Environmental Stewardship

Stewardship in Our Operations

Our Operations

Landstar is an asset-light provider of integrated transportation management solutions. Transportation capacity is provided to Landstar’s customers by thousands of independent truck owner-operators, third party motor carriers and other third party transportation capacity providers. Landstar owns thousands of trailers but does not own a single truck. Accordingly, Landstar’s transportation logistics services have no reportable Scope 1 or Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions under the Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard promulgated by the GHG Protocol. 

Our Commitment

As part of Landstar’s Environmental, Health, Safety & Security (EHS&S) Responsible Care Partnership Program, Landstar is committed to meet or exceed the environmental requirements of regulatory agencies applicable to our operations and to strive to meet other environmental requirements as become known to us.  Landstar is committed to efforts to address Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions in our corporate value chain.

Low Rolling Resistance Tires

Landstar also is committed to equipping our trailers with low-rolling resistance tires (LRR). LRR tires are designed to reduce the energy loss as a tire rolls, thereby increasing fuel efficiency and reducing emissions. Since 2014, 100% of our new trailer purchases have been equipped with LRR tires.

We are committed to using LRR tires to replace existing tires, subject to availability at the location where the tires are being replaced.

Reducing Idling and Empty Miles

Landstar can have an impact on the environment by helping truck capacity providers who participate in our network to reduce empty miles and time spent idling. Landstar uses technology-based tools that, when coupled with our significant scale, can reduce the amount of time a BCO or third-party motor carrier spends idling following delivery while trying to find their next load. Our tools also help truckers in our network to secure loads with limited deadhead, or a load in the direction of home avoiding significant deadhead. For example:

• Load Alerts® works on behalf of the trucker by automating searches of Landstar’s thousands of available loads for a load that will be available for the capacity provider following delivery of his current load. Once the tool finds a load that matches the criteria set up by the trucker, Load Alerts communicates that information to the capacity provider’s mobile device via email or voice recording well in advance of arrival at destination.
• Landstar Maximizer® enables Landstar BCOs to find the best combination of back-to-back available loads for themselves, creating options for multi-leg, full-week runs right from their smartphones.

Landstar also uses technology-based tools to help independent Landstar agents to increase the operational efficiency throughout our network. Geo-positional data from electronic logging devices (ELDs) enables Landstar independent agents to gain visibility into truck position, which is used to help Landstar agents determine the availability of a BCO or other third-party truck capacity provider for loads coming available at the truck’s current destination. Landstar and its independent agents also collaborate to provide load optimization services to customers to reduce miles traveled and increase efficient use of transportation equipment in a customer’s supply chain.

Safe Transportation of Hazardous Materials

We are one of the largest haulers of hazardous materials in the United States. We are committed to reducing, and where feasible, eliminating the generation, discharge, disposal or spilling of hazardous materials. All Landstar BCOs must receive a hazmat certification endorsement on their commercial driver’s license (CDL) to qualify with us. Here is a recent white paper we prepared discussing our approach to the safe transportation of hazardous materials.