Landstar vs Schneider Choice ( Comparison )

yes, but it only happened to me once.
if you wanted to, you could book out a month in advance....only problem is, if that load you were going to pick up day after tomorrow cancels, you're kinda up a ###### creek. No, you won't get paid for the load (you only get paid for a DNU is if you actually show up on the property and they cancel you then......"oh hell, I forgot to call".) But the good news is, you just gotta re-book yourself....they'll pull the rest of the loads off you.
The other thing is that if you get somewhere and the load ends up with some kind of extra charge (detention, layover, whatever) you'll get that money too. I don't know, but I'm kinda sure that the LS folks aren't going to go to bat for you when you've been held over....."hey, the rate is the rate".....on the other hand I just got $300 for a detention / layover that wasn't my fault. Schneider folks are good people and they'll go to bat for you.
Think of it this way.....that LS broker has 'X' number of clients. Those clients make him a lot of money. One of those clients jacks over one of his drivers. Is that LS broker gonna get on the phone and say "look hoss, you owe my driver $300." Or, is he gonna tell the driver "tough titty"? On the other hand, Schneider has 10,000 x 'X' clients. They know the freight business. They know what they can and can't get. They have a vested interest in keeping the peace between the driver and the client. And, frankly, they actually care. I think that's the difference.

 

As far as detention, I've never had a problem with it. Just today, at a trade show in Chicago, the load that was supposed to be ready, isn't. The agent simply said, keep track of your time and at the end let me know, and anything over two hours is billed at $80. That is typically the price range, $50-100 detention money that I see. I just got $1000 detention coming to me a couple weeks ago. The customer is notoriously slow, and I go their often. The only down side is Landstar doesn't pay detention (100%) until they are paid. I went to pick up a piece the other day and the shipper couldn't find it, the agent offered $250 TONU before I could say anything. The crappy part is LS takes their cut from TONU and I still have to wait until it's paid.

 

Just looked at SNI rates - .92cpm plus .15 cpm performance (?) pay, or 65% of billed revenue - up to $1.65/mile on sub 300 mile loads . . .

Any LS vans out there care to compare rates on van freight in those 2 categories?

 

The rates vary, not all loads are the same. Agents book freight base on urgency and what they negotiate with the customer. You could pull a 1000 mile load @ 1.75/mile plus fuel one trip then pull a load the next at $1.50. Those numbers are not fact just easy round numbers to show an example.