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FedEx Freight | No More Driving Extension

I have a question, if you are rescued and the driver shows up in a company car , can you drive that car back to the terminal? Or do they have to send another driver for your truck
 
Dock supervisors try and hold you for freight and telling you to use your 16. Drivers runs are to long if you have to constantly use your 16, I got wrote up for going over my 14 so if I'm getting close and I can see I'm not going to make it ,I'll go get a room. The drivers and dispatch have done it to themselves
 
westdriver said:
Dock supervisors try and hold you for freight and telling you to use your 16. Drivers runs are to long if you have to constantly use your 16, I got wrote up for going over my 14 so if I'm getting close and I can see I'm not going to make it ,I'll go get a room. The drivers and dispatch have done it to themselves
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“Use your 16”
“Nope, call my center and get them ready to rescue me”.

I’ve learned the hard way after using the 16 to get home that the absolute only day of the week I will use the 16 is on Saturday morning to get home for the weekend.
 
westdriver said:
Dock supervisors try and hold you for freight and telling you to use your 16. Drivers runs are to long if you have to constantly use your 16, I got wrote up for going over my 14 so if I'm getting close and I can see I'm not going to make it ,I'll go get a room. The drivers and dispatch have done it to themselves
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Drivers cant do it without the approval of someone. Aka central
 
All most every extension needed is for less than 30 minutes needed to finish the run.
All this or aleast most of it would go away if Fedex would just let the trucks run 70. But the powers of bean counters rather spend millions of lost revenue and restructure a system they never recover from.
Then they will say we just cant have these long runs. PTs here we come to the rescue
 
Gator said:
All most every extension needed is for less than 30 minutes needed to finish the run.
All this or aleast most of it would go away if Fedex would just let the trucks run 70. But the powers of bean counters rather spend millions of lost revenue and restructure a system they never recover from.
Then they will say we just cant have these long runs. PTs here we come to the rescue
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We tried that once. Couldn’t keep em. Can’t blame for not wantin to drag heavy pups for 1.10 a mile.
 
Gator said:
All most every extension needed is for less than 30 minutes needed to finish the run.
All this or aleast most of it would go away if Fedex would just let the trucks run 70. But the powers of bean counters rather spend millions of lost revenue and restructure a system they never recover from.
Then they will say we just cant have these long runs. PTs here we come to the rescue
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Forget about 70. Not going to happen. XPO turned their trucks back down because of a 30% increase in catastrophic accidents after going from 65 to 70.
 
silent trucker said:
Forget about 70. Not going to happen. XPO turned their trucks back down because of a 30% increase in catastrophic accidents after going from 65 to 70.
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That was also a year with record freight and hiring... newer drivers tend to make more mistakes... there's more to the story than 5 mph. There were also way to many stupid restrictions on that 70mph that required the driver to rely on the truck rather than his own driving abilities. Cruise control had to be used and wipers couldn't.
 
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