Landstar and rates for independent carriers

You sir are my Hero

 

Two thumbs up, my friend. Nice work.

 

Wed I was under a load, While I was waiting to get loaded , I looked in ITS and LS was posting them exact same load and dims for $1000 less than the broker originally posted. This was on a short run and they sucked the money right out of it . I think its a shame, I dont think all their agents do that but shame one those leeches that do.

 

A little off the subject, but why wont Landstar deposit your pay into your own account? why put it on their card? so they can charge you money to take it out?

 

uh, you do know that overnight interst rates are nearly 0% right? between 0 and .01 so even if they floated 10 million at .01% that is only $1000. so probably not the reason. How about not having to manage thousands of bank relations and efts?

 

That's true with all "company" brokers. Either LS or TQL or blah,blah. You find the right people to work with and do the right job and life is good for everybody involved.

 

I think what is happening is that far too many agents are doing the copy and paste then taking a bit off the posted revenue . so many have no clue to dimensions on a load either. That tells me it is a re-brokered load .When you call and ask certain questions. they tell you they will have to call the customer to see if it is still there. . Nope I am not there when they get off hold. That is showing me something is wrong and I know it is not their customer. Many just repost off of other load boards and have no clue about the load or customers.. They have the same numbers I can get off DAT load board . Trucking is not a perfect world. Like any other industry there are unscrupulous people prey on the unknowing. It cannot be avoided. One either learns to separate the wheat from the chaff or suffers with it.

 

I buy fuel with that card and get huge discounts at the pump at alot of places so it doesnt really bother me, and also they usually pay within 4 days at 1.5 percent. But yes, it seems the last couple of weeks getting a good rate from them has been like pulling teeth.

 

Oct to Feb is the slump in freight and rates. Has always been that way. Granted there are a few specialty niches that go great guns during that time. but specialized. When the building industry slows so do the rates.