Advice please

Depends... what are you trying to do with them? Straight O/O lease on, or L/P?

 

Do a thread search about LS there are a lot of threads explaining them.

 

Landstar is good if your firm and don't let the dispatchers push you around. Mercer is something like them. Percentage companies with non forced dispatch are all the same. Haul cheap freight with an occasional good load popping up from time to time. Companies have their favorites and you may have to sit a home a few days at first until they know you won't pull junk freight. Send a clear message from the start so they know not to bother you with junk. Probably would be best to get set up pulling a drop deck with lights and oversize markers then wait until the the high dollar freight pops up.

 

Personally I would get with a company that is a little more pushy andhas a great account with high dollar freight. Definitely have more freedom with landstar and Mercer but too much freedom makes a man lazy unless you don't need much money then I'd say landstar.

 

neither landstar nor mercer have dispatchers. as for cheap freight, ya mercer is real cheap. I'm averaging well over 2 bucks a mile on all miles with a good portion of them being empty or extremely light.

op, you will do fine at either mercer or landstar if you have any brain cells at all. i would recommend mercer over landstar simply cause landstar requires all new contractors to have eobr's.

 

electronic on board recorder. most call them elogs. but not the same thing. an elog is nothing but doing your logbook on a tablet or laptop, Hell even some smart phone apps are approved by the dot. the eobr's actually tie into the vehicle ecm and use a tracking device.