Landstar out of New Jersey, any good?

I am some what new to OTR been driving on the tri state for over 10 years now.
Hauling gasoline, Jet-fuel, Diesel. etc would Landstar consider me on to join the Family?
I have my own truck 05 Volvo VNL670.
Last but not least, is there good rates coming out of NJ, NY, PA?

thanks in advance.

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jeep383s Light Load Member

Are you wanting to haul the same as you have been hauling? I haul flatbed and those are 3 states that I try to avoid. Of the 3 pa is best but it is still very cheap. NY and NJ are terriable for flatbed freight. This has just been my experience. I am sure some super trucker will disagree with me though. Land star as a whole seems like a good gig. Not to many people have too much bad to say about them. With your experience you shouldn't have a problem

HwyPrsnr Medium Load Member

You can get some good rates with them going into those states, but coming out isnt nearly as good. Get in good with a few of their brokers and you can get some better rates. Being on time, reliable, taking good with the bad.

FLATBED Road Train Member

Landstar has plenty of freight in / out of that area but like above posters noted its to get a Good $ rate on it.

LANDSTAR has 98 Loads in 60 out of NJ 100 in / out of PA and 71 in 100 out of NY on their broker board this morning

LSAgentOZR Road Train Member

There's some good loads, but not nearly as many as their are cheap loads. We have drop and hook and live load out of Albany that pays VERY well and it's all short haul stuff. You can do 2-3 loads a day and gross $3-4k a week if we could get a dedicated driver to pull for us up there.

jdmach77 Light Load Member

OZR..sounds good to me. the Albany gig, and yes i now the rates are not that good coming out of try states area but coming back to it looks more promising since there are many O/O that avoids this routes but to me it works cause is home.

jdmach77 Light Load Member

Are you wanting to haul the same as you have been hauling? I haul flatbed and those are 3 states that I try to avoid. Of the 3 pa is best but it is still very cheap. NY and NJ are terriable for flatbed freight. This has just been my experience. I am sure some super trucker will disagree with me though. Land star as a whole seems like a good gig. Not to many people have too much bad to say about them. With your experience you shouldn't have a problem

mustanglover Light Load Member

There's some good loads, but not nearly as many as their are cheap loads. We have drop and hook and live load out of Albany that pays VERY well and it's all short haul stuff. You can do 2-3 loads a day and gross $3-4k a week if we could get a dedicated driver to pull for us up there

Is it out from jersey to albany and back?Sounds like a good local gig be home every night if i could clear 5,000 a week that would be sweet probably could with alot of running.

LSAgentOZR Road Train Member

There's some good loads, but not nearly as many as their are cheap loads. We have drop and hook and live load out of Albany that pays VERY well and it's all short haul stuff. You can do 2-3 loads a day and gross $3-4k a week if we could get a dedicated driver to pull for us up there

Is it out from jersey to albany and back?Sounds like a good local gig be home every night if i could clear 5,000 a week that would be sweet probably could with alot of running.

No, typical lanes are Albany area to North Mass, Long Island/Brooklyn, West NY, Northeast PA, and New England. We had four runs two weeks ago that one driver could have completed in 2 days time and grossed $2300.