Landstar net earnings for a hard worker

Landstar doesn't work that way. BCO's don't "take one for the team" on anything. A load either is acceptable or not and they accept or reject the same way you do. Also, if the agent tells a BCO what a load is paying, that is exactly what it's paying. The only time it wouldn't be is if the agent was one of those kind filtering freight from another brokerage they are associated with.

More often than not as an outside carrier you will have no clue what the load paid them. Guaranteed most times they win much bigger when they broker it out than they do when they put it on a Landstar truck. And most likely even a Landstar truck does better. Trucks are just too competitive right now for it to be any other way and have been for a while now. This is why BCO's hate outside carriers even more so in lean times.

 

Your never going to get any help from anyone. You already think you are the smartest one in the room. Your handle is even wannabe and yet, you continue to antagonize those that already are. There is not need to respond to this. All I am saying is, don't ask questions if your not willing to listen to the answer. I looked at your past postings and you continue to go back and forth about landstar. Personally, I think your not ready. I'm not being ugly. I just think you don't understand the in's and out's of the biz yet. This is evident by the types of questions you are asking. Again, not being ugly. Just trying to save you from putting the cart before the horse.

 

Don't bring politics into this. The evidence you aren't listening is that you keep asking the same nonsensical question. There's as many different answers to your question as there are O/O's at Landstar. If you were truly comprehending the realities of being an owner operator, you'd be asking different questions, like how exactly people have been profitable, what lanes they run, how the system works over there, not beating your head against the wall with this dumb question over and over again.

 

Well sounds to me like your ready to be a full fledged independent owner operator. Dont waste time with landstar. Go buy a brand new w900 cash and your very own dry van. You already know the best lanes so youll get rich quick for sure.

Being omnipotent and all you definitely cant go wrong.

 

As I am another guy listening in... I would like to say THANK YOU for everybody's input. Hurst, thanks for the time you have invested.. especially for throwing out some personal numbers. Which again I think you mentioned around 185k, and keeping about 80k...I was confused though....you don't have your own authority....(you are o/o for someone else, and you happen to pull from L/S load board sometimes?)

 

Though I'm not familiar with Hursts set up -

You can have your own numbers, or lease on to ABC carriers and use theirs - and still run freight on the LS board. You just have to be an 'approved carrier' (doesn't take much).

The guy I mentioned - leased to his uncle, but running primarily LS freight, was working like this -

LS agent has load that always pays , say $3500. We (the BCO's) know this.

Agent calls him, he agrees to do it for $2000 (not knowing what it normally pays.

His uncle takes 25%. He gets $1500.

Same load, we give LS 27%, we keep the FSC, and recieve $2530 odd - for the same load.

We encouraged and helped him (even offered fuel money to get to orientation) to lease on to LS, because he was running 'our' freight for peanuts. We all liked the guy, but at the same time hated how he was running his business.

 

Is anybody willing to chime in if they are making 260,000 + gross per year?

I really like the idea of driving a super condo truck pulling step deck. 185k gross does not sound good enough. I have alot of class A experience, but currently the wife and I are teaming in a straight truck. We do not own truck,but we do pretty well...we should pull in 80k on 1099.

Again, I would like to drive solo, and just have wife ride...I THINK I can make and keep the same and more money by doing this. I just have to prove to myself and wife that this move would be an upgrade.

So, now that I'm done with my life story...back to my main question are any of you guys pulling in 260k+ do you care to elaborate.....I understand if ya don't......thx

 

We keep 80k after our share of road expenses.