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Gamecock Taylor said:
That's a great way of explaining it, a follow up question I have is why would the prospects of moving up the seniority list be greater at a large hub instead of a spoke? Also what's the difference between working at a hub and a spoke? This is all completely new information to me and I'm very intrigued.
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A spoke is an end of the line terminal. It only deals with freight for that area. A p/d driver picks up freight and it gets loaded into a pup. That pup goes to a hub and it gets sorted based on destination.
It's harder to build seniority because it's smaller and the guys that are there don't leave. At a hub people retire, transfer, quit, get fired or take promotions, so slots open up faster.
 
Gamecock Taylor said:
why would the prospects of moving up the seniority list be greater at a large hub instead of a spoke?
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For city & road, it's a matter of numbers (percentages). Percentage turnover & percentage growth combined make for more movement at HUB, which typically has significantly more people. Short version:10% of 200 would be 20 spots. 10 % of 10 is 1 spot.

For road, the quality of runs to choose from is vastly improved at a hub. An end of line center may never get the most desirable runs.

I'm sure there's more, but I never worked (domiciled) at a HUB.
 
Gamecock Taylor said:
How does a seniority list breakdown? For example, if you're a city driver for 5 years and you want to do Linehaul do you have to build seniority within that division? Also if that's not the case what happens if you have again a city driver with 5 years of seniority and a Linehaul driver with 5 years, who gets to chose first on a Linehaul run?
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Time there doesn't matter. Time on assignment is what matters. So if you're a city driver and you've been a city driver for 10 years and you decide that you want to be a road driver, you're at the bottom of that list. If somebody that has been there for 5 years made the switch before you, they have seniority on that list over you. And let's say you hate road and you want to go back to City, now you're at the bottom of that list.
 
Streaker69 said:
Time there doesn't matter. Time on assignment is what matters. So if you're a city driver and you've been a city driver for 10 years and you decide that you want to be a road driver, you're at the bottom of that list. If somebody that has been there for 5 years made the switch before you, they have seniority on that list over you. And let's say you hate road and you want to go back to City, now you're at the bottom of that list.
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True.

Company seniority can/will protect you from layoff. It trumps job class seniority.
 
SwampRatt said:
For city & road, it's a matter of numbers (percentages). Percentage turnover & percentage growth combined make for more movement at HUB, which typically has significantly more people. Short version:10% of 200 would be 20 spots. 10 % of 10 is 1 spot.

For road, the quality of runs to choose from is vastly improved at a hub. An end of line center may never get the most desirable runs.

I'm sure there's more, but I never worked (domiciled) at a HUB.
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To build off of this post, city bids at hubs generally offer a larger variety of start times due to most hubs being located in major cities.

For example, at an end of line center there may only be one driver who covers a particular area (say downtown) with a specific start time whereas at a hub you may have 3-4 drivers covering their downtown route with four different start times, so the opportunity to pick and get a start time (according to your seniority) that works best for your family is greater.
 
Gamecock Taylor said:
People don't leave good jobs, especially not in this business I've got first hand experience of that with relatives, but I'll keep my head down and continue to do my part and hope for the best. Thanks.
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I would stay where your at or go to a company that hasn't over hired like us. If you were to get on with us you will be sitting by the phone hoping you get a call to work (road) or hoping you don't get a call to stay home (city) because there is not enough work to go around.
 
Gamecock Taylor said:
People don't leave good jobs, especially not in this business
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Right, they don't leave good jobs. That's open to interpretation.

That said, Fedex Freight has quite a bit of turnover so keep applying. Many times the same job title will be posted under multiple job numbers so be sure and apply separately to each individual job number that interest you, even if it's the same job title/description.

Do your homework and make the best decision for yourself. Good luck driver and welcome to Truckingboards.
 
I appreciate everyone chipping in to shed light on FedEx Freight as well as sharing some of your thoughts and opinions, there's no way I can learn everything from the outside looking in but all of you have helped me learn some new things. Thank you.
 
Gamecock Taylor said:
I appreciate everyone chipping in to shed light on FedEx Freight as well as sharing some of your thoughts and opinions, there's no way I can learn everything from the outside looking in but all of you have helped me learn some new things. Thank you.
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Keep checking the website, new job numbers get posted all the time. Good Luck!! :1036316054:
 
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