Landstar Questions

my wife and i applied together as a team over at Landstar a couple of weeks ago and finally got an answer----not one we were expecting!

we were denied due to the following answer I was given "overall picture"?

wtf---can someone please explain to me what the hell that means??
my wife nor I have any issues and have always been very safe drivers with no problems or issues of any kind ......nobody at landstar would give me any answers (it was all very secretive) all they will tell me is that it is due to "overall picture"????

 

You and your wife must consider lucky.Any way,its not much to lose but to gain.Working for LS its a waist of time and money any how.So much stupidity working at landstar and people fell sorry not getting inside to work for them?????????By the way,lately,they hire more people from other country's any only few from US because we are asking for real money,not pennies' per mile.

 

It's just the state that we are in right now. Mercer is doing the same thing. It's all a numbers game at LS. Don't take it personal.

They prolly don't want to discourage you in case it gets busy again.

LS has been losing a lot of drivers and needs a certain amount to cover the regular customers. Any more drivers and the competition for the existing loads prolly becomes too great. If agents can lower the rates due to driver competition then LS loses profit.

LS wants the Line haul to be high and the assessorial fees and Fuel Surcharge to be low.

If LS is turning down great team drivers, it's prolly only to help their numbers game. LS isn't known for doing something that hurts their numbers.

 

This Thread!!! Wow, what an amazing journey!! Kinda like a book I couldn't put down,ya know? Started out feeling like yeah, whatever, then about halfway thru it or so, I like almost have the phone in my hand, one foot out the door, with my checkbook in the other, hand ready to rock n roll. Then the reality starts to surface. So sad how things are going. So crazy how people are so amazingly, different. I guess would be the safe thing to say. Well anyway, thanks to all who supplied the infinitely priceless information to some who were listening...And to all I Wish Better Days Ahead, somewhere not too far down this old road.

 

I used to be a L/S BCO,I loved it.When any one would ask me what they were like, I always summed it up like this. Pulling for "LandStar" is about as close to being independent, without being independent.

 

Ok tell me this, I am at Richfoods in Mechanesville Va. outside Richmond and they hit my company with a 425.00 lumper charge, BANG! My question is do you LandStar guys have to eat the lumper charge?

I see mostly company guys here and one LandStar directly across from me but I have seen him B4 and he does not speak english very well so I won't ask him.

If I was an O/O I could not deal with that! How do you guys know if it is a lumper outfit? Does it say B4 hand on the load info? Or do you guys just eat it and put that customer on your black list?

 

Not sure, I pull a flat and or step for LS. If tarp, tolls, permits are needed they need to post a rate that will cover such things.

For instance the last time I went into Brooklyn I got an extra $695.00 for stop pay, tolls and the bridge fee. If not I wouldn’t have taken the load.

Seems to me that if they charged a LS van driver a Lumper Fee that it would be included. If the agent didn’t tell me, I wouldn’t pay it. I’d let the agent pay it. If he didn’t want to I’d return the load.
That’s right, I’d return the load. I don’t haul, load or unload for free. If I do it’s for a round trip back to the shipper and that’s the only time I would work for free.
And yes I’d bite the fuel cost but LS puts such things in the computer under your truck #. So when you book a load the agent can see the comments. And the agent knows that if they lie to you that you’ll bring the load back. Which looks bad for both LS and the agent.

Lets see if we can get a LS van driver to post up about the Lumper Fee.

$425.00 from any line haul is going to make a dent.

 

Usually, the Agent will have already added the amount of lumper fee into the revenue base,However there are some agents out there who would try to pull one over on you. Normally,if one does try to screw you,and you can't get satisfaction and/or resolution from the agent , Landstar will step in and assist you as a mediator.You must realize that the Agents are leased on with Landstar as well and they can loose their lease also. Most are pretty good folks, and will work with you to move freight.They can't outright screw too many o/ops or the word would get out on them,and they would have a hard time getting their loads moved.

 

Also,if a Lumper fee isn't already in the Revenue base,or a lumper fee was not revealed or expected, The agent will usually go back to the shipper and work it out with them.usually it works out.As far as "I'll just take the load back to the shipper" remark. That's not really an option.Remember,your a business under contract to deliver that load from point "a" to point "b" and not back.They could require you to return back to the consignee (with no further revenue increase),and if you refuse,They could cancel your lease agreement,and charge you for any cost aquired to redeliver the load.Either through settlement deduction,or through legal procedures.But rest assured that load would be delivered.Landstar is not going to loose a customer and/or aquire a bad reputation with Shippers simply because your ticked off about a few hundred dollars in lumper fees.

 

Also,If you don't read anything else in this entire forum read this! If you are going to Lease drive, Lease op, Lease purchase,or just lease as an O/O. In order to protect yourself,your family, your personal property,your personal assets,basically anything that is personally yours.
you must,
"INCORPORATE","INCORPORATE","INCORPORATE". Through a corporation, LLC, etc.....if something catastrophic happens, (Most of)Your creditors can only go after your corporation and it's assets and not attempt to sue or otherwise attack you as an individual. ie...Your home,personal car,personal bank account,personal property,etc,etc....Although there are some exceptions to this rule,