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Sound fishy? Not even a little. It has been explained to you several times in this thread by several experienced and professional drivers how the safety arguement you present is not valid. Yet you continue to stick to your groundless story. Based on the information you provided, no way did FedEx...

A more effective approach toward success in expediting and satisfaction with a carrier would be to shift the focus from THEY to I. Before signing on with a carrier, I need to learn what they really are gong to pay. I need to know how exactly the carrier perceives refused runs. I need to know...

No, I am not saying FedEx recruiters are liars. I am saying that I do not belive the orignial poster was told what he says he was told. That is not calling him a liar either. I believe that this is yet another case where someone got sidetracked by one's own wishful thinking and came to believe...

You were PROMISED that you could make $3,000 a week? Who made such a promise and when, and what written document do you have on file that proves it? Get real, ljubisa. My parents used to promise me that Santa Clause would come to the house every Christmas Eve...my own parents told me this and...

E-mail addresses are difficult to keep private even when you try. Example: I once received an e-mail from a social networking site that I had never heard of before. It was an invitation to join. I later figured out that they got my address from a friend of mine who had my e-mail address in her...

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Glen and Janice put their truck on with FedEx Custom Critical in March, 2002. It was destroyed in an accident in December, 2003. Glen tells me that a policy change was made to accomodate his truck body and all that followed that were not painted fully white. He presented drawings to the then...

You can drop the explaination points, pookie98me. You are working harder at being right than considering other points of view and getting at the truth. I read in your earlier posts that you flat out told dispatch that you were too tired to drive and needed space to sleep in your van. Dispatch...

I don't belileve such promises were made at all. Salary? Self-employed contractors are not on salary. Hardly no wait time? Expediters (true expedited freight) of all companies are known for waiting. That's part of the expediting gig. You wait. Wishful thinking and hearing what one wants to...

Thank you for sharing the details. I think I see the problem now. FedEx knows you as a B-unit that is capable of hauling a specified volume of freight, and not as a van with bunk space, the available cubic feet of which changes with the mood and needs of the driver. When a customer calls for a...

Very well stated. Dispatchers are human and in moments of frustration may make mistakes or commit bad acts that run wide of the rules. But the company policies about safety and covering loads are very clear. When I said above that Diane and I had never been pressured to take a load, I did not...

I can't comment about other people's experiences with truck and box paint, except to agree with Linda's point that the rules change from time to time. Also note that FedEx Custom Critical's contract is an at-will contract, meaning that contractors can be terminated for any reason, or no reason...

Goodness knows how many hundreds of load offers Diane and I have received over the seven years we have been with the company. NOT ONCE has dispatch tried to force a load on us that we turned down. We have been offered the same load more than once. We have been offered the same load a second...

Since I know how to use a ruler to draw a line, understand the difference between logging a fuel stop as a fuel stop instead of logging it as driving, and can do simple arithmetic to calculate my hours, I hadn't thought about the benefits EOBR's provide to drivers who lack such skills...

That is correct. I would add that the turnovers happened during the recession when a lot of senior dispatchers were laid off and new people were brought in. For a while we were explaining things to dispatchers that we could not believe we had to point out. However, as time passed and these new...

Seven trucks in 25 years averages out to one new truck every 3.5 years and an end result of a truck that is too old to fix that has a modest salvage value that will be collected when the truck is sold. Yours is not an uncommon approach. I know of many owner-operators who buy a new truck every...

Before we can answer your question, we need to know what you were promised. What were you promised exactly?

I was surprised to see at TVAL training last week a brand new BR-unit sitting in the lot and its team in the classroom. Or it may have been a van owner with a driver, I am not sure as I did not get the chance to chat with them.

jaminjim makes a good point and it applies to many contractors and drivers, not just a few. At our carrier's headquarters last week, Diane and I sat in classrooms with a number of contractors and drivers. Many of them had been with the company for years. Some went all the way back to the...

Regarding dispatcher training, you are correct. An experienced driver who has the other basic skills the company looks for in entry level dispatchers will be easier to train. Drivers know what a bill of lading is. They understand very well how a log book works. People with no trucking experience...