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Landstar provides services principally throughout the United States and to a lesser extent in Canada and Mexico, and between the United States and Canada, Mexico and other countries around the world.
−Removed: The Company’s services emphasize safety, information coordination and customer service and are delivered through a network of approximately 1,050 independent commission sales agents and over 78,000 third party capacity providers, primarily truck capacity providers, linked together by a series of digital technologies which are provided and coordinated by the Company.
+Added: The Company’s services emphasize safety, cargo security, information coordination and customer service and are delivered through a network of approximately 960 independent commission sales agents and over 70,000 third party capacity providers, primarily truck capacity providers, linked together by a series of digital technologies which are provided and coordinated by the Company.
The nature of the Company’s business is such that a significant portion of its operating costs varies directly with revenue.
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de C.V., and Landstar Blue, LLC.
−Removed: Transportation services offered by the Company include truckload, less-than-truckload and other truck transportation, rail intermodal, air cargo, ocean cargo, expedited ground and air delivery of time-critical freight, heavy-haul/specialized, cold chain/temperature-controlled, U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico cross-border, intra-Mexico, intra-Canada, project cargo and customs brokerage.
−Removed: Examples of the industries serviced by the transportation logistics segment include automotive parts and assemblies, consumer durables, building products, metals, chemicals, foodstuffs, heavy machinery, retail, electronics and military equipment and general commodities.
+Added: Transportation services offered by the Company include truckload, less-than-truckload and other truck transportation, rail intermodal, air cargo, ocean cargo, expedited ground and air delivery of time-critical freight, heavy-haul/specialized, hazardous materials (“haz-mat”), cold chain/temperature-controlled, U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico cross-border, intra-Mexico, intra-Canada, project cargo and customs brokerage.
+Added: Examples of the industries serviced by the transportation logistics segment include automotive parts and assemblies, consumer durables, building products, metals, chemicals, foodstuffs, heavy machinery, retail, electronics, military equipment and general commodities.
In addition, the transportation logistics segment provides transportation services to other transportation companies, including third party logistics and less-than-truckload service providers.
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The Company’s truck transportation services contributed 91% of consolidated revenue in fiscal year 2025, 90% of consolidated revenue in fiscal year 2024 and 91% of consolidated revenue in fiscal year 2023.
+Added: As previously disclosed by the Company in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on August 13, 2025, the Company entered into an arrangement with a financial advisor to actively market its Mexican subsidiary, Landstar Metro, S.A.P.I.
+Added: (“Landstar Metro”) and to consider other strategic alternatives for this subsidiary, which may involve a sale or other disposition in whole or in part of Landstar Metro during the Company’s 2026 fiscal year.
+Added: It is not anticipated that a sale or other disposition of Landstar Metro will adversely affect the Company’s ability to provide U.S.-Mexico cross-border services, given that Landstar Metro is principally engaged in intra-Mexico truck transportation services.
+Added: In connection with the decision to actively market Landstar Metro, the Company recorded a non-cash impairment charge of $7,530,000 to goodwill within the transportation logistics segment.
+Added: Further, based on the expected fair value of Landstar Metro, net of costs to sell, the Company recognized an impairment on assets held for sale of $10,678,000.
+Added: Both impairments are included in impairment of intangible and other assets within the Company’s consolidated statements of income.
Rail Intermodal Services.
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Landstar revenue from the Million Dollar Agents in the aggregate represented 95% and 94% of consolidated revenue in 2025 and 2024, respectively.
−Removed: Included among the Company’s Million Dollar Agents, the Company had 81 independent sales agencies that generated at least $10 million in Landstar revenue during the 2024 fiscal year, which in aggregate comprised approximately 67% of Landstar’s consolidated revenue.
−Removed: Management believes that the majority of the Million Dollar Agents choose to represent the Company exclusively.
