O/O looking for info on companies with load boards.

Oh, I thought you were going to give it 4 quarters and then reevaluate whether it was profitable to remain as a lease operator with Crete, if not, sell the truck and go back as a company driver.

My bad, I guess I misunderstood.

 

I'm not sure who you could lease onto to do reefer in a self dispatch fashion.

Find someone with a small company or like F2F, or something like that.

My next step is my own authority. But a Landstar / Mercer / Schneider is the only way to go to build a bank. And you may pick up a few good contacts along the way.

I leased onto a company called Triple C before Landstar. They paid ok. But they weren't self dispatch. They didn't do reefer either.

Landstar has a tiny, tiny amount of reefer. I wouldn't even recommend that here.

 

Landstar has a tiny amount if reefer?

Really?

 

Smidgeon. And it doesn't pay hardly anything. There's 1 reefer load to a 100 van loads.

I heard talk of some guys trying to get it rolling in the Chicago area, but anytime I just do a search to see what's out there, there's a handful of reefer loads.

 

I would say that right now is not the time for "load haggling".

 

It's not shenanigans. There's loads that may have just enough in them to require you to have the endorsement.
But that is precisely why they require everyone to have it. It also provides them with a federal background check on you. A TWIC card is certainly worth it. There are some TWIC loads that pay A LOT. Canada, meh.

I don't think I've ever run into a situation where someone tried to slide it by.

It's posted as hazmat if it's hazmat. No you are not required to pull any of it.

You can sign up for the Landstar Webinar, and view our loadboard in real time, and see how it works. It's free, and you can do it multiple times.

If you do it, just do company van. Believe me.

 

And it's not that big of a deal to get your hazmat endorsement. Depending on where you live, a very few minutes.
Personally, I had to drive 2 hours to get to a place that does them. But if I lived there, I would not have had to.
Use the practice tests on this site and do them until you're confident. Then go take the test. You'll pass.
No big deal