Does Landstar pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Landstar employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.4 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Landstar. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Landstar?

67% of Landstar employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Landstar 3.5 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.5 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Landstar?

Owner Operator (33) , BCO (30) , Logistics Coordinator (17) , Agent (13) , Truck Driver (12) , BCO ( Owner Operator) (10) , Freight Broker (10) , Account Manager (8) , Class A Truck Driver (8) , Dispatcher (8) , Customer Service Representative (6) , Independent Sales Agent (6) , Freight Agent (5) , Owner Operator Driver (5) , Programme Analyst (5)

What are the pros of working at Landstar according to real employee reviews?

"People are nice they want a 20 word minimum but that's all I can say and maybe good luck well it wants more" ((in 20 reviews)); "Benefits seemed good even though I was as contracted worker." ((in 14 reviews)); "Good work environment loved people I worked with" ((in 8 reviews)); "Nice work good money bro" ((in 8 reviews)); "Landstar has a great culture." ((in 8 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Landstar according to real employee reviews?

"Low pay and it's all in who you know..." ((in 30 reviews)); "Management is fairly unresponsive from a training perspective and expects all audit work to be administered/completed using prior audits work, including work completed by auditors that was, according to Audit management, incomplete and incorrect." ((in 14 reviews)); "Did I mention they provide NO TRAINING?" ((in 10 reviews)); "Transportation can be long hours but rewarding" ((in 9 reviews)); "No more quarterly bonuses" ((in 5 reviews))

What are employees saying about Landstar layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Landstar layoffs and their outlook for job security at Landstar in 2026.

Landstar reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(385 total reviews)

Frank Lonegro

74% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.8

Diversity & inclusion

3.6

Career opportunities

3.5

Culture & values

3.5

Work/Life balance

3.4

Senior management

3.4

Compensation and benefits

Landstar has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 385 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Landstar employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.6 stars).

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Reviews by job title

385 reviews

1.0

Mar 20, 2016

Owner operator

Bco

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good tire and fuel discounts. Only pros there.

Cons

Landstar would rather broker out the freight than put it on their own owner operators . You're nothing more than a truck number. The majority of agents are useless and have no idea what's it takes to move their load and couldn't care less. There's no company trucks but there is plenty of agent owned fleets and those are the trucks that get loaded. The majority of the thousands of loads they speak of are off the broker boards that nobody else wants. The good loads don't even make it to the board. Their idea of a safety bonus is a 35cent can coozy. More concerned with the executive golf outings than taking care of bcos.

3.0

Jun 2, 2021

Good place to start a career , but be aware of low-pay/low-skill model.

Ops solutions

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great place to start a career. Exposure to lots of aspects of logistics. Company is financially strong and it’s rare anybody is fired.

Cons

Outside of the tools the programmers and IT have the technology at corporate is very outdated. Company has been trying to move to a new TMS since I started and they’re still nowhere close to being finished. Employee computers are about 15 years old on average. Low pay- low skill hiring- you might be able to get a job that was a bit of a reach for you but often times if you rise to the occasion they will dump 80% of the work on 20% of the people. Hard to move up , preference towards management coming externally. Upper management more concerned with their own career visibility than developing any of their employees. Pay so out of touch with the market that it’s not even funny. After 5 years I only made about 5% more than when I started.

5.0

Feb 28, 2016

Driver

Class a truck driver

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Landstar is one of the best, safest carriers in the industry.

Cons

The latest CEO is increasing the brokerage side which is hurting the BCO owner-operators

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