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.
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 .
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?
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
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.
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🤪
Not wearing a seat belt is a safety violation which you can get DQ for. 1st offense is retraining, 2nd offense suspension, 3rd offense Disqualification of service.
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
@@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 😂
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
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.
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
@@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’m 30 haha not exactly a spring chicken. But, I disagree 😂 I know how to take care of my body. The issue is that people who do this work tend to avoid doing strength training outside of this job. And when they get to fifty they spend all their down time sitting. Use doesn’t destroy your joints. Lack of use is what destroys your knees.
@Deliverypros either way the wear and tear this job puts on your body is undeniable and unavoidable. Might not feel it not now, but all the times you're getting up and off the truck with a chewey box over your shoulder will add up.
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
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!!!
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. .
@@jasonturner8385 same route everyday. And they sequence it the same as well, but I can make up where I start and end as I go along. There’s an “optimized” route available that they make for you and you can use that but it’s AI generated and usually slower. Only the new guys use that
@@Deliverypros , that’s cool … I understand…. With USPS the AI is insanely pathetic… I mean trying to send you two+ blocks loops to arrive at your destination and no setup for the next drops, and then another two block loop again,,,, it’s truly insane… + they send you on new routes after your reg. Ones after dark … and expect production, yeah, been there 2 months, already found other work, but choosing to stay to help out because they are so so short handed, can’t get people to stay because of the hours, 12hrs is minimum, usually 14-15… 16 with one day off per week. … and they can’t figure why they can’t keep people from resigning?????? Big Mystery….!
@@Deliverypros not scrolling thru replies. As delivery driver, I’m saying you’re not being safe. Yeah you want to get done, but I can do 20-25 stops a hour, with the bulk head door closed, and wearing a seatbelt.
@@Evans22701 I will be 100% honest... I would rather die than do 20-25 stops an hour 😂 I would have quit a loooong time ago. Also, a lot of our bulkhead doors are welded open. Not a regulation we live by. And I wear my seatbelt on main roads. When my stops are only 20-50 yards apart... it doesnt make much sense.
I did FedEx Home Delivery and it was tough. Is that map on your scanner something new and did FedEx do that company wide or only at specific locations? It's been a few years since i worked for a FedEx contractor but I got an opportunity to go back and work for a separate contractor. When I did it, we had MapQuest papers that we had to photocopy and keep on the truck. Everyday, we would mark them with a marker to show what roads had stops and what didn't. Those papers made life so much harder. Also, nobody knew about sorting trucks by 1000, 2000, 3000 etc. We sorted by address. Since I had a city and the 2 neighboring towns on my route, I cut the city into blocks of 5 or 6 streets in the back of the trucks so I knew the general area where the package should be based on what street it was delivered to. I had a tote and in the tote was strictly envelopes or really small boxes. Before we left the terminal in the morning, they would print out route sheets and I took a few minutes to mark the sheets with "Envelope" so I knew when I got to the stop and saw what it was, I knew it was in the tote and not in the back of the truck somewhere. There were times where I would be at a stop 4-5 minutes if not longer trying to find the package because it had fallen down in transit or the label or gotten rubbed off. Talk about frustrating. I didn't get lunch breaks, bathroom breaks or anything. My lunch was trying to eat as the same time I was driving and running to deliver packages. All for 100 bucks flat rate a day. With everything, it was common to have 200-250 stops a day. I remember doing 250 stops and 280 deliveries plus having to do pickups and customer complaints which basically meant go back to a delivery from a day or two prior and find out why they claimed they never got their package which most of those I swear was just people trying to scam FedEx.
@Delivery Pro Army well I liked the work but I fell for it. It didn't sound that bad when I accepted the job. By the time I realized what was going on. I was already beyond training and I didn't want to just give up. It's funny now looking back how great the job was made to be while I was training then after training, the contractor started taking advantage. I have an opportunity to work for another FedEx contractor now and I'm hearing things are a lot better. The contractor I worked for went out of business. It's no wonder why. Just the time I worked there, it seemed like someone was quitting every week or every other week.
