Landstar - Maintenance Records and Inspections?

They require all of that. Pretty simple.

 

Inspection every 120 days, they pay, must also send in a maintenance report for the same time. Maintenance report is a dot requirement, every truck on the road must keep a matience report, LS had to tweek theirs to keep dot happy.
If your truck can’t pass a 120 inspection then it won’t pass a roadside.

 

No you can't take it to any place, it has to be a place that they tell you to take it to. LS actually tests some of these places out. but they still have crap inspectors on duty.

NO restrictions from what I see.

 

I had a few, mainly not having a complete inspection, I have complained and had the drivers stopped using random one, which when they would pick one in an area, I would call them and talk to the guy doing the inspection and tell him find something wrong. I had one truck that was inspected by one place where they missed an air leak on a brake chamber, driver caught it when he did his pre-trip - he dropped the truck off on a Friday and picked it up on Monday so he could enjoy some hometime with his sister and her family.

A friend how was with LS for 10 years had his inspection done at 10am at one of their inspection vendors in Ohio then about five miles down the road had a road side L1 with a violation with one of his steers being way out of adjustment. The inspector put him OOS and made him call out road service to just adjust the one steer. When he talked to LS about it, they did a review of the vendor than sent in a decoy truck with out of adjusted brakes to see if they caught it, they didn't. SO LS pulled them off the list. However my freind went through hell getting back in service with LS, he had to have two independent inspections to satify safety and proof that there were repairs done to the truck to prevent the adjuster not tighten up the brakes to spec.

 

The recruiter told me 2000 or newer for ELD'S. Meaning you could have any year truck (BODY) but 2000 MFR year engine or newer.
No Cali No problem.
No EGR No problem.
No DEF No problem.
No DPF No problem.
Just make sure the engine was made on January 2000 or later
Thats because of the ECM (computer) the ELD will hook up to.

 

The only age restriction is the truck must hook up to an ELD. If you have a pre-elog engine, say a 96 ddec3 Detroit, you’ll still have to run elogs. They use Qualcomm and Keep Truckin. Inspections are only done at authorized facilities. Except for your prelease inspection, if your unit fails, it must be repaired there or towed to another shop.