Fedex Ground Contractor

Lonesome · Apr 30, 2021

Tonka11-99 said: ↑

Like with all trucking firms, there are good ones and bad ones. You need to do a lot of research. Talk to drivers. Ask a lot of questions. With Fedex ground, you can't hardly find a solo job. 90% of it is team driving. Like it or not. Team driving is where the industry is headed. The trick there is finding a compatible team mate and working hard to get along. You find a sensitive subject... back off and talk about something else.

Fedex ground is all independent contractors. They could have 2 trucks or a 100 trucks. A lot of it has been taken over by investors. It is called "equity trucking".
It is like a franchise. A lot of these guys don't know much about trucking but they have a lot of money. They hire managers but they can be flakes.
There are good contractors out there. You just have to find one.
There are two ways of running. You can be on a dedicated route... usually 5 days on 2 days off and running 4000 to 5500 miles per week.. usually.
The 2nd way is running on an OTR wild team. That is where they go where they are told by the line haul office. The successful wild teams learn how to work the system. They are runners. They stay out for a month or more at a time and then take 4 to 7 days off. There goal is to get as many miles as possible. The successful ones run 6000 to 7000 miles a week. It isn't easy and you have to ask, cajole , do favors for the line haul people. Whatever you have to do to get miles. I know a guy that is tracking at 7400 miles this week. Most people can't be truck drivers. Well most truck drivers can't be successful Fedex Ground Wild team drivers. You have to have a special home life situation where the wife is willing to do without you for weeks at a time. You won't be at Timmy's graduation or Becky's recital.

if you can make your 6000 miles in a week at 70 cents a mile split.. that's $2100... not too bad for a guy that didn't go to college.
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Who are Timmy and Becky?

PSM379 · Jul 24, 2022

Tonka11-99 said: ↑

Like with all trucking firms, there are good ones and bad ones. You need to do a lot of research. Talk to drivers. Ask a lot of questions. With Fedex ground, you can't hardly find a solo job. 90% of it is team driving. Like it or not. Team driving is where the industry is headed. The trick there is finding a compatible team mate and working hard to get along. You find a sensitive subject... back off and talk about something else.

Fedex ground is all independent contractors. They could have 2 trucks or a 100 trucks. A lot of it has been taken over by investors. It is called "equity trucking".
It is like a franchise. A lot of these guys don't know much about trucking but they have a lot of money. They hire managers but they can be flakes.
There are good contractors out there. You just have to find one.
There are two ways of running. You can be on a dedicated route... usually 5 days on 2 days off and running 4000 to 5500 miles per week.. usually.
The 2nd way is running on an OTR wild team. That is where they go where they are told by the line haul office. The successful wild teams learn how to work the system. They are runners. They stay out for a month or more at a time and then take 4 to 7 days off. There goal is to get as many miles as possible. The successful ones run 6000 to 7000 miles a week. It isn't easy and you have to ask, cajole , do favors for the line haul people. Whatever you have to do to get miles. I know a guy that is tracking at 7400 miles this week. Most people can't be truck drivers. Well most truck drivers can't be successful Fedex Ground Wild team drivers. You have to have a special home life situation where the wife is willing to do without you for weeks at a time. You won't be at Timmy's graduation or Becky's recital.

if you can make your 6000 miles in a week at 70 cents a mile split.. that's $2100... not too bad for a guy that didn't go to college.
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That sounds horrible.

Juliemac · Feb 27, 2024

I'm a wild team but not running at all for past 4 days! Sitting at hub with no freight! I said in the beginning can't you send us to a surrounding hub that has freight? They said no which is ######## as other hubs do it all the time. So now we are on day 4 of waiting, and linehaul tells me this morning we will have something between now and noon but if we don't, we will send you to another hub! Wtf,! Why now is it ok? I'm livid right now. And this is the best part...our contractor doesn't want to pay us the time we are detained here! Tell me who would sit here for days unpaid , missing out on current work for the week just to be picked around?

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