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FedEx Freight reviews

3.3
(26)
$350 - $3,846/week

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Salary Surveys

$350 $1,589 $3,846
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Current Employee - Jun 6, 2023

Good company. Good pay, hard to get in. Line haul runs are 99% at night. Home every day and weekends are off. Pays more than otr

Pros

Pay, equipment, and pay is generous. Benefits are decent. Pto and vacation

Cons

Lack of work for lower seniority drivers. Management occasionally, and inconsistent schedule unless have years of seniority in a good spot

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Current Employee - Apr 9, 2023

FedEx is wonderful compared to most. Pay is great, trucks, trailers & dollys' are in excellent condition mostly. Long days most times 11 to 14. Extra board for the first couple years with possible short bids that more senior drivers don't want, which are really easy bids (You still take home 800 to 1200 a week on the short-run bid). Home every day (or morning if you're on nights). Doubles mostly with some 53'. Triples available for more senior drivers.

Pros

Great pay, company provided uniforms and annual footwear money. M-F with weekends off ALWAYS (sometimes M night to S early morning)

Cons

Extra board is just that. Some weeks 5 days a week, some weeks only 1 or 2 days. Still, easy money.

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Former Employee - Dec 16, 2021

I work for FedEx for 3 years and I gave it my all management or mentors who would guide you would put you down and tell you to soak things in but they would require you to bring a sponge to soak it all in very humiliating. If you have any disabilities don't work for them because they do not support that regardless of your age or disability they will force you out.

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Current Employee - Jul 18, 2021

Great company, depends on the terminal you apply for we get paid .69 cpm here in az only way too have a day run is if you are on top of xtra bored still running nights isn’t that bad worth it for the money. We get paid for everything we do drop,hooks,fuel on top of mileage pay. You work the dock when you get your first bid could be an hour too 4..take home $1300 a week on starting bid

Pros

Pay Benifits Job security

Cons

Trucks turned down too 65mph no pulling power

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Equipment and Maintenance
Dispatchers and Managers

Current Employee - Mar 19, 2021

I have been with this company since it was called American Freightways, still, wish it was American Freghtways. FedEx took a great company and turned it into a shell of itself. The only time we get new equipment is when FedEx is going to get a big tax write-off on it. They have the trucks turned down to 63-64 mph with no pulling power whatsoever. All our trucks are automatics which leads to complacency when some of these drivers just hold the steering wheel all day. All they care about is a paycheck and getting home early. They fail to do proper pre-trip or post-trips which causes headaches for drivers further down the line. The management at this company anymore is a joke. No one has an answer for you and they will not even go find out the answer and call you back. The only reason I am still here is I am coming up on retiring soon. I can hardly wait. The shop or someone higher up clears out the write-ups on the ELD's so what is the purpose of writing anything up if they are never going to fix it?

Pros

Pay, home time if you drive days

Cons

Insurance for the family is too high, shoddy trucks with lots of miles and lots of things wrong with them, spineless management who only care about how big their bonus will be, we only get 4 weeks vacation period, the rate for accumulating personal days or sick time is ludicrous at best. Management does not have any faith in their drivers.

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Salary Surveys

Company Driver - 1 Year CDL Experience

Surveyed in New Jersey on Feb 21, 2024

$1,040 per week

Current Employee

No

Owner Operator - 5+ Years CDL Experience

Surveyed in Florida on Jan 3, 2024

$3,846 per week

Current Employee

No

Company Driver - 2 Years CDL Experience

Surveyed in on Jun 6, 2023

$2,200 per week

Current Employee

Yes

Company Driver - 5+ Years CDL Experience

Surveyed in North Jackson, OH on Apr 9, 2023

$1,325 per week

Current Employee

Yes

Company Driver - 5+ Years CDL Experience

Surveyed in Houston, TX on Feb 9, 2023

$2,250 per week

Current Employee

No

Discussions

Fedex Freight, Applying Different State

speedyk

Apr 15, 2016

Fedex Freight, Applying Different State

Starting off on the docks is a good way to get your foot in the door, so maybe apply for both dockworker and city driver to better your chances. Fed Ex Freight promotes at lot from within, especially if your moving from P&D to linehaul. And usually it can take over a month before someone gets back to you, because as I mentioned before, a lot of people want to work for Fed Ex or UPS, and usually the guy with the most experience, or someone who has done LTL before gets the job.

Fedex Freight, Applying Different State

speedyk

Apr 15, 2016

Fedex Freight, Applying Different State

I started line haul runs right after I went through apprentice program. On the road every night (5 nights) and drive 300 miles a night. Depending on vias, 545 miles for the night.

