My supervisor put me onto an app called beans route. It works well for apartment buildings. Gives you an an overview of the buildings and where the apartment is located.
To start, but where you go with this job is up to you and nobody gets there by complaining. After learning the job in and out I was able to move to a different place across the country and make 6 figures. It's what you make it.
Believe it or not, there are FedEx Ground locations where you can get close to $300 a day. It's entirely dependent on the contractor as well if you are willing to do extra work after your route is done such as another route. It's possible but like I said, there's a lot of factors to it.
Drove fedex ground for two years before I had to bail. I was a swing driver who knew every route by heart... The key is to learn the route, pack the truck exactly how you will do the route. Markers help in the beginning. Also instead of using the flawed number system of fedex you can load your packages alphabetically at first (A-L on one side, M through Z on the other). Eventually you'll want to load the truck by neighborhood or street depending on the area. 30 stops an hour with FedEx should be a bare minimum target. 40+ is the ideal goal and if you maintain over 50 stops an hour you're gold.
My company wants all drivers to do 20 stops an hour, 30 stops bare minimum seems a lot, not all drivers are salary, Im hourly and my route isnt super condensed, I worked for amazon for 4 years and 20 stops an hour is perfect cause youll always be done on time.
Different types of routes will get different results. No way you’re getting anywhere near 40 stops per hour, let alone 30 in my area (not including Peak Season).
@ricpor232 There will be a newborn "fool" out there who is willing to sacrifice it's health, and physical body to advance, enlarged the capitalist owner profit margins. In 99% of time without any retirement compensation after 35yrs of service. Work smart NOT hard. That msg is coming from an X FedEx #1 producer driver who got cutout of the work force after he suffered a back injury 😳
I drive in Omaha, near downtown. Average 150-170 stops per day with a shit load of apartment buildings, but most of them have a mail room where I can get rid of 5-10 stops in 2 minutes. Start around 8am and done between 1 and 2. It's not bad deal to only work 30 hours a week roughly and take home around 800 a week
A big tip, get a big permanent marker. Write the serial number down much larger on the box facing out where you can see it. That way you can pack the boxes how you want. Don’t have to worry about taking the sticker off and it not sticking when you put it back.
Holy fuck…..I am the only person at my station who uses a marker and write the first letter of the street facing me…..been on 2 months and better by the day is my saying!
honestly if management is fluent with DRO you don't need to waste all that time writing shit all over boxed. just sort them by SID. or if it's off some days, which it will be, Sttill sort by sid, input the stops into road warrior, placemaker, whatever and every time you get to stop, just look at the sid on the scanner. if it's a 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,or 9 you should know exactly where they all are and it shouldn't take much more than a few seconds to find it. i averaged 30 stops per hour daily doing this. plus you'll save on those markers LOL
I like the sentiment, but 30/hr just simply isn't attainable for some of the routes at least in my area. South central Wisconsin, VERY rural. No matter how you plot you have at least 5-10 minutes between stops sometimes. I've only been at it for a couple months, but I feel that I've gotten the hang of it quickly. Not a ton of stops usually (80-120) but you can't defeat the miles sometimes. I'd be curious to see how I would do in a slightly more condensed area.
I would say that balances though. Low stop count to account for the distance between each one. We only have two or three routes like that in our station.
Gotta love the rural routes. Have the same thing for my route. 5-10 minutes in between stops sometimes, then they have a quarter mile driveway that you either have to run up, back up, or do a 100 point turn to drive back down lol.
Overall vision tags help a lot but if a package doesn’t have the sticker, I check the iPad before I leave the station and check all the packages that don’t have them before hand and have them facing out. Floor boxes is making sure heavy boxes are on the back so it’s easier to take out.
Good strategies. I make sure every package has the SID though. So if the tag falls off, I write it on the box where I can see it. If it’s one of the funky ones the algorithm can’t figure out that doesn’t get a SID, I put all those in a pile with the label facing up so I can see them all quickly.
I wish my routes were more residential. 😩 I have no issues averaging 30+ stops an hour in a residential, but outside of that? Country I can barely average 10 stops, what would you recommend?
At that point, it’s just about negotiating your pay rate to make sure it’s worth your time. There is a contract in our station that pays their drivers more on average because they have to drive about an hour to get to their areas. I don’t make as much, but my area is five minutes from the station, and I get paid pretty well for my time based on how fast I can go. So if I were you, I would just make sure that I’m getting paid well enough to account for the time it takes to do those stops that are further apart from each other.
@@high-man6917There will be a newborn "fool" out there who is willing to sacrifice it's health, and physical body to advance, enlarged the capitalist owner profit margins. In 99% of time without any retirement compensation after 35yrs of service. Work smart NOT hard. That msg is coming from an X FedEx #1 producer driver who got cutout of the work force after he suffered a back injury 😳
Is it better to get bulk stops off your truck first then do your route? I normally have pickup stops and time frames to meet like before 12 or by 3 or by 4 and 5pm
Just depends on how things are set up. If you need to get them out of the way to be able to do everything else efficiently, then ya, definitely do the bulk first. This rarely happens to me, but if I have to I will leave a bulk stop at the back and then do it first to get it out of the way of everything else. After thats gone, then I go about the day as usual.
I thought the same thing. Otherwise, yes its realistic, still a good video. But in Ga , you will be in trouble if u don't wear your seat belt or out of a job . :-()
With Express we are monitored by a nauto camera. Must use seatbelt, keep bulkhead door shut, close doors and shut off and lock truck every stop, also earbuds are not allowed. Would be so much quicker if we didn't have to follow all those rules.
We just had a bad storm. On my first day alone, i was put into a route with power lines were on the ground. Lots of trees broken all over the place. 😮 I had 95 stops and i started at 9:45am. I didn't get done until 4:40pm. I was very disappointed in my self. I also had too turn around reroute myself on every other stop because their was a lot of electric companies out. A lot of city cars & trucks blocking off roads. I was not happy. 13:05
Here’s a few questions for you: 1. How long does it take you to commute from and to the facility? 2. Do you run into dead end roads? 3. Is your truck fully stocked? Like no walk way space cause I see here you had some… and you never displayed how many packages and stops you completed. 4. Do you use a dolly for your heavy packages? 5. Do you get paid more to work the weekends? 6. Do you have to load and fuel your own truck. 7. We normally can’t leave until 9:30 to 10am. How do they let you leave at 8?
1. 5 minute commute 2. Yes 3. Depends on the day. Sometimes I am floor to ceiling front to back, some days I could fit an elephant in the extra space. Just depends. 4. I have a dolly. I almost never use it 5. Yes 6. Yes to fueling. Depends on loading. I almost always have to load the big stuff on. They’ll leave it out on the side to leave room inside for me to organize 7. We dispatch whenever the sort is done. Some days that’s 7:30, some days it’s 10:30. Just depends on how the sorters manage to get along that morning
@@Deliverypros thank you for taking the time to answer these questions. When did they begin paying you extra for the weekends? Was it upon hiring you or later on? Also, if you don’t mind me asking, how much more do you make to work weekends VS weekdays?
Well if your doing business it’s hard to do that many I’m half and half and sometimes I have to go up elevators and do huge bulks I average 17-19 stops and hour just depends on what I have more of that day. I also work in a busy side of town plus my residential includes 2nd floor apts. like most of my residential route.
