Landstar is getting cheap.

Whatever happened to the guy who said there was a "secret" LS board? Only available by invitation, to the select few? Didn't you know that was the only way to get good loads?

 

We've reached a point where it no longer pays to haul O/D. More trouble than it's worth. They're gonna have to pay much better if they want it on our truck!

 

He's still here that was me. They did have such a thing several years ago and probably still do. Landstar called it "Gateway Capacity" and it was all hush hush because it pisses off their own contractors when they get wind of such things. It was an arrangement with brokered carriers getting in on some really good high dollar bid freight.

Essentially it was the top tier brokered carriers they worked with that had a consistent trustworthy record, as in 100% no screwups no excuses, on some of their time critical bid freight. The freight was from a mega 3PL (edited: NLM - National Logistics Management) they had bought for a lot of money. This 3PL managed just about everything all the big automakers had with regards to expedited freight.

None of that freight got sold on the open spot market to random or unknown brokered carriers. The service levels and expectations were really high. Not making a check call about your arrival time 5 minutes before your pickup was a service failure. They were really picky. Several of us at Farm2Fleet made a lot of money off that freight.

You never heard of it because you were either one of their own contractors who knew nothing about it period or you didn't make the cut as an outside carrier. I'm sure there are plenty of carriers/drivers on Expediters Online forum that know exactly what I'm talking about. It's not made up truck stop counter talk it was real. I believe they sold the NLM to either Panther or XPO after only a year or so.

 

NLM was sold to XPO. Artisan had the freight before NLM. Landstar had it before Artisan. When Landstar had GM freight we made huge money hauling racks. XPO is cheap as hang.

 

I know landstar cut the rate on Ford frames it's ridiculous.

 

Is there a secret hand shake to go with the secret board? Who do you contact? Or is the contact a secret too?

Is the freight that never hits the board also secret?

 

RYX, BNA, AGS were some of the contacts. No secret handshakes but plenty of high dollar freight for outside carriers.

 

Well you just posted it on the Internet, what kind of secret is that?

 

It was years ago. Old news now.

 

I'm keeping my good agents a secret. They are easy to find though, cause all I do is dog food, and bottled water.