Landstar BCO count down.

For Landstar BCOs are the geese laying them golden eggs. All you see everyday is highways full of trucks and every one of them is driven down the road on money (not diesel). Seems like some of the genius farmers at Landstar have decided they will squeeze the goose harder to get more golden eggs. It works at first, but without the wisdom to know when you are squeezing too hard, and knowing when you need to feed the goose you eventually kill it. If you can see they are down 25%, then they can see they are down 25%, just a question of if the people with their hands on the levers of power internally care about the long term health of the company or if their loyalties are elsewhere. If it is the latter, then its time to get out before the mad captain rams another iceberg, 25% of the canaries have dropped dead, might be time to look for the exit.

 

Shouldn't "thinning the herd" make life a bit better for the remaining cows?

 

Follow the money. It's all about the money. Humanity doesn't even enter into it. When the time comes the people in charge will wring it dry, walk off, and never look back.
There's no meanness to that, just indifference. Somehow the indifference seems to be the real crime.

 

Well, I for one havent exactly been making Landstar rich over the past couple of years. I dont pull loads under 2.50 (1.70 after Landstars cut) for all miles driven from the house to the house. If I dont get that, I dont move. Ive only hauled 4 loads the past year.

Moved to Florida from Minnesota a year ago, and just now getting around to changing my LLC (couldnt keep my Minnesota LLC here). They are over-nighting my paperwork (including new plates, new truck number, new comdata cards, the works) tomorrow. If they werent hurting for drivers, they probably would have bounced me a year ago. Someone talked to me a couple of weeks ago asking what is going on and I said I have a prostrate cancer biopsy Apr 9th and after that I will decide if Im going to sell the truck or start running again. I dont figure they would be sending me all this new stuff if they had a problem with that.

So, yeah, my guess is they are desperate.

 

Only if there is grass in the field.

Not to derail this thread but I'm an independent and a Landstar carrier so I'm not a
BCO but what? What is the LS term for me, just LS carrier?

I've actually landed 2 good loads from LS lately after not running anything from them for over a year. Both were good offices, not the foreign double broker types I was seeing awhile back offering junk at TQL rates.

 

Thanks, I approve of the new avatar!