Come in Berlin to work for 2000€, and you bring dog food to the 5th floor without lift sometimes 3boxes x31.5kg. There are no elevators in the buildings and no parking space. Ohh rent is 1200€ and you are left with 800€. Seeing americans do this job is awesome im dreaming to work like this. I have 0 houses only apartments with no lifts, heavy packages and im working in the centre of the city. i have no money left
Done by noon? Are you on a purely residential route? No timed pick ups that open up at 2,3 or 5pm? I’d love to have that route. I run about the same amount of packages, in a CDV, and in a rural area where my first 30 stops are 5-10 mins apart. And even if I finish by 3pm, I have to stick around and wait for a 5pm pick up. Then drive an hour and 10 minutes back to station.
@@Deliverypros Lucky lol! I’ll probably have to stick around a bit longer but once I get more seniority I’ll definitely negotiate for a better route. Or look for a different contractor that services more city/residential areas. Dirt roads, spaced out stops, and quarter mile driveways I have to back into cause they don’t have enough space to swoop is killing me lol
I think it's pretty shitty you have to pack and reorganize your truck then drive and deliver. The package handlers should do that for you. It would make it a lot more less stress on the drivers.
The second one. Circling them takes time and im usually allowed to dispatch as soon as I’m done organizing the truck. I also almost always make changes on the fly as I go anyway.
I know that this is an old video, but im starting Tuesday and im confused on what you do with pick ups? Do you leave them in the truck and park it when you're done and your package handlers deal with it, or do you have to unload it all yourself back at your terminal, or how does that work? The rest seems very simple, but the pickups are never explained in any videos I've seen. So if someone or you could explain that it'll give me a little bit better understanding and peace of mind
@@DrivenChris92 I don’t do much with my groundcloud. I have it set to remove hide stops after delivery and I have the color coordination on. That’s about it
Man I’ve done a lot of routes for OnTrac which some drivers will have to take the whole zip code or half the zip code from 100-200 deliveries it really depends on the area some have no traffic ,plus no apts, businesses and in a cargo van
Does your station run like 3K a day? One of the emptiest trucks I've ever seen with some of the easiest residential's I've ever seen. And I've done over 120 routes in 7 terminals.
@@marcadams9698 I believe we average 10-15k? It’s a smallish station. We only have 3 belts. Maybe 18 trucks per belt, then some stragglers around the perimeter. I average 180-210 stops 🤷🏻♂️ some days the truck is pretty roomy, others I’m floor to ceiling/front to back. Just depends
Hey new subscriber here and you have all good videos. So I applied with FedEx but waiting for the background check. How long does that usually take? It's going on like 2 weeks for me I don't know if that's good or bad.
@@Deliverypros really? I'm in the Chicago suburbs. I've been reading and it said it could take 3-5 days or up to 2 weeks which is crazy long for just a background check. Yeah, I'm going to contact the contractor tomorrow. Thanks
@@Deliverypros Flex app is associated with Amazon Flex or just Amazon Delivery Drivers, it's what they use to do their job and from what I've heard, most Amazon Drivers hate it 😂
Great Video! I will be starting next week. Few questions -- 1. Do you get paid by the day? So you're off at noon but make the full days worth right? My contractor said you get paid $200 per day no matter what (won't go over 8 hours ever) -- they also said there's opportunity for extra money if you're willing to come back and take more. Any idea of what the logistics of that are? Like how many packages for how much money kind of details. 2. How often do you negotiate your pay?
It’s per day and most contractors pay per stop. So I’d expect at least 200 deliveries a day at that day rate. If you’re getting less stops than that, tell me where you live so I can come work for your boss 😂 As far as coming back to get more stuff, you’ll see it’s super not fun 🤣 you have to go back to the station, load the packages up on your own, then head back out. I’ve only had to do that twice and I didn’t enjoy it, but I also wasn’t getting paid extra for it. Good luck!
@@deathmetal0073so lucky bro I get $140 a day and anything over $120 you get $20 at 120 and anything after $1 per package, so if I have 119 delivers I don’t get the extra pay and just get $140 for the day
Get waterproof boots? Haha it would depend on your area and your truck. This video is kind of general advice for organizing well to cut down the time you spend looking for packages
I sort by the sid 1, 2, and up so that way it easy for me to find. The pckg that don't have a sid I make space and write the street name one it. I saw a guy on tiktok saying he did 200 stops in 4h .
1 does fedex do apartments/office buildings where you have to deliver at the door? vs at reception? 2 do you get watched for speed or not fully breaking at stop signs? 3 do you have to take pictures of the packages at every door? 4 will I get fired if it takes me 10hrs to deliver 120 stops? 5 if you injure your leg/knees, is their light duty? 6 will they let me bring my own carrier bag and flatbed/dolly combo to work?
@@ewwwt wow 😂 that’s a lot. 1. Yes, both 2. Yes, both are watched 3. Yes, except if a signature is required 4. Depends on the contractor. 10 hrs for 120 is really really slow 5. They lightened my load when I broke my hand and gave me a runner. But that also depends on your contractor 6. Also depends on your contractor but I don’t see why anyone would stop you from bringing those. Most contractors have dollys for their employees
I’m assigned to a fucking Penske rental truck, no shelves, no side door, and the loaders are absolutely terrible at their job, so most of the time I have to dig through other packages to find the ones I need, on top of trying to organize at the beginning of my day, on top of the packages getting all over the place during the drive. My pay is based on my stops too
90 businesses and bout 70 resis 300 to 400 pkgs a day with 8 pickups mixed in at ups 😢 after I organize truck real nice after last business usually bout 2 o clock I’m lettin em fly baby. Some of my hoods 50 stops per hour is doable on the right day
Started around 3 months ago after being a PH for a year and was trained to do it almost the same way here, Doing 130~ stops with a 20-25 stops/hr with a decently fast but relaxed pace on my contractors longest(distance) route. You just gotta figure out how it works for you. and finding a good contractor and bc's that arnt up your ass about how you drive. Good video, drive safe
So I’ve accepted an offer as a courier, coming from the Postal Service. Does your scanner not have sound on it? Does it have navigation software to lead you to stops? I assume they’re put in order?
No order haha I make the order up. So I have a scanner and it does have a map, but I don’t use the scanner map to navigate. I have an ipad that shows the stops as dots on a map. I click on the stop dot and it tells me the info to find the package in the truck.
I assume you’re FedEx express. Yea the leo do have sounds and a map but most ppl don’t use unless they have time sensitive packages. Your packages that don’t have a time frame are color coded blue. The ones that need to be delivered by 1030 is red, by 1200 is dark or navy blue. You can organize your truck alphabetically by street name. A-f can be your side door side. I-p can be on the other side. R-z at the back of truck as an example. Also don’t worry about going fast at express. You’re paid by the hour, the job is much easier and laid back vs ground. Plus those time sensitive packages will have you traveling all over town until you get that last one off. Congrats and good luck
@@eboniclay5268 yes very true. That's why at express, 80 to 90 stops is average at my station because we have usually 20 to 25 priority packages due everywhere. Also we load our own trucks as the freight is being unloaded on the belt. Some drivers sort alphabetically, others put the priorities on the top shelves. Some just put the areas together on a shelf, whatever works for you. 20 / hour is pretty good for us since our areas are spread out. But once those priorities are delivered, you can really pick up the pace with the rest. But once again, we are hourly so no need to rush unless you want a smaller paycheck
I work in the Los Angeles area in the mornings I have to load my own truck Sort my own boxes which gives me an advantage because I know where everything is placed and then know what area to go hit 1st to make good timing only thing that slows me down is Apartments and Businesses but man my Calf Muscles are getting bigger everyday lol
Once scanned gotta choose where you are dropping it off at say front door, backdoor, side door ect then take a pic of the box and go. Sometimes a signature is required as the box may be of some very big importance! For most if not all businesses there is a signature that is required
Ahh the trade off. Load your own truck and do 30 stops/hr or have loaders load your truck and take forever to find a package. I think it probably averages out in the end when you factor in the time it takes to load your own truck.
