what exactly is a fed-ex road driver?

It was at one time a terminal to terminal thing. Pulling doubles or triples. They use to be private contractors. Those contractors had an actual contract with Fed EX to run protected routes. There was a value to the contract and at some point you could sell your contract to a different party.
I am unsure if that still applies because of the lawsuit.

 

^^^^ Exactly true. I drove for FedEx Ground, doubles/team, back in 04. My contractor was awesome, btw. I can dig up his number if you wish; not sure he's still in the biz tho. I only pulled from CMH to SAC M to F but it was good money back then. Decent gig, until I got local. Lmk if you want me to find his # . . . at least it's a start, if no one else replies. I'm thinking @blairandgretchen may have info more current, however. Hopefully they jump in here for ya. Be safe.

 

I was with ODFL @G13Tomcat .

 

^^^ OOps my bad. Thought you did FedEx CC for a while...... I'm getting OLD er than Old Dominion! Sorry!