+Added: Included among the Company’s Million Dollar Agents, the Company had 77 independent sales agencies that generated at least $10 million in Landstar revenue during the 2025
+Added: fiscal year, which in aggregate comprised approximately 68% of Landstar’s consolidated revenue.
+Added: Management believes that the majority of the Million Dollar Agents represent the Company exclusively.
Historically, the Company has experienced very few terminations of its Million Dollar Agents, whether such terminations are initiated by the agent or the Company.
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The number of trucks provided by BCO Independent Contractors fluctuates daily as a result of truck recruiting and truck terminations.
−Removed: The Company recruited fewer trucks in fiscal year 2024 than in fiscal year 2023.
−Removed: The Company also terminated fewer trucks in fiscal year 2024 than in fiscal year 2023.
−Removed: However, the decrease in the number of trucks recruited was larger than the decrease in the number of trucks terminated, resulting in an overall net decrease of 966 trucks during fiscal year 2024.
+Added: The Company recruited more trucks in fiscal year 2025 than in fiscal year 2024 and terminated less trucks in fiscal year 2025 than in fiscal year 2024.
+Added: However, the number of trucks recruited was less than the number of trucks terminated, resulting in an overall net
+Added: decrease of 329 trucks during fiscal year 2025.
Landstar’s BCO Independent Contractor truck turnover was approximately 31% in fiscal year 2025, compared to 35% in fiscal year 2024.
Approximately 33% of 2025 turnover was attributable to BCO Independent Contractors who had been with the Company for less than one year.
−Removed: Management believes the factors that have historically favorably impacted turnover include the Company’s extensive agent network, the quantity and quality of available freight, the proprietary technology-based tools the Company makes available to BCO Independent Contractors to empower them to manage their businesses, the Company’s programs to reduce the operating costs of its BCO Independent Contractors and Landstar’s reputation for quality, safety, service, reliability and financial strength.
−Removed: revenue per load on a sequential basis historically has had a favorable impact on BCO Independent Contractor turnover.
−Removed: During fiscal year 2024, revenue per load on loads hauled by BCO Independent Contractors sequentially increased in the second, third and fourth fiscal quarters.
+Added: Management believes the factors that have historically favorably impacted turnover include the Company’s extensive agent network, the quantity and quality of available freight, the proprietary technology-based tools the Company makes available to BCO Independent Contractors to empower them to manage their businesses, the Company’s programs to reduce the operating costs of its BCO Independent Contractors and Landstar’s reputation for quality, safety, cargo security, service, reliability and financial strength.
+Added: Sequential strengthening or weakening of revenue per load historically has also had a significant impact on BCO Independent Contractor turnover.
Truck Brokerage Carriers.
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Specialized services offered by the Company include those provided by a large fleet of platform trailers and multi-axle trailers capable of hauling extremely heavy or oversized loads.
−Removed: Management believes the Company, along with its network of capacity providers, offers one of the largest fleets of heavy/specialized trailing equipment in North America.
+Added: Management believes the Company, along with its network of capacity providers, offers one of the largest fleets of for-hire heavy/specialized trailing equipment in North America.
At December 27, 2025, 13,784 of the trailers available to the BCO Independent Contractors were owned by the Company and 601 were rented.
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These advantages allow the Company to meet the needs of even the largest shippers.
−Removed: Larger shippers often consider reducing the number of authorized carriers they use in favor of a small number of “core carriers,” such as the Company,
−Removed: whose size and diverse service capabilities enable these core carriers to satisfy most of the shippers’ transportation needs.
+Added: Larger shippers often consider reducing the number of authorized carriers they use in favor of a small number of “core carriers,” such as the Company, whose size and diverse service capabilities enable these core carriers to satisfy most of the shippers’ transportation needs.
The Company’s national account customers include the United States Department of Defense and many of the companies included in the Fortune 500.
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3PLs and other transportation companies also utilize the Company’s available transportation capacity to satisfy their obligations to their shippers.
−Removed: There were 10 transportation service providers, including 3PLs, included in the Company’s top 25 customers for fiscal year 2024.