@@collegeguy799 oh, I don’t load it. I just organize it. And now I do 40-50 stops an hour haha when I didn’t organize I was doing 25. If I have 200 stops, what I’m doing saves me 3 or 4 hours 😂 I had 260 stops the other day. I did them in 4.5 hours. If I didn’t spend an hour organizing it would easily take me 4 extra hours delivering.
Love this video man, getting a interview with FedEx Tomorrow, bit nervous, got a couple of questions. Does FedEx track every move you take or is it more chill and you can work at your own pace as long as you get it done in time. Any good ways to approach a interview and how to answer their questions? Again thx for this, hope your career is going good right now.
FedEx is by and large desperate for drivers. So just be honest with them and they’ll work with you. If you’re nervous about the truck, tell ‘em. If you’re nervous about being slow at first, ask for mostly residential to begin with. It’s pretty chill depending on your contractor. There are some weeks where I don’t see or talk to my manager or my contractor haha so it just depends on how they run things
I’m starting FedEx Express in 2 weeks as a DoT driver. I reside in NJ. & I’m so nervous. How are the benefits? Please advise when you can. Thank you so much in advance 🙏🏾.
No benefits for ground (at least not from my specific contractor) but I hear the benefits at express are good and you don’t have to deal with huge heavy packages so that’s nice haha
Watching this makes me wonder what my personal best was. Tried doing 30/hr the first several hours so at night time I didn't feel rushed, especially with having light/refocusing on the road/surroundings.
It's all so relative; if you're out in the sticks you could have several minutes between stops lol, whereas if you're in a big city, you could run 30 stops in 30 minutes. That's why it's so difficult to gauge speed or efficiency simply by asking someone how many stops they do per hour.
@@junieocampo2206 it all depends on your contractor. We start guys off at $150 a day I believe. Getting paid per hour wouldn’t make sense because how fast or slow you go is up to you.
I drive for Ground which has now aquired Express in my area. The Express has hosed my day. I run a chaser route that averaged 70 to 80 stops. I run out of a small box truck which I know is a time suck but anything bigger than possibly a P700 won't work with the shitty ass driveways and damn near 4x4 areas I service. I also drive from my North Coast Oregon town to Portland to load my truck in the AM and then drive back, deliver and park at home which is one way is 1 hour 45 minutes. I spend a couple hours at the terminal waiting for sort to be done and dispatch given. My average day BEFORE Express was around 8 or so hours with about 70+ stops. I have now gone to 12 and sometimes 14 hours with 100 stops. It's not the stop amount that jacks the day up, it's the P1's that are spread out from the beginning to the end of my route. Knowing my area quite well I can ping pong back and forth and eliminate some of the stops going and backtracking which in turn makes the continuation of my route and back home much smoother. We used to use Package Route but now use Groundcloud. Each has it's postivies. I run my route manually and don't need turn by turn. Anyway, are you still driving for Ground and or have you aquired Express?
I typically wear one on main roads. But when I’m house hopping…. It’s a lot of on and off. Especially in the area I do now. I usually don’t drive more than 50 yards between stops. If it’s more than that the belt goes on
Well bro I just started at fedex and yesterday was my second day on the road by myself and I had 131 stops no business and I had to get help .. I was using the gps but like they want me to learn all the streets by heart in two days so I didn’t think I am going back .. people in there got 19 years doing it and they make look so easy bro like I am from New York and send us out to New Jersey to deliver and I don’t know anything of New Jersey
Here's what I think of doing 30 stops an hour...HELL NO!!!!!! Why would you want to do that? All that does is get you more packages ('cause you've shown that you can do it)...or switched to a route with more packages...which either one of those scenarios equals LONGER DAYS. Many drivers get paid a daily set rate...I'm one of them...and I ain't lookin' to kill myself trying to deliver 300 packages for the same amount of money I get for getting done early. The idea is to get done...and GO HOME. NOT to stay out longer or run yourself to death!
Sounds like you need to tell your boss to shove it haha I basically hand picked my route. They know not to give me more because they want to keep me around. If they wanna keep you around, tell them your terms. Contractors are desperate for drivers. You probably have more negotiation power than you think
If gou get fast enough and start getting paid with a stop incentive( over a certain amount of stops you start earning a $1) if your stop incentive starts after 150 stops and you have 300 stops your making an extra $150 a day.
I'm currently at FedEx myself, we our doing our last week of peak, I have been doing nothing but the country. You talk about a grind got damn I been doing 90 plus country stops, a day, occasionally 70 here in there. I'm here in Illinois, and the winter is beginning to set in. But iam pretty good at the job, I have done all of the routes they do here. I'm good in the city and I'm good in the country. Iam neutral how I feel about the job, I'll make 2yr this upcoming April. But this type of job could maybe lead a person to something better, in that is my aim.
Keep grinding boss. And that’s sick. That’s how I am. I can run all the routes, but there are some I tell them I won’t do 😂 I’m just over 2 years at this point. Not sure where I wanna go with it though. But it’s stable and I have the pay right where I want it so I’m gonna keep grinding
@@Deliverypros Right on i'ma continue to do my best, but I do know something next year it's time to make move, towards something else. We'll 👀 how it go though, appreciated the feedback take care.
Not sure how any of you get 30 an hour unless you're delivering all small boxes to just houses. I have a guy on my route that lives in a 2nd floor apartment and orders 20 or more boxes from Walmart almost daily. Takes over 5 minutes just to get everything out and scanned, and then load up the dolly. There are days when there are 60 or more boxes going to this 1 person. .
hmm, let’s see… doors open, keys in the ignition, no seatbelt, no turn signal, speeding in residential area. improper 🛑… also, no signature? that does help
@@alxd5068 rules about doors and keys are contractor to contractor. Mine doesn’t care. In fact some of our doors are welded open 🤷🏻♂️ And that neighborhood doesn’t have stop signs 😂 it’s all yields. Show me on the doll where your route hurt you 🥲
@6:38 epic fail no seat belt. The cargo door is left open, which is another safty hazard. Speeding . Distracted driving. Ear buds are prohibited. Improper lifting.
@@ravageawakened improper lifting 🤣🤣🤣 I lift weights for fun. Some of our cargo doors are WELDED open. You don’t know how fast I was going. I’m never distracted. And my earbuds have active listening, and I wear them in front of my manager all the time. Not every contract and station has the same rules.
@@PhenomDaDON times money. I did 213 stops today in 4 hours. Made about $50 an hour today. Then I worked on my side hustles haha they don’t pay me enough to work more hours
Back in the day this guy would be fired. No seatbelt, bulkhead door open, side door open, no turn signals, leaves truck running, constantly looking at dads unit while driving.
