What say ye?

I mail things from all over the place. The few bill payments that are not electronic anyway. Envelope and stamp, computer and printer/scanner in the truck. Drop it in mailbox, done. Landstar's payment system does kind of suck though. I think there is a program you can use to electronically send it in. It would not work for me as a Canadian carrier, think there was some issue with zip codes (we use postal codes) - so I gave up on it. I don't do much for them anyway so the rare load that I do for them that ended up taking a while to pay ... not a huge deal. Their credit is good, just payment system could be more accommodating. Have others that are quick with the checkbook and most fall somewhere in between so it all works out. Don't have a lot of large fixed expenses outside of my business so even when it's tight I can get by just fine with drawing a smaller salary for the month. Have more than enough available line of credit and credit cards for emergency above $25k. It all works out at year end (for me) anyway. I rather take a big bonus at the end of the year that way I won't blow it all in restaurants and casinos. Directly over to the investment man or a sizeable extra mortgage payment is how I do it.

 

Years ago I did a lot of 53 van automotive expedite freight from Landstar. A scan of the POD was always sufficient for payment back then 2011-2014.

Since I've started doing reefer around mid 2016 I've only done 3 Landstar reefer loads. All 3 required original,POD for payment. I thought it was just a reefer thing because believe it or not some reefer freight actually does require originals. But apparently it's just a Landstar thing.

It's one of many reasons they are normally a "do not haul" broker for me. The loads I did book were solid rates but they were loads of last resort. Landstar broker sucks any more imo. The van brokers I used to work with years ago all disappeared but they were people of their word and good to work with. These latest ones with the reefer freight are sketchy. Had issues with all 3 loads.

There are too many other decent brokers out here with better freight to really waste time with Landstar.

 

You think landstar mails their invoices to their customers? Lol!!

It a great way to delay paying carriers.

How about all their little unexplained fees?

 

I'm not sure why you wouldn't be able to scan and email you BOL in to get paid its much quicker and saves paper? Perhaps their trying to keep the USPS in business.

 

Odd... 5 years at Landstar as a BCO before I left ; never once sent in an original BOL by mail. Just transflo "mobile app"

Sounds like foolery

 

You're a BCO leased to Landstar. That's apples and oranges. On their brokerage side they do this to delay payment. It's just an old broker trick the worst of the worst pull.

 

No, I was as bco.
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They accepted every load digital from a BCO but ask independents for physical copies... just putting that out there