FedEx Freight Diary (ala Russian Rabbit)
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Had a fairly uneventful week with this paycheck. I got about average miles and did about 3.5hrs per night on the dock. I even managed to go the entire week without needing to go to the shop. The little bit of delay time was due to some bs with placards that another driver should have noticed but I got stuck with correcting.
The $0.0018 increase in my mileage rate due to the raise kicking in this week added a whole dollar to my gross pay! At least I still have the step progression to look forward to on my hiring anniversary in the spring.Attached Files:
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This week was a week that was all over the place. My run was cut 3 times this past week. Once for a lack of freight for my lane, the other two was for lack of available drivers. Those runs were nice, easy meet runs with no issues preventing a straight through trip using the GW Bridge to NJ, preventing me from adding another 40 minutes of transit by taking the Tappan Zee instead (I refuse to call it the Governor Mario Cuomo Bridge, it's a travesty that they named such a beautiful new bridge after him).
The lack of freight cut was no bueno, but could have been worse and not work that night. Instead, I bumped down to a run with almost half the mileage of my bid AND forced dock work. I'm much more effective in a yard horse than on a forklift, so fortunately that hub lets me work my magic in the yard instead. Me being on a lift virtually guarantees a 2 bill per hour move rating lol.
My "raise" went into effect, yippee. Only two more weeks until I'm working on top out scale, which I'll see on the November 8 stub.Attached Files:
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Remember, placards are a dock operation, not a driver operation, sucks drivers tend to get stuck with it. The supervisor in my center places and removes placards on every trailer necessary before he closes them to the road, fortunately. At the hub I go to, guys in my barn refuse hooks when they hand us placards with our paperwork. I just take them and put in for 10 minutes of delay time usually.FlaSwampRat and jmz Thank this. -
When you have a move to pull an empty from the house to the empty line, look down the list for a move that requires an empty to be moved from the empty line to a door and kill two birds with one stone. When my buddy and I end up going to the dock bid hub, 3 of us are able to run a cramped and very busy yard for a 120 something door hub and keeping the moves down to 3 pages or less no matter what time of the evening. The last page is usually all van moves for a senior guy that does nothing but moves vans all night.FlaSwampRat, Gearjammin' Penguin and jmz Thank this. -
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Curious what the difference between a van and a trailer are in the context of FXF. Are we talking actual Econoline vans, bread truck like step van, or a special type of trailer? Sorry in advance if this is a stupid question.
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