Fed Ex Freight or Estes express?

I'm P&D, but they have me doing a little bit of everything besides dock work. Shuttling trailers to different terminals and the railyards, combined with P&D, this week I'm doing linehaul.. so they keeping me busy...

 

Yeah I was suprised they had the rail too... I use to do intermodal with another company in the rails and I only saw ,YRC, ABF, UPS, also... I never saw estes in there.. It good for guys that like to work nights because it give you more options to make money. if you dont wanna get stuck on linehaul, you can shuttle and/or work the rails, or P&D..

Initially my mind was set on going to fedx, I took the job at estes just to make some money in the mean time and to get a good feel for estes because I heard good things about them, and I wanted to find out for myself. After a few days of working at estes I said to myself....This place is pretty cool, and by the end of the week I was already dialed in.. So when fedx finally called with the start date is said to myself if I leave estes to go to fedx and it sucks, ima be pissed...and i rather not work the dock, at estes you only see the dock when you going to your truck.. thats it..so i decided it wasnt worth the risk going to fed x

 

@ Gazzoo64...I decided to go with estes, .I'm hired as a P&D driver but they using me like im on a extra board which I actually like and I dont have to work the dock. NO DOCK WORK great pay(they starting me off more than .49cpm)and a layed back atmosphere that you dont often see at freight carriers was the deciding factor for me. @ fed ex they told me its 75% dock work, and my gut told me I would probably regret leaving estes for fed ex because I perfer driving instead of dock work. I'm aware of the slow season coming up, thats fine, every industry has its slow period at certain times of the year.

I dont buy into the bigger is better deal...look at USF Reddaway vs SAIA for example..Reddaway is a much bigger company because they're apart of YRC, they do get free medical but from what i hear its garbage and they start off at $16 dollars and hour OT after 8, some dock work too, and old equipment... SAIA is smaller, and the pay is better, ($19-23 per hr/53+cpm) OT after 40 hours, great benefits, new equipment and no dock work.. im sure they're are more examples or better examples but thats just my opinion.

Now if it was Fed Ex Express I would have gave it shot, Fed Ex Express is a different operation than Fed Ex Freight, Similar to UPS and UPS freight.

 

WOW!!.. that sucks.. oh well lol

 

Yes iam P&D, but they allow me to shuttle and run line also