MrFedEx
Engorged Member
LOFL. That truly looks professional, doesn't it? Ground colors, wrong opco, and done by a 12 year old with a brush.
Buying a Fedex Ground Route
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LOFL. That truly looks professional, doesn't it? Ground colors, wrong opco, and done by a 12 year old with a brush.
X is always after Ground guys to repaint their trucks. Looks like a new paint job and by the way in the past you always were billed for new decals when you repainted. Looks like a admirable alternative to having to buy the honor of having X decals on the side of your truck.
STFXG
Well-Known Member
Rape van
Looks like something a 'Coyote" would use to take his illegals the last mile.
Kinda like lazy stupid labor to,,,,,,,,,right.
Stay in school kids.
They are each strong models for Fedex, it is all about control. Why does it take a 70 page contract to deliver a package!
Think about it, also how is this not an itregal part of their core business?
Think of it how you like, as a contractor I know what I am, an underpaid employee with no benefits.
A " contractor" is to Fedex Ground what a "coyote" is to a California produce grower.
That's an Express vehicle according to the DOT number.
So why do you stay?
Cactus
Just telling it like it is
And yet you believed it to be a Ground vehicle based on what you read.
Nobody. Not even him.
Cactus
Just telling it like it is
I never said that. I saw it said Express.
Just posted the picture 'cause it looked so amateurish.
STFXG
Well-Known Member
Like your thought process?
Cactus
Just telling it like it is
Because it can work. I have other people relying on me to include my employees. Most importantly I actually enjoy 90% of what I do. That does not mean I am happy with how we are treated.
If all contractors would really understand their contract, correct X when it is wrong , and stop allowing X to manipulate contractor vs conteactor then we would all have something we could call a business. I cannot do it alone, and i do not give up.
But you malign those who do not see it exactly as you do.
Remember what I said earlier. When it comes to command and control you're an employee. When it comes to the divestiture of risk, liability and variable costs you are an employee. And never ever forget the fact the business model does not in any way shape or form exist for the purpose of creating equity for contractors. One other thing do not over extend your stay to the point where you find yourself caught in the vise of competing economic interests meaning that you stayed too long and found
yourself caught between downward pressure on rates and revenue and upward wage pressure coming from the people who are responsible enough to the point where they can be entrusted with the task of representing your interests.
yourself caught between downward pressure on rates and revenue and upward wage pressure coming from the people who are responsible enough to the point where they can be entrusted with the task of representing your interests.
