Around my area, at one of their lager hubs, feeders and delivery drivers get paid the same. They're both currently around $35 an hour top rate, but they both get ZERO OT. Only the senior feeder drivers get OT.
Even though Parcel and Freight are two seperate divisions, they're both under the same umbrella. I've seen Parcel drivers fuel up at Freight terminals sometimes, and from my experience, they really don't get along too well with each other.
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Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by Russian Rabbit, Jan 3, 2016.
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I can imagine Freight city drivers being jealous of their Brown counterparts. The Freight guys work harder and have to deal with getting a semi into way more difficult places than the feeder guys doing switches at distribution centers all day. And with top rate being $6 less per hour, I can see there being a little tension there.
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I know some of the Parcel guys get testy when the Freight guys pull Parcel trailers during "peak" season. I'd think they'd at least be happy with Union Labor doing the work, given the number of owner operators that pull Parcel trailers during "peak".
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Feeders also does P&D. They just don't do as much as Freight. Around my area, Feeder drivers do more of the commercial and industrial P&D, where as Freight does that, and the small mom and pop stores. You'll see a lot of Parcel and Freight drivers P&Ding at the same places.Mike2633 Thanks this. -
Granted we now have 16-20 stops with later start times, but STILL much less pressure than package. i would not want to work for package no matter how good the pay was. (Well, if it paid well over 100K, like 120-130K, then maybe)
Like i said, 2 totally different atmospheres.
And BTW, before i started driving i worked as loader at small pack, "on the belt" as they say. Worst job i ever had.YouCanYouWill and Mike2633 Thank this. -
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Not to mention, Freight drivers use the older, much larger Diad scanners, where as Parcel uses the smaller, udated version.
Parcel generally has better equipment, but then again, they run a much bigger operation. -
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