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Business

Landstar app helps optimize multi-leg runs

The Landstar Maximizer app, available for Android and iOS devices, is designed to help its leased owner-operators optimize revenue on multi-leg runs.

June 26, 2018

Business

Landstar’s May ‘star of quality’ honorees

Check out Landstar's Star of Quality award recipients for May 2018. From Platinum to Bronze, these award winners' dedication to trucking is exemplary.

June 14, 2018

Business

Landstar hits 10,000 trucks mark

Landstar System operates one of the largest owner-operator fleets in the country. Employees commemorated the milestone on Monday, May 14, 2018. More here.

May 18, 2018

Business

Landstar agents’ meeting honors partners

Landstar System presented safety officer and customer of the year awards this month during the owner-operator-heavy fleet’s annual agent convention in Boca Raton, Fla..

April 24, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

ELD headaches: Dealing with technical glitches and other equipment issues

Much has been made about the operational challenges of running under more rigid hours with an electronic log. Now, three months into the mandate, some truckers new to e-logs are experiencing technical malfunctions that jeopardize compliance.

March 27, 2018

Overdrive Radio

On a Hurricane Harvey relief mission with owner-operator Bill Ater

Landstar-leased owner-operator Bill Ater had his “feet in the starting blocks, hands on the floor” and was “waiting on the starting shot” when we talked Tuesday, August 29, for this Overdrive Radio podcast, staged in South Texas for relief shuttles associated with Hurricane Harvey.

August 31, 2017

Business

Hurricane Harvey to disrupt freight flow nationwide, likely boost rates

Hurricane Harvey and the damage it is inflicting in southeast Texas will crimp trucking industry capacity, alter the country’s freight flow and likely push rates upward in the coming weeks and months. For those involved in relief efforts, it stands to be a busy next few weeks.

August 29, 2017

Business

Major carriers’ revenue, income continue to slip in 2017

The stats are also in line with owner-operator income for the first half of the year. Like owner-operators, publicly traded large fleets reported higher fuel costs than the same period the year prior, despite cheaper diesel prices.

August 23, 2017

Overdrive Radio

Freight niche transition — HHG to expedited with owner-operator Greg Huggins

Podcast: A talk with Greg Huggins, currently leased with a 2015 Cascadia straight truck to Landstar Express America, about his transition three years ago from two decades and more of household-moves hauling. And: A prediction on scale house inspectors after the ELD mandate.

July 21, 2017

Business

The happiest owner-operator in trucking today?

The title might well apply to Landstar-leased owner-operator Dickie Penrod of Fayetteville, N.C. He walked away from Landstar’s All-Stars event the winner of a new 2017 Western Star 5700 XE, the second truck Landstar has given one of its BCOs (“business capacity owners”) this year, an annual tradition.

July 10, 2017

Overdrive Radio

Dedicated freight — an antidote to chasing rates

After years chasing rates and high miles, over the last decade and more Keith Sampson shifted his thinking. His example is clear evidence that keeping your eye out for dedicated-freight opportunities can deliver the best of both worlds — income stability and high profitability, without sacrificing your home life in the process.

June 22, 2017

Channel 19

Dry bulk for the long haul: Reserves staff sergeant John Moore and his leased operation

Until the last year, John Moore had been leased to Landstar, and his decision to come back to Oakley Transportation to pull a hopper had as much to with where home was as profitability. In this case, the two went hand in hand,

January 27, 2017