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@Jenkins2020 --

FedEx Ground Class A Truck Driver - PEAK DRIVERS NEEDED $1700+/wk- job post
FedEx Ground Partner - AR Transportation Services
Ellenwood, GA 30294

$1,600 - $2,000 a week - Full-time, Part-time

Full Job Description
Additional Peak drivers needed! Earn $1,750+ per week!! SOLO HOME DAILY!!!

$0.65 - $0.80 per mile!!

FEDEX GROUND CONTRACTOR NEEDS CLASS A CDL Drivers. HOME DAILY! WEEKLY DIRECT DEPOSIT! NO TOUCH DROP AND HOOK!!!

We are looking for experienced class A drivers to serve our supply chain logistics department in a safe and timely manner. We are a safety focused company with customer service and driver satisfaction as our top priorities. THIS POSITION TURNS OUT OF FEDEX HUB 303 - ELLENWOOD, GA. DAY and NIGHT RUNS.

Must have verifiable experience with doubles/triples experience.

BENEFITS:

• 100% NO TOUCH FREIGHT! DROP AND HOOK!!
• Terminal-to-terminal runs.
• HOME EVERYDAY!!
• Year-round work
• Weekly direct deposit
• Referral bonus
• Extra $0.05/mile for working 6 days
• Automatic Freightliners

REQUIRED:

• SAFETY AND CUSTOMER SERVICE FOCUSED!!
• Valid Class A CDL
• Current DOT Medical Card (MUST MAINTAIN AT ALL TIMES)
• Doubles Endorsement
• MINIMUM of 12 months verifiable experience in the past 3 years or 5 years of verifiable experience in the past 10 years.
• 21 years of age or older
• No more than 1 non-serious moving violation in the past 3 yrs (seat belt counts as a serious moving violation)No DUI's in last 5 years, NO drug convictions or cargo theft
• No serious felonies or misdemeanors
• Must pass drug screen/background check

Please speak to our Talent Acquisition Manager for more details.

Work Remotely

• No

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: $1,600.00 - $2,000.00 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid orientation
• Paid time off
• Paid training
• Passenger ride along program
• Referral program
• Safety equipment provided
• Vision insurance

Supplemental pay types:

• Performance bonus
• Signing bonus

Trucking driver type:

• Company driver
• Solo driver

Trucking home time:

• Home daily

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Ellenwood, GA 30294: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• CDL Driving: 1 year (Required)
• Doubles: 1 year (Required)

License/Certification:

• CDL Class A (Required)
• Doubles/Triples Endorsement (Required)

Shift availability:

• Day Shift (Preferred)
• Night Shift (Preferred)
• Overnight Shift (Preferred)

--Lual

 

Unfortunately not. They are kinda in limbo back in SC. Right now I am staying with some family, which is not an ideal setup. Fortunately I am almost all caught up on my bills after Holland kicked me to the curb. Right now I am trying to generate paystubs so I can get a small house to have room for everyone. This won't happen until January I am guessing.

You can buy a really decent starter home up here for about $80k. Granted, almost everything up here was build prior to the first World War, but they are weather proof and keep in heat. As much as I want to go back right now, I pretty much have to stay here to get some form of local work history going so I can get a loan.

Mentally I am too busy to think of anything other than work. I am pushing about 80 hours on a 6 day work week. It's actually really easy on me. I had to deal with this back in Iraq when I was isolated from my ex then. My wife and kids are taking it kinda hard. They are for lack of better words just stranded.

As I said before, I don't wish this on anyone. I now make more than enough to pull through at the end. I am sure there are many others out there that aren't doing so well, and to those I wish them the best.

 

You'll work it out.
Best wishes.
Pay attention to Christmas.
Big dot deal there.

 

Found out since Christmas Eve and Day are paid and on the weekend we are working the 23rd and 26th even though the company says we are Observing the Holiday those two days and our customers aren't going to be there to deliver to. Plus we are having a Christmas Potluck on the 23rd so I'm sure all the food will either be gone or super "fresh" for all of us stuck on Closeout that day.

Oh yeah, also they decided to axe 5 more People the week before Christmas to go with the 10 they did the week before Thanksgiving. Hooray Holland.

 

Well gents (and any ladies reading this),

I have spectacularly quit my job. Three weeks after I started, I sent my boss a text Wednesday night telling him that Thursday would be my last shift. I legit just collected my last check and quit.

I know it's an incredible crap thing to do to not even give notice when he is in dire need of drivers. I was taking home $2,000 a week roughly but I had to quit and now I am driving home back to South Carolina from Montana. I've been stuck in Sturgis/Rapid City SD for the past three days because I-90 has been shut down.

I have nothing lined up when I get back except I made enough to be ahead of my bills for 6 weeks.

So why would I walk off a job like this? Working hours were wonky. There was no start time but they told you where you had to be so you came in whenever you thought you could get there. Customers were either super local or anywhere between 3-11 hours of driving out.

No no no, you read that right. This is all daycab work. My coworker came in to work at 2 AM, left Miles City for Thompson Falls (he said it was 10-11 hours out). Two hours to download the product, get fuel and food, then 10-11 hours back. All of this is done without log books.

The outlaw in me goes "why not, the boss pays me per hour", but the 80-100 hour work weeks isn't even why I quit.

Drivers are responsible for the own maintenance. Not just topping off oil or maybe replacing an airline. I am talking about changing your own oil and regreasing all the pivot points on your brake system.

So then on Tuesday I discovered a massive air leak. I had a brake chamber and air was pissing out of the housing when you applied the service brake. So I was like "ok, so let's OOS this truck and get someone down here".

NOPE, we already have spare part for this. Here is a bunch of wrenches you'll need, there are more over there by the tool box, and you probably need to cage your parking brake so you can unhinge your slack adjuster.

Well splendid! Let put my super claustrophobic arse underneath my truck and change out a brake chamber. And before I install it, the push rod needs to be mechanically shortened by several inches. Then reassemble everything, then readjust the slack adjuster to ensure the pads touch the drum. Cause God forbid I roll off a cliff cause I missed a step after watching a YouTube tutorial on how to do something that people specifically go to school for.

So no, between that and having to realize that we don't have a mechanic on staff the reality set in that I was in over my head. I was in Norris SD. It's a six hour drive which includes 1 hour of remote rural driving. There was nothing .. and I mean absolutely nothing out there. I told my coworker that if I broke down, I would be f-u-d-g-e-d. "No you won't R/R, you just have to fix it. Last thing you want to do is freeze to death over one out of 50k things that could go wrong with these 15 year old trucks."

Ummm... No thanks. I can not do this job.

 

--Lual

 

That’s wild. We thought OTR megas were bad to work for lol.

 

I am still at Saia here in Nevada and working steady every night and still a line driver and on a bid run, no run cuts or anything like that, were supposed to have a rebid the first week of January so I guess I will see what that brings when the time comes.

 

After hearing of the layoffs at different YRC terminals im glad I turned down there offer. Told me I would be #58 on a 60 driver board. And I quickly said no thanks. But with the layoffs it kind of makes me wonder why did they have openings?

 

@road_runner , man look into some regional / dedicated stuff from one of the bigs. It's not so bad and you'll be home more than when you were in Montana or North Dakota or wherever the heck you were.