@Delivery Pro Army the customer complaints were bad. There was a few that did it repeatedly. I started making them sign for their packages. One woman said she didn't have to sign for it. I said you're right, you don't. But due to you repeatedly claiming I have not delivered your package when I clearly have, now you're going to sign for it or you will drive to the terminal and pick up your package where they will make you sign for it. It's funny how the complaints stop after they have to sign for it.
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 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
@@cameroncox1767 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.
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.
Your bulkhead door is open while driving and while walking off the stop. Unsecured vehicle. Your vehicle is running while running off the stop. All of these would get you terminated at UPS and Express.
Which is why I don’t work for either of those haha some of our bulkhead doors are welded open 🤣🤣🤣🤣 and we have anti theft devices installed. Not a surefire protection against theft but i couldn’t figure it out until someone showed me 🤷🏻♂️ ground is the wild Wild West
good thing you are not a UPS driver!!! Fed ex must not have any rules there? I only watched you deliver the first 3 stops and all I can hear is my managers voice inside my head yelling out all the "things" that were not done to standards. bulk head door never shut, never use handrail entering or exiting car, no seatbelt, no stop at intersections, eyes down at your board while driving WAY too much,(hopefully no kid ever runs out in the street in front of you, there were multiple times your were not looking in front while driving all the way past 1-2 houses before looking ahead again) .... I would think with you being a "runner" you would be interested in taking care of your knees/legs/back a bit more by using handrail to get in and out. Now I'm sure you are thinking. "this guy sounds like a real tool!" and that's fine, lol. This is just my personal observation of your video (about 3 min of it) , doesn't mean you are a bad driver, or anything about fedex except the fact that you are not trained in any of the "methods" we are held accountable for. The fed ex guys on my route are all cool dudes, even if they do everything backwards. lol. have a great day! ps. I've been on the 50+ stops per hour routes and the 10 stops an hour routes, they are all good and bad in different ways.
No hate for your observations. I am by far the safest and least accident ridden driver in my contract for whatever thats worth haha my seatbelt is broken and most of the bulkhead doors in our trucks are broken as well. FedEx is for sure the wild west of the delivery world haha
@@Deliverypros we have sensors on everything here, bulkhead door, seatbelts.... Fed ex guy on my route has his door zip tied open. lol. he said it hasn't been shut in a few years.
So I actually tried to use my seatbelt the other day after all the hate I’ve been getting….. doesn’t even work 😂 it won’t snap into the buckle. Can’t say I didn’t try 🤷🏻♂️
@@Deliverypros I hear ya, you did a great job though...Im usually popping my seat belt with my left hand as I'm throwing it in park with my right hand...when I get back in the truck, I'm clipping my seat belt again with my left and scrolling through groundcloud for the next house with my right and putting it in drive, by the time I select "navigate" I've already secured my seat belt and on my way to my next destination...then repeat.
@@Deliverypros yeah true. Just don’t see how they do it. Shit would go everywhere. It’s mostly home delivery though. Seems like the ground guys use bread trucks.
@@jayteefishing1543 yup and even if you organize your stuff it helps but sometimes things move around or other things can fall on top of other packages damaging the products . Only perk is that they got heater lol . I switch contractors I’m starting tomorrow and finally going to use a truck .. I’m mostly going to be delivering to business though any tips ?
I'm certainly glad he doesn't. I tell the drivers at the distribution center where I work what my doctor told me about energy drinks, they call them heart bursters. The huge amount of caffeine in those drinks tricks your body into believing you have extra energy while rapidly increasing your heart rate to dangerous levels. We must remember that we won't stay young forever and depending on how we take care / or not take care of our bodies might will have effects on us in the future. From a 63 year old semi-retiree working at FedEx ground.
Lmao yeah that's easy when you have light ass loads like that. Not even lining your stops up bro. You're decent, doesn't look like you've graduated to doing a hardcore ground route at a fast pace though. Your stops per hour depend completely on your area and the types of stops you have. Come run one of our 160 stop, 400 package routes big boi
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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NO SEATBELT.
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
5:57 that was impressive, i must say. so smoothly out the driver's side with that big-ass box
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
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.
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.
Thank you for your video's, enjoy them,
Delivery pro Army.How do start the van and where's the signal and for wipers.Where doe it located at.Thanks
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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 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.
Do you deliver them pick ups
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
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
What about your e brake and seatbelt? They don’t care about that in your state?
