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Landstar has moved from "will build" a temperature-controlled fleet to "is building" the fleet. Diane and I arrived in Fort Wayne today to have the Ameriscan and TVAL probes installed in our straight truck and the truck body mapped. Another truck will be here tomorrow. Other straight trucks and...

Absolutely! That's a bargain at twice the price!

For Landstar, there are no refusal guidelines and no penalties for refusing loads. There are, at Landstar Express America (the expedite division) a few small fleet owners that have a few trucks each, but I know of no special benefits that they receive. If you called Landstar Express America...

When you are outside Landstar looking in, or inside Landstar and brand new, marketing yourself to agents seems like a big thing, and in one sense it is. It is something that is not necessary at carriers that have centralized dispatch. It is something new and different. It can be scary if you...

And that's one of the reasons Landstar's dispatch system is as sane and straightforward as it is. When an agent calls to dispatch our truck, it is often the case that the very same agent is the one who set up the load and is working directly with the shipper. When it is a brokered load, the...

I was a college student in Minneapolis, no recollection of the weather or news of the day. I probably used my typewriter that day. Personal computers had not yet come on the scene. My bright-red Pontiac Firebird sat in the lot. It had an eight-track tape player. Telephones were mounted on or...

According to the Calorie Control Council, Americans will eat 30 million pounds of snacks on Super Bowl Sunday, including 11.2 million pounds of potato chips. I guess that TA is doing it's part to make sure truckers who are not home are not left out of the 1,200 calorie binge. It's all good...

Exactly! But that's not the end of the story. When 15,000 expediters fall out of the race, 15,000 more come in to replace them. Successful expediters make this job look great, but far more fail than succeed.

In the interests of full disclosure, this update is provided. With 12,100 hours on our Onan Quiet Diesel 7500 generator, we had an expensive and unscheduled repair done yesterday. The cost was $900 and two days out of service to get it done. One day was to have it diagnosed. the other day was...

Excellent post, usafk9, and you close with one of the most important questions a prospective owner-operator can ask. If all prospective owner-operators asked that question and made being prepared a top priority, the trucking industry would look different than it does today. Many shippers...

Blood runs purple, until it doesn't.

If a true capacity shortage developed because of the CARB rules, CARB would agree to suspend or otherwise delay the effective dates of the rules so that a truly painful capacity crunch would not happen. Just ask them. Everybody in California is for clean air. But if the rules caused a real...

California got into the business of approving specific devices for retrofits. The retrofit saga continues as one manufacturer seems to have abrubtly shut down, leaving people wondering what is to happen next. Even if you comply and invest in approved equipment, you may still be left holding the...

This is good advice but it is easier said than done for someone brand new in the business. You will likely have already traveled some distance to get to the truck. Your old job is behind you. You need to get into a truck ASAP and you want to get along well with your brand new fleet owner who you...

I am loving the Landstar agent who called us while we were out of service and put us on a lucrative $6,000 run.

This is gym business, not expediting business, and not appropriate for EO. But since you bring it up, the education, certification and experience that we seek in personal trainers are not quickly obtained. We will hire people who have the skills we lack.

Certification and experience required. College degree a plus.