+Added: There were eight transportation service providers, including 3PLs, included in the Company’s top 25 customers for fiscal year 2025.
Management believes the Company’s network of agents and third party capacity providers allows it to efficiently attract and service smaller shippers which may not be as desirable to other large transportation providers (see above under “Agent Network”).
No customer accounted for more than 8% of the Company’s 2025 revenue.
−Removed: Landstar focuses on providing integrated transportation management solutions which emphasize customer service and information coordination among its independent commission sales agents, customers, capacity providers and employees.
−Removed: The Company continues to focus on identifying, purchasing or developing and implementing software applications and tools which are designed to:
−Removed: (i) assist Landstar independent commission sales agents in efficiently sourcing capacity, pricing transportation services and managing and analyzing the performance of their independent businesses, (ii) assist customers in meeting their transportation needs, (iii) assist third party capacity providers in identifying desirable freight opportunities and operating their independent businesses, and (iv) improve operational and administrative efficiency throughout the Company.
−Removed: Landstar intends to continue to improve and enhance its technologies to meet the total needs of its agents, customers and third party capacity providers and remains engaged in various multi-year projects aimed at increasing efficiencies, primarily through technology, at Landstar and across our agent and third party capacity network.
−Removed: Management believes leadership in the development, operation and support of an ecosystem of digital technologies and applications is an ongoing part of providing high quality service.
−Removed: The Company has engaged in a multi-year effort to implement a comprehensive strategy focused on the long-term development of leading edge digital tools to empower participants in our network to succeed in the technology-driven transportation logistics marketplace.
−Removed: As a result of this strategy, the Company offers the following tools to participants within our network:
+Added: Technology and Artificial Intelligence (“AI”)
+Added: Landstar provides integrated transportation management solutions which emphasize customer service and information coordination among its independent commission sales agents, customers, capacity providers and employees.
+Added: The Company is focused on identifying, purchasing or developing and implementing software applications and tools which integrate AI and are designed to:
+Added: (i) assist Landstar independent commission sales agents in efficiently sourcing capacity, pricing transportation services and managing and analyzing the performance of their independent businesses, (ii) assist customers in meeting their transportation needs with an emphasis on safety, security and service, (iii) assist third party capacity providers in identifying desirable freight opportunities and operating their independent businesses, and (iv) improve operational and administrative efficiency throughout the Company.
+Added: Since 2016, Landstar has been executing a digital transformation strategy to ensure our network of agents, BCOs and other third party capacity providers remains highly competitive in an increasingly technology-driven freight environment.
+Added: Our goal is enablement—delivering tools that help to automate the agent office, simplify the experience of operating as a Landstar business capacity owner or third-party carrier, and scale the efficiency and effectiveness of our entrepreneurs.
+Added: Those earlier efforts, branded as “Landstar 2020,” serve as the foundation of a long-term commitment to building and deploying industry-leading technology across our entire ecosystem.
+Added: Landstar 2020 included the rollout of the following tools to participants within our network:
Landstar TMS:
A cloud-based platform for truckload freight agent workflow.
−Removed: A cloud-based platform built specifically to service the truckload brokerage contract services market.
A suite of business intelligence applications powered by Microsoft Power BI for independent sales agents and BCO Independent Contractors to access information and identify trends in their businesses.
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Landstar-proprietary pricing application developed with data scientists using historical Company information and third party pricing data to provide independent commission sales agents with near real time market data.
+Added: BCO Retention Tool:
+Added: Landstar-proprietary application developed with data scientists using a variety of data inputs to help predict when the contractual relationship between a BCO Independent Contractor and Landstar may be at risk.
LandstarOne ™ :
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Application that automates the process for independent commission sales agents to request customer credit.
−Removed: Since the launch of this initiative in 2016, the Company has invested approximately $192 million in this strategic development effort, including approximately $34 million and $35 million, respectively, in fiscal years 2024 and 2023.
