Life Post FedEx Freight... as a Local Cryo Driver

Sorry to change topic. A buddy of mine who used to work at fedex freight said. That dock pay was seperate from driving pay. So if they had him do alot of dock work his pay would go down.

Does your barn(s) work like that or different?

 

OK, the barn doesn't matter in this case.

If you are a line driver, you are paid per mile while you drive. When you're fueling, delayed, drop/hooking or working the dock, you go on hourly pay. Hourly pay, when compared to what you'd make per mile at @ 60mph, is less...

...but you still get paid for everything you do. So there's that.

 

I work at another ltl company and so does he. But he used to be at fedex freight. He said that 35 an hour driver pay goes down to 15 an hour dock worker pay rate if he arrives at terminal and they have him do dock work.

 

He said basically if he is doing dock work he is payed dock worker pay. While driving he is payed driver pay. Thats how he said the pay was calculated when he worked there. Not sure if all fedex freight is like that. This is what my buddy said that yes his pay DID change depending on what he was doing.

 

Oh--Kalifornia. Yeah, that's different than how we pay drivers in the USA.

 

I am not with FXF, but what you are describing sounds more like a California pay system, Saia pays their California line drivers a hourly rate now, 30 something for their road rate rate (driving) and 20 something for their work rate (pre/post trip, fueling, hooking, dock, ect).

 

Does this mean they are taking you off cyro or is this just for training? How did you like the tanker? I have only pulled smooth bore with sulfuric acid, and bottle with anhydrous ammonia, quite a bit of surge with the smooth bore even though it was only 3000 or 3500 gal, cant remember exactly.