Landstar

Anyone ever work for Landstar as agent? Any feedback would be great. I am thinking of signing up with them as an agent, yes I am new .

 

lucky for him, you didnt get a load close to his office and end up in jail for assualt or whatever it is you are implying you would have done

 

That's not the norm I've herd way more good than bad but everyone's experience is different

 

I think it's more the shippers that screw people

 

Landstar has a lot of bad brokers and they are very reluctant to do anything about it. My wife handles dealing with the brokers and she has even been warned by other brokers to watch out for a couple of agencies. We have an agent that we work with extensively and he told us that the double brokering by Landstar agents has really poisoned the well. Landstar is also insisting on their contracts only and will rewrite a customers contracts without prior agreement. Long story, short, a lot of people don't want to deal with Landstar. Something is up because as of this post there are less than 10,000 available loads on the board, this time last year had over 15,000.

 

You think that the slow down in the market might have a reason less loads are on the boards??
not defending them, just making a comment

 

I think there are many factors, that include tighter capacity industry wide as well as Landstar has added too many drivers. In fact I just got a report from DAT that showed November of last year to November of this year, van freight is down 47% and rates are down 17% on the spot market. Still, there are things Landstar could do to make life easier.

 

I know it's old, but 65% out of 100%? Who's 100%? Because that 100% probably had a few hands in it before that rate ever got to the driver.

 

As a Landstar agent myself, even if new, I can say that the BCO's (Landstar's O/O drivers) can see the shipper price on the load. as they use the same systems we do to broker the freight and post it. With the Landstar board the price you see is the price billed to the shipper. The agent gets 7% of 98% the BCO gets their percentage depending on their sector and if they have their own trailer. 65% would be van with company trailer. iirc. Landstar gets the rest.

 

I had a friend contracted with Landstar, he left a few months ago for Mercer. He said it was near impossible to make any money there, sitting for days waiting for anything.