If they fired everyone who drives like I do they wouldn’t have drivers haha and I think they realize that. Trucks got an anti theft device and turning it on 200+ times a day isn’t good for it. Some of the bulkhead doors are welded open. Everyone drives with both doors open in the summer. I wear my seat belt on main roads, always use my signals when other cars are around and I don’t get lost in my map, just check it as I navigate maze-ish neighborhoods.
Try doing that respecting the UPS rules... pull your mirror in every stop, turn the engine off every stop, put the parking break on every stop, putting ON your seat belt before turning the engine on, close the door to the cabin before coming out of the truck... etc.
I’m positive he’s fired now!! For one he’s making vids on route, he’s riding with the back door open, he’s speeding, and no seatbelt!! He’s literally showing you EVERYTHING FEDEX LET’S YOU GO FOR
Still here. Literally just released a vlog over the weekend 😂 two things. First I wear my seatbelt more than this video shows, and second, some of our doors are literally welded open. No one cares about the door being open. I’ve been driving for 4 years. If they haven’t fired me by now they’re not gonna
@@Deliverypros well i need to come where you are!! Because I’ve been written up 3 times for not closing it🤣🤣🤣 and mine has a key that locks and i have to close the door and lock it EVERY STOP 😩!!! And I’ve had seatbelt off to drive three doors down and they got me for that!!!
I started driving 2 weeks ago & my thing is driving on the highway. Other drivers pass me fast af & I can’t stay on 75 consistently cause I’m still kinda afraid of the wind & how it pulls on the highway. I had a big fishtail scare on my first ride out & I think it still kinda bothers me
Yaaa…. I don’t like driving the trucks on the highway 😂 haven’t had to do a lot of that. My area is 5 minutes from my station so…. Lucky there. Wind is a definite concern
@@CheekSmackerFrom63rd hopefully they compensate you for it. There was a contractor a month ago who needed someone to cover a route for a week. It was about a 40 mile drive from the station and they were offering $300 a day for someone to run it.
Ugh nice..I label out too and alphabetize but overflow is usually down my aisle..ANNDDD.. With netradyne- etc..no seat belt and ignition off, keys out...adds time🤪
@@bringinghopesup6680 ya, mine does now too. Go watch the more recent videos. I found a way to get in and out of the belt quick that doesn’t piss off the camera
Mann I do like 48.5 stops and hr… ig the key is get there early organize your truck where you grab and go… and I put all my boxes on the floor so I’m just poppin like popcorn🔥…. Get done around 1230 everyday and be back at the house 🫡
Just awesome when you can’t find an address because of no markings, no mail box and no numbers on the house
Those are the worst especially on busy streets
I hate that shit bruh
Apartment buildings are the worst. Honestly that no number shyt should be illegal
My supervisor put me onto an app called beans route. It works well for apartment buildings. Gives you an an overview of the buildings and where the apartment is located.
Exactly. You definitely not doing 30 per hour 😅
Poverty wages. 150 to 170 a day. That should be for just driving not to factor in the labor. Easily a 260 a day a
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To start, but where you go with this job is up to you and nobody gets there by complaining. After learning the job in and out I was able to move to a different place across the country and make 6 figures. It's what you make it.
Believe it or not, there are FedEx Ground locations where you can get close to $300 a day. It's entirely dependent on the contractor as well if you are willing to do extra work after your route is done such as another route.
It's possible but like I said, there's a lot of factors to it.
Today I did 240 stops in 6 1/2 I average 34 stops an hour. My highest average stops a days was 39 FedEx ground only been working for 3 months
Drove fedex ground for two years before I had to bail. I was a swing driver who knew every route by heart... The key is to learn the route, pack the truck exactly how you will do the route. Markers help in the beginning. Also instead of using the flawed number system of fedex you can load your packages alphabetically at first (A-L on one side, M through Z on the other). Eventually you'll want to load the truck by neighborhood or street depending on the area. 30 stops an hour with FedEx should be a bare minimum target. 40+ is the ideal goal and if you maintain over 50 stops an hour you're gold.
My company wants all drivers to do 20 stops an hour, 30 stops bare minimum seems a lot, not all drivers are salary, Im hourly and my route isnt super condensed, I worked for amazon for 4 years and 20 stops an hour is perfect cause youll always be done on time.
Nobody is doing 30 stops an hour on country roads . Stop it
Different types of routes will get different results. No way you’re getting anywhere near 40 stops per hour, let alone 30 in my area (not including Peak Season).
50 hmm
@ricpor232 There will be a newborn "fool" out there who is willing to sacrifice it's health, and physical body to advance, enlarged the capitalist owner profit margins. In 99% of time without any retirement compensation after 35yrs of service. Work smart NOT hard. That msg is coming from an X FedEx #1 producer driver who got cutout of the work force after he suffered a back injury 😳
I drive in Omaha, near downtown. Average 150-170 stops per day with a shit load of apartment buildings, but most of them have a mail room where I can get rid of 5-10 stops in 2 minutes. Start around 8am and done between 1 and 2. It's not bad deal to only work 30 hours a week roughly and take home around 800 a week
A big tip, get a big permanent marker. Write the serial number down much larger on the box facing out where you can see it. That way you can pack the boxes how you want. Don’t have to worry about taking the sticker off and it not sticking when you put it back.
So I used to do that, but I was going through markers like crazy so I stopped 😂
@@Deliverypros you do go through them like crazy. That’s for sure lol
Holy fuck…..I am the only person at my station who uses a marker and write the first letter of the street facing me…..been on 2 months and better by the day is my saying!
@@blossomfirefan123 during my short time with fedex, I found using a marker much easier.
honestly if management is fluent with DRO you don't need to waste all that time writing shit all over boxed. just sort them by SID. or if it's off some days, which it will be, Sttill sort by sid, input the stops into road warrior, placemaker, whatever and every time you get to stop, just look at the sid on the scanner. if it's a 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,or 9 you should know exactly where they all are and it shouldn't take much more than a few seconds to find it. i averaged 30 stops per hour daily doing this. plus you'll save on those markers LOL
I like the sentiment, but 30/hr just simply isn't attainable for some of the routes at least in my area. South central Wisconsin, VERY rural. No matter how you plot you have at least 5-10 minutes between stops sometimes. I've only been at it for a couple months, but I feel that I've gotten the hang of it quickly. Not a ton of stops usually (80-120) but you can't defeat the miles sometimes. I'd be curious to see how I would do in a slightly more condensed area.
I would say that balances though. Low stop count to account for the distance between each one. We only have two or three routes like that in our station.
Agreed and I'm in the same boat.
Gotta love the rural routes. Have the same thing for my route. 5-10 minutes in between stops sometimes, then they have a quarter mile driveway that you either have to run up, back up, or do a 100 point turn to drive back down lol.
Overall vision tags help a lot but if a package doesn’t have the sticker, I check the iPad before I leave the station and check all the packages that don’t have them before hand and have them facing out. Floor boxes is making sure heavy boxes are on the back so it’s easier to take out.
Good strategies. I make sure every package has the SID though. So if the tag falls off, I write it on the box where I can see it. If it’s one of the funky ones the algorithm can’t figure out that doesn’t get a SID, I put all those in a pile with the label facing up so I can see them all quickly.
5:57 that was impressive, i must say. so smoothly out the driver's side with that big-ass box
I wish my routes were more residential. 😩 I have no issues averaging 30+ stops an hour in a residential, but outside of that? Country I can barely average 10 stops, what would you recommend?
