Can I get access to Landstar’s loadboard?

Nothing could be further from the truth. I'm speaking from the van side of things. No agent has time to go through a list of trucks and find one. When an agent needs to get rid of a really good load, they post it, and it's gone in minutes, if not seconds.

Not everyone is balls to the wall BCO's either. Lot's of dudes pull a few loads, go home with momma until the roll starts wearing thin. The agents with consistent good freight don't have time to wait for those guys.

There's a truckload of good freight on the board. There are also the research tools for you to find what agents are shipping where. You just have to know how to use them, and put in the work.

The good / busy agents don't have time for BS either. Money talks, BS runs a marathon.

Exactly how do you think BCO's find these agents? They have loads posted on the board.

There's two BCO's on this site I've tipped to agents. Just cause I think they were nice guys, and not know it all's.

There are some monster even dream loads that get posted, that open doors, but you have to put in the work.

There is always freight on the board that will make you money.

There's agents that won't even give you the time of day until you have several hundred on time, no incident loads under your belt.

"Oh. Hi. I just started. But I have a truck. I want top dige. No, I don't even know how to enter the info in the e log correctly or scan my BOL's, but I'm your man."

Yea, I'm certain that's what the top agents are looking for. We have a safety scoring / ranking system. There's guys that won't talk to you if your below the top 1000.

There's a truck load of BCO's that are dumber than trucks, that have been here for years. It's a husband and wife team can do to keep one truck rolling. That's where a relationship with an agent comes in.

There was an FNG loaded out of a place I do in Phoenix. Screwed up the prior load, then gets busted with one in California way over on his tandems. Load late, in fact rejected. Total disaster. But it's a piece of cake. I've zero doubt he's not related or friends with someone on high in the food chain.

For the rest of us, it's out there, you just gotta earn it is all.

 

B&G yo.

 

That's exactly the way it is on open load boards. It's how these things work. Nothing I said was really off the mark I just left out some details. We all find great loads off boards now and then. Some of us even make great connections with people based off those loads. That's how it works everywhere. You learn what and who to look for and you go there or to them instead of wasting time sifting thru hundreds of useless loads on a board. Some people never really learn.

 

Every one wants to start at the top, the idea of working your way up is gone. To many participant trophies.

 

There are so many freaking variables too.

I've never scene one size fits all yet.

And I don't care how you slice it, if you have a daily average, every frigging day, of say netting $400, that's $400 you gotta make up looking for that good load. So now you not only found a good load, you got the Goldie Lochs baby.

Those numbers I posted were for 10 days. They included my costs for 14 days. My load home doesn't, at least not supposed to pick up until Wednesday morning. I deliver tomorrow. Had a short haul unicorn, $1,000. Would have been about $600 to me. 130miles. DH back. It flew off. It flew off because it wasn't a direct shipper and someone covered it for half the price. So, now should I mother #### the whole world?

My load home is heavy and dirt cheap, but it goes home. I'll still add another $600 to the good, in that 14 days, barring any unforeseen tragedies and complications.

I could have kept going, gone half the distance, to a better freight market, and gone from there, even gotten a MONSTER load from there, but I want a little time off.

On face value the load home --- " OH MY F GOD. YOU HAULED THAT CHEAP F BS. YOU USELESS WORTHLESS POS."
Yes. And I'll still make another $600. Or could be a he man agent hater, and show them who's boss and drive home empty. $400 fuel down the drain.

$1,000 swing.

But I'm just dumb Hunky( Hungarian ). I don't know nothing about nothing.

I just read the forum and make my life's decisions based on posts by people that don't even have any actual experience at the company in question. Yep that's the way to go about it.

 

And people will start a thread about why is freight cheap. lol
Because trucker s make it cheap, that's why. lol

I have not read the whole thread, and it has been a while since I hauled landstar freight, so things could have changed.
When I ran a lot of freight I had their load board, BUT I also had access to their oo's load board from a few oo's that I knew well. There difference between the two boards is night and day, lots of loads do not get posted on the board we had access to period. Many times I could use one of my friends access and get a good load when all else failed.

 

Never been leased there never once bad mouthed them as a company but you get all bent out of shape and make these sly little digs. I could make it there or at any company out here. It's trucking not trigonometry. The same basic stuff applies across the board regardless where you're at.

 

Don't recall mentioning any names.