วีดีโอ

You’ll do great! Just remember you t will take you awhile to learn everything and for it to become second nature. It will also take your body some time to get used to the job. Just take your time in the beginning and don’t rush. (Luckily summer is the slower of the seasons) If you’re a good stable employee and make it clear to your employer you’re a team player and take the time to build trust, they’ll likely treat you with respect. Let me know how it goes!

Man that’s rough. I loaded my own truck when first starting. It was the norm but that changed back in 2018 or so. Now it seems only really small stations still load their own trucks. Seems like it would be hard to make the pay worth it.

@@mutchler87 It's good to see how fedex system runs and has it all ready for the driver, as it should be. Where I currently contract, Tforce (TFI), the warehouse definitely requires a special breed of humans to stick around long term and MAJOR changes needed in how they roll out the orders! We deliver mostly larger drops, anywhere from 3pcs-60pcs at once, which is great since we get paid per the piece but when we have those long stops in between with one piecers it's killer. But MOST importantly, since we have to take all of those steps before we can actually start a route, what's most important is their carton drop time and they won't budge on changing it back to 5:30 am visibility nor do they take care of correcting the constant late semi trucks. They are not bad, they can be a GREAT warehouse and bring in more customers but they are not showing any care to upgrade and drivers are constantly stressed and upset, some routes coming and going since their drop in rates. :( And thanks again for the video! :)

@@user-lc5uq3fx3v thanks for the comment! I’ve been curious about T Force. I see them as I’m driving Linehaul, but never knew if they delivered freight or if they were also delivery service.

@@mutchler87 tforce is good on the HD as a direct contactor, not an MC. Bulk routes are good too but very hard to get into. Gotta wait in line and semis I don't know about.

Thank you! Really appreciate the comment!

Thanks for saying so!🙏🏻I really did care about my customers and loved my job. It was the only thing that kept me going during Covid. Seeing all the kids wave and the families grateful that I was there to deliver their packages. However, since I’ve moved onto Linehaul trucking for FedEx.

Essentially just look for a job on either Craigslist or Indeed. I’ve actually had the best luck with Craigslist. And the. You have to have a year of “driving experience.” This can be anything from delivering pizza to Uber. Basically any job you’ve ever worked where a manager will tell someone you drove for them and had a good driving record. It’s for insurance purposes and FedEx uses a third party company to verify all the info. It’s easy to get past but they HAVE to say you drove for them for a year in a driving capacity. 👌🏻🫡

Appreciate it! 🙏🏻

If you wanted to be a delivery driver long term, I’d consider UPS for the pay and career aspect. If you’re just wanting to do it for 3-5 years or so and make good money while not being treated like a cog in a wheel. I’d go FedEx. If anything I’d suggest being a holiday driver helper or working in the warehouse. 👌🏻

If they’re small enough, it’s likely because it’s easy and convenient.🤷🏼‍♂️ It’s also mail. If they’re jamming them in there and leaving no room for mail, then I’d leave a note because they’re being lazy and inconsiderate.

@@mutchler87 It’s against the law to go into peoples mailbox. Fedex is not the United States Postal Service so why go into my mailbox regardless of how big it is?

@@erikgrubb985 FedEx is a federally regulated mail delivery company. It ain’t that serious🫶🏻

@erikgrubb985 better call the cops.👮🏻‍♂️

@@mutchler87apparently you don’t understand that no other delivery service has a right to use any US mailbox to deliver any of their products.

The only time I “lip load” is if they’re oversized or if multiple packages are stacked. That plus my route in Arizona is FLAT with very few bumps along the way. Never had any issues with falling boxes. However my route in Oregon I would lip load everything and still have casualties😅

@@mutchler87 You are lucky my route is in Northern Arizona Rural dirt roads mountains etc very few paved roads.

Yea, I can believe that.. the crazy thing is how common it was to see an Amazon driver absolutely lost in the sauce. 😅

Sorry you’re going through all that with your health 🫶🏻

@@mutchler87 I don’t have a drivers license or a mortercycle I wish I could have a motorcycle license