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
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.
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
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’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
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
I have a wide spread out rural route ..can't do more than like 18 per hour
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
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 love delivery jobs I hope one day you'll recommend me to FedEx
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 .
I guess I just have to get in earlier man cause I can’t ever find anything on my truck
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?
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!
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
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.
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 🤷🏻♂️
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
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 🥴
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
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.
You’re a god amongst men
Stawwwwp
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
How long have you worked for FedEx at this point
3 years
Don't forget to strap that seatbelt
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 😂
Not wearing a seat belt is a safety violation which you can get DQ for. 1st offense is retraining, 2nd offense suspension, 3rd offense Disqualification of service.
Thanks groundcloud university. I’ve been driving for four years and have zero violations 👍🏻
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
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
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 😂
My route is super spread out. Backwoods
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
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.
So Ground is not doing uniforms anymore?
Never has since I have worked here. Contractor provide uniforms, but theyre not required.
Damn they don’t track your seatbelt??
Residentials are so much better than business routes 😂😂😂😂 although business has its perks
Highest I’ve done is 60 in an hr just full sprinted every stop
That’s just dumb dude, it really is.
Sometimes the box not even on the truck!
The box is often not on the truck my man 😂 I had a box that wasn’t on the truck today. Five minutes of my life wasted
when I worked Fedex in 90s you'd have been written up for no seat belt and too much facial hair 😂
times were better in the 90s
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 😬😂
Ups drivers get compensated well.
Not well enough in my opinion
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 👍🏼
Guessing you get paid by the day, not the hour?
Yup!
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
You got youth on your side, when you turn 50, your knees are going to say bye bye........
I’m 30 haha not exactly a spring chicken. But, I disagree 😂 I know how to take care of my body. The issue is that people who do this work tend to avoid doing strength training outside of this job. And when they get to fifty they spend all their down time sitting. Use doesn’t destroy your joints. Lack of use is what destroys your knees.
@Deliverypros either way the wear and tear this job puts on your body is undeniable and unavoidable. Might not feel it not now, but all the times you're getting up and off the truck with a chewey box over your shoulder will add up.
@@phantommah8042 guess we’ll see 🤷🏻♂️
@Deliverypros hopefully we won't see and you'll get much better than fedex.
@@phantommah8042 we’re getting close! I can feel it. Thanks for the good vibes 🙏🏻
I rock out 30 in a rural area 25 at the very least
Two hour lunch?!
Got done with my deliveries, pickups didn’t start for for two and a half hours 🤷🏻♂️ what do ya want from me?? 😂
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 seat belt?
Depends on what road I’m on 😂
No seatbelt?
What’s a seat belt? Just kidding, mines broken
Wouldn't have been able to do that if you wore a seat belt, turned off engine(eoc), and not speeding... lol😮
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 🤣🤣🤣
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.
Fed x must have much better delivery navigation system than we are using
It’s what you make of it. There’s no planned route you have to follow. I pick each individual stop one at a time
@@Deliverypros true
I hear ya, just curious, do you follow a route, drop ; that is given to you, or make up your own daily?
@@jasonturner8385 same route everyday. And they sequence it the same as well, but I can make up where I start and end as I go along. There’s an “optimized” route available that they make for you and you can use that but it’s AI generated and usually slower. Only the new guys use that
@@Deliverypros , that’s cool … I understand…. With USPS the AI is insanely pathetic… I mean trying to send you two+ blocks loops to arrive at your destination and no setup for the next drops, and then another two block loop again,,,, it’s truly insane… + they send you on new routes after your reg. Ones after dark … and expect production, yeah, been there 2 months, already found other work, but choosing to stay to help out because they are so so short handed, can’t get people to stay because of the hours, 12hrs is minimum, usually 14-15… 16 with one day off per week. … and they can’t figure why they can’t keep people from resigning?????? Big Mystery….!
Did 33 an hour today
Freak ya man
NO SEAT BELT.............you would got fired in the spot working in amazon.
“Get” fired*
Welcome to the channel seat belt nazi 🫡
You don’t close the bulk head door, and you’re not wearing a seat belt!! Real safe out yhere
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@@Deliverypros not scrolling thru replies. As delivery driver, I’m saying you’re not being safe. Yeah you want to get done, but I can do 20-25 stops a hour, with the bulk head door closed, and wearing a seatbelt.
