Thinking of buying a new truck and going to landstar

No owner operator experience, no idea how Landstar works, but hey, brand new truck for $150k, some chicken lights, chrome and life is beautiful!

 

If you are coming to Landstar and want to make it here you better be specialized in something. It is real tough to succeed here if you plan on being the ordinary average run of the mill Van or flatbed hauler. We have been here 3 years and are doing very nice but I run team with my wife and haul very specialized freight, specialized trailer and specialized areas to cut down on my competition for freight. A normal van or flatbed yanker must compete with 4000 or 2000 other drivers trying to do the same thing.

 

how long have you been trucking? Or are you at the day dream stage an passing the the belief stage and jumping right into the action stage? Unless you have a year or two under your belt I can make a prediction based on empirical evidence, That such ventures are doomed to fail. If not properly planned out and studied and simulated and so you do not rely on overt trial and error. Which is almost always fatal in some aspect. Not trying to rain on your parade. Just having you make haste slowly. An See reality for what it is worth! Not some delusional person trying to be opportunistic and waste time resources and energy you will never get back.

 

that is what most people do not get! to make it you have to be separate from the pack and be in the 95% rare market to really do good. and that is in everything in life!
Keep on Truckin!

 

Far far to many people here suffer from delusional thinking. As Richard Dawkin said in his book the selfish Gene. The person who can simulate the future is light years ahead of the person who only learns through overt trial and error! Because overt trial and error wastes time energy and resouces, and is almost always fatal. Take trucking as a prime example. most people who get their CDL with in the first year leave the industry for ever! why? We can blame it on low pay, poor work environment. A myriad of other things. What it boils down to is simple. Opportunistic of money now! With out simulation of what lays ahead. If those people that left the industry in the first year. Did simulation of what it is like and what reality is. They would not have wasted time which one will never get back. Money lost might make it up? and it is fatal because of the time wasted in which it might take years to recover from the financial loss.
you call that Hating? I would call people who rip me and others bring in reality as being delusional border line bi-polar.

 

......cool truck!not to worry, it will be back on the lot within a year cause he couldnt make the payments !!!!

 

Why does everybody have to pile on to every person who asks a legitimate question? Seems to me if you have nothing helpful to say, SHUT THE HELL UP

 

Yeah, buy a less expensive truck. Landstar lets you choose your own routes, but don't get too far ahead of yourself or you might have a load fall through and you'll have to deadhead to your next one. Yes, you lease their trailer....make sure it's the kind and weight you want.

 

Any of you guys pulling vans making any $$ old truck is paid for

 

Does Landstar give you the option of using your own dry van trailer?

Just curious.