

Just say no like you advocate would leave thousands of trucks in the repo yard, along with hungry and homeless families.
Thats reality!





There were plenty of loads I said no to in case you were wondering.
I was not the guy that hauled any thing and the first thing that came across the board just to have fuel money.

 

That doesn't deal with several of the issues I mentioned that the mother ship in Jax as I called it could have done more for the betterment of their truck owners. Issues that would have made them a better company had they chosen to take them on.


Heres the frustrating thing with the agent relationships.
To the best of my knowledge I did not have any black marks on my reputation points. And yet...... I found 0 agent loyalty in the nearly 2 yrs I was there.
I was always praised and thanked by the agents for hauling their freight but it seemed like I was never able to get to the point where they'd help me out.
Even my domicile agent. The ONLY time I talked to him was if he happened to have a rare load that I could get out of my home area.

I suppose I'll never know what I was doing wrong but thats how it was for me.