At that point, it’s just about negotiating your pay rate to make sure it’s worth your time. There is a contract in our station that pays their drivers more on average because they have to drive about an hour to get to their areas. I don’t make as much, but my area is five minutes from the station, and I get paid pretty well for my time based on how fast I can go. So if I were you, I would just make sure that I’m getting paid well enough to account for the time it takes to do those stops that are further apart from each other.
Man i wish my truck looked like that... I can't even walk with all the overflow
There is a way my friend. Today I was floor to ceiling, front to back. Still managed to bang out 35 an hour
And where I come from it would all be out of the shelf on the floor in a matter of a few miles.
I told the people I work for I'd be ok doing 140 stops and under as I do have another job
@@high-man6917There will be a newborn "fool" out there who is willing to sacrifice it's health, and physical body to advance, enlarged the capitalist owner profit margins. In 99% of time without any retirement compensation after 35yrs of service. Work smart NOT hard. That msg is coming from an X FedEx #1 producer driver who got cutout of the work force after he suffered a back injury 😳
Is it better to get bulk stops off your truck first then do your route? I normally have pickup stops and time frames to meet like before 12 or by 3 or by 4 and 5pm
Just depends on how things are set up. If you need to get them out of the way to be able to do everything else efficiently, then ya, definitely do the bulk first. This rarely happens to me, but if I have to I will leave a bulk stop at the back and then do it first to get it out of the way of everything else. After thats gone, then I go about the day as usual.
FedEx fam all day. been there for seven years man. cheers.
I'm a rich lady (upper class family) and I thank you for your services. For delivering our packages.
What’s your secret?
Nice work man. This is good stuff. My old man was a delivery driver back in his younger years and I've always wondered what it was like.
NO SEATBELT.
I thought the same thing. Otherwise, yes its realistic, still a good video. But in Ga , you will be in trouble if u don't wear your seat belt or out of a job . :-()
Yup. 😂
This is the way. Ain't nobody got time for that.
With Express we are monitored by a nauto camera. Must use seatbelt, keep bulkhead door shut, close doors and shut off and lock truck every stop, also earbuds are not allowed. Would be so much quicker if we didn't have to follow all those rules.
We just had a bad storm. On my first day alone, i was put into a route with power lines were on the ground. Lots of trees broken all over the place. 😮 I had 95 stops and i started at 9:45am. I didn't get done until 4:40pm. I was very disappointed in my self. I also had too turn around reroute myself on every other stop because their was a lot of electric companies out. A lot of city cars & trucks blocking off roads. I was not happy. 13:05
That was definitely out of your hands haha
No seatbelt & parking on the left side of the road tho..saves time but at what cost?
Exactly idk if he has a camera in his truck but we do and we’d be out a job if we didn’t take the half second to put a seatbelt on
I have a wide spread out rural route ..can't do more than like 18 per hour
Here’s a few questions for you: 1. How long does it take you to commute from and to the facility?
2. Do you run into dead end roads?
3. Is your truck fully stocked? Like no walk way space cause I see here you had some… and you never displayed how many packages and stops you completed.
4. Do you use a dolly for your heavy packages?
5. Do you get paid more to work the weekends?
6. Do you have to load and fuel your own truck.
7. We normally can’t leave until 9:30 to 10am. How do they let you leave at 8?
1. 5 minute commute
2. Yes
3. Depends on the day. Sometimes I am floor to ceiling front to back, some days I could fit an elephant in the extra space. Just depends.
4. I have a dolly. I almost never use it
5. Yes
6. Yes to fueling. Depends on loading. I almost always have to load the big stuff on. They’ll leave it out on the side to leave room inside for me to organize
7. We dispatch whenever the sort is done. Some days that’s 7:30, some days it’s 10:30. Just depends on how the sorters manage to get along that morning
@@Deliverypros thank you for taking the time to answer these questions. When did they begin paying you extra for the weekends? Was it upon hiring you or later on? Also, if you don’t mind me asking, how much more do you make to work weekends VS weekdays?
Well if your doing business it’s hard to do that many I’m half and half and sometimes I have to go up elevators and do huge bulks I average 17-19 stops and hour just depends on what I have more of that day. I also work in a busy side of town plus my residential includes 2nd floor apts. like most of my residential route.
Feel sorry for you dude
Come in Berlin to work for 2000€, and you bring dog food to the 5th floor without lift sometimes 3boxes x31.5kg. There are no elevators in the buildings and no parking space. Ohh rent is 1200€ and you are left with 800€.
Seeing americans do this job is awesome im dreaming to work like this. I have 0 houses only apartments with no lifts, heavy packages and im working in the centre of the city. i have no money left
Done by noon? Are you on a purely residential route? No timed pick ups that open up at 2,3 or 5pm? I’d love to have that route. I run about the same amount of packages, in a CDV, and in a rural area where my first 30 stops are 5-10 mins apart. And even if I finish by 3pm, I have to stick around and wait for a 5pm pick up. Then drive an hour and 10 minutes back to station.
I wasn’t at the time of this video but I am in a 95% residential route now. And I did A LOT of negotiating to get here 😂
@@Deliverypros Lucky lol! I’ll probably have to stick around a bit longer but once I get more seniority I’ll definitely negotiate for a better route. Or look for a different contractor that services more city/residential areas. Dirt roads, spaced out stops, and quarter mile driveways I have to back into cause they don’t have enough space to swoop is killing me lol
I think it's pretty shitty you have to pack and reorganize your truck then drive and deliver. The package handlers should do that for you. It would make it a lot more less stress on the drivers.
Actually, it's much better to load your own. Nobody else cares as much about you as youself.
I work a route in Rockwell, North Carolina. I wish I can run like that. 155 stops takes between 6-8 hours
Woof. Every route is different
Do you use the circle feature on ground cloud? Or just the map and select each stop as you go?
The second one. Circling them takes time and im usually allowed to dispatch as soon as I’m done organizing the truck. I also almost always make changes on the fly as I go anyway.
I know that this is an old video, but im starting Tuesday and im confused on what you do with pick ups? Do you leave them in the truck and park it when you're done and your package handlers deal with it, or do you have to unload it all yourself back at your terminal, or how does that work? The rest seems very simple, but the pickups are never explained in any videos I've seen. So if someone or you could explain that it'll give me a little bit better understanding and peace of mind
Just like you said it first. You load them when you pick them up, and the package handlers will unload them from your truck.
this is easy to do if your stops are more condensed. My routes are out in the Rural area and are spaced out on average 2 to 8 miles apart.
Right! But I think most routes are like the one I was doing in this video. So it’ll help the most drivers 🤷🏻♂️
How do you set up your GroundCloud? I drive about an hour away from the terminal to Jasper from Bessemer, Al
@@DrivenChris92 I don’t do much with my groundcloud. I have it set to remove hide stops after delivery and I have the color coordination on. That’s about it
Man I’ve done a lot of routes for OnTrac which some drivers will have to take the whole zip code or half the zip code from 100-200 deliveries it really depends on the area some have no traffic ,plus no apts, businesses and in a cargo van
How much packages do you have to deliver every day?
@@Jeremiah-fy3zn somewhere between 170 and 220
Delivery pro Army.How do start the van and where's the signal and for wipers.Where doe it located at.Thanks
Absolutely hated it for the first few weeks but it’s getting better. I’ve definitely gotten in better shape. Might stick with it for a while longer.
Your in the city try doing it in a rural setting or if you are a route jumper who doesn’t know the area it’s not going to happen
You’re a god amongst men
Stawwwwp
What about your e brake and seatbelt? They don’t care about that in your state?