@@mutchler87 I need to get more of an education before I do anything else

@@mutchler87 I can’t even do warehouse jobs anymore and I have worked in a warehouse before when I was a young adult. I also worked for McDonald’s and a movie theater when I was younger and even for the Food Court, Stan add an ice rink I cannot lift a whole package of Powerade to bring inside the ice rink to load the fridge up. I would have to get a cart and put it on there. Roll the cart to the fridge open the fridge and put the Gatorade and Powerade in there especially bread bowl. My doctors told me I’m supposed to work at an office job or distancing job like I could be a personal trainer like my current boyfriend and work for a gym I could work for a law firm I could work for a bank or something where I’m doing typing and I’m still making a difference with peoples health and fitness goals. I’ve even work for sharks music Company as an intern, temp receiving warehouse worker where the stuff comes in and they have a ticket slip with it. It has a number you type a number and computer to print the official ticket and then you take the item to the table you dump it out you sort the item you check to see if there are any damages you put it to a side you take the ticket to computer after you count the total number of items and once at me and be fixed to computer you type the numbers in and how many stickers do you need to print out of the item you go back to the table but there’s stickers on the items I’ve done that and then you have to put them back in box and write on box the product number and the quantity number and then somebody puts it on the shelf. It was an interesting job. I learned a lot, but at the same time I was just about to do college stuff I was going through a young adult transition program. I was doing several different types of programs, activity wise. I even got some of my coworkers together and started working at softball team for our company for the summer and just to get some exercise and to have fun and I didn’t think anybody would wanna join the team but they did no worries. Professional softball team like the Tigers the 49ers it was just a community recognition program coed and I figure since I don’t play for my community college a more and I’m working at Shars let’s try to start a team shirts and we did we came up with T-shirts and we did pretty good we don’t do anything like championship or anything like that but I would even want to be a professional athlete to be honest

I could probably even do massage therapy maybe work in barbershop or hairstylist shop for a start

I’d count it as luck if it happened by accident. Took me several months of notes, gift cards and encouragement to get my loader to load my truck properly at every station I’ve ever worked at. 👌🏻

And this one was substantially less nice than the one I drove out of in Las Vegas. FedEx has some pretty rough ones as well but my last 2 were relatively new buildings.

I definitely enjoyed my days of delivering for keeping active but the money is quite a bit better with driving semi. It’s like anything, can take some getting use to but then you get so use to it you forget you’re driving a big truck.

Not sure what Express pays, but I make $1875 a week with FedEx linehaul. Now that’s 11 hours a day for 5 days.. so it works out to $34/hr.. the hourly isn’t crazy but it way less exhausting than delivering and since it’s flat pay and not overtime it doesn’t get overly taxed like it would at an hourly job.

Ground has all the front facing cams as well. Ways less strict though for sure.

That’s the best part about being paid by the day. You move quick when it benefits you, and take your time when you need it. Learning to drive a step van is extremely easy. Feels big for a week or 2 and then you start driving it better than your own car.

@@mutchler87 Sad part, every place around me wants a CDL and 2 years experience to drive the step van. I even went as far as an hour away. There was one that didn't mention needing experience, but they haven't replied to my application yet.

I left FedEx Ground delivery to drive linehaul. It was simply more money and I needed a change after 6+ years. After a year of linehaul I worked in finance for 1 year and though I enjoyed it, I decided to renovate a school bus and travel. So to focus on saving and converting said skoolie, I’m back working linehaul for a few more months until I can quit and work full time on the renovation.

Let me know how it goes!

Huh?

@@mutchler87 850 is the location number for phx hub smh 🙄🤦‍♂️

In some places they’ll let you be a driver helper at 16. I’d suggest starting there. Otherwise I say try starting with something like Pizza delivery. I did delivery for Pizza Hut in college and made pretty solid money. You’re essentially getting paid to cruise around and listen to music🙌🏻 Usually averaging $25-30/hr if not more.😎 Thanks for the comment!

Glad it helped! Appreciate the feedback!🙏🏻

I’ve never figured out the exact number. The weight of the parcel changes what FedEx charges and ultimately what the contractor gets paid but I believe it’s a flat rate for envelopes/smalls and another rate for packages a certain size and up. I’ve heard a bunch of numbers but couldn’t tell you a number with any certainty.

If you work for a good contractor that knows what they’re doing, (or have a good connection in the office) you can completely re-zone your route to be in the order you deliver. Once I learned that I tried a few different variations before I found what worked best🙌🏻

i also hate the fact i have perpetually dirty ass hands lol.

@@jamesbrady1930 I got to the point where I kinda enjoyed it🤷🏼‍♂️😂 Figure if I could keep healthy with dirty hands my immune system was probably pretty good! Rarely ever got sick while working as a delivery driver.

@@mutchler87 i keep my snacks packaged. granola bars, bananas, wrapped sandwich, thermos with a flip up straw lid that prevents me from touching the straw and a Gatorade. this way i don't have to worry about contaminating my food with my hands.

@@mutchler87 so far doing the top rural route first, then going to the rural route below before i go to main strip of the town seems to be working so far, though I have to do drop offs for businesses since some of them close by 230pm, i do those then resume my route.

You might find this hard to believe.. but your experience doesn’t equal my experience. I haven’t loaded my own truck since 2019 and it was at a small station. I find larger stations always have the trucks loaded for the driver. I made it clear this was a very light day for my route but thanks for watching👌🏻

@@mutchler87 I had a light day today, but it was still a chaotic mess. And I very nearly missed some of my large furniture packages because they had my 3rd cart on the wrong side of the rollers for no reason

@flyboymike111357 sounds about right. Why was it a chaotic mess if you loaded your own truck?

