Landstar questions

One thing I think people may not understand about LS is they or their agents can't go into a shipper and just say I'll cover or take all the loads they have. They can't do that because they don't have any trucks to cover the loads. They can't force anyone to get a load. So lots of the load I hauled were small shipper one time loads or every three weeks. Nothing you could count on.

I remember LS got PetSmart out of Phoenix AZ they had all the loads you could haul going to the Northwest. Most BCO would no go to Northwest. So LS lost that account. That a good example of how they could not cover the loads for a shipper. The shipper need someone like Swift that could sent 100 trucks in a day without any problem.

That's if your running the load board, if you got agents that can hook you up with load it's different story

 

Here another example. I had agent that had the glass loads for Plasma TV or any flat screen TV they were making in Mexico back when everyone was getting new flat TVs. This agent paid good going from MI to AZ. This agent also have TVs coming back from Mexico going to Dallas TX but that run was cheap. It was lots cheaper then other agents with new TVs in the same city in AZ. So the agent could not cover his TV loads from AZ to Dallas. So what the agent would do is he started to put the whole trip as one load MI to AZ to Dallas TX. He would not give you the load unless you agreed to take one of his cheap loads from AZ to Dallas TX.. when you get to Dallas he no help, he does not have loads out of Dallas.

You always can just say I'm not taking that deal. You could find something else out of MI but when it's the best paying load in MI you hate to pass on it. If I remember the MI to AZ paid like 2.25 a miles. When you had to cover his AZ to TX run it dropped the load down to $1.90 a miles for all miles. That was ok but Dallas was always hard to get out and LS has orientation center in Dallas so all the new hires would take anything they could get, to get rolling so the freight rates was real low in that area

 

If you're going to run out and back to FL, the key is going to be getting the steady, great paying inbound freight first, then take whatever you can get to get back to it. There isn't a decent paying outbound lane out of FL.

 

Thanks @Brandt! The hard part is finding something that gets me out when it's time to leave home. Like you said before, I'd have to find a good paying load to take into Florida to help pay for the deadhead out.

I'm going to sign up for the webinar on Tuesday.

 

Gotcha! Thanks @fortycalglock!

 

Do LS require electronic logs in their drivers trucks?

 

Do LS require drivers to have electronic logs in trucks

 

They have for a couple of years now. And come December this year everyone else will too....

 

Is it affecting the $$$

 

Why would it affect the money?