My journey at Landstar

Delivered the windows back to the shipper, bounced 101 miles over to Henderson, NC and picked up a preloaded trailer with three stops tomorrow in S.C., one stop is a driver assist, but it pays good. After I get empty I will pick up a preloaded trailer in Beech Island, S.C. going to Kutztown, Pa. for a live unload Monday morning. Then I will cross into NJ (27 mile deadhead) and pick up a hazmat load going to Durham, N.C..

 

Think I’m going to quit doing drop and hooks here, though convenient, every time I do one I get a trailer that’s over due for inspection. In the last six weeks I’ve had to get three trailers inspected, on average that takes at least three hours to get in somewhere, get it inspected, and get it payed for. They currently have me on dispatch hold because the trailer I picked up yesterday is past due for inspection. And what really angers me, is my fuel card is turned off. Hello I’m under a load that delivers at 0800, do you want your customer freight delivered?
I think my new SOP will be to get this trailer inspected and hold onto this thing for the next four months. In a year or so when the used equipment lots are full of used trailer, because companies go out of business when the freight rates normalize I might look into buying a used dry van.

So far this is my biggest complaint here, other than that I couldn’t be happier.

 

JB, as long as we’ve been in the industry we know there are ebbs and flows. Sometimes the shipper is in high cotton, and the pendulum swings and the trucking companies and O/O are sitting pretty. That Pendulum WILL swing the other way, and some of these companies and O/O who have been living on $3.00+ A mile will fall by the wayside.

 

Agreed, I succeeded at FCC at $1.35 all miles, and a truck payment that was $800 more a month.