Landstar Questions

What a load of crap.

The dealer gives you a temp plate and Landstar has temp insurance until you sign up with them full time.

What inspires people to spew crap like this?

 

Landstar does not have temp insurance. One of the people that do your background can give you the name of an agent that may or may not write you a 30 policy for $250 to $400.

There's no temp plate. There's a 7 day piece of paper you put in the windshield.

Landstar will not touch you until you have a Landstar inspection.

 

I worked for landstar for 10 months the biggest problem is ,say they accept a load for 2 dollars a mile then they list it on a landstar load board for $1.70 a mile and then they take 35 percent of 98 percent which is actually 37 percent. Some of the brokers do bait and switch ,say you argee to a load and drive to the location and they say the load dropped from $1.70 to $1.40 and do you still want it . After you wasted time and fuel to get there

 

I never see that happen.

 

Today was too weird to list and I will detail it in Landstar So Far, but passed a level 2, hazmat, with cargo check in New Mexico, then an agent I do a lot for calls and the load goes from $4200 to $7000 in about 30 seconds.

 

Where did you get inspected? I'm in Albuquerque now.That's why I'm curious.

 

Raton. New Mexico loves placard loads. They were working that coup pretty good.

New Mexico does tons of road sides. They will open those inspection stations north of Albuquerque a lot too.

Gal in safety told me it's Landstar's #2 state for violations.

 

I hear Ohio is bad too? That true?

 

The only thing I have left to do is get my truck inspected and I can go to orientation. I have a friend there telling me to stay away, there are no loads. No agents are calling him and the loads are ridiculously cheap. He's in North Texas, I haven't seen the load board so I don't know if true or not.

 

Nonsense. Outbound loads are usually a little more sparse in Texas, but there is plenty of freight. As for being cheap, rates may be a little off from their highs earlier this year, but rates are still better for me this year than last year.

So, does this friend say where you should go instead?