It is out of your hands. Things will work out, this is a good company to work for. If you loose your job, you still get a crap load of money that they really don't have to pay you and you also get to collect unemployment for years. It will work out. This is a win win ladies and gentlemen.
Yeah, all things considered this isn't so bad.
I've been through 2 shutdowns in my time...one with an OTR carrier and one with a mail contractor.
With the OTR carrier, they just went out of business and stranded guys out on the road.
Fuel cards shutoff, terminals chained up, phones disconnected...it was a real hoot.
No severance, no transition assistance, no nothing.
Ditto with the mail contractor.
In that case, I never got paid for my last two weeks...they still owe me over $2,000.
It took 2 years of them going through bankruptcy court...but they were mortgaged to the hilt and us drivers still ended up with nothing.
What FedEx is doing makes sense from a business perspective and will make the company stronger and more competitive down the road.
The dovetailing and seniority process is for the most part fair, IMHO.
My only issue is with guys who transferred to these relay points.
A bunch of city guys I know transferred to a certain unmentioned relay point that's shutting down...I was set to go with them but my Dad got sick and I had to stay put.
It turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as I'll most likely be able to follow the freight as a city driver with my company + board seniority...I'll know for sure like the rest of you come Monday, but from what I've been told I'll be OK.
These guys who transferred 8 months ago are probably out of a job...no freight for them to follow...no opportunity to bid back into the city from where they came from...and their board seniority in linehaul is a whopping 8 months.
It's BS the way this was done...you can't tell me FedEx didn't plan a merger of this magnitude less than 8 months ago.
I'll probably stay on for awhile but I'm pretty much making moves to get out of trucking altogether.
I've got enough $$$ saved up...I'm going to start taking classes...probably go for something in the medical field.
I don't like the way this industry is headed at all...I've seen enough good people get screwed by these trucking companies.