FedEx Ground reviews

 First of all, you HAVE to be incorporated. Fed Ex does not contract without it. If you can get started with one truck, plan on running a team. You already are in Fed Ex Ground's system. Ask the person who contracts with companies at your terminal about getting started. Might be a good idea to start an account with Ryder or Penske. Some contractors just lease their trucks and do not own them. You may need a rental truck if something happens to yours, accident, breakdown, etc.

FedEx ground is a rip off. I drove for them. The owner has to get his cut and your left with peanuts. Running team with a smelly partner. Only good thing is your getting doubles experience and the name of Fedex on your resume. A lot of companies like that believe it or not. You can make 1500-2000 gross a week running team for a LTL company. Or run solo linehaul be home every night and clear 1k after taxes or more. Most I made at FedEx ground running team was 55k. That was a lot of hard running too. I made 65k my first year as a linehaul driver solo. FedEx ground is just a rip IMO.

I ran team for 2 years for Ground got hired on solo. The terminal I was at was hard to make money solo. So my boss tried out one of his local guys that wanted to do OTR to see if we got along. We did and are actually still friends. We left did Gov loads for another 3 years. Even though he was a friend I got tired of teaming. So I jumped local and now I'm LTL linehaul. Been off the OTR for 5 years now and make way more money then all that OTR and teaming.

Yeah the solo at ground is all contractor. Nobody is a typical FedEx company driver. A owner operator owns the truck, local, solo, and team at Ground.

I decided to do some research after my former boss offered to get my wife her Class A CDL to keep me with them with us running team. It seems Fed Ex Ground and TrainCo have partnered to get more bodies in the seats of Fed Ex trucks. After experiencing Fed Ex Ground there's no way I'd stay there let alone have my wife join the team. It wasn't a bad job, but their mileage claims on the line haul side are just a bit less than truthful (300 miles/night is a big night for a solo) and my wife really wants nothing to do with upgrading her Class B to a Class A anyway. I really do hope they take the training of these newbs seriously, but I have my doubts, I've sadly witnessed first hand the lack of driving skill, common sense, and common courtesy in far too many of their hubs and out on the road.

Most drivers at fedex ground work for contractors with several trucks,,pay ranges from 38cnts/mile to as high as 50cnts/mile,,many drivers quit because they are not dispatched until after 9PM and many loads are not dispatched until after midnight,,delays at the terminals are common and many drivers also quit because the drivers has to put together the doubles which requires lifting the dolly and moving it around ,,the dolly is very heavy and requires lifting 70 lbs or more,, an other factor is many contractors do not pay benefits and sign drivers on as contractors so they will not have to pay payroll SS taxes,