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Originally Posted by TeamCaffee
I do not that we and breath FedEx Custom Critical but this is how we make a very good living and we plan to continue to do so. The better we can understand the company we are contracted to the easier it is for to make educated decisions and that means also leaning to work within a system that has not been perfected at this point. Like you said in an earlier post if you no like the company move. We will the company and we sure like how we are able to make a living and having the time of our lives. I think of that is learning to work within the FCC system and not fighting changes.
The 4-Star Event is a safety event and not an income event and as such the rules follow along those lines. Our average length of run last year was 581 so I not know what you mean by only taking short loads. The solos do get many more load offers then we do and with that there is an even greater risk of accidents. Have you sent in your recommendations to change the 4-Star event to better fit what you perceive it should be? What are the four main regional states? If one of the those is the north east we avoid the area as if has the plague as we do not like to drive in that area due to high traffic, rough roads, and high tolls. I see that you are a CR Unit and T-Val. We are in Express so we are not pre assigned as often as you probably are. I am sure we do make nearly as many runs coast to coast as you do and also our is probably not anywhere close to yours either.
Why would you think the Council is always in agreement with FCC? Why would FCC want that as they always seem to want feedback good and bad? How do you know that before something is introduced to the fleet it has not gone trough numerous discussions with contractors before it was tested? The original idea or many that were scrapped that the fleet never sees could have been discussed at a council meeting or even with contractors on the phone.
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If its a safety award why is it finally decided by number of runs taken, that to me isn't very saftey oriented, the more runs the more likely you will have an accident.
If I wanted to run the northeast I could easily make the top 50 every year. I run all 48 beacuse that's the job.Why don't you like the northeast? could it be you can't handle trucking in traffic, or rough roads? The only really rough roads are near or in NYC. And we get reimburshed for tolls remember. maybe you are playing at trucking, with your large RV sleeper. Maybe that's why you can't run the northeast, can't get dirt on that shinny truck, or bounce the fine china around too much.
And who are you kidding, you get as many white glove loads as most white glove units, you are one of those phantom white glove units, with lift gate and all white glove equipment. You can deny it all you want, but I might have been born at night...but not last night.
I could run MI, OH, IL, and IN and take every load offered and get in the top 50, but I would go broke doing it. that is what several vans do who win the 4 star several years running. Add to that PA, and ON, and your a shoe in for the top 50 in a van or surface expedite truck.
My wife has run solo while I attended to business home. She ran the northeast and was loaded every day, sometimes two loads a day. But that's not where the money is. As you know with a TVAL unit you need to be a team putting miles behind you to make money. And that's what we do, and we are good at what we do. Being true truckers we don't avoid anyplace, or roadway.
If we wanted to we could easily be in the top 50 every year. We choose to make more money, than worry anout an accecptance rate and how many runs we do. Our acceptance rate is respectable. We run longer hauls so we don't get as many runs. An average is just that an average, and it's an average for all vehicles. Our runs our longer than the average they use.
The system is flawed, it needs to be fixed. We all know FECC reads our posts, I don't blame them. So Hey FedEx, your 4 Star program id flawed. please fix it.
We make a very good living also. We don't need sources at FedEx, we don't need to visit green to brown nose, or be a special people truck. We work hard, and don't need to deny we are white glove, or take white glove loads away from white glove trucks.
We understand the system. We are a business, we know how to make business decisions. We don't need our carrier to hold our hand. And we don't need to show up at all or most functions so our name is remembered. We are out on the road working instead, like truckers are suppose to.