@@mutchler87 Not everything will fit on the shelves, or stay on the shelves when I get out into the sticks and have to go down uneven bumpy dirt roads, go up raggedy gravel drives, and go down private clay roads that have the tread patterns from the earth mover baked into them. Having to pick up and deliver large packages in bulk simultaneously. Having 30-35 stops that were between 9-12 minutes apart with no good way to flow between them and then move on to the next leg of the route. Etc.

@flyboymike111357 sounds like one of my first routes. Not fun by any means. Once you know the job you can find better routes depending on where you live. There’s always a contractor willing to pay more for a better route. I went from making $700/week working 10 hours a day to making over $1000/week working 6 hours a day.

Absolutely. I changed the order of my second route to avoid a school zone during dismissal time and shaved an hour off total delivery time🙌🏻

@@mutchler87 That’s funny. My route has 4 schools that I have to hit so learned to get those out of the way early 😂 One time I got stuck in a driveway needing to back out right before dismissal (directly across the street from the school) waiting for all the buses to pass by, it was 5 minutes I had to wait. Never again 😂 I have the Post Office as well so I keep in mind when they close for lunch break. Once you learn your area you can plan accordingly and life gets easier on your route.

@@40III absolutely, sometimes taking 10 mins to go out of your way is really a time saver when if you wait until it’s on your way the traffic and congestion is way worse!

Extremely.

You’ll be surprised how quickly you’re driving it like your own vehicle.🙌🏻 You got this!

​@mutchler87 thank you brother 🙏

Wild

Just go to Craigslist and look for local postings.

Been busy with life. Driving semi and it’s really not all that interesting to film but I will be starting a new project here in the next 6 months that will be worth documenting😎

I honestly wouldn’t work for a contractor where I had to load my own truck. The pay wouldn’t be worth it. And as far as driving 2 hours away to help someone.. I’m not sure how you could drive that far to help someone from the same company but I’d certainly ask for higher compensation any time that was a necessity. You’ve gotta advocate for yourself. I was often the highest paid employee at every company I worked for because I’d simply ask for it/demand to be paid for my time accordingly. I’d also be the first to help in a pinch, but it was never for free.

yeah, my friend. where im from we dont really have that opportunity. my experience there was well over 6 years ago, but we were all treated like dirt. happy for you though@@mutchler87

Sounds a lot like my Vegas route. Easily one of the best routes I’ve ever had. I always ran every stop and on my 200+ stop days I could do 50 stops an hour and do the whole route in 4 hours. I was also base plus per stop fee so the money worked out to be pretty decent and the hours were barely over 30 per week including one hour total for drive time to and from the route. 🙌🏻

Let me know how it goes!

Really depends on the city and the contractor. Just like any other business the owner of the FedEx contract is trying to make money. Some provide good benefits but less pay while other try to give the drivers the most money in their pocket because they realize most drivers are young and not caring about healthcare. Varies quite a bit.

Yea, if you’re wanting to move boxes for a career, definitely the way to go. I never had any goal of being a delivery person for the long term. Seen too many UPS guys during peak saying that the money was good but they’d rather be home with their kids who were out of school for Christmas break. And pushing your body that hard for 30 + years isn’t worth it to me. FedEx was always a means to an end. 🫶🏻

@@mutchler87 fair and true enough….. I’ve got 32 years in….so I’m almost through. Out of Washington state….north of Seattle area. My hats off to all those in the profession….and we all work hard at it. And that’s the source of my comment…I want the most for my brothers and sisters in the grind. We both know how much they make off our labor…. I only want those in our line of work, to get top dollar! And heck yeah! Pursue life…..I never got a real satisfaction out of ups….it merely served a means to make a way….and have a living. Many many ups and downs at ups…you know more than most…being with fed ex. We’re all very much numbers, and must have a higher sense of why we matter, than what the boss says!

Totally get that. If I would’ve started younger I would’ve gone to UPS. Even applied for driver positions several times with UPS but it ended up not being a good fit the few times I was offered a job. Now I’m glad it didn’t work out. Just wasn’t meant to be. But it’s definitely the best for those in the delivery profession who are making a career out of it👌🏻

It’s cool to hear the similarities with other companies and in foreign countries! Thanks for sharing. What’s a LWB van? Long wheel base?

@@mutchler87 yeah long wheel base normally a Mercedes Sprinter or Ford E-Transit

@@reecewilson8505 gotcha. Those are definitely a bit more enjoyable to drive but I did really like the space of these trucks!

I’d suggest reaching out to them with an email you don’t particular about.. I’ve never seen a FedEx Ground job posting that I felt was a scam but reach out and see what they say.

Depends on the company but it’s typical for most contractors to pay salary. I’d have to be paid really well hourly to take on the job.

If you email me I can give you my old contractors contact info. Every contractor has their unique benefits/downsides but they’re easy to work for and good communicators. 87mutchler@gmail.com

@@mutchler87that would be awesome! Sending an email right now

Oh and the loaders not scanning the package to the truck. That makes me fume

Sounds like your shelves need fixed.😬

Yea, it’s frustrating for sure.