FedEx Freight Diary (ala Russian Rabbit)

Relatively mundane week. Straight back to the hub I'm bidded to each night with extra miles added for taking alternate routes. Traffic has been insane lately.

Found out exactly what my raise will be, effective 10/6, I'll go from .6446cpm/$26.33hr to .6464cpm/$26.68hr (equating to a whopping $7.94/week raise). Then when my top out goes through the week of 11/3 (the date would be 10/28, except all updates become effective the following Sunday) I'll bump to .7062cpm/$30.23hr (a much more significant raise of $180.63 a week extra). Good times ahead. Good news however, is that the two vacant spots below me are in the process of being filled, so I'll no longer be on the bottom of the board again, one senior driver is questionable whether he is going to return from his medical issue, so that may be a 3rd spot under me and I was just told by another senior driver that he will be going to the City board next Spring, so I'll have potentially jumped 4 spots within a little more than a year. Granted, by the way everything looks to shake out now (with the questionable driver), a driver senior to me but on a lower mileage bid wants to make more money, so I'll potentially see no rise in the lane sequence to the hub I'm bidded to until the other driver goest to the City board.

 

Depends. 4 days of linehaul or 4 days of city? The income gap between the two is significant.

At a certain point I learned to view even 3 linehaul runs as equivalent to about a 36 hour week of p&d work, money wise (months ago when FXF was aggressively cutting runs)