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Originally Posted by Dejanh
I think if you pay your own fuel then you can only match the dates.
Thats what i've been doing without any problems here...
Does not cost you any extra too..
Yeah, if you pay for your own fuel, you only have to match the dates, but I will disagree 100% that it isn't costing you extra. Lately, with the price of oil dropping, I've been paying upwards of $0.20 - $0.25 per gallon
less than the pump price at TA with my Comdata card. That's not available if you aren't using the Comdata card, so it is definitely costing you extra not to use it.
Tken, as far as loads staying on the board that are no longer available, yes, it happens, but it happens with any load board. Some agents are too lazy to pull them down, and others are too busy, and pull them down all at once at a later time.
As far as the guy who had his truck backed into, I really don't see how that is Landstar's problem. If you want someone to hold your hand, then Landstar is definitely not the place for you. If you want someone to leave you alone (except, of course, for safety issues concerning logs), then LS is the place to be. The fact that the incident took place over a weekend is the reason he didn't hear anything. Most Landstar offices are Monday-Friday, except for skeleton crews for the essential services.
If I were under a load, and my truck broke down, come hell or high water, I would get a rental truck to hook to it. As far as "the recovery driver gets to name his own price", that is just unfounded. I don't believe for a second that a BCO had to pay $4000 to have a load recovered that didn't pay at least that much in the first place. Especially to take it 50 miles. If I've ever heard something that sounded like a truckstop tale, that is it right there.