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by narrowrail 3373 days ago
Not officially, but I'm sure it was happening. Each individual Landstar broker operates independently as well, so if a given driver is constantly saying no, I am certain the broker would stop calling that driver (or at least put them further down the list). It was obviously a more 'manual' and distributed process, that started in the 70's with companies like Dial-a-Truck:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial-a-truck

These systems morphed into what is called a 'load board,' and Landstar operated what was more of a network of independent trucking brokers with their own shared/ private load board.