Need information about LandStar and LS`s load board!!!!

Wrong I spent a year at land star . I got loads from a land star agent straight through the pipe , he took ten , I took 90. We cut land star out of more than a few accounts . Appears you don't really know how it works

 

I think the reason people are so secret about the money they make at Landstar is the same reason I was. Nobody want to admit they are not making much mo ey or $32-38k a year. I did about $134,000 a year. I know another drive with his own trailer and a lift gate so he could to stuff like American Idol. He was making $180,000 that was like 6 trucks got on that out of Landstar's 8,000. So you talk to him he loves it and makes great money.
Trade shows pay good money but here is what nobody talks about. Landstar agents get the trade show load from United Van or North American because they have the contract for the Events. So they only call Landstar when they don't have enough trucks to cover the event. Some of those load are special and require moving pads to wrap stuff up or what they call decking were you build another floor in the trailer so they can double stack the load. That not something average van driver carries and you will see these load on the load board but you can' t haul them. You can go to U-Haul and rent 150 pad for $200 and but plywood and the decking load bars are hard to find plus expensive. You see that great paying load but you can't haul it.

 

Best load I got was from a united guy in Ohio going to salt lake on a trade show . It was 2.5 a mile but after the LS cut it was not lol . Good honest post . Factor in the dead head you don't get paid for and you're dying on the vine

 

I had some great paying loads also. I did hurricane Katina and made a killing. I was suppose to get a load of bottled water. The drivers in front front took all those load and I got stuck with the blue roof tarps. I got the best deal because they did not need the tarps like they did water. I sat and did not move my truck but like 1,000 miles in 8 weeks and I got paid really really good money. I had some good times at Landstar. If you can every get on a FEMA load go for it

 

I realy dont know))))

 

---- is it gross ?

 

To sum it up, some guys make it and some guys dont. Plenty of reasons as why some do or dont.....

 

Who can show load board with Van and Reefer prices?))

 

Maybe $140,000 to my truck.$1.90 on load board pay you like $1.28. That's at today's fuel prices. When the fuel goes up so does the fuel surcharge. That was also a write off so I did not really make more money. If your truck get over 6 mpg or what ever the national rate is set at you can actually make more money the higher fuel goes up.

 

I read some post claiming some seen $3-5 per mile. You won't see that on long trips $3*2000 miles would be $9,000 that's kinda crazy rate for van. Couple times a year you will see loads to Alaska for $15,000 I almost took one but you have to drive back empty to Seattle.