Landstar ?

They're a waste of time in this market for outside carriers. Totally useless and most of the agents are pushing junk freight or freight they're double brokering. Now when trucks are tight those losers never really go away but a lot of the better ones with really lucrative freight come out of the woodwork. In the here and now, no they are not worth it. Can't remember the last LS load I hauled. A couple of years ago or longer? In the near future if demand goes up then they will be worth it.

 

You can use transflo to send paperwork.
Use scanner with laptop from truck or kiosk in truckstops.
Like all loads. Some loads are worth it.
Some are not.
Good luck.

 

Slight disagreement. Every once in a while when they need a truck they trust you can get outstanding rates. Maybe it's cause there is a long history between landstar and my carrier but every few months my phone rings with one of our agents i deal with often offering me a landstar load paying very very good. Im not saying it's every day or even every week, but there is still very good money to be had with them. But those loads aren't hitting public load boards.

 

The ones I was working with consistently day in and day out for a couple of years lost most of their freight due to competition. I only see one of them post occasional alerts. They used to be the same thing as what you would see. They'd call their trucks and never post anything. But this is van freight which is always under pressure to be cheap as possible. No surprise the really good stuff started drying up in 2014 then went to nothing at all in 2015 and 2016. For van stuff in the here and now, they are worthless.

 

Right now. Landstar. 118 loaded. $700.

All depends on your market if they're worth dealing with.

 

Hot shot is a bit different than Dry Van.

 

This load is for "flatbed/stepdeck" I just do it often enough that if I don't have enough to put a ftl under it I'm not using a full size truck.


From what I see of dry van: there's nothing quite as bad as it for rates.