Landstar System, Inc. - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

Landstar System, Inc. is Medium Risk.

Landstar System is is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. The company occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Medium Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	Lower Risk
Employment Protection	High Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	Lower Risk
Political Actions	No Data

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Landstar System integrates ESG into its business practices. From its Environmental Stewardship page: “Landstar is committed to efforts to address Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions in our corporate value chain” (1).
The company has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (2).

Criteria:

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Landstar System does not appear to discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs (1)(2).

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Landstar System appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its hiring, promotions, leadership composition, and supply chain. From its Our Network & Our Communities page: “Because Landstar’s culture supports gender diversity and career advancement opportunities for women, in 2025, we were recognized for the second consecutive year by the Women in Trucking Association (WIT) as one of the “Elite 30” top companies for women to work for in transportation. To be named, a company must provide competitive pay and benefits, flexible hours, professional development, and career advancement opportunities, and must also foster gender diversity overall.” “The Board maintains a balanced mix of independence, diversity, and experience, supporting strong governance and inclusive oversight.” “Landstar’s network includes a tremendously diverse group of backgrounds and viewpoints. We strive to maintain an empowering platform for employees, agents, BCOs and other third party capacity providers that is fair and inclusive of these different backgrounds and viewpoints. Our business model is built on helping diverse individual entrepreneurs – regardless of race, gender or background – become successful in our network… We support diversity and inclusion within our business and our network” (1). The company is an affirmative action employer. “Landstar is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer” (2). Landstar System does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (4).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Landstar System supports DEI and ESG within its business practices. From its Our Network and Our Communities page: “We support diversity and inclusion within our business and our network” (1). From its 2025 Proxy Report: “The Board has established…a Nominating and ESG Committee…” (2). In 2026, the company rebranded its Nominating and ESG Committee as the Corporate Governance, Nominating and Sustainability Committee; despite the rebranding, the underlying divisive corporate policies/practices appear to remain in place (3).

Criteria:

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Landstar System has not used corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (1).

Criteria:

Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level:

N/A

Rationale:

Landstar System does not operate a PAC or report on its lobbying at this time (1)(2)(3).