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Originally Posted by henboy1
THE QUESTION IS NOT IF YOU WANT TO JOIN LANDSTAR BUT WILL THEY LET YOU JOIN THEM.That is how hard it is.It all depends on your regional recruiter and how they are willing to chase after your 10yr background and work history.
I can second this one. A close friend of mine has been trucking since he was 13 years old. He's been everywhere, hauled everything, juggled 10 logbooks while rolling off a billion miles a year pulling a load of bulls and a load of swinging beef in two trailers stacked on top of each other, up hill both ways, with a 128-speed 3-stick V-12-powered Autocar. Naked, except for his belt buckle the size of a 50-gallon drum lid, a 128-gallon Stetson, and snakeskin boots. He's also got women in every town in three countries (yes, I said
countries), and if he ever runs out of motion lotion, all he has to do is cut himself shaving and bleed into his tanks, because one drop of his blood will power a diesel for 20 miles (he saves so much on fuel that way.) He can also crap 5th wheel grease if he needs to, but we won't get into that.
Seriously, he's younger than me, but he's trucked 10 times more than I have, and nearly twice as long (I started at 25.) He also has a good record all around, current qualification files with half a dozen carriers, and the dude can DRIVE. Those boys used to fight over who would get him on weekends off from his main job, where I used to work. In spite of all that, it took him six months to finally get everything put through with Landstar. Someone posting in June of an intention to get rolling by August, that seems a bit optimistic to me, based on Rosco's experiences, though I have no first-hand knowledge.
He's doing OK with them so far. I think the key to his success probably has something to do with how every time he talks about a broker, it's always a
female broker. :roll: