FedEx Ground Linehaul with JohnBoy

kylefitzy · Jan 8, 2024

MACK E-6 said: ↑

UPS has pups like that. I think the floor slides back. They load the low section and close it, then load the rest.
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FLHT said: ↑

fill the belly with freight and fold down the flooring and load over the top.
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Ahhhh! Folding or sliding floor makes sense. Thank you.

IH9300SBA · Jan 8, 2024

viper822004 said: ↑

FedEx ground doesn’t have heavy trailers. It’s all single boxes. The trailers are light. Only time you switch is if the back trailer is just way to light.
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Wrong, they paid many a overweight ticket at Odessa, MO scales when Scholatsic was shipping hot and heavy. This was back in early 2000's, but I'm sure it's not much different now at times.

IH9300SBA · Jan 8, 2024

kylefitzy said: ↑

I have a question that I never knew where to ask. You guys would probably know.
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Is the floor of this type trailer flat or depressed? If they are depressed do they just stack boxes on top of boxes?
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The rollers ran down the center, load the belly and fold-down platforms rested on the rollers once it was full. UPS went to flat floors and FedEx followed suit a few years later, although I'm sure there's still some in circulation.

JohnBoy · Jan 8, 2024

Lonesome said: ↑

Just curious, do you ever get a heavy trailer? If so, how do they rework them?
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Weight wise, from my understanding, the loads are under 15,000 pounds each. One of the teams here have said to me they average under 20,000 total load.

JohnBoy · Jan 8, 2024

MACK E-6 said: ↑

@JohnBoy If you would, in light of what Viper just said allow me to pass on a bit a wisdom that I caught on to in my own experience pulling pups that has served me well.

If you have access to a scale, use it every time. Not so much out of concern for being over gross or on an axle, but just to be able to tell on your own if your trailers are backwards.

If the dolly axle and the rear trailer axle both individually scale heavier than the front trailer axle, that’s a dead giveaway that there’s a problem. Every time I’ve encountered that, reversed the set and reweighed, everything wound up reading progressively less from front to back which is always a good thing.
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Thanks Mack, I knew you’d come up with something to guide me along.

JohnBoy · Jan 8, 2024

Here is a snap shot off what we call our trip buddy. It shows the weight of each trailer. Like what has been told to me by alot of you folks, and to me when I was hooking sets last week, heavier trailer in the front.

BM 58 · Jan 8, 2024

Tracy Byrd was a good country singer. Now a FedEx driver. How about that! Lol

Redtwin · Jan 8, 2024

Jamie01 said: ↑

I would stage the dolly in front of the kite, then slowly back my lead trailer to it, listening with the window down. When I hear the trailer tap the dolly, I pull forward maybe 6-12 inches. Hook up to the dolly and back it under the kite. This might not work with all styles of trailer and dolly, but it did for ours.
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I preferred the gentle tap method also.

My quick tip is, always dump the dolly air fully before moving it. You only have to get jabbed in the gut once when pushing a dolly and brakes suddenly grab before learning that lesson.

You are going to love how doubles go around corners. Nothing like whipping into a McDonald's parking lot for a sneaky egg McMuffin while hauling a full set and spinning around in a space a straight truck would have to 3 point turn to get out of.

MACK E-6 · Jan 8, 2024

Jamie01 said: ↑

I would stage the dolly in front of the kite, then slowly back my lead trailer to it, listening with the window down. When I hear the trailer tap the dolly, I pull forward maybe 6-12 inches. Hook up to the dolly and back it under the kite. This might not work with all styles of trailer and dolly, but it did for ours.
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That might not work so well with the dollies that have crank landing gear, but few companies use those nasty SOBs anymore.

JohnBoy · Jan 9, 2024

Well now. I’ve learned something new. Because of all the bad weather throughout the country, and the roads being shut down, it has a direct effect on what we do nationwide. All of our regular hubs are missing sorts because of lack of inbound trucks. So yesterday and today I’m running local for part of the day. That’s fine with me. Gives me time to set up shop and do some shopping for some much needed groceries.

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