Coldworld
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forget the driving son, you are straight up gangsta management material......don't waste your time with being a box monkey....on road sup is calling your name
Dilemma Fedex Full Time or UPS Seasonal
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Chitown feeder
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Take the offer at ups. Maybe it will go from seasonal to permanently. Good luck
Cementups
Box Monkey
you rang?!??!?!
Cementups
Box Monkey
@GroundGame, yes burn it up as you usually would as a FXG driver until you make it permanent. After that just settle in for the ride and enjoy the rest of your career. It sounds as though you already like the job/industry so that's a good start. Too many people are here at UPS for the money only and hate every other aspect of the job. And say goodbye to that being done at 4pm every day too. You'll make (in the long term) tie as much money at UPS than you would with FXG.
I have a friend who used to work at FXG here in PA who I tried to get to come over to the Brown side but she just wouldn't budge. She was a great worker and would swing a bunch of routes. She as actually a manager but would cover a lot of the routes when they were lacking people. It turned out here whole family essentially worked for FXG. No matter what, she wouldn't budge. For some reason unbeknownst to me she was let go. Now I hear that she is going back. Such a waste of driver talent if you ask me. She would do well with Brown.
I have a friend who used to work at FXG here in PA who I tried to get to come over to the Brown side but she just wouldn't budge. She was a great worker and would swing a bunch of routes. She as actually a manager but would cover a lot of the routes when they were lacking people. It turned out here whole family essentially worked for FXG. No matter what, she wouldn't budge. For some reason unbeknownst to me she was let go. Now I hear that she is going back. Such a waste of driver talent if you ask me. She would do well with Brown.
By The Book
Well-Known Member
She would've done well with brown.
GroundGame
Member
The key to being "happy" at FXG is being the "Business Contact/GM/Manager" FXG is always going to be the same though.
Coming in fresh, just remember, a route can only make so much. If FXG charges a rate to the customer and then have their margin to keep, they will only ever pay the Contractors/ISPs/CSPs a very finite amount. Whether they bargain that to be per stop and per package, "advertising fees" for the truck, wearing your uniform, etc....The amount ain't going to change, just the verbiage. The route will only ever gross probably 75k/135k a year. That means a driver in that route after expenses can only gross a third or so. If you have one of the few owners who goes for volume and takes a smaller cut per route or diversifies their fleet and tries to actually build a logistics business and not only baby sit routes in a FXG building, you may make more, but by and large, 32k-45k is going to be it. The small businesses collectively may have some power, but they are too busy competing for routes, leverage, attention and so on to ever realize they are stronger together when it comes to negotiating rates for insurance and other normal
ancillary benefits. The only way to make a good check at FXG is to be the owners right hand man who manages all the headache and covers when drivers even dare be sick or ask for time off. I haven't missed (called in sick) a day of work in years because you're made to feel like a sub human if you do and I have enough pride about myself to come in unless I am literally dying.
Where UPS is better I assume is that the air and ground are consolidated and the "churn" at the bottom allows drivers who can stick around to make more. That or they try to give lower earning drivers the hours and send the higher paid guys home.
Coming in fresh, just remember, a route can only make so much. If FXG charges a rate to the customer and then have their margin to keep, they will only ever pay the Contractors/ISPs/CSPs a very finite amount. Whether they bargain that to be per stop and per package, "advertising fees" for the truck, wearing your uniform, etc....The amount ain't going to change, just the verbiage. The route will only ever gross probably 75k/135k a year. That means a driver in that route after expenses can only gross a third or so. If you have one of the few owners who goes for volume and takes a smaller cut per route or diversifies their fleet and tries to actually build a logistics business and not only baby sit routes in a FXG building, you may make more, but by and large, 32k-45k is going to be it. The small businesses collectively may have some power, but they are too busy competing for routes, leverage, attention and so on to ever realize they are stronger together when it comes to negotiating rates for insurance and other normal
ancillary benefits. The only way to make a good check at FXG is to be the owners right hand man who manages all the headache and covers when drivers even dare be sick or ask for time off. I haven't missed (called in sick) a day of work in years because you're made to feel like a sub human if you do and I have enough pride about myself to come in unless I am literally dying.Where UPS is better I assume is that the air and ground are consolidated and the "churn" at the bottom allows drivers who can stick around to make more. That or they try to give lower earning drivers the hours and send the higher paid guys home.
Cementups
Box Monkey
I typed it how I meant it. Even if she was hired today she would still do well.
By The Book
Well-Known Member
Sorry it didn't work out
*Jersey*
Well-Known Member
That was hilarious
He brought boxes in with a fedex truck outside, handed them a fedex scanner, and they still had to ask who he was?
Not that he shouldn't have had a uniform on, but how @#$#^% stupid do you have to be to ask that question?
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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So...which one are you?
noahgw92
Active Member
Quick fact check... just talked to a FedEx ground driver, they make more than 750... they make 850... but that's before taxes taken out so 670 after... also if you have a missed package, they will take money away from you... wow I thought they made a little less then us, not less than half.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
Salary varies from contractor to contractor.
With all the pontificating he does in the FedEx forum, it kinda makes you wonder.
Cementups
Box Monkey
His ex-wife said he was express. Hence the word "ex"
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