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RLENT · 02-12-2007, 01:58 PM

Greg is correct on the fuel - Fedex Ground and Home Delivery, which is a Division of Ground - and does "sell" fuel to it's contractors - it is deducted from the contractor's settlements weekly. However a couple of things:

1. In Home Delivery's case (only one I know about for sure since my son is a contractor) only the primary contracted vehicle for the route may fuel at the Fedex pumps. This means if you are running a supplemental truck (something that happens quite a bit over peak and for repairs) you can't fuel those units there. My son has 4 routes and 5 vehicles - four primaries which are diesel and do fuel at the Fedex pumps and a gas van which does not because it's a supplemental ..... and it's gas (no gas pumps at the terminal.) Primary vehicles which are gas recieve a "fuel supplement" - monies which are added to the settlement (similar to an FSC.) Over "peak" my son was running 12 trucks and drivers - the subsidized fuel would have been nice for the month and half that he was doing that - however as a matter of policy and contract structure Fedex HD won't do it.

2. Since the fuel is deducted from contractor settlements I can imagine the problems there might be to get Grounds computer systems which tracks the fueling to talk to Custom Critical's computers.

Like Terry said, they are really separate and distinct entities.

Personally if I ran for Fedex I doubt I would really want to fuel at a Ground terminal - I'd think it would be far more convienent to just do it along my runs.

On the maintenance/repairs .... yeah ..... like anybody here is gonna wanna wait until the terminal repair facility can get around to working on their vehicle .... I think their priority will always be that the Ground vehicles would come first.

My son has 99% of his maintenance work done elsewhere, even though the Ground and Home Delivery terminals are right next door to each other.

02-12-2007, 01:58 PM	#15 (permalink)
RLENT Senior Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Akron, Ohio, USA. Rating: Posts: 797	RE: Expediting is a Business Greg is correct on the fuel - Fedex Ground and Home Delivery, which is a Division of Ground - and does "sell" fuel to it's contractors - it is deducted from the contractor's settlements weekly. However a couple of things: 1. In Home Delivery's case (only one I know about for sure since my son is a contractor) only the primary contracted vehicle for the route may fuel at the Fedex pumps. This means if you are running a supplemental truck (something that happens quite a bit over peak and for repairs) you can't fuel those units there. My son has 4 routes and 5 vehicles - four primaries which are diesel and do fuel at the Fedex pumps and a gas van which does not because it's a supplemental ..... and it's gas (no gas pumps at the terminal.) Primary vehicles which are gas recieve a "fuel supplement" - monies which are added to the settlement (similar to an FSC.) Over "peak" my son was running 12 trucks and drivers - the subsidized fuel would have been nice for the month and half that he was doing that - however as a matter of policy and contract structure Fedex HD won't do it. 2. Since the fuel is deducted from contractor settlements I can imagine the problems there might be to get Grounds computer systems which tracks the fueling to talk to Custom Critical's computers. Like Terry said, they are really separate and distinct entities. Personally if I ran for Fedex I doubt I would really want to fuel at a Ground terminal - I'd think it would be far more convienent to just do it along my runs. On the maintenance/repairs .... yeah ..... like anybody here is gonna wanna wait until the terminal repair facility can get around to working on their vehicle .... I think their priority will always be that the Ground vehicles would come first. My son has 99% of his maintenance work done elsewhere, even though the Ground and Home Delivery terminals are right next door to each other.