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In posts here in the Open Forum and on my blog, and in conversations with company personnel, I have been saying that Diane and I are leaving FedEx Custom Critical. The deed is done. On Monday, we will attend orientation at our new carrier, Landstar Express America. Dreamer, this is my last...

All of this is of decreasing importance to us. We sent applications in to other carriers a while ago. The FedEx lettering has been off our truck box for two weeks. The box was repainted to avoid ghosting when the new logo goes on.

I have talked to three different people in the company who you would think are in a position to know, and have received three different numbers. The last I heard from recruiting was 40.

Those aren't company-owned trailers sitting on the lot. Those are misconceptions! :D

Emotionally, it is less difficult dealing with the business changes than it is dealing with the fact that we are not being told what is going on and why. We can adapt when necessary but is the courtesy of being kept informed too much for a contractor to ask? The company tells contractors many...

A husband/wife team who was recently at FedEx for TVAL training told us they saw 25 new red FDCC logo reefer trailers in the parking lot, being set up for TVAL work. If you want to know where FDCC TVAL freight is going, you need look no further than the parking lot in Green. You can further...

No. Of course not everything is really really really bad. We have our health. We are in a paid for truck. We have money in the bank and better opportunities ahead. Our complaint is that our revenue is declining because freight that percentage-paid trucks used to haul is now being...

Before I answer, can you describe the truck you bought? It is a D-unit, dry-box, right? Make, model, year, miles, sleeper?

I don't understand what you mean by "pay yourself back at $.25 per mile." Can you clarify?

Diane and I would not take that load. A thousand miles divided by 50 mph (the speed FedEx Custom Critical uses for load planning) is 20 hours of driving. Add in 30 minutes of labor on each end to get to a dock and complete the pick up and delivery to give you 21 hours of work. The price will...

You took me literally when I was asking a serious question. Let me rephrase. I know you and Bob look at loads the same way Diane and I do when it comes to calculating pay; that is, pay per mile for all miles. Fuel surcharges, accessorials, base rate...none of it matters. It is the total amount...

A load offer is a load offer. They all read the same on the Qualcomm screen. How do you look at them that would be different from anyone else?

Every time we do a non-reefer load, we run as a dry box truck. The dry-box option is available everytime we are in service and waiting for freight. If a good dry load is offered we will accept it but we don't see many good dry box loads offered. Have we considered running as a dry box? Yes we...

Diane and I have noticed the same thing. We know expediters who lease their trucks to competing carriers and are making more money than we are. That was not the case before but as our revenue declines, it is now. Diane and I were home last week and went into service early Monday morning in the...

Are you talking about loads that pay really well? Our spreadsheet and run journal indicates they are becoming fewer and farther between. The change is the decline in such loads, which is not contractor friendly, unless you happen to be a flat-rate contractor willing to run under that contract.

Offer comes in this morning. Reefer load with marginal pay. Run info indicates TVAL tape but it is for freight that does not normally require TVAL service. Call to dispatch reveals that a data logger tape is requested for this non-TVAL load but there is no extra pay to provide the tape. Message...

Our experience is the same as yours.

Speaking of a May 20 event, a former FDCC employee said this in another online forum: "I was able to attend the FY12 Kickoff for FedEx Custom Critical this past Friday night and was able to see a lot of the people I used to work with there and also got to chat with the CEO for a few minutes...

While I am no longer actively researching the changes at FedEx Custom Critical, people continue to supply me with information. I post it because I believe it is important for contractors to know. But I would not feel offended in the least if others posted directly what they know. Anyway, about...

I do not believe it is slow all over for the reasons I stated above, but for the purposes of discussion, let's say that you are right, Linda, and it is slow all over. If it is slow all over, it will be even slower for the FDCC percentage-paid trucks that are now being passed over by a...