FedEx Custom Critical to make some Change's

[DavidWmayfield]

FedEx Custom Critical will be making some change's in the next few days after they tell all there Owner's and Driver's It's a win/win for Everyone. :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

[mrpooh]

what a joke. They are going to give me a extra 3 cents for the dollar load I am on. Hurray......1.03 a mile
What a joke

[DavidWmayfield]

No it more like .04 based on a load that would pay you 1.00 a mile for and so on. it's still better than nothing in the long run. And with the Full rate loads it's even more.

[DANMELISSA]

See you are quitting? What's up with that? Dan, FedEx Corp, not Custom
Critical, bought Watkins (FedEx National LTL). That has absolutely
NOTHING to do with Custom Critical. In no way is our freight going to
FedEx National LTL. They are two completely different entities with
much different customer bases. I just hope you understand that.

Also, I don't know if you have heard but effective next Monday 11/6, all
contractors will be getting a 2% increase in base percentage. That
increases your revenue piece from 58% to 60%. That is on all loads and
new contracts have been mailed out.

I hate to see you leave. Let me know if you have any questions...end.



But according to the CC's, Fedex national ltl takes up the slack loads....I just dont know who to believe.....But 60% of no loads is still 0...

[DANMELISSA]

Melissa is DONE with trucking and I have to run solo. Solo's dont make enuff at FDCC, unless yer WG. I cant do that. And we were told by some1 at FDCC that Fedex/Watkins haul FDCC"s SLACK loads, I just cant remember who said that. Tell me, what is 60% of no loads??? We had to bobtail home due to no freight, or loads that paid crappy. We have done more dh miles than ld'd. We lost our ass with that last accident, and Melissa freaks out everytime she drives, so therefor she is off the truck. What happened to the loads???? Most of the long runs are gone, unless your WG, and the FDCC limit on solo miles is a joke. I have no choice but to leave, I cant afford to run only 550 miles in 2 days here as a solo, and I cant afford to pay someone to be a co-driver when all I'm offered is solo runs that pay 90cpm all miles. It seems to me that the rates took a crap too, discount rates should not come of the o/o's end, and the 2% raise should've been 10%. Now granted some people can do well with lower rates, thats cuz they have no bills to pay, no house, no new pickup, etc..., they live on the road....we don't. We are on the verge of losing everything and it not all FDCC's fault, it was mainly the retards who kept wrecking into our truck. I am not blind to the major slowdown at FDCC, I have seen what happens when companies start drying up on loads. Did you know that there are now 39 different expediting companies out there??? The little guys are making expedite freight into cheap freight, and I've noticed that the load offers here at FDCC have gotten cheaper and cheaper. Now I'm not trying to be a dickhead, I'm just letting it all out. Alot of my friends have already left and others want to follow me to where I'm going, cuz solo's can earn $200,000 + FSC a yr. Thats running more than the 550 miles per day, I can run 150,000 miles a year and make $235,000 as a solo. Show me a solo "E" unit that does that here, without having all the equiptment and being WG, I dont know of any...You will see me b4 I go, I'll be dropping off the WG pads and the c-link to Green,OH on my way to the new company. If one day FDCC changes its policy on solo's and the money is there again for the taking, I may return to FDCC, but I need to run and pay my bills........Dan

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[Harry]

Most of the long runs are gone, unless your WG, and the FDCC limit on solo miles is a joke.

Here is were you are wrong, I am running White Glove and I haven't seen a long run for quite some time.

Increase in revenue is in the talk for over 2 years now. It would be OK, when our Fedex world woud be still the same.

IT IS NOT

All I can see Fedex took the dollar and gives you back 3 cent,lower paid run offers,42 % of the fuel surcharge is gone,the longer runs seems to be a lotterie game.

It is confusing, that so many good people are leaving Fedex now, and on top of this you get calls if you participate on a class action lawsuit against Fedex.

Like I said before, I have a meeting on the 14th of Nov. with Fedex and I'll see then what is going on. Until then , hell I drive my truck and try to make some Money.

We made this month almost 20 000 with those little runs and that was OK for me. My other trucks haven't been so happy, but we will see. :wtf:

[DANMELISSA]

Well that doesn't sound so good on yer part either, but it seems to me that b,c,d units are doing, and always have done good, I probly should've bought 1 instead of what we have now.........

[Harry]

Well that doesn't sound so good on yer part either, but it seems to me that b,c,d units are doing, and always have done good, I probly should've bought 1 instead of what we have now.........


All those years, since Roberts , there was always a huge turnover for E-Units.
But for those Guys is it easy to say ............ and leave, where would you go with D-reefer Unit????

[DANMELISSA]

All those years, since Roberts , there was always a huge turnover for E-Units.
But for those Guys is it easy to say ............ and leave, where would you go with D-reefer Unit????

You make a good point.....I'll let ya'all know how well or not I do at rdfs..[/quote]

[wshort]

Revenue down for the third straight month, only averaging 15-16 runs
a month and that's including dry runs and relocation runs.
Average runs paying less and less, hardly any miles unless you want to
drive for nothing.
Somebody keeps taking the lowball runs, give them a counter and they
don't call back, they seem to think 1.25 a mile is a good rate, well it's
bottom of the barrel when you have to make do with what little runs they
do offer.
10 months ago we were averaging over 1.34 a mile all miles including
DH home and what not with substantially more miles and revenue and that
was during the so called slow season, well it's high season and things don't
look very rosey out there.

[mrpooh]

what is the deal on this lawsuit.
I have heard about 10 different stories.

whats up

[DavidWmayfield]

What law suit. this is the 1st i'm hearing about it?

[wshort]

class action lawsuit isn't worth wasting your time with, only one's that
make any money on them are the swine lawyers that drum them up.
Well at least that's how they all worked with the class action lawsuits
against corporations didling with the numbers to raise the stock prices
before they took a dump.

[Bald_head]

Okay, you all piss and moan and want to do something. Here it is, you pick two days in a row on a Monday through Tuesday or a Thursday or Friday and run no freight. When they agree to sit down and talk then come back to work. You have to realize that it is going to take more than a couple drivers to do this(like 100 to 300 or more) and stick to it. That is going to be the problem, many drivers cannot afford to do this and won't or give some sorry excuse for not even trying. Until you have the cooperation with all owner operators you won't do a thing.
It's just an idea all and if someone has a better plan let's hear it.

[Jeepers]

yeah, what's this about a lawsuit?????