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I have an interview with Fedex Express next week. Some questions.
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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3529082" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>If you can become a driver with UPS you'll get much better pay, benefits, and retirement. You'll work harder too. FedEx about a year and a half ago finally came up with a better pay plan than it had but it'll take you 9 years to top out and that depends on which of the 5 payscales you're on as to whether you top out over $26hr to over $30hr. You'll still work plenty hard at FedEx too but you won't get the great benefits UPS has. And there's really no comparison benefits wise. Or pay wise. The only real advantage of FedEx is because of turnover you'll go FT much faster in most locations. Due to weather or the Holiday season you'll also spend a lot of time at Fedex waiting for freight to arrive as most of it is flown. Some days that's hours. Not sure how weather affects UPS but I don't think that's as bad an issue there. And UPS has handlers loading their trucks while FedEx couriers run a sort every morning to unload containers and load and sort their own trucks. You'll most likely be driving a bigger truck at UPS. UPS has some union agreements that give drivers some flexibility on hours while at FedEx you're expected to get the work done and get the truck to the airport sent off on time. Depending on the station you may have to help with the reload too. After writing all of this I'm thankful I'm retired!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 3529082, member: 24302"] If you can become a driver with UPS you'll get much better pay, benefits, and retirement. You'll work harder too. FedEx about a year and a half ago finally came up with a better pay plan than it had but it'll take you 9 years to top out and that depends on which of the 5 payscales you're on as to whether you top out over $26hr to over $30hr. You'll still work plenty hard at FedEx too but you won't get the great benefits UPS has. And there's really no comparison benefits wise. Or pay wise. The only real advantage of FedEx is because of turnover you'll go FT much faster in most locations. Due to weather or the Holiday season you'll also spend a lot of time at Fedex waiting for freight to arrive as most of it is flown. Some days that's hours. Not sure how weather affects UPS but I don't think that's as bad an issue there. And UPS has handlers loading their trucks while FedEx couriers run a sort every morning to unload containers and load and sort their own trucks. You'll most likely be driving a bigger truck at UPS. UPS has some union agreements that give drivers some flexibility on hours while at FedEx you're expected to get the work done and get the truck to the airport sent off on time. Depending on the station you may have to help with the reload too. After writing all of this I'm thankful I'm retired! [/QUOTE]
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