FedEx goes viral - Surely this is not the norm in LTL, is it?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by BeHereNow97, Mar 27, 2021.

  1. BeHereNow97

    BeHereNow97 Heavy Load Member

    860
    1,694
    Sep 15, 2020
    0
    I actually didn't know all of this about Fedex. I assumed it was all the same company, didn't know Fedex Ground was an umbrella company separate from the main Fedex Company.
     
  2. Truckers Report Jobs

    Trucking Jobs in 30 seconds

    Every month 400 people find a job with the help of TruckersReport.

  3. 86scotty

    86scotty Road Train Member

    3,900
    10,151
    Aug 27, 2017
    Appalachia
    0
    Yep, Fedex bought up a string of companies 15 or so years ago to compete with UPS but of course they still can't. UPS is worlds bigger than any other package delivery company.

    Start looking close at all of the Fedex crash pics and videos and you'll see that 99% of these disasters are Fedex Ground. They have singlehandedly ruined the reputation of a good company.

    Still, if it says Fedex it's owned by Fedex, or leased to Fedex, and they bear the responsibility.
     
    Ian2175, Brettj3876 and BeHereNow97 Thank this.
  4. Ridgeline

    Ridgeline Road Train Member

    20,659
    100,397
    Dec 18, 2011
    Michigan
    0
    They all do it, had a bunch of FedEx cross docks where I had to hand transfer the product and many were reckless in handling packages.

    You should cruse the fb pages for collector items like signs, radios and antiques to see what condition a lot of these things arrive to their new homes.

    One thing someone posted was about a four foot sign that was shipped via ups with a piece of luan that the sign was mounted to. The box had on it do not bend and handle with care.

    how in the hell did ups not just fold it in half twice, but did one fold along the long axis and the other on the short axis is beyond me.
     
  5. Dockbumper

    Dockbumper Road Train Member

    3,778
    9,850
    Apr 29, 2020
    0
    There are probably a billion packages like those in transit or sitting in a warehouse or crossdock on a daily basis. 99.9 percent of them probably get delivered on time without damage. In this day and age of " Free next day delivery", it is amazing how it all happens. Organized chaos is the term I like to use.
     
    86scotty Thanks this.
  6. MiFamilyGuy

    MiFamilyGuy Light Load Member

    197
    290
    Sep 17, 2012
    0
    View attachment 366085 t
    [​IMG]
    The last Dollar General trailer I unloaded in '13.
    Screenshot_20210329-061915_Facebook.jpg
     
    Brettj3876 and slow.rider Thank this.
  7. Dockbumper

    Dockbumper Road Train Member

    3,778
    9,850
    Apr 29, 2020
    0
    86scotty Thanks this.
  8. Brettj3876

    Brettj3876 Road Train Member

    11,257
    54,038
    Nov 18, 2014
    Land of local
    0
    After seeing some of these pics i give the food service place i worked my 1st year a lot of credit. They took pride in loading the wagon. You had to give feedback after every run on your trip sheet. If you told them how you wanted a particular stop loaded they did what you asked
     
  9. asphaltreptile311

    asphaltreptile311 Road Train Member

    1,302
    2,490
    Jun 16, 2016
    0
    I'd like to show up at a receiver with produce stacked like that and see if they say anything , somewhere like hunts point
     
    Speed_Drums Thanks this.
  10. RoadSideDown

    RoadSideDown Light Load Member

    163
    343
    Feb 26, 2021
    0
    A few years ago I worked unloading semi trailers at Amazon sortation center. Some boxes are piled into huge cardboard bins and dumped en masse into the conveyor. Usually half or all of a trailer is stacked boxes unloaded by hand with oversized items piled at the rear end. Nothing is gently handled. Not purposely rough either but if you are unloading several full semis item by item it is done quickly. Out of a truck with maybe 10,000 boxes we might have 5-20 get damaged. The bad stuff was full trailers of oversized items that due to weight smashes into each other during the ride.
    At least Amazon has on onsite fix-it group to repackage or return for replacement broke boxes. Since all broke items go onto plastic postal pallets and get worked on later that day sometimes they get the wrong items back into the repaired boxes.
    But as you mention, while in a given night there might be 200-300 damaged items total, there were over 100,000 that sailed through fine.

    The real travesty is a friend of Bezos bought a fleet of trailers supposedly and they leaked like sieves. During the fall and winter we would have half of trailers of sopping wet boxes from rain pouring down through leaky seams. We all hated those trailers. Piles of rolling garbage. I imagine the “friend” bought decrepit trailers fir pennies but they hauled 53’ of boxes and got paid for it. If he wasn’t a friend I can’t imagine anyone accepting such damaged goods night after night and paying staff to repackage it all.
     
  11. Radman

    Radman Road Train Member

    2,011
    2,402
    Apr 18, 2011
    0
    Let’s keep this simple. LTL hauls freight just like anyone else. These pics are package delivery for FedEx Ground. This is the results of a part time gig with low wages. Both UPS and FedEx Ground do this. Only people that the pay and part time attracts is young people who don’t intend on making this a career. They are going to school. Most of these people tend to call off on payday and Friday. So the people that didn’t call off are undermanned and P.O.’d. So they start chucking packages around cause they want to get off work. So this is the results. At the end of the day most of these package handlers don’t care cause they aren’t gonna stay at the job especially after they find out how physically demanding it it stacking boxes in a hot or frozen trailer.
     
    jmz Thanks this.
  • Truckers Report Jobs

    Trucking Jobs in 30 seconds

    Every month 400 people find a job with the help of TruckersReport.