+Added: As we moved beyond Landstar 2020, we invested further in digital capabilities within our corporate operations and the support we provide to our entrepreneurial network, including the rollout of modern contact-center technology and significant upgrades to our financial, settlements, and back-office systems.
+Added: These investments strengthen the overall connectivity and support provided to the Company’s entrepreneurial network.
+Added: The Company’s approach to technology is built through close collaboration with its independent commission sales agents and BCO Independent Contractors, with a focus on enabling growth.
+Added: By aligning technology investments with the needs of our network of entrepreneurs, Landstar aims to deliver tools that are designed to drive growth and deliver wins in the highly competitive transportation sector.
+Added: In our independent commission sales agency model, growth may be constrained by the financial and technological resources of the agent, particularly for smaller agents.
+Added: Agents may also view potential growth opportunities available to their small business as requiring an additional assumption of personal risk, due to many of the typical types of challenges faced by a small business seeking to scale-up in size:
+Added: increased headcounts needs, greater financial investment, and increased management and operational complexity.
+Added: Our objective has been to deploy technology to empower Landstar agents to grow, by offering tools that can automate workflows and improve efficiency within the agent’s business, while also helping to de-risk some of the types of challenges often faced by Landstar agents who are looking to grow.
+Added: Our objective with respect to technology investments geared to empower Landstar BCO Independent Contractors is to eliminate manual and administrative friction relating to how BCO Independent Contractors engage with Landstar and operate their businesses in order to enable BCOs to be more productive, haul more freight, and better serve Landstar agents and customers.
+Added: The end result is a differentiated value proposition for customers:
+Added: a combination of advanced, purpose-built technology and highly motivated freight transportation and logistics professionals with a direct economic stake in delivering freight safely, securely, and with exceptional service.
+Added: Landstar believes that AI represents the next major acceleration of this strategy and will provide opportunities to strengthen the safety, security and service value proposition the Company offers to its customers.
+Added: Management believes AI can be a strategic enhancement to the competitive advantage of the Landstar business model and a powerful enabler of our entrepreneurial ecosystem.
+Added: Importantly, Landstar’s AI strategy is evolutionary—the Company is building on the strong digital foundation already in place.
+Added: Currently, machine learning is embedded within the following:
+Added: Pricing Tools and BCO Retention Tool, allowing both products to improve as we scale the available data.
+Added: Landstar’s new contact-center platform, which leverages AI to enhance the knowledge base of Landstar employee service representatives, analyze sentiment, automate routine tasks, summarize interactions, and free our teams to focus on higher-value problem solving.
+Added: Landstar agent portal, improving access to information, providing actionable business insights, and enabling better and faster decision making.
+Added: A new supply chain fraud detection solution that analyzes behavioral patterns, documentation, invoice images, and shipment characteristics to identify high-risk freight and reduce shipment losses.
+Added: Landstar has also established an AI task force that is working with transportation-focused agentic AI startups and established technology companies to accelerate AI applications across the shipment lifecycle and within agent offices.
+Added: These efforts are focused on driving efficiency, increasing productivity, improving decision-making, and further unlocking growth across the network.
+Added: Since the launch of Landstar 2020 in 2016, the Company has invested approximately $220 million in these strategic development efforts, including approximately $28 million and $34 million, respectively, in fiscal years 2025 and 2024.
The Company’s information technology systems used in connection with its operations are located in Jacksonville, Florida and, to a lesser extent, in Rockford, Illinois.
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Landstar retains liability through a self-insured retention for commercial trucking claims up to $5 million per occurrence.
+Added: Historically, these third party insurance arrangements were based on policy year periods beginning on May 1 and ending on the subsequent April 30.
+Added: Beginning with the policy year period commencing May 1, 2025, the Company and its third party insurance providers adjusted the applicable policy year period, beginning in 2026, to commence on June 1 and end on the subsequent May 31.
+Added: All applicable third party insurance arrangements with a policy period ending April 30, 2026 have been amended to provide for a policy period ending May 31, 2026, as reflected below.
