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Originally Posted by ISMAR132
For those familiar with landstar, how was your experience?
if you are register with them can you still negociate loads from other load boards?
and how about their savingplus card is it worth using?
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I was have been leased to them and running under my own authority still broker loads from them from time to time. The Savings Plus card is a Comdata card issued to carriers. It enables the carrier to get discounts on fuel, tires, etc., Your settlements are loaded on the card within 24 hours from when the bills are received. You can transflow them to Landstar for a small fee. That speeds your settlements up. The catch to using their Savings Plus card is that you cannot load it. Only Landstar can do that and in order for them to load it you must haul their loads. I have never used it to get any discounts. I have done well on my own with national pricing on tires. Some carriers use it and others do not. Some of us have our own fuel cards.
Whether you lease to Landstar or broker loads from them you can haul cheap or decent paying loads. It is pretty much up to you. Brokering loads from them is supposed to pay a higher rate than if you are leased to them. Since you mentioned the Savings Plus program, I assume you plan on brokering loads from then under your authority. They have a program called LCAPP for BCO's or owner operators. As far as I know the Savings Plus is only for carriers. According to what Landstar has told me under this program you can get the same discounts as if you were leased to them under this program.