Fedex Ground Linehaul Contractor Pay Is Absolutely Insane!

For my second year I’m shocked how varied and free you can be with Fedex Ground contractors who hire you.

The pay was really average at $1350-$1450 a week for a linehaul run I do. Basically I show up and pick up an empty pup. Drive 29 miles to drop. Drop empty and pick up loaded pup.

Drive 29 miles back to where I started. Build a set of doubles. Drive 180 miles to NC terminal. Drop both pups. Sleep an hour and 30-45 minutes. Wake up and take one pup back 181 miles to where I started my day. Total miles a day is 419.

Most miles a week to average $1350 gross is 2211. To gross $1450 is 2327 miles a week. No drop N hook pay at all.

When I first saw no drop N hook pay for building sets like freight pays I was thinking #### I’m being screwed. But Fedex ground has many options to make more money. Including if you choose you can get routes working 38 hours a week.

They’ve offered me a gig making $1275 a week working 38 hours a week with a contractor. I turned it down because I wanted more income. But the flexibility if you want really low hours is there and they don’t force you.

So $1350-$1450 a week was really good especially since I do the same route everyday. No seniority or anything. Sleeper truck and no drivers get better loads than me unlike when I was at U.S Xpress. And weekends off. It’s unreal how lucky I got with this contractor. Really good company. Good health insurance and 401K.

What’s really good is the spots you can do. This makes up for the missed Drop N Hook pay. I have one spot that I do everyday for Medline that pays $65.40 cents for 40 minutes of work.


So If I do my 419 mile run a day I make 251+65.40 totalling 316.4 a day. My contractor adds supplemental pay on top of that for low miles so I make $340 a day.

The most hours I work a week is 55-57 hours making $1700 gross a week.

I’ve not even started doing my performance bonus which is Oct, Nov, Dec which I’ll make even more on top of the yearly bonus. It’s looking like I’ll make 85-88K this year I just can’t be sure.

There are different spots you can do and they all pay different. I could even add another spot but I don’t want to work 13 hours a day. Seriously don’t sleep on these contractors! Best part no on the road like Estes. Saia, and a couple of more. You make less but home everyday.

And if you want options available for 40 hour work weeks still making 60K+

 

Yup it’s definitely possible. My coworker works the $1275 gross a week run doing 7-8 hours. Mostly 38-40 hour weeks. That’s 60K+ he has it made. If I wasn’t needing more cash for my house I would definitely ask for lower hours.