Landstar@#@#%^^$#@@!!!!!!!!

Im not a leased to landstar but booked a load through them to get back out of texas at a rate cheaper then what I really wanted to start with, 2.50 a mile oversized with me paying permits to charlotte nc, Pickup was supposed to be thurs morning at 8 am, delivery on monday in charlotte which was fine, I needed to restart my week anyway.

Wed my center axle on my trailer had the lift arm break and took out an airchamber, got it patched up enough to run, ended up driving way over my hours that night to get to where I needed to go to do my drops wed so I could load first thing thurs. Well I get the call, oh the load wont be ready till thurs afternoon, and because we called the day before no detention pay. Thurs morning I get the call, well the load will be ready at 1 pm, ok great, show up at 12:30 and its no where close to ready, I leave there at 9 pm that eve with an oversized that I cant run legal even in tx with bc its over 10 ft. Landstar says cool, you get dention from 3 pm till 9.

I explain to the broker that due to getting started a day late, HOS and the weekend, with an oversize it will be monday noon till I can drop in charlotte, all good with no problem.

Fri afternoon I get the call , oh well Tyson decided the crane apt is now going to be tue morning not monday, I said no problem, if Im sitting a day thats going to be 1200 bucks for a lost day, not to mention I already lost a day waiting to get loaded. Of course landstar comes unglued and busts a gut and said Ill probably get 2-300 to sit there a day and wait for the crane.

Long story short Im going to end up with the load on my truck from thurs till tue and they tell me ill probably pick up a cpl hundred extra bucks but there not sure as it depends on what tyson is willing to pay.

Any advice on how to handle this?

 

YEa, I meant more in how to jack some money out of the situation.

 

Well I tried the, that wont work, I have a load to pick up monday, Ill do the delivery later in the week, but there contract says we are responsible for any missed crane apts etc.

 

Yea I think I just going to have to take this one, If I get into a measuring contest with landstar and tyson Im most definately going to be shorter.

My load over was booked around $4 a mile no permit costs so I was ok with the 2.50 coming back, I just wasnt planning to have it on my truck for 6 days. And everything was cool as a cucumber till yesterday afternoon when she called and changed the crane apt, which I hadnt even know was a crane apt when I booked it.

Just a situation that started out just barely ok and steadily progressed worse as it went.