Actually I did both, took me a minute to figure out what, "HD" was.
None of it is hard, it's just more time consuming to have to load your own truck, thus you have to run faster on your route to make up the time it took you to load it.
If I'm not in a rig, in a year... I'll be disappointed. All they do is sit on their a**. Get a CDL man! Anyways, I just talked to a UPS feeder driver back from where I'm from and he said it took him 5 years to move up to that. That's in a city that literally is not expanding at all.
FedEx ground is a cake walk compared to doing a FT route at ups. I wouldn't take it so lightly. Various time commits, Orion trace, bricked out car and on average some routes get 400-600 pieces a day.
Feeders is by seniority so it doesn't matter how "disappointed " you feel. Everything is by seniority.
FedEx ground and ups are night and day. Ups pays more so they expect more in terms of responsibility, production and appearance standards. FedEx ground pretty much is quite the opposite from what I've seen.
Put your time in, learn from the senior guys and don't act like a brown jake know it all and you'll be fine.
Also go online a read the master contract and the supplement for your area. Learn what applies to you and take and keep notes. It'll make you a better driver.
Most important is don't be an ass. Brown jake is learning that the hard way.
Listen, learn and remember whatever you think you know from FedEx doesn't apply at ups. More listening and less telling and you'll be ok.