Self dispatch companies

What do they provide for 10%?

 

I am leased to a small carrier and can self dispatch, but usually do not.
I do not even know or care what percentage they take and here is why.
We mainly haul overflow freight from one company, and they pay me after all my deductions, minimum 1000 a load or a dollar a mile, either way you want to look at it, if I come back empty more than if I leased directly on to the company. depending on the load, that figure will sometimes be doubled.
I do get my insurance through them, but it costs just over half of what I pay on my other truck, and I just have 1 mil liability, nothing else on it. But those prices they pay is after my insurance and anything else has been deducted.
Another thing is I was leased to them once before and running low on money, before I got my first check I lost a turbo up north, they sent me a turbo and related parts up.
because of some health problems, I have not worked a lot the last two years, so when I started back a couple of months ago, they must have thought I was in a bind, so offered money, and I keep a company fuel card she finally took down and gave to my wife,because I kept turning it down. I have never used it, but I guess I can. I have again not worked in over a month, after only working a 4 1/2 weeks, and called her yesterday and told her I would go back saturday. Come to find out she had already called my wife and ask if we needed any mula to tide us over. I reckon she thinks we just throw the checks out the window when we do get them.
Oh yea, I had to get new drives last month, when I told her she said they had an account and got a discount, for me to just use their account, well thanks, but they are already on the truck. lol
Anyway, I ran my own numbers for lots of years, still do at times but that is why I run under theirs numbers, probably about the same reasons you pull for landstar instead of your own.

 

I'm kinda like @insanityeight. The company does all the billing and provides a safety department. I get paid weekly and they provide a fuel card where I get cost plus 5 cents at TA/Petro. I also get tire discounts through a national account. If I was pulling freight like you are I would probably do better where you're at giving them 28% though.

 

who pays liability insurance? The owner of the authority has to provide it and it can’t be done for a10% cut.
I give 23% or less, better than any 10% deal around.

 

I pay my insurance, but it is only 6 something a month all in through them and that is for 2 mil and collision too. I would hate to know they couldn't pay that out of a 10% cut, but like I said it comes out of my cut anyway. Which works out better as far as I am concerned, I may or may not work for a month or two at a time.

 

I pay 100% of the costs to operate a truck. The only costs the company has out of their 10% is office employees and all costs to run the office.

You're grandfathered in to an old LS contract sounds like. From what little I know if them I would give them 27 or 28%, can't remember which it is, if I was running your set up. Yes, your deal is better than any 10% deal out there but we're comparing apples to oranges. I already stated that if I was pulling a set up like yours I'd be better off only receiving 72 or 73% vs the 90% I get now basically because of the contracts LS has. As far as pulling general freight in a dry van, I'm not going to do better at LS. I'm sure a few guys probably do better than me, maybe, but unless they're specialized most are not. This is based purely on what I've heard from others about the rates their pulling for. Right now the market is down but there's still money out here. Just takes more work to find it.