I was asked a question and would like to bring it to the form. Are you a true owner operators when your are leased to FedEx CC? I was leased for 1 year as an “E†unit and would like to compare the two.
I do own my truck and pay my insurance and base plates. I can take off whenever I want to a point. FedEx will call if they need your truck and I have heard of them threatening to fire because the driver took off 2-3 months and the c-link and insurance was through FedEx. I guess you can’t just take off any amount of time you want. Then there is the loads they find you but you don’t have to take them like a company driver would. HMMMM or do you? Well if you don’t then it gets marked against you . What about the attitude from the dispatcher if you don’t take that run? They quote your truck t the customer (because you are in the area) before offering the load to you, assuming you will take it even if the pay is well below what an expedite truck should get. If you had a business selling “gadgets“, would you let your salesman sell them without asking you what price you would sell them for? Also, we all know what happens when we don’t take the low paying loads, you get passed on other ones. We all know (or should be aware) that there is favoritism at FCC but they say I doesn’t happen. So its best to take as many loads as they give, like a company driver. Well, at least we have the freedom to be the professional driver and the trust of the company to get the job done not like a company driver told where, when and how to do the job. Wait a second! They do baby sit us…they tell us the route to take, ping us if we are running late (most the time it is caused by being loaded late at the shipper or being stuck in a fuel line, cause you can’t load your comdata card before pickup) they don’t give us the customer‘s phone number to get “correct†local directions. If you ask them to can the customer and see if you can pick up early, they say the customer said no. But you get there and ask the customer they say something different. Then, when you depart your shipper you are supposed t go straight through, but if you get there earlier than your delivery time and have to wait (sometimes for hours) you will not get paid for that time. But if you know you have extra time and maybe you want to stop and shower or eat and know you will still make it to delivery on time, you will get pinged and dispatch will ask why you are stopped. Well, at least its my truck. At least they don’t tell us where to go after we delivery. Oh yeah, I forgot, they send us to express centers where you can get skipped if there is a closer truck to the customer then you .
I guess if your break it down like that I a glorified company driver
I do own my truck and pay my insurance and base plates. I can take off whenever I want to a point. FedEx will call if they need your truck and I have heard of them threatening to fire because the driver took off 2-3 months and the c-link and insurance was through FedEx. I guess you can’t just take off any amount of time you want. Then there is the loads they find you but you don’t have to take them like a company driver would. HMMMM or do you? Well if you don’t then it gets marked against you . What about the attitude from the dispatcher if you don’t take that run? They quote your truck t the customer (because you are in the area) before offering the load to you, assuming you will take it even if the pay is well below what an expedite truck should get. If you had a business selling “gadgets“, would you let your salesman sell them without asking you what price you would sell them for? Also, we all know what happens when we don’t take the low paying loads, you get passed on other ones. We all know (or should be aware) that there is favoritism at FCC but they say I doesn’t happen. So its best to take as many loads as they give, like a company driver. Well, at least we have the freedom to be the professional driver and the trust of the company to get the job done not like a company driver told where, when and how to do the job. Wait a second! They do baby sit us…they tell us the route to take, ping us if we are running late (most the time it is caused by being loaded late at the shipper or being stuck in a fuel line, cause you can’t load your comdata card before pickup) they don’t give us the customer‘s phone number to get “correct†local directions. If you ask them to can the customer and see if you can pick up early, they say the customer said no. But you get there and ask the customer they say something different. Then, when you depart your shipper you are supposed t go straight through, but if you get there earlier than your delivery time and have to wait (sometimes for hours) you will not get paid for that time. But if you know you have extra time and maybe you want to stop and shower or eat and know you will still make it to delivery on time, you will get pinged and dispatch will ask why you are stopped. Well, at least its my truck. At least they don’t tell us where to go after we delivery. Oh yeah, I forgot, they send us to express centers where you can get skipped if there is a closer truck to the customer then you .
I guess if your break it down like that I a glorified company driver
