Looking for Info & Advice

U have to have 1 year of on road to lease on 2 LS,

 

Paging Dave and his co driver.

@Dave_in_AZ

 

Great!!!! You are definitely at the right place for info and advice!!!! 6 pages of it coming right up!!!!

 

It's strait forward. Keep all your receipts. I have a plastic bin to put all my receipts in. I keep one at home too. End of the year I sort the receipts. Print out credit cards statements. Record you days out. Calculate interest paid on the business side. Depreciation on vechile vs lease payments. Write off phone, parts of utilities, rent, parking. Tolls. Reapirs, pms.

 

I think you need 1 year, clean record, at Landstar, before you can take a passenger.

 

For what it's worth check out letstruck.com. kevin has info for people wanting to become owner operators. There are courses there an books ya can read to help ya on your journey. Plus he has some tools to help ya track expenses and to help ya spec a truck.

 

Ok op, it isn’t hard to keep track of finances, if you want to become a complicated bookkeeper, then get quick books or any book keeping software, try to stay away from cloud driven or online software.

The simple thing is using excel or even that thing called a pencil and paper.

landstar?

not a bad goal but they can be flaky. I know one BCO (that what a lease holder is called there) who came out of school, worked for 3 months with his “training” company and applied to landstar to work for an owner, 3 months for the owner, he went out and bought a truck and leased it to landstar. Know this has happened a few times,