Can I get access to Landstar’s loadboard?

Blair does post numbers, I don’t, but He knows mine, I saw what he was doing and decided he needed a new goal. So I raised the bar a little.

Blair has taken advantage of the opportunity that LS provided.
To his credit he didn’t come in underfunded and was willing to learn.
He learned flat bed, then oversized, bought a big house and became spoiled. Did some difficult loads, got burned a few times but learned and moved on.
Yes I helped him a little but he did the hard work, but he proved you can make a good living at the star if you work at it.

Everyone’s rates are down and business is changing but opportunities still exist, just harder to find.

Back to the op, what you see on the LS board is not a good picture of how things are, I can show you a screen shot of 3.00 plus van freight, with miles or a shot of pathetic van freight that no one should touch, but brokers carriers line up for it.

I am going to a convention next month that will have over 400 bco’s that figured out the system, LS is paying for it all and someone will go home with a new truck,taxes paid too.
Most leased on without knowing the system and somehow became successful.
It all is not in a load board.

 

You can't just get your own authority and then pull for a few hand picked agents as a qualified carrier so you don't have to deal with the bs, and keep all the money.

That's my idea I'm moving forward with.

That's theft of intellectual property.

I've never read the B&G thread, but everyone knows the B&G money is the goal. It's common knowledge throughout the community.

 

There is some perks to having your own authority, especially if planning on running a fleet, but there is perks to leasing on to a god outfit too, in the end it amounts to about the same. When I started I went with my own authority, with no otr experience I doubt I could have leased on to any companies that I could have hauled my own freight too. It was a lot of trial and error, and sometimes it would have been nice to have been with an outfit that had freight instead of hustling it on my own.
I figure all in all, the money was not much different, I had a little more freedom than most oo's.

 

Funny guy. Time to make the donuts.

 

Correctomundo. I've seen guys (especially lease ops) post up their numbers and exclude deadhead miles as well as labor costs. Then, call what's left over "NET PROFIT".

Sorry, but that ain't how it works in the real world of accounting.

 

That's why at the end of the day, let's see what everyone paid in taxes. Really no way around that is there?

That's a pretty cut and dry indicator. Unless someone is risking tax fraud.

 

I'm currently accessing the LS board. Have it on the other screen. There's 36,274 loads available. All terrible. Bad. Evil. I'd really think this through if I were you.