Effective May 1, 2023, the Company entered into a three year commercial auto liability insurance arrangement for losses incurred between $5 million and $10 million (the “2023 Initial Excess Policy”) with a third party insurance company.
−Removed: For commercial trucking claims incurred on or after May 1, 2023 through April 30, 2026, the 2023 Initial Excess Policy provides for an aggregate deductible of $18 million over the thirty-six-month term ending April 30, 2026.
−Removed: After payment of the deductible, the 2023 Initial Excess Policy provides for a limit for a single loss of $5 million, with an aggregate limit of $15 million for the thirty-six-month term ending April 30, 2026.
+Added: For commercial trucking claims incurred on or after May 1, 2023 through May 31, 2026, the 2023 Initial Excess Policy provides for an aggregate deductible of $18 million over the thirty-seven-month term ending May 31, 2026.
+Added: After payment of the deductible, the 2023 Initial Excess Policy provides for a limit for a single loss of $5 million, with an aggregate limit of $15 million for the thirty-seven-month term ending May 31, 2026.
The Company also maintains third party insurance arrangements providing excess coverage for commercial trucking liabilities in excess of $10 million.
These third party arrangements provide coverage on a per occurrence or aggregated basis.
−Removed: Over the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the prevalence of trials in courts throughout the United States involving catastrophic injury and fatality claims against commercial motor carriers that have resulted in verdicts in excess of $10 million.
+Added: Over the past fifteen years, there has been a significant increase in the prevalence of trials in courts throughout the United States involving catastrophic injury and fatality claims against commercial motor carriers that have resulted in verdicts in excess of $10 million.
Within the transportation logistics industry, these verdicts are often referred to as “Nuclear Verdicts.” The increase in Nuclear Verdicts has had a significant impact on the cost of commercial auto liability claims throughout the United States.
Due to the increasing cost of commercial auto liability claims, the availability of excess coverage has significantly decreased, and the pricing associated with such excess coverage, to the extent available, has significantly increased.
−Removed: Since the annual policy year ended April 30, 2020, as compared to the annual policy year ending April 30, 2025, the Company experienced an increase of approximately $22 million, or over 400%, in the premiums charged by third party insurance companies to the Company for excess coverage for commercial trucking liabilities in excess of $10 million.
−Removed: Moreover, the Company from year to year manages the level of its financial exposure to commercial trucking claims in excess of $10 million, including through the use of additional self-insurance, deductibles, aggregate loss limits, quota shares and other arrangements with third party insurance companies, based on the availability of coverage within certain excess insurance coverage layers and estimated cost differentials between proposed premiums from third party insurance companies and historical and
−Removed: actuarially projected losses experienced by the Company at various levels of excess insurance coverage.
−Removed: For example, with respect to a single hypothetical claim in the amount of $65 million incurred during the annual policy year ending April 30, 2025, the Company would have an aggregate financial exposure of approximately $30 million.
+Added: Since the annual policy year ended April 30, 2020, as compared to the annual policy year ending May 31, 2026, the Company experienced an increase of approximately $22 million, or approximately 400%, in the premiums charged by third party insurance companies to the Company for excess coverage for commercial trucking liabilities in excess of $10 million.
+Added: In addition to the significant increase in the cost to motor carriers relating to commercial auto liability claims throughout the United States, there has also been a very significant increase throughout the United States in the number of, and potential loss exposure associated with, claims asserted against freight brokers in connection with accidents involving motor carriers the freight broker has engaged and contracted with to haul a shipment.
+Added: The claims asserted against freight brokers often involve claims of negligent selection of the motor carrier who was involved in the relevant accident.
+Added: Within the transportation logistics industry, these matters are often referred to as “Broker Liability Claims.” For example, see the discussion of the Cabral Matter (as defined below) in Item 7, “ Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Legal Proceedings.
