Roadrunner VS Landstar

RoadRunner also brokers loads for other companies. I pulled quite a few of them when I was a O/O with Schneider.

 

Haven't see a Morgan Driveaway in 20 years.

 

My old man has been with Roadrunner for 5 years now. I used to run team with him 3 of those 5 years. I left and started doing my own thing and he is still there, looking to join me and my company. Here's whats "BAD" about roadrunner and if you ask any owner operator leased to them, they would probably agree. No matter what terminal you go to, no matter who your "designated" go to person at the office, you have to call them over and over and over and over and over and over and..well you get the point. Simply put, they don't bother picking up. I've found email to be the best way to reach someone. And 9/10 times they end up answering you, within a week. A few other "BAD" things: you wait a long time to be loaded/unloaded at any terminal of theirs. It is what it is. The switchers/yard jockeys are usually inexperienced and damage the equipment you roll with (trailers). When that happens it takes a few months before roadrunner actually forks over the money to get it repaired. Some "GOOD" things. The pay is good. They will keep you busy year round. They pay for deadhead, and if you are with roadrunner and don't know that, than you my friend are getting gypped. All you need to do is tell them you are going through diesel to get there and bam the money on your fuel card. I would rate roadrunner a solid 7 overall.

 

They own Morgan Southern. It's a container hauling outfit with some dry vans too. I see they bought Sargent. I used to get some broker stuff out of Maine from them. I think you need to do some more research on platform companies.

 

RR use to be good(or better than it is now). I ran for them when you could do 1 or 2 terminal loads a month(and not have to deal with the delays in loading/unloading). I ran mostly finding my own broker freight. You could find your own loads. The first 3 broker loads you did you got %96. Then it went down %1 each load until you did a RR terminal load(they have terminals throughout the US). There is a guy on here now that says the new contracts...you can no longer do this, they were upset at the drivers who just did the broker loads and no terminal loads. Then you get guys who cant manage there funds and do broker loads and have no fuel $.
If the brokers credit was above an 80 you could run and RR would pay you the next payday. Anything below that and you either billed it yourself or go paid when RR got paid from broker.

Now I believe you pay a weekly trailer rental(if you don't have your own) to be able to drop n hook.

Use to be better before they started buying all these companies and attracting broke drivers with a lease purchase program....

 

That 9k is a big number, I started with Central Refrigerated fleeting 1600 trucks and saw them everywhere and more than I see LS trucks now. Not doubting that 9k since I haven't inquired yet but that would be 187 trucks in every state any given moment so hard to fathom. Swift has 16,000 trucks and see one of them with every other blink of the eye.

 

I ran for Sargent and pulled a trailer that said Roadrunner on it. And I've been through NH a LOT! Nothing bad to say really, I don't know what the RR guys are talking about with terminal freight though. I hauled refrigerated/frozen pretty much strictly in the northeast. Dealt with one dispatcher/broker at Sargent exclusively and he gave me as much work as I could handle. Paid via Comdata card, usually next day upon them receiving my Transflo'd paperwork.

I don't know if anything's changed, this was a year ago. Again, no complaints at all.

 

Not every Landstar truck pulls a big white box with a blue star on it. Heck many of the operators have their own lettering on the trucks with no blue star period. Some of them only work a few months out of the year. Get on 64 and 70 between Louisville and Kansas City if you want to see one Landstar flatbed truck after another criss crossing. That's just one lane.