Fedex Freight - New "Driver"

TC722

Aug 6, 2015

Fedex Freight - New "Driver"

Been with FXF 3 years. In my opinion, Road Driver is the way to go. 

The biggest advantage to the City Driver position is working days, and it sounds like you don't even have that. Road Drivers tend to make a lot more money than city drivers. Most road driver work is done at night as well, but there are many terminals with daytime linehaul runs. As a new driver don't expect to be driving days unless you are on the extra board. Day runs are gobbled up by the drivers with the most seniority.

To transfer from city to road here are a few requirements:

1. There actually has to be a road position available
2. You have to be on the job 6 months. However, if there is an open position and they do not have any other internal candidates they will allow someone with these than 6 months to transfer before they hire someone from the outside.
3. You cannot be on corrective action.(write up, probation, etc.)

Even as a road driver you will likely have to work the dock at the terminal you are hauling to depending on the mileage you are driving.

If you are driving under 200 miles one way you can expect to spend some time on a forklift. If may be lass than an hour or it could be four.

You can still make excellent money with a short run and dock work. I just came a bid where I drove 74 miles each way and worked the dock at the terminal I drove to. I still averaged $1400/wk gross pay.

I would take a road position over city everyday of the week and twice on Sunday.

Fedex Freight Baltimore

Newdriver2015

Apr 9, 2015

Fedex Freight Baltimore

FedEx Freight pays very well. A lot of dock guys there make good money on the dock without risking their job on the street dealing with the city. Easier to get fired having incidents on the street. FedEx Freight pays one of the best but with the better pay comes more rules and a tight ran ship. I've heard of city guys topped out making 70k in the city and Linehaul making 90-100k topped out in my area. That's all I know.

Fedex freight or ground ?

6 Speed

Aug 30, 2014

Fedex freight or ground ?

I worked for fed ex freight for a year as a road driver. When you start there they put you on what they call an extra board. You are an extra driver and they will call you as needed. You will start out working nights,probably doing a 150 to 200 mile run working the dock for 5-6 hours then driving back to home terminal. You will be at the bottom of the board for years and work nights for a long time. The reason is the people that are already there have a lot of seniority. You bid on runs and you bid with seniority if you are the new guy you get what is left after everyone else is done. my dad has worked for them for 25 years good pay but a bunch of be to put up with. Its they are looking for a reason to fire you.

FedEx Freight Transfer Question

slyman90

Sep 28, 2014

FedEx Freight Transfer Question

Q: My husband is a driver apprentice who was recently put through the ddc program. I was just curious whether he has to stay at the terminal he currently works for or is he free to transfer? Does he have to stay because this terminal paid for his training?

 

A: He has to be one year in his current position, in this case, once he gets a city driver position, before he can transfer, but there are always exceptions, if he is the only one who applies or has good references he will get it, he doesn't have to stay in that terminal, but pretty much is a case to case scenario.

UPSF,Fedex freight,Old dominion or ABF

Unodos

May 11, 2016

UPSF,Fedex freight,Old dominion or ABF

Go with Fed Ex Freight. Starting pay is a lot more than ABF, and they pay OT after 40. 

Location does have a lot to do with if you get consistant work or not, but FXF and UPSF try to keep you busy on slow times, from my experience. They'll either have you work the docks, or work a couple hours a day, rather than being laid off, or miss a couple days here and there. FXF and UPSF don't really lay you off.

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Trentforbes

Mar 3, 2016

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I'm not sure what the pay rate would be in Louisiana, but over in Jersey, Fed Ex Freight city drivers start off around $24. I would imagine cost of living would determine nationwide payrate. I know a couple Fed Ex guys working in Delanco, Nj, and it's your typical LTL job. One of them moved from city to road driver/linehaul and is making a hell of a lot more than he did as a P&D driver. I think payrate also depends on if it's union or non union as well. Delanco, Nj is non union, where as Newark, Nj is union. So I would imagine the union drivers get paid a lot more than nonunion.

FEDEX Freight

Forsale845

Apr 9, 2016

FEDEX Freight

Q: Does FEDEX Freight hire CDL grads as drivers? Do you have to start out on their docks first?

 

A: The have a DDC program called Driver apprentice. Driver development course. You need safe record and 1+ current class A experience or need to go through this class WHEN they are hiring for it. You can apply for city or Driver possition. With experience or apprentice with none and they will even get you your cdl.