+Added: ” There is currently significant legal uncertainty regarding Broker Liability Claims as state and federal courts across the United States are divided as to whether such claims are preempted by federal law under the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994 (the “FAAAA”), or are subject to the “safety exception” under the FAAAA.
+Added: The matter of Montgomery v.
+Added: Caribe Transport II, LLC, in which the Company is not a party, is currently pending before the U.S.
+Added: Supreme Court and may result in a ruling relating to federal preemption of Broker Liability Claims under the FAAAA.
+Added: No assurances can be provided as to any such ruling by the U.S.
+Added: Supreme Court, the timing thereof, or the impact any such ruling may have on pending or future Broker Liability Claims asserted against the Company, including the Cabral Matter.
+Added: Moreover, the Company from year to year manages the level of its financial exposure to commercial trucking claims in excess of $10 million, including through the use of additional self-insurance, deductibles, aggregate loss limits, quota shares and other structured arrangements with third party insurance companies, based on the availability of coverage within certain excess insurance coverage layers and estimated cost differentials between proposed premiums from third party insurance companies and historical and actuarially projected losses experienced by the Company at various levels of excess insurance coverage.
+Added: For example, with respect to a single hypothetical claim in the amount of $65 million incurred during the annual policy year ending May 31, 2026, the Company would have an aggregate financial exposure of approximately $36 million.
Within the Company’s third party insurance arrangements providing excess coverage for commercial trucking liabilities, structured arrangements with third party reinsurers within a specific loss layer may include provisions that require additional payments of premium in the event of unfavorable loss experience or a refund of premium in the event of favorable loss experience.
−Removed: With respect to one such three year commercial auto liability reinsurance arrangement relating to certain excess claims incurred between May 1, 2020 through April 30, 2023, it is anticipated that during the 2025 second fiscal quarter, the Company will receive a $12,000,000 cash payment from a third party reinsurance provider in the form of a “no claims bonus” due to favorable loss experience during the policy period.
−Removed: The Company intends to record the receipt of this payment as a deferred gain on the balance sheet until such time as all underlying claims with exposure under the applicable excess layer insurance arrangement are resolved and the gain can be recognized.
+Added: During the 2025 fiscal year, with respect to one such three-year commercial auto liability reinsurance arrangement relating to certain excess claims incurred between May 1, 2020 through April 30, 2023, the Company received $12,000,000 of cash payments from third party reinsurance providers in the form of a “no claims bonus” due to favorable loss experience with respect to claims incurred during the applicable policy period.
+Added: As further described in Note 11 in the “Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, in connection with the Judgment (as defined below) in the Cabral Matter, the Company has recorded the “no claims bonus” within current insurance claims in the consolidated balance sheet as of December 27, 2025.
+Added: The Company intends to vigorously appeal the Cabral Matter, including the Judgment;
+Added: however, no assurances can be provided regarding whether the Company will ultimately be able to recognize a gain with respect to the “no claims bonus.” For more information about the Cabral Matter, see Item 7, “ Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Legal Proceedings .”
Furthermore, the Company’s third party insurance arrangements provide excess coverage up to an uppermost coverage layer, in excess of which the Company retains additional financial exposure.
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Interstate motor carrier operations are subject to safety requirements prescribed by the FMCSA.
−Removed: Each truck operator, whether working as a BCO Independent Contractor or for a Truck Brokerage Carrier, is required to have a commercial driver’s license and may be subject to mandatory drug and alcohol testing.
−Removed: The FMCSA’s commercial driver’s license and drug and alcohol testing requirements have not adversely affected the Company’s ability to source the capacity necessary to meet its customers’ transportation needs.
+Added: Each truck operator, whether working as a BCO Independent Contractor or for a Truck Brokerage Carrier, is required to have a commercial driver’s license (“CDL”) and may be subject to mandatory drug and alcohol testing.
+Added: Effective May 20, 2025, the FMCSA established a new enforcement policy with respect to English language proficiency (“ELP”) requirements applicable to commercial motor vehicle drivers and the ability of such drivers to communicate effectively with law enforcement and understand highway traffic signs throughout the United States.