I guess I just have to get in earlier man cause I can’t ever find anything on my truck
Thanks. This was very interesting.
A heavy day for me is 150 stops, and I can only get about 20 an hour. I'm missing something, I guess. I sprint most of the day, too.
@@brianmurphy6760 lots of different variables can lead to slower stops per hour. Could be completely out of your control.
Are you getting paid for the day? Or by the hour?
Every driver in our entire station gets paid by the day as far as I know
Does your station run like 3K a day? One of the emptiest trucks I've ever seen with some of the easiest residential's I've ever seen. And I've done over 120 routes in 7 terminals.
@@marcadams9698 I believe we average 10-15k? It’s a smallish station. We only have 3 belts. Maybe 18 trucks per belt, then some stragglers around the perimeter. I average 180-210 stops 🤷🏻♂️ some days the truck is pretty roomy, others I’m floor to ceiling/front to back. Just depends
Hey new subscriber here and you have all good videos. So I applied with FedEx but waiting for the background check. How long does that usually take? It's going on like 2 weeks for me I don't know if that's good or bad.
Uhhh mine happened in like one day. Could depend on where you live. I’d reach out to the contractor and see what’s up
@@Deliverypros really? I'm in the Chicago suburbs. I've been reading and it said it could take 3-5 days or up to 2 weeks which is crazy long for just a background check. Yeah, I'm going to contact the contractor tomorrow. Thanks
@@Hockyplyr10 dude, I applied, interviewed and was in a truck within a week and a half 😂 but they were desperate so…. There’s that
@@Deliverypros lol alright so might be bad news for me haha crap.. Thanks for the info
@@Hockyplyr10 maybe haha or it’s just different circumstances. Good luck my guy!
how fedex guy does 30 stops and hour: he doesn't have to use the flex app, the end.
I don’t even know what that is 🤣
@@Deliverypros Flex app is associated with Amazon Flex or just Amazon Delivery Drivers, it's what they use to do their job and from what I've heard, most Amazon Drivers hate it 😂
@Deliverypros it's the app that all amazon drivers have to use, and the bane of our existence.
It's an Amazon thing lol
How long have you worked for FedEx at this point
3 years
Great Video! I will be starting next week. Few questions --
1. Do you get paid by the day? So you're off at noon but make the full days worth right? My contractor said you get paid $200 per day no matter what (won't go over 8 hours ever) -- they also said there's opportunity for extra money if you're willing to come back and take more. Any idea of what the logistics of that are? Like how many packages for how much money kind of details.
2. How often do you negotiate your pay?
It’s per day and most contractors pay per stop. So I’d expect at least 200 deliveries a day at that day rate. If you’re getting less stops than that, tell me where you live so I can come work for your boss 😂
As far as coming back to get more stuff, you’ll see it’s super not fun 🤣 you have to go back to the station, load the packages up on your own, then head back out. I’ve only had to do that twice and I didn’t enjoy it, but I also wasn’t getting paid extra for it.
Good luck!
@@DeliveryprosI get $200 a day and have as low as 94 stops sometimes
@@deathmetal0073so lucky bro I get $140 a day and anything over $120 you get $20 at 120 and anything after $1 per package, so if I have 119 delivers I don’t get the extra pay and just get $140 for the day
I’m a FedEx driver in the Seattle area. Do you have any tips or anything you can give me?
Get waterproof boots? Haha it would depend on your area and your truck. This video is kind of general advice for organizing well to cut down the time you spend looking for packages
I sort by the sid 1, 2, and up so that way it easy for me to find. The pckg that don't have a sid I make space and write the street name one it.
I saw a guy on tiktok saying he did 200 stops in 4h .
1 does fedex do apartments/office buildings where you have to deliver at the door? vs at reception?
2 do you get watched for speed or not fully breaking at stop signs? 3 do you have to take pictures of the packages at every door?
4 will I get fired if it takes me 10hrs to deliver 120 stops? 5 if you injure your leg/knees, is their light duty? 6 will they let me bring my own carrier bag and flatbed/dolly combo to work?
@@ewwwt wow 😂 that’s a lot.
1. Yes, both
2. Yes, both are watched
3. Yes, except if a signature is required
4. Depends on the contractor. 10 hrs for 120 is really really slow
5. They lightened my load when I broke my hand and gave me a runner. But that also depends on your contractor
6. Also depends on your contractor but I don’t see why anyone would stop you from bringing those. Most contractors have dollys for their employees
I’m assigned to a fucking Penske rental truck, no shelves, no side door, and the loaders are absolutely terrible at their job, so most of the time I have to dig through other packages to find the ones I need, on top of trying to organize at the beginning of my day, on top of the packages getting all over the place during the drive. My pay is based on my stops too
Woooof. Prayers your way boss. I had that situation for about a week before I threatened to quit. They very quickly changed the situation for me 😬😂
Do you deliver them pick ups
90 businesses and bout 70 resis 300 to 400 pkgs a day with 8 pickups mixed in at ups 😢 after I organize truck real nice after last business usually bout 2 o clock I’m lettin em fly baby. Some of my hoods 50 stops per hour is doable on the right day
This half and half routes are rough. I do not miss doing business 😂
You could get to your door. They sent us out with a truck's center aisle packed from floor to head high from back to 2 feet from front door.
@@stevenstrother672 #understaffed 😬 don’t wear packed aisles like a badge of honor 😂 they’re a badge of a bad contractor
@Deliverypros more like bad customers that order a ton of IC's
@ it’s a healthy mix of the two
So Ground is not doing uniforms anymore?
Never has since I have worked here. Contractor provide uniforms, but theyre not required.
Do they pay for pick ups?
@@just4you710 guys with a lot of pickups don’t usually get paid per pick up. They get paid a flat day rate and have less deliveries
in california you get in trouble not ,no ,set bell , bulk door, has to close each stop , emergenci lights
stop living in a communist state then
Started around 3 months ago after being a PH for a year and was trained to do it almost the same way here, Doing 130~ stops with a 20-25 stops/hr with a decently fast but relaxed pace on my contractors longest(distance) route. You just gotta figure out how it works for you. and finding a good contractor and bc's that arnt up your ass about how you drive. Good video, drive safe
I cant stress enough about wearing a seatbelt through every stop they force everyone here now in north dallas or your fired.
No wonder they can't keep people employed there. FedEx ground is garbage.
So I’ve accepted an offer as a courier, coming from the Postal Service. Does your scanner not have sound on it? Does it have navigation software to lead you to stops? I assume they’re put in order?
No order haha I make the order up. So I have a scanner and it does have a map, but I don’t use the scanner map to navigate. I have an ipad that shows the stops as dots on a map. I click on the stop dot and it tells me the info to find the package in the truck.
