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When I started you could ask for turn by turn directions and it was a stack of MapQuest directions to each delivery😅

They would have zero reason to ever load my truck properly. I no longer deliver but I’d never take your advice. Especially since my truck was always loaded perfectly because of the way I handled things. Thanks for the comment though🙏🏻

Is it worth it?

@@jacemorganfield7041 also, that seems pretty common at small stations. Is your station relatively small?

Phoenix, AZ

Yea, almost never happened for me. Hence why I chose that day to finally film the video🥰

Let me know how it goes!

@@mutchler87 i will most certainly do that

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Yes, typically a few days minimum.

Depends on the contractor but most are paid per day or per delivery.

I’m not sure what that means😂

Thanks!

I didn’t speed while working for Fedex but I would deliver in large communities where there were multiple stops on the same street. This is pretty typical with today’s delivery routes. Everybody orders online.

You got me. Sounds amazing😂

I delivered in Oregon, Washington, Arizona, and Nevada. None of the states I delivered in were especially cold during the winter however Oregon did have one winter where there was a bunch of black ice and snow. We ended up working half days from noon to about 5 to avoid the worst of it. Really depends on what the safety management decides.

Welcome, thanks for watching!

Guess it depends on the route because my route the UPS guy would take all the lockers if he got there first.. so he clearly had a code for the lockers.🙃

I’m a CDL driver for FedEx now but I can likely answer your questions.

I don’t, sorry. Let me know how the interview goes!

Sorry to hear that. I was a bit surprised to hear that they would be felony friendly with it being a job working for a federal agency.. even though it’s private contractors, the govt doesn’t give them that leeway.😔 Especially with delivering things like guns and ammunition. Now that they’re merging with Express everything is even more rigid because they have to uphold TSA standards😑

This dude mentioned he had a light ass truck no less than 3 times😅 I would’ve filmed it on a day where I had 300 stops but decided that might make it a bit more difficult. And yes, thankfully I moved on before FedEx became like every other huge conglomerate.🙏🏻

Wait, you started at 3:30?? I didn’t even know Ground had drivers that go out that late. We generally get to the terminal by 8:30am, leave by 9:30 (if they’re being slow) and are back by 4, depending on traffic/weather

I could start whenever I wanted because I always delivered my route fast. Most days I’d start at 11 but this day I had a lot going on.

Yea, I’ve found each station is just a bit differentx

Is the merger gonna have benefits for the driver as well for the company? And how does one get a raise without jumping ship. I live in Gaithersburg, MD and I'm literally 5-7 min drive from the terminal.

@waynemercer4546 I’m really not sure about the whole merge thing. It started happening after I left FedEx. Seems like it should help the drivers but I’m not sure what really happens to the contractors.

I’m really not sure either way. First Advantage would likely be the one to clear you or deny you but if they’re sending you to do a drug test that might be a good sign you passed the initial screening. Let me know what happens! Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful.

You are correct. Thank you for clarifying that for me. 🫶🏻

@@mutchler87 Sorry. I work for FedEx Express.

@@MikeMane-ex1vf you don’t have to be sorry you work for them..😅

What’s that?

For me it was about 2 weeks. And that was mostly because their 3rd party background check company kept messing things up. They’d call my previous employer who would verify my driving experience and then they would tell FedEx I had no driving experience.. 😑

@@albinoslug5594 and yet there were still dozens of comments about how empty my truck was..🙃

@mutchler87 hilarious! I'm just messing around man, I'm not serious at all. Great video.

@albinoslug5594 appreciate it!

Sounds super similar to my past few FedEx jobs. Always averaged $1000/week during regular season and would pretty much always have a 6 hour day including the drive time to and from my route. Only difference was with my last 2 routes I had pick ups at 5 PM, so it didn’t make sense for me to come in until at least 10am at the earliest. Otherwise at the end of the day I’d just be sitting on my route waiting for a pickup to open. The nice thing was if I was going out of town or needed off early my manager would have someone else do a few of my pickups so I could be done by 2 and outta there🙏🏻

I’m working on it. Thinking I’ll do one more about my current gig (FedEx linehaul local) and then transition into my bus build videos. Renovating a 40 ft Bluebird bus into an off grid recreational vehicle👌🏻

At 35 years old, $1000/week was no longer going to work for me and my goals. Moved into FedEx linehaul where the avg is closer to $1700 a week. Currently working a dedicated local linehaul route that pays $1875 a week.

@@mutchler87 Nice. I hope it’s working out for you.

@CreachterZ it’s been working out great. Quitting in 2 weeks to renovate a bus and travel the country with my wife and baby. Should be a fun adventure😊

@@mutchler87 Now that sounds awesome. It deserves a TH-cam channel.

@CreachterZ working on it! Just finished raising the roof and have just started paneling it. Once I quit in 2 weeks I’ll have more time to focus on documenting the journey🙌🏻

I’ve noticed quite a few things that were different from station to station.. I do think that they changed the name of the large ones to NC’s I was just never there early enough to hear the lingo change😅 It would definitely be cool to see a detailed video of them loading. The few times I got there early and helped it was a lot more work than I would’ve thought. Super crazy at times and super slow at others.

They did at this location😊🫶🏻 That’s why I mentioned the package being left unsecured. If I ever saw the UPS driver there before me I’d skip this apartment complex because he’d use all of the empty boxes.

