FedEx Freight | FedEx can't find drivers!

Never in my life have seen a hiring or drivers needed sign in a FXF yard. The purchase drivers that come and go are like a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the overall group..lol. I also believe the 20 mile road runs are also a small sample. I just 100% disagree. If the hiring process and wageswere more openly displayed there would be guys killing to get in here. This company actually has some high standards for getting hired. That keeps more out than anything I would think. Like I said, finding guys that can pass drug screen and background checks is the problem. This will only get worse as more stares legalize pot.

PT is a fraction of a fraction. No short mileage shuttles.
W(where)TF do you work? Some itty-bitty relay yard in the middle of BFE?
Now I know my next statement has to be considered a lie.
Not because I read it on the Internet, but because a Red Shirt that I've known for 20 years said it.

Currently PT and rails account for 65% of our freight movement.

Fraction of a fraction?
 
I think it is finding qualified drivers that is the problem. That coupled with many OTR guys have no idea just how much better this side of the fence pays or even how or where to apply. When I worked for the small local flatbed company here it was honestly difficult to find guys that could pass a drug test or that were not complete dumb asses. In my opinion it doesn't have a lot to do with our working condition. I can assure you there are many OTR, 35 cpm, home 4 days a month guys that would kill to fill your positions. These jobs and how to find them just aren't effectively advertised. I had no clue what it was all about or what it paid until I sold a national driver a cb radio on ebay. He wanted to talk to me about the radio and we started talking about the job and how and where to apply.
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Last I spoke to any OTR truckload drivers a few years back when FXFW was struggling to find drivers.....
35 cents a mile and not getting home was just fine.
The prospect of making (at that time) 55 cpm was fantastic right until the topic of pulling doubles or running in the snow came up.

Steelhauler, you are, and this is not an insult, atypical.
 
Very accurate frtshaker, and well said. Everything you just wrote is right on. All you are at FedEx Freight is a number, not sure on the respect, but yes they do not praise your work very much, if any. It's just a paycheck to me, another truck driving job, with different, well recognize lettering and colors (Purple and Red) until I retire in less then 10 yrs. It does have a horrible retirement, like $50 bucks a month, unless you put in your 30 years, then you get a whopping $ 125.00 week or so. Big deal, unless you live off the grid in wild Alaska. Other then that, just do your job, don't complain, take pictures of the freight that's damaged, loaded wrong, not secure, no placards etc. and drive safely, take your time, especially backing up. The one thing I cannot stand is some customers mistreating you, then call the terminal and say that you were the one that has a bad attitude, and FedEx agrees with them. The pay for a city driver is so far apart from a road driver. I know the difference between hard work, and sitting on my duff for 10 hrs. driving down the same freeway every night, compared to dealing with customers, climbing up and down the trailer, bad doors, backing up 40 times a day etc. City drivers should make at least what UPS pays them, like $ 28hr.or more. It's a joke, and the road drivers know it, how hard we work, pulling off some freight weighing 2,000 lbs. or more, inside deliveries, etc. I would go back to road in a New York second, if only I could stay awake from being so bored, holding on to the steering wheel, and trying to keep my smelly butt from sweating so much, from all that seat time. And as far as a new road driver, no truck driver wants to work the dock, 10hrs.a night, then hooking up a set or two, only to drive a few miles. And please get rid of ALL the part time dock workers. They do not know how to load, cause the most damage, and could care less about their future with FedEx, because they have no plans on staying, when they have other jobs, or going to college.
 
Everyone lags behind UPSF. SAIA is offering a $5000 dollar signing bonus. OD is going to the schools to get drivers. McClain's is offering $2000 sign on bonus. I'm out west with some big runs and lots of city work and we can't find anyone to drive our trucks. So no... driver can't be found!

saia giving 5000 bonus to work there, and fedex it takes 25 years safe driving to get 5000 bonus
 
Upsf gives you a cheap ass pin to wear oh wait that violates the uniform policy so you can't wear it but you still get the worthless pin every year
 
You're not bursting my bubble bro I was just giving some reasons why big bad fedex might not be able to find drivers. Okay it's like this for example let's say OD, UPSF, SAIA and FEDEX are hiring and there's 100 drivers available those other LTL companies would be able to fill there position fairly easy compared to Fedex because of the bad reputation that fedex has thrown out on the street. Just read all the post here on TB would you want to work at FedEx? FedEx is a big fail when it comes to knowing how to treat their employees! Very sad but true.
 