I assume you’re FedEx express. Yea the leo do have sounds and a map but most ppl don’t use unless they have time sensitive packages. Your packages that don’t have a time frame are color coded blue. The ones that need to be delivered by 1030 is red, by 1200 is dark or navy blue. You can organize your truck alphabetically by street name. A-f can be your side door side. I-p can be on the other side. R-z at the back of truck as an example. Also don’t worry about going fast at express. You’re paid by the hour, the job is much easier and laid back vs ground. Plus those time sensitive packages will have you traveling all over town until you get that last one off. Congrats and good luck
@@eboniclay5268 yes very true. That's why at express, 80 to 90 stops is average at my station because we have usually 20 to 25 priority packages due everywhere. Also we load our own trucks as the freight is being unloaded on the belt. Some drivers sort alphabetically, others put the priorities on the top shelves. Some just put the areas together on a shelf, whatever works for you. 20 / hour is pretty good for us since our areas are spread out. But once those priorities are delivered, you can really pick up the pace with the rest. But once again, we are hourly so no need to rush unless you want a smaller paycheck
I work in the Los Angeles area in the mornings I have to load my own truck Sort my own boxes which gives me an advantage because I know where everything is placed and then know what area to go hit 1st to make good timing only thing that slows me down is Apartments and Businesses but man my Calf Muscles are getting bigger everyday lol
Do you get paid per hour? per delivery? per day? Because if it's per hour then there's no incentive to go faster right
Per day. Hence the speed
@@Deliverypros do you have minimum number of stops?
@@jcampbell07 nope. I’ve never seen less than 60 on a normal route though
Is $1.40 a stop good? New to this
@@dopetay4639 ya definitely. Most contractors do $1 per stop
Do you have to take photos of every drop off? Or do you just drop the box and go?
Unfortunately. That was a new update to our scanners about 3 months ago. It’s the worst, but I’ve learned to do it quickly
Once scanned gotta choose where you are dropping it off at say front door, backdoor, side door ect then take a pic of the box and go. Sometimes a signature is required as the box may be of some very big importance! For most if not all businesses there is a signature that is required
Ahh the trade off. Load your own truck and do 30 stops/hr or have loaders load your truck and take forever to find a package. I think it probably averages out in the end when you factor in the time it takes to load your own truck.
@@collegeguy799 oh, I don’t load it. I just organize it. And now I do 40-50 stops an hour haha when I didn’t organize I was doing 25. If I have 200 stops, what I’m doing saves me 3 or 4 hours 😂 I had 260 stops the other day. I did them in 4.5 hours. If I didn’t spend an hour organizing it would easily take me 4 extra hours delivering.
Love this video man, getting a interview with FedEx Tomorrow, bit nervous, got a couple of questions.
Does FedEx track every move you take or is it more chill and you can work at your own pace as long as you get it done in time.
Any good ways to approach a interview and how to answer their questions?
Again thx for this, hope your career is going good right now.
FedEx is by and large desperate for drivers. So just be honest with them and they’ll work with you. If you’re nervous about the truck, tell ‘em. If you’re nervous about being slow at first, ask for mostly residential to begin with.
It’s pretty chill depending on your contractor. There are some weeks where I don’t see or talk to my manager or my contractor haha so it just depends on how they run things
If only my terminal dispatched the same time yours does.
Haha it was 9:30 today so they’re not always Jonny on the spot with our dispatches
@Deliverypros Bro we didn't dispatch till 1030
Residentials are so much better than business routes 😂😂😂😂 although business has its perks
I’m starting FedEx Express in 2 weeks as a DoT driver. I reside in NJ. & I’m so nervous. How are the benefits? Please advise when you can. Thank you so much in advance 🙏🏾.
No benefits for ground (at least not from my specific contractor) but I hear the benefits at express are good and you don’t have to deal with huge heavy packages so that’s nice haha
@@Deliverypros lol thank you kindly for your response. New follower & thank you for the videos. Happy Holidays !
@@alishajohnson5329 Yes Express has benefits. Delivery drivers are contracted and technically are not FedEx employees.
@@henryhawkins1194 Thank you for the insight!!!
@@alishajohnson5329 where u bout to work or have u i am hopefully about to start im a little hesitant how do u like it ? im n nj too 🥴
Haha shit I use to be a runner in utah. If I was riding along with you in a tight route like that we could do 60+ an hour😂
Oh easily. I had a runner for about a month when I broke my hand and we’d average 50 an hour easy.
Thank you for your video's, enjoy them,
Watching this makes me wonder what my personal best was. Tried doing 30/hr the first several hours so at night time I didn't feel rushed, especially with having light/refocusing on the road/surroundings.
I did 50 an hour one day but that area was set up perfectly for it that day. Knocked out 200 stops in 4 hours. It was nuts.
@Delivery Pro Army mine was 45 but it was during peak where most of the streets on my route all had 6+ stops on the which makes it quicker
It's all so relative; if you're out in the sticks you could have several minutes between stops lol, whereas if you're in a big city, you could run 30 stops in 30 minutes. That's why it's so difficult to gauge speed or efficiency simply by asking someone how many stops they do per hour.
But you’re paid hourly right? If you get done quickly it will just cut off your hourly pays?
Nope. Paid per day my dude
@@Deliverypros really? How much does newly hired get per day? Cuz I saw indeed job that says per hour? And do you get annual increase?
@@junieocampo2206 it all depends on your contractor. We start guys off at $150 a day I believe. Getting paid per hour wouldn’t make sense because how fast or slow you go is up to you.
@@Deliverypros thanks man, gotta watch your videos to know what’s up 👍🏼
I drive for Ground which has now aquired Express in my area. The Express has hosed my day. I run a chaser route that averaged 70 to 80 stops. I run out of a small box truck which I know is a time suck but anything bigger than possibly a P700 won't work with the shitty ass driveways and damn near 4x4 areas I service. I also drive from my North Coast Oregon town to Portland to load my truck in the AM and then drive back, deliver and park at home which is one way is 1 hour 45 minutes. I spend a couple hours at the terminal waiting for sort to be done and dispatch given. My average day BEFORE Express was around 8 or so hours with about 70+ stops. I have now gone to 12 and sometimes 14 hours with 100 stops. It's not the stop amount that jacks the day up, it's the P1's that are spread out from the beginning to the end of my route. Knowing my area quite well I can ping pong back and forth and eliminate some of the stops going and backtracking which in turn makes the continuation of my route and back home much smoother. We used to use Package Route but now use Groundcloud. Each has it's postivies. I run my route manually and don't need turn by turn. Anyway, are you still driving for Ground and or have you aquired Express?
So you don’t have to wear a seatbelt in a box truck?
I typically wear one on main roads. But when I’m house hopping…. It’s a lot of on and off. Especially in the area I do now. I usually don’t drive more than 50 yards between stops. If it’s more than that the belt goes on
do you have turn by turn GPS??
Yup. I don’t use it though. It’s a feature you can turn off. Almost everyone starts out using it. Most people ditch it within a month or two.
Well bro I just started at fedex and yesterday was my second day on the road by myself and I had 131 stops no business and I had to get help .. I was using the gps but like they want me to learn all the streets by heart in two days so I didn’t think I am going back .. people in there got 19 years doing it and they make look so easy bro like I am from New York and send us out to New Jersey to deliver and I don’t know anything of New Jersey
Here's what I think of doing 30 stops an hour...HELL NO!!!!!! Why would you want to do that? All that does is get you more packages ('cause you've shown that you can do it)...or switched to a route with more packages...which either one of those scenarios equals LONGER DAYS. Many drivers get paid a daily set rate...I'm one of them...and I ain't lookin' to kill myself trying to deliver 300 packages for the same amount of money I get for getting done early. The idea is to get done...and GO HOME. NOT to stay out longer or run yourself to death!
Sounds like you need to tell your boss to shove it haha I basically hand picked my route. They know not to give me more because they want to keep me around. If they wanna keep you around, tell them your terms. Contractors are desperate for drivers. You probably have more negotiation power than you think
If gou get fast enough and start getting paid with a stop incentive( over a certain amount of stops you start earning a $1) if your stop incentive starts after 150 stops and you have 300 stops your making an extra $150 a day.
