Loadboards and Landstar loadboards?

Exactly rollin coal, if it was a 2000 mi run and paid the BCO $4000 the $200 is 5%, and the BCO still got a great rate in todays market.

 

And means Landstar still made over 20% off the outside carrier. Of course it doesn't really matter one way or another. I mean agents and brokers make a living too. But $200 more on that same single load hauled by each is not all that much better IMO than the leased guy. Just sayin....

 

Agreed..

 

Another idea ... did the ls oo have his own trl? They pay another 7-10% more if you own your own trl ...

Guessing you have your own?

 

Good point

 

With that attitude you'll never know if you are maximizing your earning potential.

 

In this case I'd have to assume you've dealt with a 'cut and paste' or pyjama agent - who got the load off an Internet load board, and put it on the LS board.

The LS driver should've been aware of this, and been in a better position ( not been there in the first place unless it paid enough to DH out ), or negotiated higher with full intentions of leaving the load.

There may have been 5 different agents posting that load within LS - a sure sign to that driver that it wasn't the agent's customer.

Often we don't discover the truth until the billed customer and amount is revealed. The tools are abound at LS, you just have to use them.

Probably doesn't answer your questions very well, but that's my take.

 

Landstar o/o gets 65 percent of what load pays. Agent gets 7 percent of what load pays if putting on a landstar truck. If the agent brokers the load to an outside carrier landstar takes 10 percent off the top and that is it. In almost any case any outside carrier with good negotiation skills can take more money for that load than o/o while the agent takes a greater cut home also than they would have putting it on a landstar truck. The load board will be load for load the same broker or landstar o/o with the exception of loads requiring exclusive landstar pickup.