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Our drivers get percentage. If I'm bidding a load going through a toll area, I just add the toll amount to the bid plus our cut. So if for example we have a truck sitting in NJ and a load pops up on Long Island the bridge tolls to Long Island and back out are I think around $80 right now. So...

Percentage is a lot better when you're booking those short loads that you can get for crazy good money. There's no cutoff where everything under x miles is a mini, etc.

Sometimes the areas that people think are the good freight areas are not the best freight areas because the whole herd is parked there.

That would surely fix the problem, but you need everyone to play ball or it doesn't work. If 100 carriers decide they're going to stick to their guns and one comes in with the lower bid, guess who's going to get the load? You want to do the right thing, but there is a point where you also need...

What was the fuel surcharge originally implemented for? I always thought it was supposed to be a separate bit of money passed through to the purchaser of the fuel, but here's what is happening out there. The people who have the freight, with the exception of NLM and a couple others, are...

Actually I see quite a lot of TT loads, even a good number in the 40k range, but since we don't have anything larger than 24' I never mess with them.

A lot of the loads we put on our straights are below 6000, but the heavier truck will still be a big benefit. Right now I have a straight double loaded coming out of Portland, OR with 2 6000 lb loads on board. We booked one of them Friday and another carrier got the other. Then when the...

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

I called one of our drivers to offer him a load this morning and he told me that if we got it he might need some help for fuel because his entire balance in TAB was wiped out. He was showing a negative balance and he had just been paid.

My mother is in Colorado now. It was my brother, his wife and daughter, and his mother in law living in that house. My brother was in the truck heading home for the weekend when it happened. I just had a question about PARS stickers. We just got approved and I need to order mine. So many...

My mother grew up there and my grandparents are buried there. I have a lot of good memories in that town, even though I never lived there. It's one of those towns that's pretty much pure redneck and a tad bit behind the times. I'm sure they'll rebuild, but when a storm hits a town that size...

Everyone is safe. The house was wiped out, but they got to the basement in time.

My brother has a load on board heading to KY for a Monday drop and was planning on a weekend at home, home currently being West Liberty, KY, which was just hit by a tornado today. We haven't been able to contact anyone yet, so we're currently waiting. He and his co driver both have family...

Even as an outside carrier, Landstar is all about relationships. I'm on a first name basis with several agents and they've gotten us a lot of good freight recently and at much better rates than we get from the bid board stuff.

There is big money in those short loads and I think a lot of large carriers probably don't want their contractors to be aware of just how much they're getting. We've booked 150 mile loads for $700-$900 recently from large carriers. I know why their contractors turned them down. These were...

But you kind of do have a dog in this fight. Things that have an effect on the industry as a whole affect all of us, whether or not your carrier allows this or you are one of the people who does this. People will say, "But my carrier doesn't use bid board freight so I'm ok." but what if your...

Actually, many of the companies that allow people to lease to multiple carriers are part of Sylectus. That's what creates the problem. People post their available units in there and sometimes it looks like there are way more vans than there really are. It creates false capacity that doesn't...

Phil is right. There is always more to something than the little piece you see. I haven't been in this business nearly as long as many people here, but I keep learning something new almost every week. Being on the road gives you one little piece of the puzzle. Then when you try to book your...

Yep. When we first started taking on other units, everything we had was under 10k and the DOT wouldn't even give me a number until we got a straight truck. For a couple years there all we had was an MC#. When I got the DOT number I had to make new signs to include it. The signage is only...

A carrier can't even get a DOT number unless they have vehicles signed on that are over 10k gvw, so if a carrier only has vans or is one guy with his authority, there isn't even going to be a DOT number. Signage also isn't required for under 10k.