Upsf ain't too far behind them on that front. We are just numbers only difference is they just can't fire us for no reason and even if they do have a reason they have to show a serious pattern before they can get it through do to all the grievance procedures
 
You're not bursting my bubble bro I was just giving some reasons why big bad fedex might not be able to find drivers. Okay it's like this for example let's say OD, UPSF, SAIA and FEDEX are hiring and there's 100 drivers available those other LTL companies would be able to fill there position fairly easy compared to Fedex because of the bad reputation that fedex has thrown out on the street. Just read all the post here on TB would you want to work at FedEx? FedEx is a big fail when it comes to knowing how to treat their employees! Very sad but true.

Here at team purple, we have a president of the freight division, who spent his entire career at Express! Never worked at a TRUCKING company in his life! With those qualifications, no wonder this place has become a joke. No wonder all these new "goals" are a joke. All he knows is the parcel business and he implements policies that would work great at a parcel company not a freight company. Mr. Smith what were you thinking sir? Bill L. doesn't even believe his own BS. He has been selling FDX stock like crazy! Insider Trades - LOGUE WILLIAM J - Yahoo! Finance
 
You're not bursting my bubble bro I was just giving some reasons why big bad fedex might not be able to find drivers. Okay it's like this for example let's say OD, UPSF, SAIA and FEDEX are hiring and there's 100 drivers available those other LTL companies would be able to fill there position fairly easy compared to Fedex because of the bad reputation that fedex has thrown out on the street. Just read all the post here on TB would you want to work at FedEx? FedEx is a big fail when it comes to knowing how to treat their employees! Very sad but true.

I think my point was no ltl can find drivers. You can't find 100 drivers to pick from to prove your hypothetical question. Like I said before, this is not the primo job it used to be. Everyone wants a job but nobody wants to work.
 
I think my point was no ltl can find drivers. You can't find 100 drivers to pick from to prove your hypothetical question. Like I said before, this is not the primo job it used to be. Everyone wants a job but nobody wants to work.

I hear ya. Personally I can't stand working :-)
 
Can you please give me an example of how they have screwed you over. Because if I am getting screwed over I might not notice. I know the supervisors arent always the best but theyget paid about 40% less than I do so I over Look it. I might be missing something. Please let me know.

I wouldn't pay top dollar for a lot of these red shirts they have. they are to young and don't know crap. they are not even worth the 40% less then we make. They are a bunch of snot nosed kids that think they know everything it's a joke.
 
Yeah, but it's remarkably easy to find steering wheel holders at hubs.
They just walk through a break room full of dock workers and say
"Who wants to be a truck driver?"
 
Never in my life have seen a hiring or drivers needed sign in a FXF yard. The purchase drivers that come and go are like a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the overall group..lol. I also believe the 20 mile road runs are also a small sample. I just 100% disagree. If the hiring process and wageswere more openly displayed there would be guys killing to get in here. This company actually has some high standards for getting hired. That keeps more out than anything I would think. Like I said, finding guys that can pass drug screen and background checks is the problem. This will only get worse as more stares legalize pot.
Here you go then steelhauler34,
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Seriously, with all the purchase transportation drivers coming in and out of our yards, surely one of them had to see the fading now hiring apply within sign outside FXF. Even those guys would rather sleep in a truck then to have to put up with all the BS here! Not to mention the having to hook and pull a set, only drive 20 miles a night, and then freeze you butt on a dock. Its a lot easier for the OTR companies to find real drivers then FXF to find dockworkers with CDLS who happened to enjoy sub freezing temperatures. Maybe FXF should start looking for "drivers" at the North Pole.
I cant believe what comes out of this computer sometimes. Every trucking company out there is struggling to find drivers. I looked into pay scale at several trucking companies when all this Union stuff started. UPS ground has rang my phone off the wall, Saia offered to bring me in at their top scale immediately. UPSF begged me to just come in and talk. After all I heard from these trucking companies I am happy to stay at Fedex. Before I came to FedEx I owned my own trucking company for nineteen years and had six trucks. I had all the freedom I wanted but struggled to find drivers and with benefits. I can be objective as I have been on the other side. The main reason a lot of drivers are afraid of Fedex and UPS is the doubles/triples. It is plain and simple.
 
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