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

No need for insults..... Thats like him sayin your a fool for working there..... Im just saying!

 

Alright now, calm yourself. I haven't even gotten anything from Landstar, much less been apart of it! But if you'd like for me refusing to take the cheap stuff ok, I won't touch anything related to Landstar.
The deal is final.

 

You're right. I apologize.

You're looking in the wrong places.

 

Ah, maybe.

 

How do you become a landstar agent? Can a driver switch into that?

 

Your son getting Baptized is well worth the trip. And I'm sure he was looking forward to you being there. Cheap rate,high rate, whatever the rate. You made the right decision. Family comes first!!

 

Any driver can, but typically they want you to already have a book of customers now a days before they'll give you a contract. I'll tell you like I told another driver here who asked me, it's not as easy as 98% of the trucking community believes it is. You don't just magically get loads, post them and have them covered within 2 minutes of posting it on a load board. I spend months grooming potential customers for one single shot to move their freight and then work on a load by load basis to earn their trust. One failure and I'm back at square one and it's something that's out of my hands a lot of times. Sometimes it's because I chose the wrong carrier, but they were the only people I could get to commit to the load. These are bad paying loads mind you. The majority of ours meet lane averages and some exceed them by far. I always try to pay the best rates possible because I want people calling me back knowing that I'll be honest with them and pay them fair rates.

I'm sorry I wasn't in, I also work full time as a Firefighter/Paramedic so I'm gone every third day. I apologized for calling you a fool if you look above. I get frustrated with drivers taking cheap freight and then blaming the brokers/agents all the time. If people wouldn't take cheap freight, then the rates would go up. It's not your fault and I certainly understand why you chose to do it. Bravo to you for working hard and trying to be a good father. For the record, I never accused you of trying to hold the load hostage, I was trying to correct what a few others here were telling you to do, specifically the guy that posted below you who I was far from impressed with. Hopefully you don't take too much offense to what was said. I'm glad you did get taken care of. We have A LOT of good people who are agents for Landstar. Unfortunately, there are just as many retarded idiots who somehow manage to get a contract and "cut & paste" freight and give us all a bad name when they do drivers wrong because they lack morals and integrity.