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They have an agreement of shared services........ but I wonder why about......

just about every segment of Tru-TV where you have a set of pups folding up in disaster....it's the Fedex ground guys AKA the contractors.

In last nights segment ( Orlando I believe ) theres a wreck, McLane grocery has bounced off the wall and messed up his corn binder in the rain...... as we watch the video, the Fedex union boys ease through with pups in a day cab and then here it comes, the contractor folding up and jackknifing into the fire truck and the same wall McLane bounced off.

It's hard not to see a correlation here...... I never see the union boys fly by me 5 feet apart at 80 mph , pups wagging and I never see the union boys in the ditch.....

Q: Is it me or is there a direct link to the quality of driver you get for the dollar you offer ?

 

I do not beleive any fedex driver is Union,...


You are right however that companies that are Union typically have a much better safety record and a higher quality workforce,...

 

Uhhh.....there are no FedEx Union boys. Do you mean FedEx Freight?

I do. The union guys usually come BLOWING around me in construction zones, small towns where they are going about 25 mph over the speed limit, or school zones. They drive governed trucks, so the only place they can pass anyone is in places where they are SUPPOSED to slow down. It's not just the union LTL carriers I see doing that, but most of the big companies that have governed trucks. The last three sets of doubles I saw lying on their sides were union carriers. That really doesn't mean anything. You'd have to look at overall numbers, not what individual drivers see. That's circumstantial.

There are reasons why you see this, and it's mostly stupidity.

I don't know why FedEx Ground drivers are seen driving the way they do. They are dispatched at less than 50mph. I would be willing to bet that the ones that you see driving like morons are not contractors, but driving for contractors. Probably being under payed by a contractor. The contractors I know don't drive like that, though I am sure there are bound to be some.

Of course, the contractors I know don't drive on the major interstates, either. They are able to get runs that go out and come back in and stay on the smaller highways and be home daily.

There are contractors out there that don't pay their drivers anything, and I think that's where the problem lies. I think you are right there. Since the dispatch is not at all tight, I still can't figure out why anyone is driving that way. There's never anyone telling you to hurry and the way the fuel surcharge works, you make huge extra bucks by getting great fuel mileage. Hard to get that driving like an idiot.

 

I see..... so the original FEDEX union hands are gone ? They drove the cab over corn binders and did relays at night . They flew the red logo. The van operators doing the pick up were union also however my info may be old.

Regarding the contractors, dunno, can't say who's behind the wheel . I see the contractor advertising sheet wages for pup operations ( .32 ) and maybe that's why but I can't say again.

I'm simply a firm believer that the better you take care of a man then the better he takes care of you / his job as his job is "worth having " .

 

I don't think anyone at fedex has ever been Union,...Except the pilots,....

 

There's a lot more mail trucked via FedEx Ground than most people realize, too. I used to pull 53' trailers full of mail as a FedEx ground contractor. Of course, FedEx screwed that all up the way they've done everything else, so I got off of that run. There are still two guys who run at least two 53' loads of mail nightly out of our terminal, though. I just quit doing it when the cOmpany started playing games and I felt I needed to get Off of that before I got hosed.

 

I don't know the actual terms of the agreement or the FedEx Ground end of it but FedEx Express I believe has a 6.3 billion dollar contract to move USPS Express Mail, Priority Mail, First-Class Mail and a portion of some international mail. At least on the Express end it rarely touches our trucks it is usually brought to us by USPS and transloaded onto our aircraft.

 

Yes,

As the Popular Mechanics article I posted the link to on pg.1 last night says, USPS Express packages are flown on FedEx aircraft.

I just spoke to my sister back in western Massachusetts. She's a USPS mail carrier on a rural route. I mentioned this thread, and she told me that recently, BOTH UPS and FedEx are dropping packages daily at her Post Office, and that the carriers are then delivering "the last mile" to the recipients. She also says that she still sees trucks from both carriers along her route, so, at least in some rural areas, rather than add drivers and trucks, FedEx and UPS use USPS for the overflow.

I never knew any of this until the past 24 hours...