Whats new to hate about Landstar?

In today's episode, we'll take something that worked just fine for a decade, and change it.

LCAPP tire discount.

I keep an escrow fund for tires and savings and whatnot. I have them put 4% of the lineal into it, and it builds up. I find it easier when I get tires, just to call for the discount authorization, and ask them to pull the funs out of the escrow. I can use it to payoff plates when they hit - red file charges if I haven't worked for a month or two etc. Keeps them out of my hair, and I just prefer not owing anybody nuffin'.

This is MY $, held in THEIR system that - they so generously pay me interest on every quarter. And it's one less bank account to keep. It's just handy to me.

So, we go get 12 tires - 235/75 17.5 HTL2 for the step deck. List price is $510 - LCAPP price is $308. Call LCAPP. New policy. "Well, we now call each tire $500 - and so 12 times $500 is $6,000, and you only have $5,800 in your escrow, so you're going to have to figure out how to pay for the other tire, seeing we can only process 11 tires to your escrow account"

My answer is obviously - "Well it's only going to be $3700 out of the escrow account, soooooooo . . . . ."

Them - "Well that's the policy".

So - BCO's, what's the latest thing you've found that makes life difficult ealing with them?
I've got about 3 more . . .