FedEx Ground

FedEx Ground Linehaul with JohnBoy

 

Your experience really depends on the contractor you work for . Some are great , some are absolutely horrible

Pulling doubles itself is pretty easy , windy conditions and getting in situations where you have to back up are bad …..Setting them up is easy ; put the dolly in front of the light trailer first then back up the lead trailer to the dolly . Eventually you’ll be able to back up the front trailer and dolly into the rear trailer but sometimes it’s faster just to do the above . Some of the terminals are complete madhouses with lots going on and it can be overwhelming at first until you get the hang of it

Are you getting a dedicated run or running wild ?

 

Your success or failure will be based solely on the contractor you hire on with. In short, half of them are very good, the other half aren’t. Of the ones that are good, there’s the top 10 percent that are excellent. Pay wise, it depends if you are on a guaranteed salary, mileage, running solo, running team, what hub you’ll be assigned to, dedicated or wildcat. All this comes into play. As far as never running doubles, I never did either. I reached out to a lot of LTL drivers here that gave me a boatload of helpful insight. 20 months later, it’s a piece of cake. My only regret? I didn’t leave truckload CPM pay years ago. If you have any particular questions please ask.

 

Easier than pulling a 53' imo.

 

It's a third party gig. Everything you want to do or say has to go through your contractor.

If you tell the dispatcher you're off for the holidays, they'll tell you to tell your contractor.

When you have a tractor breakdown, you call your contractor. They notify dispatch.

If it's a trailer or dolly issue, you call your contractor, then you call dispatch, then you call Fleet Net. Then you call your contractor and then your dispatcher and update them. Have fun sitting on hold.

Don't expect to get paid for drop and hooks. The greedy contractors are supposed to pass it on to the drivers but they dont.

No detention pay. No delay pay. And you definitely dont get paid for breakdowns.

Their trailers and dollies are pretty decent equipment. The other contracted drivers are pretty lazy, no one post trips, red tags or takes anything to the shop.

Oh and expect to be 2-3 hours late past your expected gate time daily because the dock cant get things loaded on time.

Really obnoxious, annoying AI driver facing cameras that watch the driver and the cameras speak to you about your driving.

Pulling doubles is challenging in winter time but its not hard. Just pay attention to hooking your set, develop a system, and do the same thing every day, and do thorough pretrips. Driving them is super easy when the weather is nice. They turn easier than a 53' trailer and you dont have to swing out wide.

Snow, wind and ice are the challenge.