@@Evans22701 I will be 100% honest... I would rather die than do 20-25 stops an hour 😂 I would have quit a loooong time ago. Also, a lot of our bulkhead doors are welded open. Not a regulation we live by. And I wear my seatbelt on main roads. When my stops are only 20-50 yards apart... it doesnt make much sense.
I did FedEx Home Delivery and it was tough. Is that map on your scanner something new and did FedEx do that company wide or only at specific locations? It's been a few years since i worked for a FedEx contractor but I got an opportunity to go back and work for a separate contractor. When I did it, we had MapQuest papers that we had to photocopy and keep on the truck. Everyday, we would mark them with a marker to show what roads had stops and what didn't. Those papers made life so much harder. Also, nobody knew about sorting trucks by 1000, 2000, 3000 etc. We sorted by address. Since I had a city and the 2 neighboring towns on my route, I cut the city into blocks of 5 or 6 streets in the back of the trucks so I knew the general area where the package should be based on what street it was delivered to. I had a tote and in the tote was strictly envelopes or really small boxes. Before we left the terminal in the morning, they would print out route sheets and I took a few minutes to mark the sheets with "Envelope" so I knew when I got to the stop and saw what it was, I knew it was in the tote and not in the back of the truck somewhere. There were times where I would be at a stop 4-5 minutes if not longer trying to find the package because it had fallen down in transit or the label or gotten rubbed off. Talk about frustrating. I didn't get lunch breaks, bathroom breaks or anything. My lunch was trying to eat as the same time I was driving and running to deliver packages. All for 100 bucks flat rate a day. With everything, it was common to have 200-250 stops a day. I remember doing 250 stops and 280 deliveries plus having to do pickups and customer complaints which basically meant go back to a delivery from a day or two prior and find out why they claimed they never got their package which most of those I swear was just people trying to scam FedEx.
I never would have taken the job if it was still anything like that haha kudos to you for slogging your way through that nightmare
@Delivery Pro Army well I liked the work but I fell for it. It didn't sound that bad when I accepted the job. By the time I realized what was going on. I was already beyond training and I didn't want to just give up. It's funny now looking back how great the job was made to be while I was training then after training, the contractor started taking advantage. I have an opportunity to work for another FedEx contractor now and I'm hearing things are a lot better. The contractor I worked for went out of business. It's no wonder why. Just the time I worked there, it seemed like someone was quitting every week or every other week.
@Delivery Pro Army the customer complaints were bad. There was a few that did it repeatedly. I started making them sign for their packages. One woman said she didn't have to sign for it. I said you're right, you don't. But due to you repeatedly claiming I have not delivered your package when I clearly have, now you're going to sign for it or you will drive to the terminal and pick up your package where they will make you sign for it. It's funny how the complaints stop after they have to sign for it.
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
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 🤦🏾♂️
@@cameroncox1767 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.
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.
Seatbelt, bulkhead door, big no no
Not at our station 🤣 we have some bulkhead doors welded OPEN. And we have some trucks with no seatbelts…. It’s the Wild Wild West out here
Fuk seat belts. 🤣
Put your seat belt on
Your bulkhead door is open while driving and while walking off the stop. Unsecured vehicle. Your vehicle is running while running off the stop. All of these would get you terminated at UPS and Express.
Which is why I don’t work for either of those haha some of our bulkhead doors are welded open 🤣🤣🤣🤣 and we have anti theft devices installed. Not a surefire protection against theft but i couldn’t figure it out until someone showed me 🤷🏻♂️ ground is the wild Wild West
My down fall is trying to find something
Get those Sids facing out! Cut that search time down to seconds
good thing you are not a UPS driver!!! Fed ex must not have any rules there? I only watched you deliver the first 3 stops and all I can hear is my managers voice inside my head yelling out all the "things" that were not done to standards. bulk head door never shut, never use handrail entering or exiting car, no seatbelt, no stop at intersections, eyes down at your board while driving WAY too much,(hopefully no kid ever runs out in the street in front of you, there were multiple times your were not looking in front while driving all the way past 1-2 houses before looking ahead again) .... I would think with you being a "runner" you would be interested in taking care of your knees/legs/back a bit more by using handrail to get in and out. Now I'm sure you are thinking. "this guy sounds like a real tool!" and that's fine, lol. This is just my personal observation of your video (about 3 min of it) , doesn't mean you are a bad driver, or anything about fedex except the fact that you are not trained in any of the "methods" we are held accountable for. The fed ex guys on my route are all cool dudes, even if they do everything backwards. lol. have a great day! ps. I've been on the 50+ stops per hour routes and the 10 stops an hour routes, they are all good and bad in different ways.
