Landstar Owner Operator Pay and Loadboard Pittsburg PA - Flatbed, Van and Reefer. Week 8 

So basically if you had a family (kids) and rent or mortgage you would have lost everything already.

I may not be using the spreadsheet currently, but I'm looking at your numbers on the videos like a hawk. I build my own spreadsheets for projections but your actuals are invaluable. Please keep sharing. Best data on RU-vid.

I’m rooting for your success dude times are not easy specially business owners but here’s where you prove yourself right and work as hard as it takes to make it work

I left a Landstar trailer a Year ago in a Pilot lot, it’s still sitting there.

Thank you for unlocking the spread sheet. I’m definitely on it now

Appreciate your service sir, speaking to Landstar recruiter and gaining tons of insight from your vids. Best of luck out there

I find my sweet spot is on those 400-500 mile loads

So glad i left landstar and jumoed off the truck i was struggling to pay for a year ago. Not thriving now but not drowning either. Just floating till the market gets better. Best of luck out there

I would be running the piss out of them short runs . I seen a cpl where you could’ve done 2 short ones a day and made bank .

Your spreadsheets rock!

I notice you don't like taking those weekend hold loads (the ones where you pickup Friday and drop off Monday for example) My opinion, grab those loads and time it so you're doing your reset during the weekend. Then you can run all week without having to take a reset.

I’m hot and cold on apu’s, especially running reefer. That’s 3 engines one needs to worry about. They are nice on a 34 though.

Great to see the loads. Thx

Whew... no offense intended my friend but you have ALOT to learn, 1 thing - you gotta stop looking at them Cali loads to run all weekend, take something shorter that pays well, and get your reset, you're only gonna struggle to get anything paying worth a shit out of Cali anyways plus you'll still need a reset either way I don't think its worth it by the time you haul a load to Cali for 2 bucks per mile, then buy roughly 2000 miles worth of fuel, then sit for a reset, then the load out isn't gonna pay shit - you are gonna be better off taking a 1000 or 1500 mile load for more money per mile AND get your reset. 2nd thing - when I bought my APU, I could get warranty work done anywhere at a thermoking dealer - why are you making sure to go back to Vegas to get work done on it? For being leased onto somebody and having them shoulder some expenses, some of their rates looked decent - look not only at the pay at the end of the run, look at the total PROFIT per run, you need to be able to see the profit right away in a load

Owner operator versus lease operator is Based on title of the truck. It's based on the MC authority You are still a lease operator you are leasing your truck to Landstar

Solid video. APU using less fuel should have the running expenses. Looking forward to next week with the long loads. Maybe the numbers will look a lot better.

Awesome video great breakdown, thanks you speak very fast though a little hard to keep up lol.

You’re so funny with your ignorant comments about the other divisions of trucking With Flatbed you get paid more on assessorial for tarping and can put more money into the assessoral lines for waiting on loads When you are looking at reefer or dry van or flatbed, you want to strategize your operations to fit the type of equipment and the markets. You are trying to put a square peg into a round hole because you are trying to drive long haul dry van. That does not fit the market strategy well because most companies that deal with dry goods move them regionally and not OTR long distance. When flatbedding those drivers will usually be able to park on location at the shippers and receivers to do a reset before loading or unloading Flatbed drivers also have to take into account load and unload times and tarping so those guys will usually make allot of money on 450 mile loads or 1000 mile loads Longer loads usually end up screwing a guy up because of the weekends and there has to be a specific strategy to run flatbed Reefer is pretty much the only division that you want to run long haul because of the dock times but unfortunately Landstar doesn’t run much reefer freight on their network unless you are in express cold chain service

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Hey brother love the Chanel love the work you do I live in Toronto Canada can we see loads coming out if that area wondering if it worth to be an o/o for land star living in Canada

Please let me know if I am looking at your spreadsheet wrong but I don't think you are paying 2.93 a mile for fuel. If I am looking at this right, assuming your truck gets about 7mpg and going buy the national average of $3.76 a gallon your fuel expense on that 262 miles would be about .54 cpm which totals $140.73. Let me know if I'm looking at wrong. Love the info you give each week keep them coming.

I would suggest filming the phone calls that you have a successful negotiation on the rate

It's towards the end of the week You're not going to find anything really good on the load board, you got to stack your loads, get your load on Tuesday that you're picking up Thursday or Friday

so for starters your cpm is incorrect because you have to add in truck depreciation even if your truck is paid for these plastic ones don't last decades. Also in 8 weeks even with 0 maintenance cost and if I give you an extra 5k that's 15k which is company driver money....... Not looking like its worth it at all.

You can’t use the weekend hold the same way as van. 99% of flatbed shippers and receivers are closed on weekends. Why we do 34 resets on weekends

Nice load search how about stl to texas dry van

how does round trip work at landstar? do you gotta use their trailer? or do you take yours up there and then they just got a back haul set up for you? or do you have to specifically book that back haul still?

ay tim your tha man but that turtle creek shipper is 24/7 i always show up at mid night because there isnt any other truccs and its a tight steel mill. i run outa there alot thats a damn good load. shit alot of those loads seem really decent buuut let me ask u this. what your seeing on that rate is before u get dispatched at 65 percent, well id be what 73 percent? i have my own trailer.

Also take into account that California will cost you $1.10 per 5 miles driven. That’s their road tax if you do not buy their fuel. If you plan on cheaper fuel out of state make sure it’s more than $1.10 less (which should be easy). And I believe Oregon is something around .30 cpm for road tax. You want to figure your heavy use road taxes into your rate per mile.

Can u do more reefer searchs around your current location at the time of video or bigger places. Ohio area ain't ever been pretty for reefer. Even ca rates I'd be curious about.

I took a load from landstar posted at DAT. $5800 posted rate and I took it for $6300 going to Oregon from NC. They just low ball you guys. Dry van class 8

We need spreadsheet recap of the poker tournament.

Who does resets. Just run your 8 days. Keep making money. Work every day.

Dont take anything under 2.50 bro, your lowballing yourself if you do.

If you would… will you check loadboard out of Columbus Ohio…

Do you have to call the broker and negotiate the price or just chose the load you want and pick it up.

Load board out of St. Louis Mo

overall. do you like landstar or not?????

Man im glad im not a freight hauler. Yalls rates are scary.

Interesting, thanks for sharing. Heck of a way to make a living. Dealing with the company, the shippers, traffic, weather, cops, regulations, planning trips and loads, changing regulations, maintenance, fluctuating fuel prices, competition, being away from home, etc. Not for the faint of heart. Keep it up! You have a sharp eye on your business, you’ll find the best way to make it work!

leasing ain't it.