Loads with landstar

Always the best info from “when I was there” “I heard “ “ my friends friend told me”
The best info comes from people that never leased to LS.

 

Yes they do, and they are very lucrative but they are not all that simple and you do work for the money.

Yeah because as we say at LS, bcos at landstar are too busy to play on forums, we are making money.

 

it often takes a year to get setup with landstar. It did for a friend of mine, and same for me when i was setting up with them. All women working in landstar offices. You have to revoke your authority if you have one. While yes, people say loads pay good, I often see landstar drivers messed up sitting around. Recently i talked to landstar driver who took like 3 day load with only 1 day worth of driving. he was sitting for two days at 200 dollars a day, which i make 600-700 dollars profit per day pulling power only for jb hunt. My understanding, is that there arent that many loads available with landstar, and you are stuck only doing landstar loads, as they make sure you dont have any other options outside of them, hence revoked authority requirement. I compared prime to landstar to jb hunt to uberfreight with your own trailer and i decided that i like jb hunt power only the best. I pretty much tried everything in the trucking business: company driver, o/o flat bed, reefer, dry van, power only, and my pick is jb hunt power only.

 

Landstar is bad.

 

I'm currently at landstar. It took about 4 months from the time I applied til the time I was in orientation, but during those 4 months I was purchasing my first truck and everything that went with that. I'm pulling a landstar leased flatbed. Ive only dealt with landstar direct shippers and 1-2 calls a week will say the load is already covered.., but plenty of loads to find something that fits my needs.
Landstar doesn't bother me. I think they've called me once in the 8 months I've been leased on. It was to re-scan a BOL. They have a very user friendly system set up. See a load, call on it, negotiate rate, hit the road. Works extremely well for me. They have good fuel discount at ta/Petro..50 cents or so off posted price. If you have any specific questions feel free to pm me

Edit: just seeing another post and just wanted to add, I've never sat on a load. Maybe because I'm pulling a flatbed but I've always dropped a load and had my next load already booked. No waiting around a day or two to get unloaded or loaded. I've gone to Laredo a few times in the past few months and got loaded within 2-3 hours. Maybe that's a dry van thing? I'm not sure about that side of landstar's business.

 

Three weeks in my case.

Seriously, a year?

 

Prime Rules!

 

All being fair, not much wrong with landstar. I was leased there almost 11 years(left 2 years ago) I opened my own authority and my own customers..... its far better than Landstar.

I think those with their own authority say landstar sucks because for the most part in dealing with them, LOTS of their agents do suck.

 

Be afraid. Be very afraid.