No hate for your observations. I am by far the safest and least accident ridden driver in my contract for whatever thats worth haha my seatbelt is broken and most of the bulkhead doors in our trucks are broken as well. FedEx is for sure the wild west of the delivery world haha
@@Deliverypros we have sensors on everything here, bulkhead door, seatbelts.... Fed ex guy on my route has his door zip tied open. lol. he said it hasn't been shut in a few years.
@@brucecascadden1249 thank goodness. I would hate having to do this for 8 hours with scheduled breaks 😂 that sounds like a nightmare
@@brucecascadden1249 I swear my truck is held together with tape
38-40 stops hr..and I wear my seat belt
So I actually tried to use my seatbelt the other day after all the hate I’ve been getting….. doesn’t even work 😂 it won’t snap into the buckle. Can’t say I didn’t try 🤷🏻♂️
@@Deliverypros I hear ya, you did a great job though...Im usually popping my seat belt with my left hand as I'm throwing it in park with my right hand...when I get back in the truck, I'm clipping my seat belt again with my left and scrolling through groundcloud for the next house with my right and putting it in drive, by the time I select "navigate" I've already secured my seat belt and on my way to my next destination...then repeat.
@@organicrobot4710 that’s beast mode right there
i wouldnt want to
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
Put on your seat belt 🙏🙏
It’s stillll broken 😂
He's not wearing his seatbelt.
Woh! Is he not wearing his seatbelt? No ones mentioned that!
Bread trucks are also way easier to work out of. A lot of the fedex guys around here use little box trucks. No way that’s effective. At all.
Gotta use what the contractor owns unfortunately. I’ve had 6 different trucks in the last two years
@@Deliverypros yeah true. Just don’t see how they do it. Shit would go everywhere. It’s mostly home delivery though. Seems like the ground guys use bread trucks.
@@jayteefishing1543 yup those box trucks are a pain and they slow you down
@@shadowk4718 hell yeah. No way they don’t. There’s no way you can effectively run out of a box truck.
@@jayteefishing1543 yup and even if you organize your stuff it helps but sometimes things move around or other things can fall on top of other packages damaging the products . Only perk is that they got heater lol . I switch contractors I’m starting tomorrow and finally going to use a truck .. I’m mostly going to be delivering to business though any tips ?
That is not spaced out.
That would be subjective haha in my new area my stops are rarely more than 100 yards apart 😂
Where's your seatbelt?
What’s this “seatbelt” everyone keeps going on about? 🤣
Fail, no seat belt
If I ever get into an accident in one of these trucks where I’m the one who needed a seat belt I think I’d rather just die 🤷🏻♂️😂
Love the video fam
You take energy drinks?
I do not. I’ve got a minor heart condition that could escalate into a more major one with the help of caffeine 😂
I'm certainly glad he doesn't. I tell the drivers at the distribution center where I work what my doctor told me about energy drinks, they call them heart bursters. The huge amount of caffeine in those drinks tricks your body into believing you have extra energy while rapidly increasing your heart rate to dangerous levels. We must remember that we won't stay young forever and depending on how we take care / or not take care of our bodies might will have effects on us in the future. From a 63 year old semi-retiree working at FedEx ground.
For what lol he ain’t do none but delivered packages
Lmao yeah that's easy when you have light ass loads like that. Not even lining your stops up bro. You're decent, doesn't look like you've graduated to doing a hardcore ground route at a fast pace though. Your stops per hour depend completely on your area and the types of stops you have. Come run one of our 160 stop, 400 package routes big boi
Lord why is it always a big dick contest with y’all, it’s just a job where you’re making money for someone else, we’re all losing