@@ZaitoShionMexBeast imagine having no life
Don't forget to strap that seatbelt
I'm currently at FedEx myself, we our doing our last week of peak, I have been doing nothing but the country. You talk about a grind got damn I been doing 90 plus country stops, a day, occasionally 70 here in there. I'm here in Illinois, and the winter is beginning to set in. But iam pretty good at the job, I have done all of the routes they do here. I'm good in the city and I'm good in the country. Iam neutral how I feel about the job, I'll make 2yr this upcoming April. But this type of job could maybe lead a person to something better, in that is my aim.
Keep grinding boss. And that’s sick. That’s how I am. I can run all the routes, but there are some I tell them I won’t do 😂 I’m just over 2 years at this point. Not sure where I wanna go with it though. But it’s stable and I have the pay right where I want it so I’m gonna keep grinding
@@Deliverypros Right on i'ma continue to do my best, but I do know something next year it's time to make move, towards something else. We'll 👀 how it go though, appreciated the feedback take care.
Not sure how any of you get 30 an hour unless you're delivering all small boxes to just houses. I have a guy on my route that lives in a 2nd floor apartment and orders 20 or more boxes from Walmart almost daily. Takes over 5 minutes just to get everything out and scanned, and then load up the dolly. There are days when there are 60 or more boxes going to this 1 person.
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I’d leave that crap behind for my manager 😂 each route is different for sure.
Thats why I do Amazon Flex. Cause while he just started doing his run. Im driving past him delivering packages in his neighborhood!
Highest I’ve done is 60 in an hr just full sprinted every stop
That’s just dumb dude, it really is.
hmm, let’s see… doors open, keys in the ignition, no seatbelt, no turn signal, speeding in residential area. improper 🛑…
also, no signature? that does help
@@alxd5068 rules about doors and keys are contractor to contractor. Mine doesn’t care. In fact some of our doors are welded open 🤷🏻♂️ And that neighborhood doesn’t have stop signs 😂 it’s all yields. Show me on the doll where your route hurt you 🥲
My route is super spread out. Backwoods
@6:38 epic fail no seat belt.
The cargo door is left open, which is another safty hazard.
Speeding .
Distracted driving.
Ear buds are prohibited.
Improper lifting.
@@ravageawakened improper lifting 🤣🤣🤣 I lift weights for fun.
Some of our cargo doors are WELDED open.
You don’t know how fast I was going.
I’m never distracted. And my earbuds have active listening, and I wear them in front of my manager all the time. Not every contract and station has the same rules.
Yea..NOT doing 30/hr 😂😂😂 I started in September and Im doing about 10-15...Not running and all that extra shyt lol🤷🏾♂🤷🏾♂🤷🏾♂
@@PhenomDaDON times money. I did 213 stops today in 4 hours. Made about $50 an hour today. Then I worked on my side hustles haha they don’t pay me enough to work more hours
@ Yea ion get paid by the hour 🤷🏾♂️
Damn they don’t track your seatbelt??
i see u leave your car on every stop so imma do the same thing
Where's your seatbelt?
What’s this “seatbelt” everyone keeps going on about? 🤣
Do you have seat belt?
Depends on what road I’m on 😂
Back in the day this guy would be fired. No seatbelt, bulkhead door open, side door open, no turn signals, leaves truck running, constantly looking at dads unit while driving.
If they fired everyone who drives like I do they wouldn’t have drivers haha and I think they realize that. Trucks got an anti theft device and turning it on 200+ times a day isn’t good for it. Some of the bulkhead doors are welded open. Everyone drives with both doors open in the summer. I wear my seat belt on main roads, always use my signals when other cars are around and I don’t get lost in my map, just check it as I navigate maze-ish neighborhoods.
Ups drivers get compensated well.
Not well enough in my opinion
I'd like to see you do 30 per hour on my route. Saturday I had 78 stops and drove 204 miles.
Ya, no haha your routes an outlier for sure 😂 do you like it though?
yes@@Deliverypros
it's in rural Ohio
Great videos
When we are early to a pickup, if it is ok by the customer we call Fedex CPC and get ok to pickup early without being penalized
I love delivery jobs I hope one day you'll recommend me to FedEx
Try doing that respecting the UPS rules... pull your mirror in every stop, turn the engine off every stop, put the parking break on every stop, putting ON your seat belt before turning the engine on, close the door to the cabin before coming out of the truck... etc.
I’m positive he’s fired now!! For one he’s making vids on route, he’s riding with the back door open, he’s speeding, and no seatbelt!! He’s literally showing you EVERYTHING FEDEX LET’S YOU GO FOR
Still here. Literally just released a vlog over the weekend 😂 two things. First I wear my seatbelt more than this video shows, and second, some of our doors are literally welded open. No one cares about the door being open. I’ve been driving for 4 years. If they haven’t fired me by now they’re not gonna
@@Deliverypros well i need to come where you are!! Because I’ve been written up 3 times for not closing it🤣🤣🤣 and mine has a key that locks and i have to close the door and lock it EVERY STOP 😩!!! And I’ve had seatbelt off to drive three doors down and they got me for that!!!
@@treys4days36 sheesh. Your vedr must be super sensitive 😬
@@Deliverypros I’m afraid to speak my mind 🤣🤣🤣 they might be watching me 🤣🤣🤣
Looks like seat belts are optional
I wear them on main roads. When stops are 50 yards or less apart then putting it on is pointless
I started driving 2 weeks ago & my thing is driving on the highway. Other drivers pass me fast af & I can’t stay on 75 consistently cause I’m still kinda afraid of the wind & how it pulls on the highway. I had a big fishtail scare on my first ride out & I think it still kinda bothers me
Yaaa…. I don’t like driving the trucks on the highway 😂 haven’t had to do a lot of that. My area is 5 minutes from my station so…. Lucky there. Wind is a definite concern
@@Deliverypros lucky you, I do 50+ miles to my route area & back everyday. I get a lot of it 🤦🏾♂️
@@CheekSmackerFrom63rd hopefully they compensate you for it. There was a contractor a month ago who needed someone to cover a route for a week. It was about a 40 mile drive from the station and they were offering $300 a day for someone to run it.
I rock out 30 in a rural area 25 at the very least
Ugh nice..I label out too and alphabetize but overflow is usually down my aisle..ANNDDD..
With netradyne- etc..no seat belt and ignition off, keys out...adds time🤪
Ya, they never taught me to turn the truck off at every stop. Wild idea to me 😂
No seatbelt?
What’s a seat belt? Just kidding, mines broken
Fuk seat belts. 🤣
That is not spaced out.
That would be subjective haha in my new area my stops are rarely more than 100 yards apart 😂
Wouldn't have been able to do that if you wore a seat belt, turned off engine(eoc), and not speeding... lol😮
No seat belt? They make me put mine on at every god damn delivery I hate it. The camera shit goes off back to back
@@bringinghopesup6680 ya, mine does now too. Go watch the more recent videos. I found a way to get in and out of the belt quick that doesn’t piss off the camera
Mann I do like 48.5 stops and hr… ig the key is get there early organize your truck where you grab and go… and I put all my boxes on the floor so I’m just poppin like popcorn🔥…. Get done around 1230 everyday and be back at the house 🫡