+Added: In 2025, the FMCSA also proposed amendments to federal regulations applicable to the issuance by State Driver’s Licensing Agencies (“SDLAs”) of CDLs to foreign-domiciled individuals in order to significantly limit the authority of SDLAs to issue and renew CDLs with respect to individuals domiciled in a foreign jurisdiction and/or who do not maintain a lawful immigration status in the United States.
+Added: The FMCSA’s CDL licensing requirements, drug and alcohol testing requirements, ELP policy and non-domiciled CDL initiative have not adversely affected the Company’s ability to source the capacity necessary to meet its customers’ transportation needs.
Additionally, certain of the Operating Subsidiaries are licensed as Ocean Transportation Intermediaries by the U.S.
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We believe our employees are among our most important resources and are critical to our continued success.
+Added: Landstar has established “Core Values” to help guide employee behavior, decision-making and culture within our Company, and to foster alignment and engagement among our employees.
+Added: Landstar’s Core Values are:
We focus significant attention on attracting and retaining talented and experienced individuals to manage and support our operations.
To attract and retain top talent in our highly competitive industry, we have designed our compensation and benefits programs to provide a balanced and effective reward structure.
−Removed: Landstar seeks to compensate employees in a manner that is fair, consistent, and reflective of the external market and provides recognition for the achievement of individual goals, corporate objectives, and professional competencies while maintaining fiscal responsibility.
−Removed: Our short and long-term incentive programs are aligned with key business objectives and are intended to motivate strong performance.
+Added: Landstar seeks to compensate employees in a manner that is fair, consistent, and reflective of the external market and provides recognition for the achievement of individual strategic, operational, administrative and other goals, corporate objectives, and professional competencies while maintaining fiscal responsibility.
+Added: Our short and long-term incentive programs are aligned with key business objectives and strategic goals and are intended to motivate strong performance.
Our employees are eligible to participate in our medical, dental and vision programs, a 401(k) savings/retirement plan, flexible time-off, employer-provided life and disability insurance, our wellness program, our tuition reimbursement program, and an array of voluntary benefits designed to meet individual needs.
We engage firms nationally recognized in the benefits area to objectively evaluate our programs and benchmark them against peers and other similarly situated organizations.
−Removed: As of December 28, 2024, the Company and its subsidiaries employed 1,441 individuals.
+Added: As of December 27, 2025, the Company and its subsidiaries employed 1,378 individuals, or 1,294 individuals excluding employees at Landstar Metro which is classified as held for sale.
Two Landstar Ranger drivers (out of a Company total of approximately 8,514 drivers for BCO Independent Contractors) are members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
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The Company has identified the following employee-focused goals:
−Removed: Create and maintain an environment in which continuous improvement is encouraged and expected by everyone within the organization;
+Added: Create and maintain an environment in which continuous improvement, collaboration and accountability are encouraged and expected by everyone within the organization;
Engage each Landstar employee in the Company’s vision to inspire and empower entrepreneurs to succeed in the highly competitive, technology driven freight transportation industry;
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Landstar provides comprehensive professional development opportunities to employees at all levels.
−Removed: Landstar’s training and development department offers all employees the opportunity to participate in various learning tracks on topics including Leadership, Workplace Safety & Security, Customer Service and other core skills.
−Removed: Courses offered by the training and development department are delivered by Landstar’s team of Association for Talent Development (ATD) certified trainers through both on-line and classroom settings.
+Added: Landstar’s learning and development department offers all employees the opportunity to participate in various learning tracks on topics including Leadership, Workplace Safety & Security, Customer Service and other core skills.
+Added: Courses offered by the learning and development department are delivered by Landstar’s team of Association for Talent Development (ATD) certified trainers through both on-line and classroom settings.
At our core, Landstar is about providing opportunity to qualified candidates and employees regardless of background.
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