Got A Job With Fed Ex custom Critical

My first job is with Werner too. I'm at the six month mark and starting to look for another company. They're ok as a "training" company but I don't see how some drivers stay on for years. How do they make a living? I can tell they don't have a good reputation out on the road. Some O/O won't park next to a Werner truck....can ya blame them? They don't want their bumpers torn off. Heck, some will even move to another spot.
I'm looking for a FedEx Custom Critical co-driver position. I'm a retired Army officer with a TS clearance, mega certifications, all endorsements, and a spotless DAC report... that should land me a good driver's position. I got two calls so far but I don't think they were a good fit for me.

 

I tell you what My wife and I get 60/40 and pay for fuel. Far as tolls I negotiate tolls with the company if I dont get tolls reembused I refuse the load. I plan fuel stops and we clean up. I keep good records it is say I am very anual about this and I cant show data that week after week my take home and the Owners Gross are within a few dollars of each other. He sends me a copy of his statement if I wish so I know It is right. But if you do not have the ability to keep good records and make informed desisions you will lose your behind. He pays for all truck repairs, Truck payments every other expence for the truck out of his 40% before he can take home anything.So my funds out weigh his by 2 times the key to owners is they owner multiple trucks. figure it take 5 trucks to equal 1 Driver pay. Just do the math for your-self numbers dont lie unless you want them too.

 

Man I have read a lot of post from you complainy about setting time . Let me ask you this if you are so unhappy why not go driver for JB or Martin they will run you into the ground and pay the same as you get now or maybe less and the you can run run run as you like. myself I would rather run less and make more than run more and make less. but wait maybe that is why are still here you cant make as much as you do anywhere ealse. Cant take the heat get out of the kitchen.

 

I don't see Thunder as complaining, so much as commenting. With expediting, wait time is frequent. It's one reason a lot of OTR drivers, when they go into expediting from regular OTR, leave after a short while. They are used to running constantly (at least most of the time) and the mentality is "If I'm not running, I'm not making any money". With expediting, it's way more erratic.

Case in point, the owner I'll be driving for has been out solo while waiting for me to finish up Fedex orientation. 2 weeks ago, he had several loads, and made good money for the week. Last week, he sat a lot more, but got a load Thursday that delivers today. That load is paying him a bit more than the total he made the week before! Doesn't happen often, but illustrates how different expediting can be.

Also, if you are used to taking home a certain average amount per week, it's difficult to adjust your thinking to looking at a monthly or quarterly avg. Get a couple of bad weeks and you think you're going broke. But look at the whole month, or qurter, and you might be doing excellent.

With regards to some of the earlier postings, I'm doing the 60/40 split with the truck owner. I get 60% of load pays. all miles. I pay fuel, he pays for all other items, including tolls (he has ezpass). He also pays my workers comp. Most states don't require WC, but NC does. By law, he has to pay it, but unlike lots of owners, he's actually paying it, and not charging it back to me (which, by law, they can also do). All I pay for is fuel, and the odd toll that doesn't use ezpass, which he'll reimburse.

 

I have been with FedEx CC for 18 months now. Yes, it is different. I would not drive for any other expeditor. Period. That said, expediting is like prospecting. You have to do it long enough for the "Light Bulb" to come on, where you understand the game. No one tells you what to do, where to go. The pay is phenomenal, once you get your qualifications and learn the lanes. Most OTR drivers never catch on. They are way too used to being told what to do, when, and for how much. That mindset will not work in expediting, at all.

 

As for the "game" of waiting, I am not used to waiting more than 2 days for my next load. Most of the time I am pre-dispatched for the next load, often before I have picked up the load I am on. I have run out of hours several times recently. If you are sitting, waiting on a load, you are not playing the game correctly.

Recently in California from run from East Coast. Many FedEx CC trucks stacked up when I got there. I was out and on load within 2 days, while most were still there, cherry-picking loads. I work with dispatchers to get me out of there. My reward was high-paying loads going back east. 3 times in 3 weeks this happened only a few weeks back. Yet, everywhere, drivers complain of sitting with no loads. They just don't get it.

 

Hey Wolfie007z, if you know of an O/O that is willing to take me on, let me know. I have been pre qualified, I was told that because I don't have recent verifible experience that I would have to go as a co-driver for 6 months, and the truck would be considered a solo operation, but that the rules could and probably would be broken. Meaning that it would get team loads. Another O/O may put me on, but I can't wait forever on him.
I am a 50 yr old white female who lives in the Dallas area. I don't care if I am out for weeks at a time. I just need the job. I can give you a reference of an E truck O/O that can vouch for me.

 

fedex CC is good if you have the right O/O....my O/O turned more loads down in the last 2 months and is complaining why he makes no money....I,m looking for a O/O ...i have my Fedex Tag and i was driving for 9 weeks ..i Have CDL A licence and drove 42" sleeper box truck...

 

Go find a different company or look on EO in the wanted section

 

was it ur fedex truck on its side today at the 158 on the 80 in pa #### fedex drivers...