Leasing to landstar?

Check Landstar's website,visit their FB page, call recruiting. Have your list of questions ready. Check out Truckpaper and spec a truck using the filters. Call the different dealerships and find out what they're offering someone in your position. Do you want to lease or own? Do you want a full maintenance lease? Some Dealers offer Full Maintenance leases. Lone Mountain is just one of many resources available.

 

I don't think that you are ready to be a owner operator one year really explain the 2290 to any owner operator if you can

 

If I recall landstar requires 2 years experience.

 

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Edited to add that I was wrong they only require a year.

 

1 year OTR with clean record. The term " lease " in the context of Lone Mountain is that a person is buying the truck, so yes, you put the down on it, and you are good to go.
Insurance is all through an agency that handles Landstar or you can get your own, theirs is pretty reasonable.

IF, THIS IS A BIG IF, you can qualify, do the lease through a dealer ( it's still a purchase), and you will be that many more dollars ahead.

Landstar is not for the faint of heart, fair warning.

 

Read this, there is much more to doing what you want to do than just driving a truck. http://rawze.com/book/The First Time Class-8 Lease-Purchase Owner-Op Guide.pdf

And you better have your P's and Q's in order if you are thinking of going to LandStar. You better know your business.

 

With only one year experience getting financing on a truck can be difficult. Lone Mountain is a viable option. (I used them to acquire my Volvo780)Remember they are a finance company not a dealership. Landstar is where I hang my hat and I am happy. I have other friends that went to Schneider IC which is a similar program and are happy. Each have their pluses. At schneider there are no calls to be made, you see a load you want on your portal and if the system sees you have the hours and you are the first to click on it it is yours. With Landstar it is much more about the communication skills and building a network of Agents that know you. You can do well working off of the board, but timing is everything. You must call on each load you book, making sure the details work for you and hope you called before someone else.
Make sure before you jump you truly understand your numbers. Have a budget, all monthly costs from home and conservative projected numbers for operating your business. Where ever you end up keep in mind you are leaving the miles game behind. Your success will no longer be about how many miles you run, rather the revenue you generated and profits you kept. Working smarter not harder is the name of the game.

 

There's no network of agents. They will all put it in your ###, it's more of a question of how far and how hard some will do it. You do have to weed through some that are WTF traded, and have no idea what they are doing, or are just totally shady.

 

I used to broker freight from them, LandStar... Sounds like it is getting worse, LOL!