Please explain this to me... Landstar rates

I had a GREAT amount of help the last time I posted in here, so I am going to give it another shot. You guys rock, by the way!

I am confused about something... Doesn't Landstar already get 35% of the load that the BCO hauls? And, if this is the case, does that also include agent pay?? If that is the case, why are the agents low-balling the rates? I mean, I never expected to see such cheap freight... and that's elfin' HAZMAT!! My driver is stuck in PA because there is a huge lack of decent-paying freight... the rate might look good initially, but then you see the wait times, the # of days to deliver (4 days on a 600 mile load... Seriously?) and these don't pay. I don't know a driver who wants to sit 3 days for nothing... am I missing something? We are trying to pick up how this all works and not having a lot of luck... any help is, as always, greatly appreciated.

 

And we have watched one particular load today that started at $1.95 and has progressively been bumped to $2.13 throughout the day. And a lot of these have tolls.... that the driver is paying for... just frustrated, I guess.

 

Hazmat is Hazmat, regardless of what is in there, it's still a crock of crap to ask someone to haul it for $1.68. Period. Could he haul it if he didn't go through all that TSA garbage? No. So they shouldn't expect a driver who has the endorsements to haul it for free. I have been on the truck with him and spoken to enough drivers to know that brokers are out for #1, and my issue is that I don't know where the money is going from these loads, because it #### sure isn't going to the driver.

 

True...and that's what we were talking about today... getting hold of those cheap idiots and strangling them... I mean, if they want to continue losing money, I'll take it for 'em... easy peasy. That's why my driver is still sitting in PA... not gonna haul that crap. I applaud your response to that $1.38/mi. They should be hooked up to something that shoots an electric shock to their genitals when they make an idiotic offer like that... seriously?

We are trying to be patient... I know there will be bad days to go along with the good. It just seems a bit off when you first start out. He's been out for 2 weeks and has had fair luck so far (although I don't know that he will go back to the NW after the fiasco that turned out to be).

I do have a question, though... How far out do you book your loads? I told him that I should be looking as soon as he hits the road to deliver, and he didn't think that would be a good idea, but I don't think you can do it the way he is doing it and really get anywhere...

 

He can't go to NY or through NY...his permit just got here in the mail...doing no good on my desk... he was looking for something for today... I just posted a question about how long out you guys book... he has been waiting till he gets to his delivery before he looks, and I told him a week ago that I need to be looking for him as soon as he leaves out to deliver...at least. So what's a good way to do that where we can keep him moving?