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I am slightly confused, Do landstar agents give their loads to Landstar drivers or do they broker them out to other trucking companies?
I am slightly confused, Do landstar agents give their loads to Landstar drivers or do they broker them out to other trucking companies?
I am slightly confused, Do landstar agents give their loads to Landstar drivers or do they broker them out to other trucking companies?
LandstarBroker.com Load Board - is a load board very similar to load link - anybody with internet access can surf for freight but without having to pay monthly dues - but you have to get set up with them ie insurance, authority before they have you move any freight or you can post your available trucks on the site . I think the Landstar agents make better margins when they sell freight on their load board to outside carriers as opposed to moving the freight with Landstar equipment - that my opinion anyway
Hi, I have no idea about Phoenix, but Landstar, like most US companies with agent opportunities all follow the same playbook, which generally is 8% of LH revenue goes to the agent if the load ships on a company truck. Two wrinkles come about with this system though. As others have stated, if a load pays $1000 and you can sell it for $800.00 and you have a 50/50 arrangement with head office (some do 70/30 in your favour too, or they used to), a lot of agents will sell the load and pocket the extra $20 rather than load a company truck. The other wrinkle, and the one that bugs me the most is there is nothing stopping you from becoming an agent for every outfit that will take you on. I've known outfits that were agents for, in no particular order, Landstar, Dallas Mavis, Pacer, Sammons, and Packard Logistics all at the same time. So as an agent, you post an available load on your internal board (in this case we'll say Dallas Mavis as I was there long before the bankruptcy/ Greatwide deal). The agent mentioned above books your load claiming he has a DM truck, turns around and sells it off of Landstars board and pockets $$$$ from both ends.Does anyone have information on Landstar and Phoenix - what that relationship is all about and how these agents are representing other brokers?
We took a load from them a couple of weeks ago from Toronto to Quebec City. It is being paid in Canadian dollars ( so they are playing with the exchange rate also) It's the first time that we are to be paid in Canadian dollars with Landstar. We were given an email address for billing, which is also not the usual. I'll keep you posted on how it goes for payment.Does anyone have information on Landstar and Phoenix - what that relationship is all about and how these agents are representing other brokers?
We did have a great experience with Yevgeny. And the invoice sent on Sept 28th has been paid. Now we will wait for the check that pays waiting time. Not sure why but they have us send two invoices. One for the transport and another for the waiting time.We took a load from them a couple of weeks ago from Toronto to Quebec City. It is being paid in Canadian dollars ( so they are playing with the exchange rate also) It's the first time that we are to be paid in Canadian dollars with Landstar. We were given an email address for billing, which is also not the usual. I'll keep you posted on how it goes for payment.