FedEx Freight

The person interviewing you won’t lie about the runs. They will tell you about what you will be doing. Just ask all the questions you can think of. No heated docks that far south. All the Chicagoland docks are heated, makes it easier. But dock work is not physical it just gets repetitive and boring. Dock work can be fun if there’s a lot of full time dock workers that like to mess around and the supervisors are cool. I’m still happy at FedEx after 7 years and 6.5 were road and I had some crappy bids. 40 miles to hub. Work dock 6 hours lol. But I jumped on the city side and I’m pretty content.

 

BTW you can make a killing out of a small center because you can work the outbound dock then do a short road run and have more dock time. I used to do that during covid. Was making 2k a week and the best part is they can’t give you a BS via because you started your log at 5:30 pm. If you have anymore questions you can send me a message. I’m not sure if MO is a weed legal state but in IL they have a heck of a time trying to find dock help that will pass a pee test. So I have been working the dock on OT after my city run making 52.10 an hour.

 

30 degrees Fahrenheit? That's T shirt dock work where I'm from. Try negative 30 in Butte, Montana. It sucks, but you can always warm your numb fingers on the forklift exhaust.

 

I struggled to find that happy medium of just the right amount of clothing to work in the cold. All I know is it wasn’t for me, I would rather be in the hostler.

 

#### I thought $40 hr overtime was good. But we’ve got ot after 8 so I guess it covers the difference

 

FXF pays OT after 8.

 

Huh didn’t know that

 

I’ve been at Fedex Freight for two years now and for me it is the most boring driving job I’ve ever had. The pay is good $120k+ a year, the runs from my hub are good and no dock work, benefits are good, management is decent, got lazy and good drivers, and we still have 5 drivers that are on furlough and I was furloughed for 6 months this year. Everyone on the extra board(15) has been running. Freight seems to be doing better than last year around this time. Do I see myself retiring from FedEx? Probably not. It’s hard to beat the benefits and pay though.