Since I can no longer post on the FedEx forum, I'll put this here, hoping that some of those 32 folks (so far) who contacted me (in response to my "Purple No More" post) by PM's will see it, along with others who may find this interesting. It is not addressed to those who are happy with the way things are. In no way am I trying to "convince" anyone to leave FedEx. I don't have to. The 32 PM's prove that those people already have it in mind. This is just some more "food for thought". (Quite a few of those who wrote have TVAL trucks, and I understand that they are not interested in what E-1 can now offer, but there are others who may well be.)
As I responded to everyone who inquired, we've moved to Express-1, and are very pleased. In my responses, I offered to share a chart our recruiter sent us, giving statistics on their 30 highest-grossing teams during a recent 7-day period - including dollars-and-cents revenue figures (something FedEx never would do!) To my astonishment, only 3 of the 32 "inquirers" even asked to see those figures.
Can it be that many people now driving for FedExCC believe that they couldn't possibly make as much anywhere else? We believed that, too, until we saw that chart. Of those 30 teams, 3 of them grossed well over $7000, and several more did better than $6000, doing what FedEx calls "surface" freight, in one week. We look at all the nights we sat up doing DDPS, all the inside pickups and deliveries, and realize that there are people at other companies making more, NOT doing all that extra stuff!
The new post about the low opp offers makes me wonder, what is the use of griping and whining to each other about it? Does anyone think it's going to change? Do you realize how long it's been going on? Is something magical going to happen to cause it to change, and go back to how it "used to be"?
Not only are our new friends easy to get along with - they actually answer the phone when we call! - they make it very easy to make the change. They'll remove the previous signs and Qualcomm at no charge, and no cost for the new signs, either. The only escrow-type charge is a refundable $600 Qualcomm deposit, which is taken out in 6 $100 deductions.
All this is just to say that no one has to put up with the "stuff" going on unless they want to. Do you think, with our extensive experience and business smarts, that we would have made a careless or "bad" decision? We just wish we had gotten ticked off enough to investigate long ago, instead of staying because we assumed we made the most that could be made in expediting just because of the name. Good luck to everyone, and BE SAFE!
As I responded to everyone who inquired, we've moved to Express-1, and are very pleased. In my responses, I offered to share a chart our recruiter sent us, giving statistics on their 30 highest-grossing teams during a recent 7-day period - including dollars-and-cents revenue figures (something FedEx never would do!) To my astonishment, only 3 of the 32 "inquirers" even asked to see those figures.
Can it be that many people now driving for FedExCC believe that they couldn't possibly make as much anywhere else? We believed that, too, until we saw that chart. Of those 30 teams, 3 of them grossed well over $7000, and several more did better than $6000, doing what FedEx calls "surface" freight, in one week. We look at all the nights we sat up doing DDPS, all the inside pickups and deliveries, and realize that there are people at other companies making more, NOT doing all that extra stuff!
The new post about the low opp offers makes me wonder, what is the use of griping and whining to each other about it? Does anyone think it's going to change? Do you realize how long it's been going on? Is something magical going to happen to cause it to change, and go back to how it "used to be"?
Not only are our new friends easy to get along with - they actually answer the phone when we call! - they make it very easy to make the change. They'll remove the previous signs and Qualcomm at no charge, and no cost for the new signs, either. The only escrow-type charge is a refundable $600 Qualcomm deposit, which is taken out in 6 $100 deductions.
All this is just to say that no one has to put up with the "stuff" going on unless they want to. Do you think, with our extensive experience and business smarts, that we would have made a careless or "bad" decision? We just wish we had gotten ticked off enough to investigate long ago, instead of staying because we assumed we made the most that could be made in expediting just because of the name. Good luck to everyone, and BE SAFE!
