Leasing to Fedex?

If I am not misremebering a post from a husband wife team with ground & now custom critical, leasing to ground requires minimum 2 trucks & 4 drivers.

Custom critical would be the division you should be looking at & pay is based on your truck; full semi tractor was $1.88 a mile I believe last I checked website.

 

@miss elvee ? @Chinatown ?

 

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...get-a-direct-customer-skip-the-broker.306494/

 

Umm. Ground might be an option. Custom Critical I would avoid.

You can read my personal saga here:

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...ds/fedex-custom-critical-here-we-come.297107/

Bad at links.

 

My last load there 3 weeks ago was offered at 1.34 including FSC. Needless to say the wheels didn't roll.

 

If you can get on a dedicated run with Fedex ground you'll be running the wheels off the truck.
If you're not running dedicated you can expect to sit occasionally.

I've been running both off and on and am consistently getting around 5500 miles a week with 2-3 days off.

 

As far as the pay to the truck I think it's negotiated for dedicated runs.

If you're running wild from what I understand you get a flat rate.

I'll point out that Fedex is kind of cool in that this week I started out with a run from OH to UT, 80 was shut down. Fedex authorized extra miles to jump down to 70, well 70 was shut down too so we just kept going further south all on fedex's dime. A 1,500 mile run turned into 2,500 because we didn't want to sit due to weather. And all miles were paid.

 

don't forget to take your 30 and showers while parked at the pumps

 

The problem with ground, is that when you get to the terminals, you will sit till next day or longer. Depending on how many trucks are ahead of you. I have sat in rialto for over 34hrs a few times. Most of their loads are sorted on the midnight shift and dispatched out between 6am and noon, depending on which yard your in. And remember, they aren't gonna pay you to sit and wait, but your expected to just sit and wait. Sometimes you can do favor runs for them during the night, and not lose your place in line.