FedEx Freight Diary (ala Russian Rabbit)

Sounds like FedEx Ground. Totally different deal than Freight.

 

Try asking on browncafe.com. It’s a UPS forum, but they have a large FedEx Ground subforum.

 

Ah crap, so what’s the beef with FedEx ground? I’ve only ever worked with Freight lol

 

How much time is given on the FedEx freight runs? Like terminal to terminal, do they calculate the run at 50 mph or say be there in 6 hours? I hear the runs are tight but how tight ?

 

The shorter ones of less than 50 miles usually take 5-10 min less than what’s estimated. Longer runs that I’ve done are usually pretty spot on to exactly how long it takes in good conditions, including the time built in for a mid-trip break. Go through a scale and it can put you a few minutes behind. But the times are just estimates, not goals to be achieved. It’s not like you’re going to get yelled at if you show up 30 minutes late.

 

As a former Fed Ex Ground contractor myself, please do yourself a favor and do not lower your standards by working for a ground contractor, if you are with Freight now, either stay their or only take employment with other reputable LTL carriers, unless ofcourse you are looking at other jobs outside the LTL box like fuel, cyro, heavy haul ect, not every FDX Ground contractor is bad to work for, but overall there is just to much inconsistency, for every one good contractor there is probably nine others I wouldn't give a bucket of piss to work for to put it bluntly, the contractors are really the only ones that have a prosperous financial future there, as for the drivers it's just a job and a means of getting by, there is no future for just being a driver there.