FedEx Freight?

With team operation, what's important is you & your partner get along well. The fact that you're hesitant to team up tells me you had a bad experience with your last partner, or maybe your trainer was verbally abusive, which is not unusual in OTR trucking. Your profile says you've been driving over 2 years; had you not looked into an hourly-paying local job ?? What I criticize about OTR is the mileage or per-load compensation system, which is really an incentive to falsify logbooks. When you're on the time clock, you're paid time and a half over 8 hours, and some states mandate double time over 12 hours.

Unless you're instructed to leave the interstate, always stay on the federal interstate, which is I-84, US-395, & I-90 going into Montana from Portland, OR. If you'll be teamed up with just one person, try to meet this guy, sit down with him over coffee & donuts at a donut shop (or restaurant) and find out his likes & dislikes, what kind of music he listens to, does he play with the volume up at night, etc...
Does he have a system of splitting the driving ? If he says he drives in the daytime, and you'll mostly drive at night, that's not a good sign, unless you're OK with driving all night.

Myself, when I ran team, I had a portable CD player with headphones to let my partner sleep when I ran at nights. Me & my partner split driving in 4-hour shifts, so we both drove night & day. If you've never done LTL before, its time sensitive. If you go to Fedex website, it gives an estimation of when a package will arrive at its destination. This tells you that as a driver, there's no room for margin of errors to factor-in delays such as tire blowouts, equipment breakdowns, traffic delay due to construction or accidents, etc....

If you haven't figured it out yet, the practice of leasing O/Os is a trick of the trucking trade to increase your fleet size without the added liability cost. An O/O absorbs the added insurance cost, fuel & maintenance, and payroll cost of compensating and providing benefits to the driver. Your trailer will often have small orders of electronics, so its very important you always check to make sure the seal is intact. If someone breaks the seal, and they later unload and find items missing, they immediately suspect either you or your partner had pilfered the missing item. If you ever arrive at a terminal with the seal broken, don't walk to your car with personal belongings. Its best to stay in the terminal & wait for them to finish unloading the trailer, & do inventory to make sure nothing is missing. With today's bar code scanning, they'll know in seconds if anything is missing when the last package is pulled out of the trailer.

 

FedEx has several divisions and the job your are considering is no doubt with FedEx Ground . You might find this interesting http://news.van.fedex.com/intl/ca?node=11031 . With a good co-driver it could be a good opportunity . You may even eventually become a fleet owner yourself .