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  1. gandrew

    Landstar Express

    I have been with LS for almost 4 years and am generally ok with the company. In these tough economic conditions, Darwinism is at work big time and only the strong and smart will endure. I started this thread to urge other LS drivers to get online and contact the company to complain about the...
  2. gandrew

    Switch to Digital TV

    Unless you are fortunate enough to have a satellite system in your truck, next year will bring us all questions about how to upgrade our truck's TV system to receive the new digital over-the-air signal. An adapter box will be available and I understand the Feds have a $40 coupon available to...
  3. gandrew

    Landstar Forum

    There is a forum for Panther and FedEx, how about one for Landstar? This old Con-Way Now team got out 7 months before the sale of CWN because of extreme unhappiness with a certain dispatcher there. Now two years with Landstar and we are suffering the same crunch as everyone else. Loads are...
  4. gandrew

    our truck fire and insurance

    May 2 at about 0230 we experienced a failure of the leading dually axle that caused tires on each side to explode like bombs and catch fire. Just a week earlier I had a PM done in Salt Lake City. The truck and its cargo were a total loss. We salvaged most of our personal goods from the cab, but...
  5. gandrew

    apu experience

    The moderator may edit this one, but I want to share with other Expediters our experience with Pony Pack. I had this new unit installed August of 05 by an outfit in Battle Creek MI that had put in over a hundred Pony Packs on their own truck fleet. I had problems and kept going back for warranty...
  6. gandrew

    Class 8 semi stretch

    We are going through the process of stretching a semi tractor. We found a guy in this forum who operates out of southern Ohio that talked a good line. We drove the semi tractor and chase car 400 miles to him and left it and a $4000 deposit there with him promising we would have the complete job...
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