@@Roxyandmaya take your time learning the scanner and don’t rush yourself. Speed will come with time!🙌🏻

I’m not really sure how in depth I can go because of character limit/lack of knowledge. But individual business owners buy Fedex contracts, and each contract has a specific amount of routes that are associated with that contract. They’re required to operate under certain guidelines and procedures, but they have a lot of freedom in the way that they pay their employees, what benefits they offer/choose to offer, etc. It essentially takes a lot of liability off of FedEx and allows small business owners to own a piece of a profitable business with taking some of the guess work out of starting their own business.

Nothing too crazy for me, but I did get bit by a pit bull once.. luckily it wasn’t anything to major.😬🙏🏻

@@mutchler87 man sounds painful thank God you made it out though cause these dogs are a different breed these days 🙏🏽🙏🏽

@@loganlarcom9724 Are you paid a salary for the rural route? I had to cover for one once and it sucked. 50 stops all day and it was one of my longest days😫

@@mutchler87I’m still on hourly 21$ a hour for rural routes . I usually average 50-70 on those days since I get put on them during weekends where it’s more chill but even with lower stop counts it still takes me 10+ hours to finish usually ( this is including the 1-1:30 hour drive to and from station as well)

@loganlarcom9724 which state are you located in?

@@mutchler87Washington State

@loganlarcom9724 seems somewhat low.. I usually shoot in the $30/hr range for a driving job. Especially one that includes customer service. I’d look for other contractors in the area and possibly find one with commission/incentive to do more stops per hour.

I went to an interview at UPS to be a holiday driver (they promoted it as a full-time driver, but it was just the same holiday driver position they offer every year) and just the interview process made me feel claustrophobic.

I think I mentioned 2-3 times that this was a really light day for me. The main reason I chose to record this day👌🏻🙃

It’s possible, but not super likely. My average was between el$800 and $850 weekly but that was also in Vegas with no income tax.

@@mutchler87 geez if that's the case, knowing how my state of NY is, I'd probably would be averaging only $600 a week since they tax everything here.

@Salesman it really depends. Employers know that there is tax or there isn’t so they try to/have to make it competitive. I would look into Fedex delivery jobs on craigslist/indeed and see what you come up with.

I’ve worked at 5 different facilities over 7 years and management makes a HUGE difference. From facility manager to line managers, the difference is quite significant. I’d always suggest that an unloaded package was better than a misplaced package and encourage my loaders to leave my packages off the back until the end of sort.. you’ll find they get moments of craziness as well as moments of boredom so they’ll end up going back and loading those that were set aside. It’s never perfect but I always encouraged them and thanked them for doing such a good job loading my truck and it always got better and better. 🙏🏻🫶🏻

It really depends on the individual route. My last route averaged about 160 during regular season and about 250 during peak. Whereas my route before that averaged closer to 180 regularly and 300-350 during peak.

@@mutchler87 300-350 stops??

@@mutchler87 that seems like insanity.

@@Schmidtycent it can be some days. But you also have to think, my route was the same size.. so instead of going into a neighborhood and delivering 10 stops you deliver 30.. sometimes you’re parked between 4 houses and delivering to all of them.. it’s more than double the stops but only maybe 15% more driving and 25% more steps.. one day I had 495 stops. That was a wild day but also very memorable. Felt like a war veteran after that day😅

@@Schmidtycent that was average during peak. A lot of days on the 400’s. But I’d say 350 was pretty normal. Luckily I had a few apartments so there were days where I could do a 60+ stops an hour for a few hours to balance out the workflow and end the day at 50 stops an hour.. so I’d still only deliver for 8 hours, work for a total of 10, and make $500+.🙌🏻

Thanks for getting that..🫶🏻😅 I wish I would’ve started making videos earlier but I then transitioned into a job where videos would’ve been quite boring. (Corporate sales job) but I’m starting a bus conversion followed by full time travel for at least a year here soon. Quitting my job the end of September and will start making videos somewhat often of the build and then the travel aspect.

I’ve never been told that but I’m sure it’s a policy. It was my last day and I didn’t care too much💁🏼‍♂️

@@lukedavenport8576 oh absolutely. When I first got several of my routes the order made no sense. Had to jump all over the place to prevent from driving in circles. I’d always re-zone my route to make it function best for me personally and it was always so nice to have it loaded the way I delivered it.🙏🏻 I’ve always sprinted my full route so my avg was 30 in Portland and Phoenix but in Las Vegas I had a great route and I could avg 50 stops per hour. Made the day FLY by!

@@mutchler87 plenty of routes I can crack 30 stops an hour without trying my route just isn’t one of them because there harder and like I said it’s seniority so mines harder then others but it comes with its positives like an average day I have 160 to 180 stops most I’ve had so far was 196 while others have 200 plus on average and maybe 220s or so on busy days but the route is very compact I’m usually close to one of the first ones back everyday too despite having a harder route so hopefully I’ll get the easy one someday because you’ll make a lot if you have 200 stops a day on average on an easy route my contractor pays hourly or production so I usually milk the clock because I don’t have enough stops to justify production yet but some you can do 33 or so stops an hour without trying and production I believe is $1.10 a stop so that’s $36.30hr rate while active which is pretty good but I’m glad we’re a hybrid where I don’t have to pick because loaders take too long or you don’t have that many stops that week you can still make close to the same. We get paid $24hr. I’m only 21 so it’s pretty solid income and I work on average 35 to 36hrs a week on a 4 day schedule.

@@lhetzel101 that’s awesome! I know they really appreciate that🙌🏻🫶🏻